*including imported goods
This article by Natacha Engel, who was our Fracking Czar until she resigned over the government's lack of support, lays bare the fallacy that the UK is on target to achieve 100% emission reductions by 2050. What is actually happening is that instead of making stuff ourselves, we are now importing most of it from places like China and India. This means that we are not emitting the CO2 ourselves, but outsourcing them, along with the jobs that go with them. So instead of feeling self-satisfied by the government's figures that we have cut emissions by 43.5% we ought to be feeling cheated and let down by our governments of all stripes. This is just another example of statistics being simply used to distort the truth.
This article by Natacha Engel, who was our Fracking Czar until she resigned over the government's lack of support, lays bare the fallacy that the UK is on target to achieve 100% emission reductions by 2050. What is actually happening is that instead of making stuff ourselves, we are now importing most of it from places like China and India. This means that we are not emitting the CO2 ourselves, but outsourcing them, along with the jobs that go with them. So instead of feeling self-satisfied by the government's figures that we have cut emissions by 43.5% we ought to be feeling cheated and let down by our governments of all stripes. This is just another example of statistics being simply used to distort the truth.
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