Jon wrote:
Be warned, there will also be a huge effort to ban open fires. It's already happening in other countries. All release of smoke into the atmosphere will be described as toxic and as responsible for thousands of deaths a year.
I received the usual glossy monthly magazine from the local authority yesterday, one of those local authorities that is constantly claiming that it has insufficient money to provide for essential local services (strange how the local civic centre car park is packed tight with large BMW, Audi, Ranger Rover, and Mercedes cars). I quickly scanned through the magazine contents to see whether there was anything of worth in it before I stowed it in the compulsory recycling bin. The only article that stood out from the numerous glossy coloured pages of mind-numbing nonsense was one article describing the latest “regional” plans for the whole of this particular EU region to become 100% CARBON NEUTRAL by 2080, with the next phase to start in 2020.
The plans include very few private cars (presumably only for the local authority elite) and only electric powered cars, autonomous electric vehicles, the current road layouts to be changed yet again to enable more privately owned bus services to clutter up the reduced road space, employees to live next to their place of work (sounds like slave camps), reduced electricity consumption derived only from GREEN sources, and the abolition of domestic gas boilers and wood burners. Plus more walking and cycling to and from the shops; there are only two very grey elderlies living in my home, and even our small weekly shop is impossible for us to carry home from the local shops, and cycling for the likes of myself is 100% out of the question.
I completed another annual trip (birthday) around the sun this week, thankfully there is very little chance of my being around by 2080, or anytime close to that date. If ever these planners do fully implement their insane anti-carbon policies, then those unfortunate enough to have to live in it are going to know what real hardship and misery means.
In the mean time, large areas of green field sites are being covered with “affordable” unattractive, expensive, very small, gas heated “little boxes” that will be unfit for purpose long before any mortgage on them has been redeemed, and certainly long before 2080. Do local authority/regional planners have to posses any sense of reality these days, or has political correctness overruled all sound reasoning?