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ECO FACT No3
The UK has a well meaning, but factually confused protest groups like #juststopoil , and although we admire their convictions and strongly believe in their motivations, their direction of protest is misaligned.
The reality is that the UK is irrelevant when it comes to environmental effect, as the picture shows if the UK disappeared overnight it would take China 10 days and the US 26 days to replace the carbon saved.
We appreciate these numbers are alarming but it does highlight that the UK doing more is not the issue, but China and the US doing more is how we drive meaningful change.
We should end on the fact that some of the China's output is the UK outsourcing production to China, which is something we feel is a huge mistake.
Reference
https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/boom-and-bust-2021-tracking-the-global-coal-plant-pipeline-2/
Calculations based on Chinese and US 2022 figures compared to UK figures broken down into days.
