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Jet Zero – what to make of it – is it jam tomorrow?
Jet Zero is the UK Government’s 2022 strategy “delivering net zero aviation by 2050”. Jet Zero is ‘a high ambition scenario’ which would ‘only’ leave 19.3 MtCO2e/year still being emitted (domestic + international) in 2050. Pre-COVID annual emissions were 38.2 MtCO2e/year. “That doesn’t seem so impressive and doesn’t sound like zero” you may be thinking.… Read more
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Fast fasion is a big player in terms of climate emissions
Share the hell out of this post. Humans really are their own worst enemies (and everyone elses) as a species. Here’s another whopping 10% chunk of global emissions in the name (in part) of worshipping the god of consumption. I need to take further steps of my own. Here’s my own state of play (over… Read more
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Be a hopeful activist
How are you making sense of the world we inhabit? Are you minding your mind? Are you hopeful in the face of the addiction of our species to fossil fuels? Sick already of this post? That’s absolutely your choice. Each of us is taking care (or not) of the ecology of our mind. This is… Read more
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Looking for the light in a dark age
This is a personal post in an awful week. Today my contribution to Local Transport Today’s 2025 ‘deep thinking’ initiative is published. I’m sorry to say fellow transport planners that it is a sobering take on our problems or predicament. It’s called ‘Looking for the light in a dark age’. When I started my transport… Read more
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Mother Nature issues Consecutive Disorder prohibiting list of words
In a remarkable turn of events, Mother Nature has issued a Consecutive Disorder in which she has identified a list of words that now appear to be prohibited from being used. The courts are scrambling to establish whether or not this is legally enforcible with many businesses and politicians nonplussed and angry at what this… Read more
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The aviation game
Juxtaposition. This lunchtime I was hit by two news items – Just Stop Oil targeting Heathrow Airport this morning, and the first big carrier to drop its climate goal. Why not play this game yourself? Find nine news items on a topic that has lots of question marks around it. One can imagine two world… Read more
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