Oxfordshire’s green lunatics are at it again. The fuss has only just died down since the County Council’s experiment with Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the so-called ’15 minute city’ agenda drew worldwide attention. Now, the ambitious council has, according to the Oxford Mail, become “the first local authority in the U.K.” to commit “to go beyond [the] Net Zero target”, which it will achieve on behalf of its 750,000 population “by removing carbon emissions from the atmosphere”.
According to the council itself, it had taken “specialist advice” from one Prof. Steve Smith, who is “Arnell Associate Professor of Greenhouse Gas Removal” at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and Environment. This should strike us as odd, for several reasons.
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