On Monday, Paul Homewood, my fellow columnist for the Daily Sceptic, excellently laid out the problems with the Climate and Nature Bill (CAN), a Private Members’ Bill currently making its way through Parliament. This Bill, as Homewood notes, “threatens to wreck the U.K. economy, damage lives and undermine democracy” by calling for U.K. emissions to be slashed “in line with the 1.5°C target” – effectively cutting emissions by about 90% in the next 10 years. Alarmingly, 192 MPs have already expressed support for it.
I have been monitoring this Bill for some time, albeit from a somewhat different angle. Most of my articles focus not on the details of bills, as Homewood’s article so helpfully delves into, but the personalities behind them. In both cases we show how shoddy this Bill is, as can be partly gleaned from those endorsing it.
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