“Many of us are frequent flyers, we drive long distances in big cars, buy a lot equipment, have fridge-freezers the size of a small terrace house – every facet of our lives, although normalised by us, is central to our nation’s high emissions.

But the models are unwilling to accept this – preferring to pass the buck on to our children in the form of future technical silver bullets.”

Anderson said that the UK’s use of energy should be zero-carbon by 2035 rather than net zero by 2050 –

a move that would “require a fundamental re-evaluation of economic assumptions around growth value and progress”.

“Many senior academics, senior policymakers, basically the great and good of the climate world have decided that it is unhelpful to rock the status quo boat and

therefore choose to work within that political paradigm – they’ll push it as hard as they think it can go, but they repeatedly step back from questioning the paradigm itself.”

“On mitigation, the academic community and the CCC have collectively failed the political realm and civil society by tailoring our conclusions to fit with what we judge to be politically palatable – all at the expense of scientific integrity.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/26/leading-scientist-criticises-uk-over-its-climate-record?CMP=share_btn_tw