#low emission zones

[feckcops]

The public wants to save the planet – as long as it doesn’t personally inconvenience them

“Back in July, Just Stop Oil (JSO) experienced something unusual – they found they were the ones being protested. An alternative group called Just Stop Pissing People Off attempted to block Just Stop Oil from engaging in disruptive protests and interrupted their events, saying that the climate crisis is real but that JSO is distracting and alienating people. The counter-protests tell us a great deal about Britain’s contradictory attitude to the climate crisis.

“Broadly, Brits understand that the climate crisis climate change is a major problem. 65% of us are worried about the climate crisis (versus just 28% who aren’t) while the same proportion supports the government’s aim of reducing Britain’s net carbon emissions to zero by 2050 ... Eight in 10 back more tree planting, subsidies for energy-efficient homes and higher taxes for high-carbon companies. 62% would support a requirement for all energy production to come from renewable sources. But this enthusiasm has its limits.

“When asked if they would back policies that would impose limits on what they personally can do, Brits quickly turn against them. For instance, two-thirds oppose the idea of a limit on how much meat they can buy, and a majority oppose banning petrol and diesel cars ... Even though 62% of voters back the idea of requiring all energy to be renewable, just 39% want to ban new North Sea oil fields, and a mere 32% want to prohibit the sale of gas boilers ...

“The British public is not as supportive of action on the climate crisis as many environmentalists would hope. We favour general, uncontentious ideas – net zero, tree-planting, tax rises on high-carbon companies – but when asked for our opinion on a climate policy that would directly affect us personally, we baulk. This is partly due to worries about the cost of living, but it’s also about avoiding personal inconvenience.

“Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off perfectly encapsulates the British attitude to the climate crisis: sure, it’s a problem, but not ours. As Homer Simpson once asked: ‘Can’t someone else do it?’”

#just stop oil #climate activists #climate activism #activism #climate crisis #climate breakdown #climate change #climate #tree planting #home insulation #low emission zones #renewable energy #renewables #oil and gas #fossil fuels #motorists #public opinion #brits #uk

[biglisbonnews]

‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank Exclusive: Create Streets proposes building on Britain’s ‘road belt’ rather than its green belt amid housing crisisNeedlessly wide roads should be torn up and replaced with boulevards of new housing, a thinktank led by the UK government’s most senior urbanism adviser has proposed, in a move likely to delight green belt campaigners but rile the motoring lobby.Create Streets wants sweeping T-junctions tightened, vast roundabouts “tamed” and expressways narrowed according to a paper to be circulated to ministers and seen by the Guardian. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/sep/10/tame-wide-roads-and-replace-them-with-boulevards-of-homes-create-streets

#Cities #Planning policy #Road transport #UK news #Housing #Green building #Low-traffic neighbourhoods #Environment #Communities #Low emission zones #Urbanisation #Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent #Society | The Guardian

[bansuvs]

#ULEZ #low emission zones #england #air pollution #public health

[flemmboyant]

i was googling a hypothetical tumblr post to make sure im not just quoting a pre existing post and the offered search queries were like

lez map?? glasgow lez map?? ladies???

#(it stands for low emission zone)

[cleanairzonecars]

#caz cars #ulez compliant cars for sale #caz cars on sale #clean air zone cars #low emission cars #ulez cars #ulez free cars

[takmiblog]

中古車店　店主の心配

　アワンさんは「環境問題には関心がある。気候危機対策はもちろん重要だ」と言う。一方で、こうも話す。「僕が心配しているのは、どうやって稼ぐかだ。生活費の危機(cost of living crisis)の時代に、きょうを、あすをいかに生き延びるかなんだ。環境問題は、その後の話だ」

（中略）

　ロンドン中心部にだけ導入するならわかる。車がなければ生活が不便で、新しい車を買う余裕がないこの地域の人たちは、どうしたらいいというのか。

（中略）

　「僕たちはいま、できる限りお金を節約しようとしている。たった１ポンドでも惜しいと思っている」

　エコフレンドリー（環境にやさしい）であることは、果たして本当に、ヒューマンフレンドリー（人間にやさしい）なのだろうか。「僕にはわからない。でも、ＵＬＥＺ（超低排出ゾーン）は貧しい人たちにとって明らかに不公平だし、悪影響だとしか言いようがない」

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202401/18　朝日新聞（ロンドン＝藤原学思）

地球沸騰　若者はいま3⃣

ロンドン　空気が澄んでも生活苦

通行料導入に悩む中古車店　「貧困層に悪影響」

#survival #cost of living crisis #climate crisis #london #ulez #car #get money #ultra low emission zone #uk

[insidecroydon]

Perry's Facebook group hosted video by Islamophobic 'comic'

EXCLUSIVE: A secretive Facebook group which has policing minister Chris Philp among its members and where the Mayor of Croydon is an administrator has been sharing content from a far-right mate of the EDL’s Tommy Robinson. By STEVEN DOWNES Far right: the content being allowed on Mayor Perry’s Facebook group is becoming more extreme The secretive Facebook group set up by Croydon’s Tory Mayor Jason…

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#Chris Philp MP #Conservative #Croydon #Croydon Council #Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion #Croydon South #Facebook #GLA #Greater London Authority #Liam Tuffs #Luke Shortland #Mayor Jason Perry #Metropolitan Police #Shirley #Tommy Robinson #Tory #ULEZ #Ultra Low Emission Zone

[ur-mag]

Dozens protest against new Low Emission Zones as Piers Corbyn calls for resistance | In Trend Today

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#Celebrities #Dozens protest against new Low Emission Zones as Piers Corbyn calls for resistance #Money #Motors #Politics #ShowBiz #Sport #Tech #UK #US #World

[iterumvivere]

Clean Air Zones

Are they fair? Clean Air Zones (CAZ) and Ultra Low Emission Zones (ULEZ) have recently ben in the news here in the UK. Primarily this is related to an unexpected by election result: Conservatives retained Boris Johnson’s former parliamentary constituency, albeit by a dramatically reduced margin. The majority went from thousands to a few hundred votes. This parliamentary constituency is within a…

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#Air quality #clean air zones #pollution #Ultra Low Emission Zones

[spiltcandycoatedpunkblood]

I've seen an alarming increase in pushback against the literal existence of the climate crisis lately, especially during summer with massive heatwaves and wildfires and it is absolutely horrific how people are just absorbing the idea that it's all a hoax and that it's good shutting down activists and protestors who have now come further to the point where this now REALLY NEEDS TO BE SAID

#i think that pushed me over the edge #i see more and more disinformation and attack against people talking about the climate crisis #the level of denial here #vent #rant #climate crisis #i've seen people literally vote for a tory that wanted to get rid of #ultra low emission zones!!! #how far gone do you have to be to willingly wanting to breathe in polluted air??? #and subject everyone else to it besides!!!

[bansuvs]

#science #low emission zones #public health #pollution

[ayeforscotland]

This is some niche Scottish party politics posting so I’ll try and explain this to everyone who isn’t as familiar.

Scottish Labour are the branch office of the UK Labour Party in Scotland. However, due to the slightly more left-wing nature of Scottish politics - they have to toe a particular line compared to UK Labour who are shifting more and more to the right to appease the right-wing majority in England.

Scottish Land Reform is a really hot issue. The vast majority of Scotland is owned by a handful of people so it could bring about some really positive change if something was done about it.

So Scottish Labour puts something out like this knowing that it’ll speak to the vast majority of people who believe in land reform.

But how it’ll go is the Scottish government (Led by the SNP and the Scottish Greens) will move to do something about it and will pass a bill. Scottish Labour will also support it.

The Scottish Conservatives will oppose it with the backing of the UK Conservatives, and use some UK legal nonsense to block or impede it.

Scottish Labour will then withdraw their support, and then put out a load of press releases about the Scottish government and the UK government needing to work together.

Scottish Labour did this with the Deposit Return Scheme, the Gender Recognition Reform Act and for Low Emission Zones. They will 100% do it with this one.

#ayeforscotland #scottish politics #british politics #uk politics #scottish independence #Labour Party

[cleanairzonecars]

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#clean air zone cars on sale #clean air zone cars #caz cars on sale #ulez compliant cars for sale #ulez free cars #ulez compliant used cars #low emission cars #caz cars #ulez cars

[probablyasocialecologist]

If Plan Dalet was a settler-colonial script for the destruction of Palestine from 1948 onwards, it was preceded by – and had its conditions of existence in – the imperialist vision of an entity imposed on the land of Palestine for the protection of the interests of the core: access to raw materials and markets, prevention of subversive projects, buffer zones and counterweights against more distant rivals. In 1840, it was cotton, Muhammed Ali and Tsarist Russia. 127 years later, when the occupation was completed, it was petroleum, third world liberation and the Soviet Union. We are dealing here with an exceedingly deep structure, not an event or two; a ratcheting up and escalation across two centuries, a worsening and intensification of patterns first developed in the early nineteenth – also, not coincidentally, the temporal form of global warming itself. I have pointed very quickly and superficially to three further pivotal moments of articulation. In 1917 and after, the British occupation of Palestine was part of the transformation of the Middle East into a foundation for fossil capital, by dint of its oil resources. In 1947 and after, Western support for the new Zionist state was informed by the consummation of that order; in 1967 and after, by its defence. The steps along the way to the destruction of Palestine were simultaneously steps along the way to that of the Earth.

[...]

The destruction of Gaza is executed by tanks and fighter jets pouring out their projectiles over the land: the Merkavas and the F-16s sending their hellfire over the Palestinians, the rockets and bombs that turn everything into rubble – but only after the explosive force of fossil fuel combustion has put them on the right trajectory. All these military vehicles run on petroleum. So do the supply flights from the US, the Boeings that ferry the missiles over the permanent airbridge. An early, provisional, conservative analysis found that emissions caused during the first 60 days of the war equalled annual emissions of between 20 and 33 low-emitting countries: a sudden spike, a plume of CO2 rising over the debris of Gaza. If I repeat the point here, it is because the cycle is self-repeating, only growing in scale and size: Western forces pulverise the living quarters of Palestine by mobilising the boundless capacity for destruction only fossil fuels can give.

#palestine #israel #zionism #british empire #fossil fuels #a long essay but a good 'un

[insidecroydon]

Met appeals for witnesses after two arrests over ULEZ bomb

Careful search: police conduct a forensic examination of the Sidcup bombing scene earlier this month. They have yet to check Mayor Perry’s dodgy Facebook page, though After calling in the anti-terrorism unit when a ULEZ camera was bombed earlier this month, the Metropolitan Police has issued a renewed appeal for witnesses to come forward over the multi-million-pound wave of vandalism to public…

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#Bexley #Chris Philp MP #Conservative #Croydon #Croydon say no to ULEZ expansion #Facebook #Mayor Jason Perry #Metropolitan Police #Sidcup #Tory #ULEZ #Ultra Low Emission Zone

[jolieblack]

Jolie's thoughts on

The Retired Colourman (Sherlock & Co. podcast)

This case, in ACD's original version, is the opposite of a favourite of mine. It's somewhat pedestrian, doesn’t have particularly memorable characters, doesn’t have particularly memorable deductions, and the only memorable dialogue or interaction is Holmes famously enumerating all the ways Watson should have used his charm to get the local ladies hot and bothered. Oh boy, that just changed a lot!

Lilian Barker - In ACD canon, Barker is Sherlock Holmes's "friend and rival", the other gifted and clever private investigator that just randomly pops up out of nowhere, never mentioned before and never mentioned again after… Weird, just weird. I prefer this Barker who finally gets a personality and a narrative function (other than being a painfully transparent red herring)!

Loved Sherlock going ballistic when she turns out not to have called the police, though. And how he keeps hating her even when she provides some useful evidence. (Thank you for not letting her actually solve the case though. I was worried there for a moment.)

Another plus: The deduction that the bad guy has a prosthetic leg goes absolutely nowhere in ACD canon but suddenly it becomes an important point!

Interesting dynamic between Sherlock and Inspector MacKinnon, too. Either Sherlock has realised that the police are not always idiots or MacKinnon is a very special person, in which case I want to know more about him and how he knows and why he trusts Sherlock. And how he managed to sell Sherlock & Co. to his superiors as a "third party investigation unit"!

Details I liked:

Did it take anyone else an age to realise that Amber Lee = Amberley? I‘m so slow.

John nattering away about low emission zones for a reason.

"The plot is thickening like a thick, evil… soup."

The chess metaphors! In ACD, the chess aspect just goes nowhere, except to serve as an explanation why the miserly, unsociable bad guy sometimes has a visitor at all. Great use of it here!

Sherlock "strangling" Mr Lee when he makes fun of John's injury, and then it turns out a pretty nifty move to secure evidence. (Or was it? Interesting question, hen or egg? I guess we'll be in sweet unknowing agony about this forever.)

Mariana = Mari? Sweet but uncomfortable at the same time, for obvious reasons.

I do love the confirmation that Mariana co-owns the business and is not just an employee, though.

"Don’t say juices, it’s a family show." - "You just said fuck."

John taking his frustrations out on the wall with a sledgehammer.

And then oh boy again for how dark this whole case is. Even Sherlock actually being really considerate and protecting Mariana from trauma took a pretty creepy form. Honestly, the way he said, "Follow the thought. Don‘t run away from it. It’s natural to be scared when you know what you'll find at the end of it.", I honestly expected for a moment that he was talking her into looking at the bodies, just from the tone.

I also can’t help feeling that that moment in the attic would have belonged to John, not to Mariana. I mean, yeah, she did deserve to reap the fruit of her earlier clever deductions about the water pipe system, and Watson is absent from the final resolution in ACD’s story, too… But I‘m not sure I can ever get over the fact that John did not hear Sherlock say "check mate" in that voice.

Reality check: The police are incompetent if they missed both the walled-off extension/basement and the walled-off part of the attic after a week of searching, and if they even considered taking the bad guy to court without having done that first.

Also reality check: Like with The Cardboard Box, straight up cruel and unimaginative domestic murder hits too close to home for me to be ideal entertainment, but then Joel Emory absolutely gets points for realism. What Sherlock and Mariana find at the end of the case - two human bodies having decomposed in water for a week - is straight out of ACD canon. The podcast version just calls the horror by its name, instead of elegantly glossing over it, and gets kudos from me for that.

Check out this amazing art for the episode by @abstractfrog (Sherlock and Mariana), and @subtlehysteria 's fantastic John with a sledge hammer!

#sherlock holmes #sherlock & co #sherlock & co podcast #podlock #sherlock and co #episode notes #the retired colourman