UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT

Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by burntoutfire on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:27PM (#25103959)

UK going away from fossil fuel-powered cars will not affect climate change in any mesurable way. The way to go forward is to get everyone (or at least a majority of countries) to agree on a reduction program. Otherwise, UK's population will suffer for nothing.

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Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by _ph_ on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:23AM (#25109384)

Funny, one thing one hears in these discussions in Germany is: reducing the amount of CO2 emitted in Germany isn't affecting climate change in a measurable way. Now replicate this in most other countries... One has to start and other nations are going to quickly join in.

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Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by craigr1972 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:35PM (#25104042)

Yes it will, because the UK is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2021 at which a lot of vital decisions will be made or ratified.

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Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by majewsky on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:59AM (#25112405)

By the same logic, we shouldn't spend money on the police to investigate murders in $TOWN because even if we did, it wouldn't down the global crime rate all that much.

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Re:UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT by concordDance on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:58AM (#25134576)

That's really not analogous at all...

Where is the negative externality in your example?

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