gridwatch.co.uk/carbon-neutral

shows 34% power is green as I write.

And when solar goes and if the wind stays as it is that will drop to approx 24%

Anyone - and any Government which thinks that is a good starting off point to achieve 100% carbon free in under 3 decades needs to be forcibly re-educated as there appear to be no coherent plan to get there.

And if we are to be carbon neutral, where is the plan for flying? Or for installing unworkable heat pumps?

The numerate Conservatives know it is rubbish but are keeping quiet. The innumerate ones appear to be in Government.

Labour are the same. They should be clinically analysing it all - and tearing strips off the Government (instead of fighting each other). But they have the excuse of having fewer numerate MPs:-) )

And shortly we will witness the eco-jamboree at Glasgow that is the Conservative Climate Clown Show where the foreign delegates will fly there in their private jets, and then proceed to lecture us that we must embrace a low carbon lifestyle.

Like Biden's 'climate change' Tsar, owner and frequent user of two private jets and COVID hypocrite.

While the gas fuelled UK power stations carry on chugging out thousands of tons of pollution per hour.

Bunkum, balderdash and hypocrisy.

Quite right. We plebs will have to follow (assuming the normies keep voting them in and/or put up with the 'frog in boiling water' drip-drip of more and more freedoms being restricted and wealth/power being transferred to the already rich and powerful elites) their rules - the vast majority of which don't benefit the general public or the planet - whilst they ignore them completely or make it easy for them to circumvent them by virtu-eisgnalling by waving a small amount of money to get the privideges (i.e. going about our business as per 2019 and before) we will be denied.

I remember a couple of years ago the (rich) owner of the management company then in charge of my housing development saying because he was vegan and drove a Tesla meant his carbon footprint was lower than mine.

I worked it out (he admitted going on several trips abroad plus owning a very large home) that his approximate carbon footprint was still at least 5x mine (likely much higher). His lavish lifestyle (I accounted for him being in a multi-occupancy houshold and office) meant he consumes so much more than I do, so any 'reductions' from his virtue-signalling efforts were more than offset by everything else.

That 'mean lean and green' ethos (one of the few things I agree with with former London mayor Livingstone) is very apt here. If you live your life by avoiding needless tasks (i.e. not being lazy) and do those efficiently and environmentally responsibly as possible - you use far less energy, which then means you don't have to worry about the impact on the environment so much.

All these 'world leaders' could have just have a video conference (as could Saint Greta Blah-Blah at the recent kids green 'conference in Italy) - it's not as though anything useful will be achieved - and saved the planet a boat-load of CO2, the police/security services manpower that could be used to fight actual crime and not lead (as it did in their Cornwall shindig) a huge COVID spike that spread over the region.

Build Back Better my backside. As usual, the DT barely gets into these issues apart from one or two brave columnists (certainly not any of them in the 'Cars' section), and most of the 'green' issues will likely not allow any reader comments below articles, as is the case with anything on the woke agenda.