Posted on 01/19/2023 5:13:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
England's environmental watchdog has admitted it has "little good news to report" in its latest appraisal of the government's progress on climate and nature targets.
The highly critical report scrutinised goals that included cleaning up polluted water and stopping vital species from dying, and found the government is not "demonstrably" on track to meet a single one.
In fact, it is on course to miss 14 of the 23 targets, including on protecting commercially important fish and shellfish populations, and reducing people's water consumption and waste. Others could not be judged because data is not being collected.
The Office of Environmental Protection (OEP) was set up after Brexit to hold the government and other public authorities in England to account.
In its report today, it condemned the state of England's nature - which provides water, food and resources for the economy - as well as the failure of the Conservative government, in power for 13 years, to deliver on most of its green promises.
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Good news.
...and slowly we turn...
The Green Civil War is coming. It will be the Climate Alarmists vs the Naturalists.
Offshore wind apparently kills Whales. Solar fries birds and kills desert tortoises. Windmills chop up endangered raptors. And the latest is Volkswagen is clear-cutting the Indonesian rainforest to strip mine nickel.
How many dead whales and orangutans will the Naturalists accept?
I for one, salute this Grand Failure! Hoorah!
Need to start an appraisal of the government’s progress on removing socialism.
people that don’t know what bathroom to use telling you how to run yer life...
.Gov must continue the flogging until morale improves!
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