O/T:- Is net zero for carbon emissions really achievable?

[Med Pie]

Yes, it's achievable. What an incredibly stupid question.

Other than the USA under agent orange, which signatories of the Paris agreement are going back on it?

It might be achievable but UK emissions are so, globally insignificant, it does amount to rip off, virtue signalling.

[Mapperleypie]

It might be achievable but UK emissions are so, globally insignificant, it does amount to rip off, virtue signalling.

Here, here.

It's bin collection day for me this morning but given the amount of rubbish our home generates is insignificant in the grand scheme of things I have decided to just scatter it over the local area. I laugh at all the other 'virtue-signalling' sheep on our street. They are probably all vaccinated too against things that are eradicated like measles. Idiots.

[Old_pie]

Here, here.

It's bin collection day for me this morning but given the amount of rubbish our home generates is insignificant in the grand scheme of things I have decided to just scatter it over the local area. I laugh at all the other 'virtue-signalling' sheep on our street. They are probably all vaccinated too against things that are eradicated like measles. Idiots.

Measles has not been eradicated. You do nobody any favours and risk lives by such misinformation. The Americans thought they had eradicated it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_S...asles_outbreak

In January 2025, cases of measles began to break out in Texas and neighboring states in the United States. Two cases linked to international travel were identified in Houston, followed by two more in Lubbock County. Gaines County became the epicenter of the outbreak and by mid-February, the disease had spread to New Mexico and other communities in West Texas including Dallam, Dawson, Ector, Lynn, Terry, and Yoakum. In March, cases linked to the outbreak were announced in Oklahoma, the Mexican state of Chihuahua, and Kansas.

The outbreak is confirmed to have infected hundreds of individuals and is suspected to have infected many more. More than 50 individuals have been hospitalized, and three have died: two children in Lubbock (a six-year-old and an eight-year-old) and an adult in Lea County, New Mexico.

Measles is highly contagious and preventable by the MMR vaccine. Though the United States declared measles eliminated in 2000, waning vaccination rates have led to its resurgence in the country, including the ongoing outbreak. The 2025 outbreak has led to the first measles deaths in the country since 2015, and the three deaths were in unvaccinated individuals.

https://www.gov.uk/government/public...authority-2025

Situational update

In 2024 there were 2,911 laboratory confirmed measles cases in England, the highest number of cases recorded annually, since 2012. This was initially driven by an outbreak in Birmingham but was soon overtaken by a large outbreak in London, with small clusters in other regions. Case counts followed a downward trajectory from mid-July with small, localised outbreaks continuing in some regions. Here we present the epidemiology for measles from 1 January 2025. Data for 2023 and 2024 and historical data is available.

Figures are low BECAUSE many/most people are vaccinated. Take away that protection and numbers and deaths will quickly grow.

As to the rest of your post, well if you were the only one producing rubbish then you are right. Don't you read the news? Birmingham!

Heaven help us if such ideas become commonplace. Bad enough with the Orangeman persuading his supporters that Romans and Americans have been allies ever since.