Carbon Emissions UK

[Progenitor A]

Britain is committed to carbon reductions costing £18bn pa for every year for the next 40 years - the biggest budget ever approved by Parliament in Britain, and passed with minimal discussion (It can safely be guessed that the MPs did not have a clue about what they were voting for, but that is nothing unusual). This expenditure (shouldered by industry and the taxpayer) will inevitably affect our global manufacturing competitiveness
At the same time, the population of Britain is estimated to grow to over 70 million over the next 20 years (some statisticians believe that we are already well above that number now). This growth is entirely due to mass immigration.

Migration watch points out that this will need the building of 20 cities the size of Leicester, and of course this will increase enormously our carbon emissions, negating the reductions for which we have given international commitment (at such enormous cost)

It is good to have intelligent people guiding our future, isn't it?

[principled]

Naymissus

It is good to have intelligent people guiding our future, isn't it?

I often wondered why politicians made such daft decisions until I read -somewhere- that most appear to have a right cortex predominance. Effectively, they could talk a hind leg off a donkey but were unable to change a fuse.
Have a look at this link- it's American, but encapsulates the problem to which you allude.
www.american-partisan.com/cols/herman/021400.htm

As I drive past flattened car factories, closed forges, see whole production lines shipped abroad; as I read about the fact that we are sticking plasters over our ageing power generation plant to keep them alive and yet have trouble even mentioning that we should build ONE, new coal-fired station; as I hear my local councillors telling me blithely that they are going to reduce CO2 emissions by 80%... I reflect, like you, that our population is set to rise by 15 million or more and wonder just how technology is going to give us all this "reduction". But then I realise that I do this because my left cortex is predominant. Oh how I wish my right had been a little more forceful so I could wax lyrical about the new world I am entering!
P

[marchesarosa]

Yes, quite amazing that these folk have not twigged that a population policy is an essential part of an energy independence policy.