Yes, most people would desire cleaner air, although as you have pointed out urban pollution is nowhere as near as bad as it used to be when Britain was heavily industrialised. It is highly likely that current levels of car usage are to be curtailed, which is why changing fuel type doesn't address that. It would however require a reversal of six decades of car-oriented planning from when the infamous Dr Beeching axed many local rail services. Such car-oriented planning accelerated during the 1980's and 1990's when Britain was self-sufficient in North Sea oil production. It was during those decades that the trend towards out-of-town retail developments and out-of business parks came about.
Specific to Oxford, as city where I used to live during the 1980's, I have dealt with some of the issues here on a post that I published on WordPress and tweeted shortly before the protest that took place there in February. All photos taken in late January. I used to subscribe to Green Line magazine, based in Oxford, mentioned in this blog post.
On the basis of what you have written it looks like moves towards more sustainable lifestyles were deliberately delayed until surveillance measures could be introduced to enforce them. You may also be interested to know that Leicester, on the outskirts of which there is a large retail park just off the M1 (in the neighbouring district of Blaby) became Britain's first self-declared 'Environment City' in 1990, long pre-dating any of the current levels of surveillance that are possible.
The climate agenda is a sham being used to implement control measures in much the same way that the alleged pandemic was used for the same purposes. It has been seeded for a long time. There is no move to sustainability or environmental cities, except as a fig leaf for totalitarian control.
Yes, I know that it is, however Britain still faces an energy resources shortfall, with North Sea oil and gas reserves being run down to the point of being net importer of both. In the case of gas this was due to the run down of the coal mining industry and the 1990's 'dash for gas' to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as part of that climate agenda. And if 'Just Stop Oil' get their way Britain will become even more dependent on imports of oil and gas, in the former case this could just mean more wars to plunder the energy resources of other countries. As Starmer has promised 'Blairism on steroids' perhaps we can expect Operation Iranian Liberation' during his tenure as PM?
Yes, most people would desire cleaner air, although as you have pointed out urban pollution is nowhere as near as bad as it used to be when Britain was heavily industrialised. It is highly likely that current levels of car usage are to be curtailed, which is why changing fuel type doesn't address that. It would however require a reversal of six decades of car-oriented planning from when the infamous Dr Beeching axed many local rail services. Such car-oriented planning accelerated during the 1980's and 1990's when Britain was self-sufficient in North Sea oil production. It was during those decades that the trend towards out-of-town retail developments and out-of business parks came about.
Specific to Oxford, as city where I used to live during the 1980's, I have dealt with some of the issues here on a post that I published on WordPress and tweeted shortly before the protest that took place there in February. All photos taken in late January. I used to subscribe to Green Line magazine, based in Oxford, mentioned in this blog post.
https://warwickvegan.wordpress.com/2023/02/15/green-routes/
On the basis of what you have written it looks like moves towards more sustainable lifestyles were deliberately delayed until surveillance measures could be introduced to enforce them. You may also be interested to know that Leicester, on the outskirts of which there is a large retail park just off the M1 (in the neighbouring district of Blaby) became Britain's first self-declared 'Environment City' in 1990, long pre-dating any of the current levels of surveillance that are possible.
The climate agenda is a sham being used to implement control measures in much the same way that the alleged pandemic was used for the same purposes. It has been seeded for a long time. There is no move to sustainability or environmental cities, except as a fig leaf for totalitarian control.
Yes, I know that it is, however Britain still faces an energy resources shortfall, with North Sea oil and gas reserves being run down to the point of being net importer of both. In the case of gas this was due to the run down of the coal mining industry and the 1990's 'dash for gas' to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as part of that climate agenda. And if 'Just Stop Oil' get their way Britain will become even more dependent on imports of oil and gas, in the former case this could just mean more wars to plunder the energy resources of other countries. As Starmer has promised 'Blairism on steroids' perhaps we can expect Operation Iranian Liberation' during his tenure as PM?