THOSE of a green persuasion are keen to demand that we change our lifestyles and buy electric vehicles and heat pumps, and embrace wind turbines and solar panels.
These “green” initiatives are not as green as is claimed on the tin. All require fossil fuels to manufacture them. Then there are the greenhouse gases created from shipping and also from the mining of rare metals.
The manufacture of steel and cement creates more. How many years will it take to recover the millions of tons of greenhouse gases created in the manufacture of EVS, wind turbines,
and solar panels? Five years, 10 years, or more?
Strange that politicians never asked this question before committing taxpayers to the horrific cost of net zero.
Clark Cross, Linlithgow.
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