Breaking Down the Net Zero Myth

 


Why It’s Not Just “Woke Nonsense”

By Sean Ash


Reform UK loves to frame Net Zero as some kind of elite fantasy, a “woke” obsession that’s making life harder for ordinary people. But let’s step back and look at what we’re really talking about here.


Imagine being trapped in a room filled with smoke. Thick, grey air. You can barely breathe.

Now ask yourself: do you think that wouldn’t affect your lungs?


Of course it would.


So why, when we go outside and walk through polluted streets full of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particulate matter, do we assume it’s harmless? It’s not.

Air pollution kills around 40,000 people a year in the UK.

It causes asthma, lung disease, strokes, and even damages unborn children.


Now think about asbestos, you wouldn’t knowingly breathe that in, would you? You’d call a specialist. You’d leave the building. You’d panic.

Yet the air around us is often full of toxic particles that are just as dangerous in the long term, only we don’t see them, and so we carry on like nothing’s wrong.


And it gets worse, because where you live can literally determine how long you live.


Take Lewisham, one of London’s most polluted boroughs. In 2013, Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, a nine-year-old girl with severe asthma, died after repeated attacks. In a landmark ruling, a coroner concluded that air pollution contributed directly to her death, the first time that’s ever been recorded on a UK death certificate.


Now compare that to Bexley, a borough with far lower pollution levels. According to Bexley’s 2022 air quality report, the concentration of harmful pollutants like PM2.5 and NO₂ falls within safe limits.

The difference? In Lewisham, you breathe in risk. In Bexley, you breathe in life.

We’ve created a postcode lottery for survival, and politicians are still telling us Net Zero doesn’t matter?


We burn fuel like it’s endless. We heat rooms we’re not in. We idle our engines while scrolling on phones. All while pretending there’s no cost.

But fossil fuels are running out. And the real cost of this lifestyle isn’t just financial, it’s human.


The lie isn’t Net Zero.

The lie is that we can keep living like this without paying the price.


Reform UK wants to scrap Net Zero targets. But doing that guarantees higher energy bills, sicker children, overloaded hospitals, and a future choked in smog.

Net Zero isn’t a luxury.

It’s survival.

And if you wouldn’t breathe in asbestos, you shouldn’t accept breathing in polluted air either, especially when the solution is already in front of us.


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