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Without specific measures to reduce carbon emissions in a couple of months --- not just offsets, but actual shutdowns of emission sources --- I will not hold my breath that any EU members will actually meet this goal. That is the same as me saying 'I will quite smoking next year.' Just buying time.

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Climate lockdowns, they will claim, will do this. They will use the conveniently created lockdown framework with QR and cell-surveillance, to enforce compliance.

Which will accelerate the trend towards far-right governments in europe, who will then roll back climate change laws.

Far-right and far-left agree on lockdowns, merely the reasoning will change.

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