Prove it. What you are asking for is certain economic ruin at the expense of a nebulous climate goal. Can you guarantee that humans will be better off? Because I can guarantee setious, perhaps permanent, economic hardship in trying.
https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/the-seventh-carbon-bud...
> We estimate that the net costs of Net Zero will be around 0.2% of UK GDP per year on average in our pathway, with investment upfront leading to net savings during the Seventh Carbon Budget period. Much of this investment is expected to come from the private sector.
Prove it.
Europe should aim for net Zero as soon as China also gets there.
UK emission is about 1% of global emissions.
China is rapidly expanding its renewable capacity, much faster even than they are expanding nuclear.
They are supposed to be releasing new NDC targets about now as well.
This means in the longer term CO2 emission has to drop even lower, as this reservoir (the ocean surface waters) saturates and CO2 absorption decreases.
What? There's a good argument to be made that the current geopolitical instabilities would never have happened without the collective shock of Covid to everyone's psyches. No event was more disruptive in the past few decades than Covid. It's unimaginable to call that "not even too hard".