Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

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suggest how ASEAN+3 governments should adjust to a post-pandemic landscape of higher debt and slower growth. But when it comes to perhaps the greatest challenge humanity faces, we often show a dangerous lack of critical analysis. The term “net zero” is used by the world’s biggest polluters and governments as a façade to evade responsibility and disguise their inaction or harmful action on climate change. In the vital medium term, when the world needs to almost halve its carbon footprint if we are to keep temperature rises within the relatively safe 1.

BBC Radio 5 Live has broadcast spin-off versions of its football phone-in 6-0-6 (" six-oh-six") focused on cricket and tennis, branded as "6-Duck-6" and "6-Love-6" respectively, in the summer months during the soccer off-season.Samuel Johnson thought that since "aught" was generally used for "anything" in preference to "ought", so also "naught" should be used for "nothing" in preference to "nought".

But these seemingly ambitious goals in fact amount to yet another round of greenwashing and dangerous distractions that will delay and prevent the adoption of real climate solutions. As models could easily churn out numbers that saw atmospheric carbon dioxide go as low as one wanted, ever more sophisticated scenarios could be explored which reduced the perceived urgency to reduce fossil fuel use. Ross Clark argues that it is a terrible mistake, an impractical hostage to fortune which will have massive downsides.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. There is also the realisation that carbon removal will be needed to mop up some of the emissions from sectors such as aviation and cement production. It happens when you enter a simple formula like =5/0, or when a formula refers to a cell that has 0 or is blank, as shown in this picture. The evidence shows that while there is nothing wrong with working to understand and mitigate the harmful effects of climate change, the idea that there is an imminent civilisationial risk is preposterous and leads to many destructive policies being implemented by governments. Jacob Bernoulli, for example, in his Letter to a Friend, used à but to describe the initial zero–zero score in court tennis, which in English is "love-all".