{"id":3367,"date":"2024-04-28T17:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T16:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/cadwcambria\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T08:14:56","slug":"solve-the-real-problem-virtue-signalling-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/cadwcambria\/?p=3367","title":{"rendered":"Solve the real problem &#8211; virtue signalling gone mad"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3367\" class=\"elementor elementor-3367\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-335ebf9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"335ebf9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-80788e8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"80788e8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"page\" data-elementor-id=\"2958\" class=\"elementor elementor-2958\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70f93306 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"70f93306\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5adc46f1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5adc46f1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dad0761 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"dad0761\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fe0377c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"fe0377c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">How the real impact of the Welsh Government energy strategy equates to the crumbs in your pizza box<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55afac5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55afac5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Each month the International Energy Agency publishes a mass of data on world energy production,\u00a0 analysed across a range of different factors including country and energy source.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5); color: var(--ast-global-color-3); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">From the impressive IEA data portal its clear to see that the UK has over the last few years made huge strides in reducing its power generation carbon footprint.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5); color: var(--ast-global-color-3); font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align);\">\u00a0B<\/span>ased on the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/data-and-statistics\/data-tools\/monthly-electricity-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 2024 data<\/a><\/em> the UK represented just 0.96% of overall World power related carbon emissions.\u00a0 \u00a0 According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/media\/6581b11eed3c3400133bfbb1\/Electricity_generation_and_supply_in_Scotland__Wales__Northern_Ireland__and_England__2018_to_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero<\/a>, Wales accounts for around 11% of UK power related carbon omissions. That puts Wales at a 0.106% share of world emissions . To be clear: that is one tenth of one percent of the global problem.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4b9f25 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a4b9f25\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/cadwcambria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/wales-share-of-world-power-sector-carbon-emissions.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3346\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/cadwcambria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/wales-share-of-world-power-sector-carbon-emissions.png 768w, https:\/\/essays-in-software.com\/cadwcambria\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/wales-share-of-world-power-sector-carbon-emissions-300x225.png 300w\" 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serious about addressing the power related carbon emissions issue, then you will need to speak to the Chinese, American and Indian governments , who in total generate 72% of world emissions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: var(--text-align); background-color: var(--ast-global-color-5); color: var(--ast-global-color-3);\">Yet the Welsh Government continues to broadcast the ideological line&nbsp; that there is a climate crisis to solve in Wales, and will happily trash most of rural Wales in an act that will have absolutely no impact on the global problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately,&nbsp; the Labour Party has never had a problem with data and science that contradict their ideological message, and so we are left with the worst form of &#8216;virtue signalling&#8217; &#8211; actions from a political class that salve their consciences,&nbsp; cause misery for those impacted,&nbsp; but do nothing to solve the real world problem.<\/p>\n<p>So 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