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Hello, hello John, I'm just kidding.

I like it.

John, we've made a lot of big picture statements about the colonizing, extracting and polluting

West or Global North, if you prefer.

And it's true, the richest, most industrialized countries created the climate crisis.

The US and Western Europe joined recently by China, but those countries are not all the

same in their share of the blame or crucially in their efforts to change.

Yeah, the United Kingdom gave birth to the Industrial Revolution, and by some estimates

is the third biggest historic emitter after the US and China.

But the UK can make a decent claim now to being a leader, relatively among the historic

polluters in pivoting away from fossil fuels, who are promising to.

Yeah, the promise is really important there.

The UK was the first nation to put a required reduction of greenhouse gas emissions into

law with its Climate Change Act of 2008.

It is closing lots of cool-fired power plants and promising to face them out completely

by 2035.

And it is building some of the world's biggest offshore wind farms.

Britain says it's reduced emissions by 44% since 1990, and it set the most ambitious target

of any major economy, aiming to cut emissions by two-thirds by the end of this decade.

Before our UK listeners get too chuffed, climate experts say no nation is moving fast enough,

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