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Originally Posted by TonyS9
Not sure if that is sarcasm, but to explain, burning fossil fuels causes pollution AND greenhouse gases that causes climate change. Pollution is temporary and local, greenhouses gases like CO2 are permanent until they are captured and changed by photosynthesis or other chemical processes.
We can breath the small concentrations of CO2 that cause climate change without harm, we cannot beathe the pollution without consequences.
I can have it both ways.. If you understood the difference.
ULEZ is for pollution not climate change. Road tax is for climate change, EV subsidies are for climate change, carbon neutral targets are for climate change.
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They may be on a detail scale but looking at the OED definition of pollution ia making air, water, soil, etc. dirty; the state of being dirty :
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionari...lish/pollution
Paraphrasing that to apply to an internal combustion engine is any by-product of the fuel burning that isn't usable, in other words anything exiting the cylinders via the exhaust valves into the exhaust system. If you want to split that down into greenhose gases that's fine, just don't try and make them two different things as if they are intrinsically. They are both produced as pollution by the ICE.
Let;s not forget millions of people willingly drink CO2 daily and some even get upset when they can't get their favourite carbonated drink - where do the greenhouse gases from fizzy drinks go to? Should we stop making carbonated drinks worldwide? That would certainly reduce the amount of CO2 floating about.
These days VED simply goes to swell the governments coffers, once upon a time it was for the building and upkeep of the road system, hence the original name of Road Fund Licence. In fact, the government could do a lot to reduce emissions simply by fixing the roads. There is an untold amount of pollution created by potholes from damaged tyres that can no longer be used, waste suspension components and so on, not to mention slowing for potholes then accelerating again and it's a proven fact that causes heat pollution (plus brake dust) to slow the vehicle then accelerating to the previous speed uses more fuel and therefore more pollution than if the vehicle had been able to continue unhindered.