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jaberwock's avatar

Closing the UK's blast furnaces doesn't change the quantity of scrap steel that is available worldwide for making of steel in an EAF, nor does it change the quantity of virgin steel that must be produced worldwide to make up the difference between world demand for steel and world supply of scrap.

It therefore does not change the world production of blast furnace steel, and by implication it has no impact on the world's CO2 emissions except that it moves those emissions from the UK to somewhere else, probably China.

It is greenwashing by deindustrialization, and it's one of the reasons why the west's futile attempts at decarbonization are having minimal impact on world CO2 emissions.

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Peter Andrews's avatar

Interesting as always. Learned a new word: psephology - the statistical study of elections and trends in voting

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