What about the jobs for all those that depend on fossil fuels? I work in the oil and gas industry, in 30 years time the industry will be dead in the UK, I'll be out of a job (though I should be close to retiring by then but I can't seem to spare the cash for a pension so I'll be working till I drop)
The work being done reducing ice emissions can only get better, and different fuel blends are coming out to help, this surely must be something to consider.
At the very least they should still be allowing hybrids with strict emissions to be sold.
Electric cars although might be better for cities, they do use an enormous amount of ores that require heavy mining, and the destruction of the landscape in order to produce this.
The machinery required to do all this is huge great diesel engines which have very very loose emissions standards.
The batteries currently struggle to be recycled.
Cargo ships have virtually no emissions to adhere to, I firmly believe they should be forced to be on par with road going vehicles. The technology is there they just don't want to use it because they don't have to.
If we can reduce the cargo ship emissions globally, we wouldn't have to completely wipe out the ICE.
I dont see the government have really thought this ban through, they haven't set any detailed plans into how this is going to be achieved, there have been many good points in this thread already, but no one seems to know the answers.
It's a mess, and seems to be a knee jerk reaction to Greta Thungberg. Which although I'm sure she has some valid points, she isn't really telling us anything we don't know already, although people may be taking more notice.
But the government really shouldn't be making these unthought out decisions on a whim and trying to confirm to populism. All that will happen is a disaster.