silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 7 months agoG7 countries agree to shut all their coal power plants within the next 10 yearstheprogressplaybook.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1230arrow-down15
arrow-up1225arrow-down1external-linkG7 countries agree to shut all their coal power plants within the next 10 yearstheprogressplaybook.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squareWanderer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoThe UK does things like include railways stations in the project, European countries don’t. Hence the large cost difference. But it needs to be done. We still have lines that are 150 years old. It will be worth it. Even the shinkansen was over budget and unpopular when being built. Now nobody would argue it wasn’t amazing.
minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoYeh but its like an order of a magnitude of difference, we’re spending more than its costing Italy to build a subway through rome which requires a full on archiological dig every 20 feet.
The UK does things like include railways stations in the project, European countries don’t. Hence the large cost difference.
But it needs to be done. We still have lines that are 150 years old. It will be worth it.
Even the shinkansen was over budget and unpopular when being built. Now nobody would argue it wasn’t amazing.
Yeh but its like an order of a magnitude of difference, we’re spending more than its costing Italy to build a subway through rome which requires a full on archiological dig every 20 feet.