Final Blog - Britain did not use coal for a week

Andreas Cantu
Mr. Roddy
IHSS
16 April 2019
No Coal For Britain 
In April of 2017 Britain went a whole day without using coal. This was the first time they did this since the industrial revolution, well on May 5th they bested themselves by going a whole week without using coal power of any kind. The UK Government has said in the past they plan on removing coal power from the power grid by 2025, and this week was proof of renewable energies power. This was a good sign because, just a week before UK's Committee on Climate Change recommended that Britain achieve a net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2050. The CCC's reported that the goal could be hit using their current technology, and point to the increasing reliability and decreasing price of renewable energy. There is also a major activist group in Britain that has called for them to reach net zero by the year 2025. In 2015 the World Atlas reported that Britain emits 389.75 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. With this number it puts them in the fifteenth largest emitter of carbon in the world. 
As I read this I tried to figure out where this could fit into something I learned in IHSS this past year, and after a lot of thinking I came to the conclusion of Economics. Although we only studied economics for a short while, I learned enough to know that this has a lot to do with Britain's economy. The reason why is because with this week of no coal they cut back on their Co2 Emissions drastically. That is important because in the long run it will prevent them from having to spend money to help prevent the emissions. Staying on the money topic, with the introduction of this new renewable energy it creates a new way for Britain to make money and we all know they will get every last drop of money they can get off this energy. So that is how I connect this article to IHSS

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