BRITAIN has fallen short of its goal to hit net zero by one flight to Egypt, it has been confirmed.
The UK’s hard work recycling its domestic waste, cutting energy use and virtually wiping out heavy industry had the country almost at net zero until a single flight to Sharm El-Sheikh ruined it all.
Climate scientist Dr Helen Archer said: “The numbers don’t lie. This one act has offset every time you used public transport, remembered reusable cotton tote bags or ordered the vegan burger.
“A single flight, by a heedless individual who gave in to peer pressure, has undone a whole nation’s hard work. You might as well have driven a Range Rover off-road to a steak restaurant, throwing burning polystyrene out the windows as you went.
“I’d say it’s not the end of the world but it kind of is. Climate change is irreversible now. Earth will be uninhabitable by May next year. Good game, everyone, good game.
“Such a shame it was impossible to do this by Zoom. It’s not like anything they say out there will make any difference.”
Prime minister Rishi Sunak said: “Not my flight. It was Boris’s flight.”
