Interesting discussion.
Some unchallenged and unproven claims about the cost of wind power from @SPRKeith.
@KemiBadenoch claims that the 'adults are in the room' on the #netzero agenda.
I don't believe her. As she admits, the targets were set before the means to deliver it.
Moreover, it's not enough to say that the agenda has sensible people in charge of it.
Even if it was true. The government will very likely change in 4 years time.
And it is not as if the government is not capable of deeply expensive, and extremely stupid mistakes.
And it's not true.
Parliament has decided it was not going to test the principles of the green agenda democratically. Yet its consequences, whether intended or not, are far-reaching.
Sorry, @KemiBadenoch, I don't believe you.
It's also obvious that the green blob has been focusing its resources on right-of-centre organisations, publications, etc, including funding old and new think tanks.
It's not a coincidence that @spectator has recently decided to take a positive view of the green agenda.
There are two obvious problems with @KemiBadenoch's optimistic claims.
1. Another example of putting the policy cart before the technology horse is the government's commitment to banning new ICE vehicle sales. EVs exist, for sure. But...
... problems of price and range have still not been solved, and may not be solved by the time of the ambitious target. And the consequences for the second hand market -- on which most people depend for their mobility -- have been completely ignored.
2. But the **far** bigger problem for @KemiBadenoch's claims is that the #NetZero agenda does not stop at the UK government.
The government is committed to a *global* political process, which will dilute countries' freedom to determine domestic policies.
In other words, the government's (and all of Parliament's, to be fair) aggressive climate ambitions are gestures intended to advance a global political agenda that will undermine democratic control of politics.
The green agenda is *fundamentally* anti-democratic.
It is *literally* about dismantling democracy.
And that has been its purpose since the 1960s.
The environment has nothing to do with it.
It's a lie.
Those are just 2 examples of the many hundreds of problems with the green / #netzero agenda.
But the government, Parliament, MPs do not listen to criticism of it.
I hope @KemiBadenoch will.
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