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.
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.
To the extent that it is not mere nonsense, this is green mysticism: "the climate crisis is driving the foundations of economic shocks".
People internalise this irrational green ideology. We should take it seriously.
Inflation and interest rates have nothing to do with 'climate'.
There is no climate change signal in cocoa production stats. Thee of the last four years saw record production. The last year's production was still higher than any year prior to seven years ago.
Prices of commodities often fluctuate, for myriad reasons. Greens always blame a single outlier on 'crisis' to support their ignorant ideological view.
Labour will further exclude the public from political decision-making by outsourcing policy to unelected panels of people, who will be tortured into submitting to the will of the fake experts that will bore them close to death, before providing them with rigged questions, and then writing up their deliberations to suit the conveners, not what the 'citizens assembly' actually determined...
Read my analysis of the climate 'citizens assembly'.
This is a somewhat shallow and hollow attempt to circumvent the major problem haunting global climate politics for four decades.
It was the 'free-rider' problem: why should we commit to self-harming policies when others won't?
Those other countries were 'developing' when the first global policies were being considered. Now they are well and truly developed, and their progress is accelerating, while much of the seemingly 'developed' world is stagnating, thanks in large part to rising energy costs, owed in turn directly and indirectly to the green policies she is arguing for.
Ritchie tries to counter what she claims is a 'weak argument' with a series of arguments that are even weaker.
1. Rich countries – that have emitted the most – have a moral responsibility
Why? The data provided by her own project show very clearly that there are no adverse signals in fundamental metrics of human welfare that can be attributed to climate change.
Moreover, the same data show that affordable, abundant and reliable energy are key to that progress.
So there is no injury. And thus there is no moral obligation.
This work is an add-on to our @ClimateDebateUK/@Togetherdec report on air pollution politics.
We show how green billionaires and their fake civil society organisations are corrupting UK democracy at all levels of government -- international, national, regional and local.
My 'debate' with Donnachadh McCarthy on @petercardwell's @TalkTV show this morning.
Starts at 1h.46m.44s into this Youtube clip.
A discussion thread follows...
Unfortunately debate with green zealots is not possible, because of what I call the 'Femi effect'. As with debates about Brexit with Remainer activists, you end facing a machine-gunned litany of unconnected factoids, precluding any focus on facts, let alone coherent argument.
That means you have to try to limit what you respond to -- McCarthy wanted to talk about everything from ice cores to annual global temperatures and his solar panels, not the rights and wrongs of UK climate and energy policy. And much of what he said was simply untrue.