Here is a candid expression of government "thinking" from one of its leading idiots.

Government does not need to explain how #NetZero targets will be achieved, it just needs to set deadlines and then "businesses" will magically find the solutions.

That is worse than absolving the government of responsibility for its policies.

If governments are not accountable, who is?

Not businesses.

Anybody?
What @andrealeadsom explicitly argues for is for the policy cart to be put before the technology horse.

It doesn't matter to her that the plans may not be practical, economic, or even possible.

Why not abolish gravity, then?

And also aging?

just declare a deadline.
It's monumental stupidity.

Epic.

And it goes completely unchallenged.
By 2030, every UK home must have a time machine.

Faster than light travel will be compulsory by 2040.
By 2025, all kittens will stay kittens forever and will be immortal.

What do you think, @andrealeadsom?

Can you think?

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23 Sep
The notion that environmentalism was ever anything other, and can ever be anything other than a regressive political ideology is merely PR.

Environmentalism *requires* the immiseration and disenfranchisement of the population.

There is no "progressive" environmentalism.
From its foundation in neomalthusianism, the very centre of green thinking requires that people are excluded from decision-making, because they are not competent to understand their interests and cannot control their impulses.
There is no 'progressive' reformulation of that premise. It is hostile to people's interests, and it manifestly moves political institutions' centre of gravity far away from democracy, to technocracy.
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22 Sep
If 'every fraction of a degree counts', why doesn't every penny increase on the price of power or gas supply count?

Is climate change a bigger or smaller problem than expensive energy?

And what about the Nth-order effects of expensive energy?
In the early 1950s UK, more than 100,000 excess winter deaths per year were recorded.

That figure fell to its lowest in 2014 @ 17,280 EWDs.

It has been returning to '70s levels.

What this shows categorically is that energy is far more important to us than a "stable" climate.
Expensive energy makes climate alarmism a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It makes people more vulnerable to weather.

In the 1910s, heatwaves would kill thousands -- including very many children, who died because of infected food in the era before refrigeration.
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21 Sep
Wrong.

Greens campaigned against new coal & for closure of coal plants. They campaign against nuclear. And they have campaigned against gas production, throughout Europe and the world.

More "home-grown" {sic} wind will kill jobs, reduce power and heat & increase prices.
If it were not for greens, shale gas could be being produced right now in the UK and in the EU. More conventional exploration gas could have happened. And the entire continent could have zero-carbon nuclear power.

But greens did not want any of that.
Nigel Farage is right. We are led by idiots, who have been misled by green blobbers like Sam Hall, whose anti-democratic outfits only exist because of support from wierdo green billionaires' "philanthropic" foundations, which lobby for their business interests.
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21 Sep
Ask a silly question.

I've been arguing against stupid climate policy for 20 years.

It has never occurred to me to block roads to 'raise awareness'.

There has been nothing but 'awareness raising' about climate change in that time.

There has been zero debate.
Before I argued against stupid climate policy, I argued for it. But I was very young.

It was listening to greens -- and watching them -- that made me pivot to climate scepticism and then to broader criticism of political environmentalism.

What kind of world do they want?
They do not simply want a world in which there is no global warming.

None of them.

*All* of them -- from Greta and the XR, up through to the Chief Scientific Advisor and scientific research institutions -- want to change society.
Read 15 tweets
20 Sep
Dale Vince is such a shameless liar.

He's made a fortune out of the excessive prices inflicted on the consumer by government policy.

The price cap was created because the government lost control of the energy market to its ideological ambitions...

The price cap was necessary because the EMR bill failed to address the problems created by the climate change act.

Policy let any fly-by-night spiv set himself up as a boutique energy retailer. All you needed was an iPad and a shed. See also cold-calling and doorstep-selling.
Vince rails against nuclear at the end, claiming that it's more expensive than the market cost.

Well, that's because it was overseen by a Minister who was ideologically preoccupied by wind, like his predecessors and his party.
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19 Sep
Trying to pin this on Putin isn't going to wash.

Putin didn't close down or foil UK/EU natural gas production, didn't ban franking, and didn't close strategic storage.

This is on UK/European governments politicians, greens... Full stop.

telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
* - 'fracking', not 'franking'.
France banned fracking in 2011. In 2017, it banned all fossil fuel exploration.

Germany banned fracking in 2016.

Ireland has banned fracking.

The Netherlands has a moratorium on fracking.

The UK has a moratorium.
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