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.
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.
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.
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.
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.