This isn't a critique of policy that either understands environmentalism, draws away from its excesses, understands its rise, or proposes a meaningful energy policy. He'd be quite happy with NetZero if it hadn't created an opportunity for him.
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Since he calls it 'net stupid'... "Hydrogen" is a stupid idea. As stupid as anything in Net Zero, which indeed it is a part of. SMRs are all well and good, but hardly answer the problem for the next decade or so.
"We will invest in brilliant shiny new world-class super-duper fab technology".
Cool. Like what?
Cool. Like what?
Oh, and tidal power.
He wants to have his cake and eat it.
Seriously, it's lame.
He wants to have his cake and eat it.
Seriously, it's lame.
"We can do this in a sensible, affordable, proportionate way".
Do what? Why? How?
It's Tory-Lite. That's all.
Do what? Why? How?
It's Tory-Lite. That's all.
"I love solar panels".
Useless.
Useless.
He thinks that all the problems of the green agenda go away if you make the solar panels and wind turbines in the UK.
No, you just make them even more expensive.
No, you just make them even more expensive.
Opportunism, but no more.
It's like when Nigel Thunberg did his tree thing. "I've always been an environmentalist", he said.
Well... That's never been a good thing.
Well... That's never been a good thing.
Ultimately, Xi's answer to Tice is going to be, "So where are you going to get the neodymium from, Richard?"
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