"I say NO TO NET ZERO - and support the public campaign to stop it in the UK"
"Why 'No To Net Zero?' Isn't Net Zero a good thing?"
Net Zero is a policy that is wrecking our country
If CO2 emissions do genuinely need reducing, we should develop technology to do it.
But we should not sacrifice our livelihoods today because of wildly exaggerated fears about the future.
Britain’s contribution to global emissions is a tiny part of the whole.
What nobody wants to admit is that Net Zero policies are hurting us now.
For a quarter of a century British governments have brought in measures that are supposed to reduce carbon emissions – but what these all end up doing is restricting economic output and hurting people’s living standards.
Over that quarter century Britain’s coal, gas and nuclear energy generators have been decommissioned, one after the other, while exploration has been wound down.
And – lo and behold! – energy prices have gone through the roof.
Britain is forced to buy electricity from France and gas from Norway to make ends meet, and we are paying way over the odds.
That’s why bills are so high, for consumers and for businesses
‘Net Zero’ policies are behind the crackpot schemes to shut us up in 15 minute and low traffic neighbourhoods, and London’s ‘Ultra Low Emission Zone’, too.
The ‘war against the car’ has been going on throughout the 21st century.
The fuel duty escalator, the billions that local authorities charge citizens in fines and permissions for using and parking our cars, the ‘traffic calming’ measures narrowing roads – these are all supposed to get us out of our cars.
In their ideal world, only government officials and the super rich will be allowed to drive in limousines around the capital.
Panic stations
Under the Paris accord western nations agreed to aim for ‘Net Zero’ – taking as much carbon out of the atmosphere as the put in by 2050 – and to reach 45 per cent of that target by 2030.
As the 2030 deadline approaches people are panicking. They know that 45 per cent of Net Zero is not going to happen by 2030.
Everyone in government knows it
Everyone in industry knows it
But none of them want to admit it
Instead they are going to press on with a target that is simply unattainable without a spectacular collapse in the economies and societies of the world.
That some leaders like Rishi Sunak and Macron in France have warned that some of those targets will be missed is just a glimpse of the truth.
But instead of admitting that Net Zero is a mad target the world’s leaders are pressing on. They will fail, but the damage they are doing right now will cost all of us dearly.
Preparing to fail
Teachers in schools are telling children that 250 years of the industrial development and fossil fuels are making the world uninhabitable, but the opposite is true.
Modern industry and farming are not what is killing us, it is what is keeping us alive.
Without the exponential gains in output in the last 250 years, Britain could only sustain a population of five million. But for those industrial advances perhaps six billion of the world’s population would never have been born.
Wanting a better environment should not mean turning our backs on the inventions and technologies that have given us life – at least not until better technologies can replace them.
Under Net Zero we are asked to give up fossil fuels before there are alternative energy sources in place. All that means is we get poorer, hungrier and colder.
So sure, let’s develop alternative energy. But it makes no sense to close down fossil fuel power before those alternatives are in place and at capacity to replace what we give up. If we do that it’s not transition, it’s just austerity.
