More Net Zero foolishness

The climate change fanatics want to take over our lives. It is socialism by another name. The seventh carbon budget from the Climate Change Committee reveals the extent of their fanaticism, and some of the cuts that will follow.

The fault lies with the 2008 Climate Change Act that mandates these budgets and gives them the force of law. It has already done considerable damage, so that our industrial electricity prices are now four times those of the United States. This has devastated British industry, as even the report, albeit rather coyly, notes “in industry, emissions have fallen by 63% since 1990. Much of this has been due to a fall in the output of emissions-industrial sectors, in particular steel and chemicals”.

This is because we have shut down our domestic industry, forced it out by making energy too expensive, and replaced it with imports. This is revealed in detail 141 pages later, so effectively buried in the report, where it is admitted that steel production fell from 17.8 million tons in 1990 to 5.6 million tons in 2023, while cement production collapsed from 14.7 million tons to 7.7 million tons. An almost 70% fall in steel production because of crazy green policies.

Steel is not only an essential material for infrastructure, but also for defence purposes. Making electricity more expensive, and following the European Union's emission trading scheme has harmed both the economy and our national security.

This is not all we have done. Fuel supply emissions have fallen by 60% because coal production has been stopped and replaced by more expensive electricity generation. The folly of Drax, which emits more, but because of peculiar international rules has less carbon dioxide attributed to it, produces expensive electricity which needs billions of pounds worth of subsidies. Previously, it was an efficient and cost effective coal-powered station, next door to a coal mine. It illustrates the tokenism of reducing coal while increasing the cost of supply.

The report also avers that waste emissions have fallen by 66% since 1990 because of a tax. It is all designed to make the UK economy less efficient, high cost, and heavily taxed.

This is not clever, and is why the UK, along with other European economies, has fallen behind, as the rest of the world has not implemented these impoverishing policies.