So the government has a bunch of stupid rules that the people will be forced to work around in order to live their lives.
This sounds a lot like changing the British government into the Italian. There's a lot of stupid rules, the people have to work around them, and the result is that the people end up with contempt for their corrupt, incompetent government officials.
Does this sound like a good place to be?
Or do you toss out the corrupt, incompetent regime and replace it with one that doesn't have the power to make lots of stupid rules that have to be worked around?
You are wrong. The decarbonisation campaign was started by bankers and oil men mid last century. They have paid for the establishment of international organisations and influential individuals (like Mauarice Strong) and pretended decarbonisation is necessary to 'save the planet.' Fundamentally, Net Zero is a Fascist, Nazi, evil and anti-working class movement of the Far-Right who want to establish a tyrannical totalitarian technocratic globalist government. 'Climate change' is their wicked rallying cry to convince the idiot Leftists who have not seen through the original intention to control, impoverish and eventually enslave the working people of the world.
I think the left/right descriptors are null and void. They are typical divide & conquer tactics to keep people's eye of the reality of what is actually going on and who the real protagonists are. The real protagonists (WEF, bilderburg, whoever) use such tools as left/right etc are not interested in how we act or think so long as we play their game to their rules.
Advice to not vote is not good advice. The only way (apart from the occasional substack exchnage) for people's voices to have any impact is via the vote. The only 'legitimate' thing is representative democracy where elected politicians - after discussion and debate - legislate to protect and enhance the voters' standard of living and security. The problem is that our elected politicians aren't doing that any more. They are furthering the interests of the corporations and Technocrats.
I agree entirely in principle, and now disagree in practice. I have voted in every general election for over 50 years, usually for the candidate I judge to be the least-worst, who has lost. The process is akin to shopping for an item, being presented with a choice, none of which appeals, but feeling obliged to select one nonetheless. I've decided that next time I shall have a limited set of principles that must be met, or I'll be staying at home, and that is the likeliest outcome. Anyone wishing to have their eyes opened on how representative democracy actually works, as well as be entertained, may like this "Why Government Fails, Explained": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxmXeLEcs9s
Over history, the State has played different roles. Originally, it grew to support and strengthen the military, landowners, bankers and capitalists (and royalty). Later, it also became a useful vehicle for the middle class to get jobs (in the public ssector) and to keep workers away from the barricades (via 'welfare'.) Now, corporations, globalists and Technocrats use the State to promote their goals via virtue-signalling and bought politicians voted for by a brainwashed, stupid, neo-Malthusian and bought public. At least, Reform UK, who haven't been around for long, have a clear and well-known policy to 'scrap Net Zero.'
Reform also had a clear policy on immigration and now they profuse how wonderful immigration is. T
Farage is the distractor. He trashes everything he touches and destroys those who dont agree with him. Hes from money, driven by money and despite playing a good game of coming across as a man of the people will change his tune soon enough. I wouldn't be surprised if he has ties to the technocrats.
I used to have this mindset. A checklist of things that must be to win my vote. Then I realised politicians are liars that will say what we want to hear and then do the opposite. I used to have hope that this would change but the further we travel the road the more that hope diminishes.
So keeping voting for politicians not doing what they should is changed by doing yet more voting.
I'll stand by my original comment.
Once people see that the electoral system is a charade to make people think they have a say, then we will see real change.
Voting for corrupt politicians in a corrupt system is the same as an abused partner staying with their abuser because they say they love them after beating them.
Agreed. At the last general election the UK electorate gave a massive thumbs-down to the incumbent Conservatives but sadly hadn’t twigged that the other parties of the globalist-controlled Uniparty, mainly Labour and the Lib Dems, were just as bad. As a result not enough people voted for Reform, the only non-globalist party, and Labour got in by a huge majority of House of Commons seats on only 31% of the votes cast, just 22% of the registered electorate on a 67% turnout (ref. ChatGPT).
Reform is not perfect but at present they are the only democratic path to throwing off Uniparty tyranny. They are the only party committed to scrapping Net Zero.
Nazi (National Socialism) ideology had a lot more in common with the 'far left' and authoritarian environmentalism than is generally acknowledged or recognised. Fascism and socialism are two sides of the same rotten coin. Both ideologies seek to exert tyrannical control over humanity. To be 'far right' nowadays is to reject globalist fascism/socialism. Hence we have this:
"French student who "loved Hitler" stabs schoolgirl to death,' ran the headline. What the mainstream media failed to mention was that the Nantes school attacker had a far-Left eco-manifesto fixated on climate apocalypse."
I agree that Net Zero in the UK under the control freaks of the left-wing authoritarian Labour government could be likened to the Death Star, but Net Zero has also been strongly supported by many supposedly right-wing regimes around the world, e.g. the so-called Conservatives here in the UK who are only now very slowly and reluctantly starting to row back on their support.
I think it’s all about globalism. The globalists showed their evil true colours during their Covid “plandemic”. It’s no longer about nominal right-wing vs. nominal left wing. Nowadays it’s honest brokers vs. liars, rationalists vs. dogmatists, good vs. evil, democratic populist vs. authoritarian unaccountable globalist.
The term “plandemic” was popularised by Dr Reiner Fuellmich who campaigned bravely against globalist Covid tyranny. Sadly he was illegally abducted in Mexico by the German secret service and is now banged up in a German jail on trumped up charges. Through karma, Trump and RFK Jr, anti-Covid campaigner Dr Robert Malone has been appointed to a senior role in the USA health administration. He has written on the persecution of Dr Fuellmich here: https://www.malone.news/p/the-persecution-of-dr-reiner-fuellmich-a9d?hide_intro_popup=true.
All of this bullshit about protecting environment and yet the new planning legislation current on its final reading basically throws out ecological protections. Nature? Pah, fuck that build more houses.
The whole thing is a money making scam and a step closer to a communist state. I won't go in to the rabbit hole of population reduction, I just came out of that one recently.
For reference with evidence, see books and videos by, for example, Jacob Nordangard, Antony C.Sutton and Patrick M. Wood. American capitalists forging trading relationships with communists has been fundamental to the weakening of national states's representative democracies and to the assumption that the Left supports decarbonisation. The impoverishment of working people (via decarbonisation policies) is a deliberate policy to reduce and control populations and to keep control of resources. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals are specific policies to secure the interests of capitalists. None of it is Leftist, though Leftists have been bought, beguiled and brainwashed into supporting The Agenda of the corporations and Technocrats.
Thank you David, for an excellent rant: part of me wishes I could disagree. There is another angle on this, and that is us - the acquiescent general population (not your readership). I follow US economist Prof Antony Davies (you can find him on Learn Liberty YouTube channel and elsewhere) and a few days ago watched him make the point that one thing we the people can do is to stop asking government to do things. That "the government must do more" is now deeply ingrained in the British psyche, not helped by MPs who stand up in parliament and say things like "our local bus services are very poor - what's the minister going to do about it?". It's going to take a lot of shifting.
Follow the money. 19 families in the US own a out 70% of the US wealth. Not quite as extreme but a similar number in EU/UK own a similar %. Every time you follow the trail of where the money comes from that support the NGOs etc pressuring govts around the world to follow net zero you find one of them. They also own the eventual recipient corporates of the policy.
Incidentally those same families benefit from MIC investments for on stop wars etc.
Starmer and co are merely their replaceable pawns as are all the 'democratic' govts.
It's remarkable that the Net Zero zealots have managed to gain such power over all our lives in such a relatively short time - beginning basically with the passing of the Climate Change Act 2008. But the climate nonsense started a long time before that, as far back as the 1970s. So how did the Net Zero Sith come to gain such power? They harnessed the Dark Side of The Force, The Force being science and they bent science to their will by creating the Settled Science of Global Warming. This is how they were able to pass the Climate Change Act 2008 and then Net Zero with such little scrutiny and question, labelling those who questioned The Settled Science as 'climate deniers'.
So I say to all 'deniers' of settled science and all 'deniers' of Net Zero, may the Force be with you! Because real science (never settled, always questioning, always evolving) begets real engineering and real economics, which in turn create the conditions for prosperity and social harmony - AND the genuine protection of the natural environment whilst enhancing human existence.
At least one thing: the ability to achieve anything like net zero is impossible. There are now no resources, financial, physical, or even increasingly the national will power, to do so. It will impoverish the nation as it progresses with delivery, as the manufacturing capability or importation of the necessary materials dry up.
Furthermore the nation will not tolerate draconian measures that threaten individual liberty. There are many governmental initiatives in hand that are just doing that, and over which there will be a massive public backlash. The government has already been warned of those rising symptoms. Public disorder will take place at a level unseen by those currently living. Will the government under such duress count on its official organs for law and order? I suspect not.
Mass adoption of heat pumps will only come as long as its subsidised at an ever increasing level where ultimately they are free issued. EVs will be the same in the long run unless they want to cede the car market entirely to the Chinese which is pretty well whats happening before our eyes anyhow.
And who, pray, will pay for those freebies? Not many people, from any polls on the issue. In fact, the whole monolith of net zero will fall as it’s enforced income falls - fails.
Indeed but Milibrain is more than capable of going there hes an absolute zealot who sees this as a vehicle to boost his global profile so he gets a cushy number at the UN.
David has done a yeoman’s job and a wonderful public service exposing the high cost of NetZero in the U.K.
But unfortunately the U.K. government and its NetZero agencies have all worked together to maintain the fiction of cheap wind & solar power.
There is no single web resource where one can view the effective consumer cost of gas generation and RE generation including the various subsidy schemes.
The fiction that gas generation is the most expensive of all U.K. power types is well entrenched.
So much so that the initial answers of ALL the various AI apps and chat bots say that gas is what causes high prices and more RE is needed to lower prices.
Now, all the AI resources when challenged enough, especially by referring them to David’s Substack, will admit that gas is the cheapest way to generate power, and that fact “Is not a matter of opinion.”
After that, one can have an acquaintance ask the same AI system the same questions, and every time the chatbot will say that gas drives U.K. high prices and more RE is the solution.
Aargh!
It appears that decades of U.K. government resources being used to sell the “cheap RE” lie have been very successful.
How can anyone convince people who might be brought over to the truthful side if every time they ask AI why U.K. power is so expensive, they’re told that gas is the cause, and RE is the answer?
I wish I had answers. The U.K. government has been very successful in their campaign of lies.
What’s amazing to me is the general public, even after opening their electricity bills every month, still somehow believe this fiction.
They believe it because that what they told and told again and again and again so ingrained in their psyche im afraid. At some point people will begin to question it but many wont because they get plenty of financial support so its not a real financial problem to them.
Agreed. ChatGPT is useful for non-political facts but it seems to have “swallowed” the establishment lie that the high UK electricity bills are due to the price of gas. I asked it https://chatgpt.com/ “Why are electricity bills in the UK so high?” and it immediately spouted establishment propaganda such as “The war in Ukraine (starting in 2022) further tightened global gas supplies—Russia cut exports to Europe, leading to record-high wholesale gas and electricity prices” with no recognition that gas supplies to Europe were cut due to self-harming sanctions against Russia or the fact that Biden blew up the Nord Stream pipeline for good measure. It also said nothing about the massive wind and solar subsidies which get loaded onto the retail price.
I think the UK has much too high an opinion of itself here. All of this was mapped out first in the US. The strategy was the response to Hubbert's little paper, and it began not so long after Hubbert, that curation of the story by fossil fuel interests began in earnest. Anti-nuclear was key to this strategy and those anti-nuclear lies still get major play in media.
The funding of David Brower in 1970 to create Friends of the Earth (FoE) was a key turning point in strategy by fossil fuel interests. David used FoE to take over the Sierra Club and turn the Sierra Club (a pro-nuclear NGO) into a premier anti-nuclear organization. This strategy has continued to the present day with curations like the total career funding of Mark Z. Jacobson by oil industry cutouts donating to Stanford on his behalf. After Mark published his 2015 PNAS codswallop ( https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1510028112 ), Stanford was given another $70 million by an oil industry cutout. Few people realize that MZJ never received money from any other source than fossil fuel interests supporting his entire career.
The government of the UK are imitating "their betters across the pond" who created the game the net-zero goons on the "left" are pushing. The real focus of attack is nuclear power. Everything else is distractions. Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.
The AIs all are trained on the corpus of (much of) the internet, so they regurgitate the words that most commonly follow each other.
They're trained, and then cut off from updating after a certain point. So they won't learn more if things get updated.
For every Substack like OGH's, there's a thousand press releases with "gas is the most expensive method", so it's not surprising that AI returns that. And it can't update.
It is no surprise that the whole climate change agenda, which has now reached its fulfilment objective in NZ fanaticism, is primarily associated with the far left. Following the pushback against the left in the 1980s (in particular through the success of Thatcherism and Reaganism) culminating in the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the ousting of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe the global left was in despair. With no hope of achieving their agenda at the ballot box, the option of piggy backing onto environmentalism, and the idea of the destruction of the world through man’s greed (manifested through capitalism), to provide an apparent scientific necessity to adopt the leftist command and control economy was a golden opportunity gladly seized. And by promoting it as all based on science, which too few people can be bothered to study in the detail necessary to repudiate, the natural defenders of capitalism have fallen into line rather than fighting back.
In other words extreme environmentalism is not incidentally identifiable with far left authoritarianism; it is purposively an instrument of the far left to achieve its agenda under the guise of science which most of them know is spurious but convenient.
"We have somehow allowed the very worst people to take charge of most of our lives".
A lot of people have been noticing that recently. And not just in the UK, but in the whole of "the West", if not elsewhere as well.
The conclusion seems inescapable that this has been the inevitable outcome of our vaunted system of "free enterprise democracy". Nearly 2,500 years ago Aristotle deemed it obvious to any intelligent person that choosing political officials by election was tantamount to plutocracy, as the wealthy would simply buy votes. That is exactly what has been happening - less by bribing individual voters than by exploiting their foolishness, insouciance, gullibility and lack of education. Money is spent on buying media coverage and opinions, which apparently have decisive influence over empty minds.
Ask yourself why the outcome of most Western elections can be predicted if one knows how much money each candidate has been able to raise.
Very good point. It is really sad to watch how so many of the general public fall hook, line and sinker for establishment propaganda as promulgated by the bought and paid for MSM and lying Uniparty politicians, be it the false need to cut CO2 emissions, the false need to get yet another unsafe and ineffective Covid booster or the false need to fear that Putin is about to invade Europe.
At the risk of over-exposing him, I can't resist bringing out another of H. L. Mencken's penetrating insights from a century ago:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary".
He also remarked that "Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it".
I'd argue they haven't taken control, it has been usurped. They all ram this guff into their manifestos and no one can say no to it. We're never given the opportunity to stop these fools damaging our way of life.
So the government has a bunch of stupid rules that the people will be forced to work around in order to live their lives.
This sounds a lot like changing the British government into the Italian. There's a lot of stupid rules, the people have to work around them, and the result is that the people end up with contempt for their corrupt, incompetent government officials.
Does this sound like a good place to be?
Or do you toss out the corrupt, incompetent regime and replace it with one that doesn't have the power to make lots of stupid rules that have to be worked around?
You are wrong. The decarbonisation campaign was started by bankers and oil men mid last century. They have paid for the establishment of international organisations and influential individuals (like Mauarice Strong) and pretended decarbonisation is necessary to 'save the planet.' Fundamentally, Net Zero is a Fascist, Nazi, evil and anti-working class movement of the Far-Right who want to establish a tyrannical totalitarian technocratic globalist government. 'Climate change' is their wicked rallying cry to convince the idiot Leftists who have not seen through the original intention to control, impoverish and eventually enslave the working people of the world.
I think the left/right descriptors are null and void. They are typical divide & conquer tactics to keep people's eye of the reality of what is actually going on and who the real protagonists are. The real protagonists (WEF, bilderburg, whoever) use such tools as left/right etc are not interested in how we act or think so long as we play their game to their rules.
Vote labour, no vote tory, no vote reform.
Stop voting and remove their legitimacy.
Advice to not vote is not good advice. The only way (apart from the occasional substack exchnage) for people's voices to have any impact is via the vote. The only 'legitimate' thing is representative democracy where elected politicians - after discussion and debate - legislate to protect and enhance the voters' standard of living and security. The problem is that our elected politicians aren't doing that any more. They are furthering the interests of the corporations and Technocrats.
I agree entirely in principle, and now disagree in practice. I have voted in every general election for over 50 years, usually for the candidate I judge to be the least-worst, who has lost. The process is akin to shopping for an item, being presented with a choice, none of which appeals, but feeling obliged to select one nonetheless. I've decided that next time I shall have a limited set of principles that must be met, or I'll be staying at home, and that is the likeliest outcome. Anyone wishing to have their eyes opened on how representative democracy actually works, as well as be entertained, may like this "Why Government Fails, Explained": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxmXeLEcs9s
Over history, the State has played different roles. Originally, it grew to support and strengthen the military, landowners, bankers and capitalists (and royalty). Later, it also became a useful vehicle for the middle class to get jobs (in the public ssector) and to keep workers away from the barricades (via 'welfare'.) Now, corporations, globalists and Technocrats use the State to promote their goals via virtue-signalling and bought politicians voted for by a brainwashed, stupid, neo-Malthusian and bought public. At least, Reform UK, who haven't been around for long, have a clear and well-known policy to 'scrap Net Zero.'
Reform also had a clear policy on immigration and now they profuse how wonderful immigration is. T
Farage is the distractor. He trashes everything he touches and destroys those who dont agree with him. Hes from money, driven by money and despite playing a good game of coming across as a man of the people will change his tune soon enough. I wouldn't be surprised if he has ties to the technocrats.
I used to have this mindset. A checklist of things that must be to win my vote. Then I realised politicians are liars that will say what we want to hear and then do the opposite. I used to have hope that this would change but the further we travel the road the more that hope diminishes.
So keeping voting for politicians not doing what they should is changed by doing yet more voting.
I'll stand by my original comment.
Once people see that the electoral system is a charade to make people think they have a say, then we will see real change.
Voting for corrupt politicians in a corrupt system is the same as an abused partner staying with their abuser because they say they love them after beating them.
Agreed. At the last general election the UK electorate gave a massive thumbs-down to the incumbent Conservatives but sadly hadn’t twigged that the other parties of the globalist-controlled Uniparty, mainly Labour and the Lib Dems, were just as bad. As a result not enough people voted for Reform, the only non-globalist party, and Labour got in by a huge majority of House of Commons seats on only 31% of the votes cast, just 22% of the registered electorate on a 67% turnout (ref. ChatGPT).
Reform is not perfect but at present they are the only democratic path to throwing off Uniparty tyranny. They are the only party committed to scrapping Net Zero.
Nazi (National Socialism) ideology had a lot more in common with the 'far left' and authoritarian environmentalism than is generally acknowledged or recognised. Fascism and socialism are two sides of the same rotten coin. Both ideologies seek to exert tyrannical control over humanity. To be 'far right' nowadays is to reject globalist fascism/socialism. Hence we have this:
"French student who "loved Hitler" stabs schoolgirl to death,' ran the headline. What the mainstream media failed to mention was that the Nantes school attacker had a far-Left eco-manifesto fixated on climate apocalypse."
https://x.com/toadmeister/status/1934128769477861376
We are the carbon they want to reduce. You often hear that. Also see main topic of discussion within my substack. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-pass-europe-most-extreme-185439123.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKETmdOto26U24Sa15YFsYeu68GDCoBtR9x8l8jAQBUC1S1xa-hEiUm_ULMTBS1MKJyjU-raTfuiAKg_IEI1MKfkcRz5x5CbUaldUE14QuyH2lIow8dOA5rYK5gAVu2Rr17IUtFrILAlyU5wqjMBqHg0CZdiDDPKA_tQr1bVgA_r
I agree that Net Zero in the UK under the control freaks of the left-wing authoritarian Labour government could be likened to the Death Star, but Net Zero has also been strongly supported by many supposedly right-wing regimes around the world, e.g. the so-called Conservatives here in the UK who are only now very slowly and reluctantly starting to row back on their support.
I think it’s all about globalism. The globalists showed their evil true colours during their Covid “plandemic”. It’s no longer about nominal right-wing vs. nominal left wing. Nowadays it’s honest brokers vs. liars, rationalists vs. dogmatists, good vs. evil, democratic populist vs. authoritarian unaccountable globalist.
This simple graph which you have previously posted yourself shows the futility and sheer tyranny of unilateral UK Net Zero even if the globalist CO2 global warming climate pseudoscience were valid, which we know it isn’t: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=GBR~CHN~OWID_WRL.
The term “plandemic” was popularised by Dr Reiner Fuellmich who campaigned bravely against globalist Covid tyranny. Sadly he was illegally abducted in Mexico by the German secret service and is now banged up in a German jail on trumped up charges. Through karma, Trump and RFK Jr, anti-Covid campaigner Dr Robert Malone has been appointed to a senior role in the USA health administration. He has written on the persecution of Dr Fuellmich here: https://www.malone.news/p/the-persecution-of-dr-reiner-fuellmich-a9d?hide_intro_popup=true.
I am proud to have recorded a summary of Dr Fuellmich’s 2022 Covid-19 Crimes Against Humanity model trial, kindly hosted by my friend and fellow-campaigner Joel Smalley: https://metatron.substack.com/p/reiner-fuellmichs-grand-jury-court.
All of this bullshit about protecting environment and yet the new planning legislation current on its final reading basically throws out ecological protections. Nature? Pah, fuck that build more houses.
The whole thing is a money making scam and a step closer to a communist state. I won't go in to the rabbit hole of population reduction, I just came out of that one recently.
For reference with evidence, see books and videos by, for example, Jacob Nordangard, Antony C.Sutton and Patrick M. Wood. American capitalists forging trading relationships with communists has been fundamental to the weakening of national states's representative democracies and to the assumption that the Left supports decarbonisation. The impoverishment of working people (via decarbonisation policies) is a deliberate policy to reduce and control populations and to keep control of resources. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals are specific policies to secure the interests of capitalists. None of it is Leftist, though Leftists have been bought, beguiled and brainwashed into supporting The Agenda of the corporations and Technocrats.
Thank you David, for an excellent rant: part of me wishes I could disagree. There is another angle on this, and that is us - the acquiescent general population (not your readership). I follow US economist Prof Antony Davies (you can find him on Learn Liberty YouTube channel and elsewhere) and a few days ago watched him make the point that one thing we the people can do is to stop asking government to do things. That "the government must do more" is now deeply ingrained in the British psyche, not helped by MPs who stand up in parliament and say things like "our local bus services are very poor - what's the minister going to do about it?". It's going to take a lot of shifting.
Follow the money. 19 families in the US own a out 70% of the US wealth. Not quite as extreme but a similar number in EU/UK own a similar %. Every time you follow the trail of where the money comes from that support the NGOs etc pressuring govts around the world to follow net zero you find one of them. They also own the eventual recipient corporates of the policy.
Incidentally those same families benefit from MIC investments for on stop wars etc.
Starmer and co are merely their replaceable pawns as are all the 'democratic' govts.
It's corporate fascism pure and simple.
It's remarkable that the Net Zero zealots have managed to gain such power over all our lives in such a relatively short time - beginning basically with the passing of the Climate Change Act 2008. But the climate nonsense started a long time before that, as far back as the 1970s. So how did the Net Zero Sith come to gain such power? They harnessed the Dark Side of The Force, The Force being science and they bent science to their will by creating the Settled Science of Global Warming. This is how they were able to pass the Climate Change Act 2008 and then Net Zero with such little scrutiny and question, labelling those who questioned The Settled Science as 'climate deniers'.
So I say to all 'deniers' of settled science and all 'deniers' of Net Zero, may the Force be with you! Because real science (never settled, always questioning, always evolving) begets real engineering and real economics, which in turn create the conditions for prosperity and social harmony - AND the genuine protection of the natural environment whilst enhancing human existence.
At least one thing: the ability to achieve anything like net zero is impossible. There are now no resources, financial, physical, or even increasingly the national will power, to do so. It will impoverish the nation as it progresses with delivery, as the manufacturing capability or importation of the necessary materials dry up.
Furthermore the nation will not tolerate draconian measures that threaten individual liberty. There are many governmental initiatives in hand that are just doing that, and over which there will be a massive public backlash. The government has already been warned of those rising symptoms. Public disorder will take place at a level unseen by those currently living. Will the government under such duress count on its official organs for law and order? I suspect not.
Mass adoption of heat pumps will only come as long as its subsidised at an ever increasing level where ultimately they are free issued. EVs will be the same in the long run unless they want to cede the car market entirely to the Chinese which is pretty well whats happening before our eyes anyhow.
And who, pray, will pay for those freebies? Not many people, from any polls on the issue. In fact, the whole monolith of net zero will fall as it’s enforced income falls - fails.
Indeed but Milibrain is more than capable of going there hes an absolute zealot who sees this as a vehicle to boost his global profile so he gets a cushy number at the UN.
David has done a yeoman’s job and a wonderful public service exposing the high cost of NetZero in the U.K.
But unfortunately the U.K. government and its NetZero agencies have all worked together to maintain the fiction of cheap wind & solar power.
There is no single web resource where one can view the effective consumer cost of gas generation and RE generation including the various subsidy schemes.
The fiction that gas generation is the most expensive of all U.K. power types is well entrenched.
So much so that the initial answers of ALL the various AI apps and chat bots say that gas is what causes high prices and more RE is needed to lower prices.
Now, all the AI resources when challenged enough, especially by referring them to David’s Substack, will admit that gas is the cheapest way to generate power, and that fact “Is not a matter of opinion.”
After that, one can have an acquaintance ask the same AI system the same questions, and every time the chatbot will say that gas drives U.K. high prices and more RE is the solution.
Aargh!
It appears that decades of U.K. government resources being used to sell the “cheap RE” lie have been very successful.
How can anyone convince people who might be brought over to the truthful side if every time they ask AI why U.K. power is so expensive, they’re told that gas is the cause, and RE is the answer?
I wish I had answers. The U.K. government has been very successful in their campaign of lies.
What’s amazing to me is the general public, even after opening their electricity bills every month, still somehow believe this fiction.
They believe it because that what they told and told again and again and again so ingrained in their psyche im afraid. At some point people will begin to question it but many wont because they get plenty of financial support so its not a real financial problem to them.
You’re probably correct: if it doesn’t directly impact them, they don’t care.
I guess 15 years of flat GDP and current deindustrialization due to high power prices have not yet effected enough people!
Agreed. ChatGPT is useful for non-political facts but it seems to have “swallowed” the establishment lie that the high UK electricity bills are due to the price of gas. I asked it https://chatgpt.com/ “Why are electricity bills in the UK so high?” and it immediately spouted establishment propaganda such as “The war in Ukraine (starting in 2022) further tightened global gas supplies—Russia cut exports to Europe, leading to record-high wholesale gas and electricity prices” with no recognition that gas supplies to Europe were cut due to self-harming sanctions against Russia or the fact that Biden blew up the Nord Stream pipeline for good measure. It also said nothing about the massive wind and solar subsidies which get loaded onto the retail price.
You have to watch it on those non-political facts as well. "AI" is just a superannuated search engine.
I think the UK has much too high an opinion of itself here. All of this was mapped out first in the US. The strategy was the response to Hubbert's little paper, and it began not so long after Hubbert, that curation of the story by fossil fuel interests began in earnest. Anti-nuclear was key to this strategy and those anti-nuclear lies still get major play in media.
The funding of David Brower in 1970 to create Friends of the Earth (FoE) was a key turning point in strategy by fossil fuel interests. David used FoE to take over the Sierra Club and turn the Sierra Club (a pro-nuclear NGO) into a premier anti-nuclear organization. This strategy has continued to the present day with curations like the total career funding of Mark Z. Jacobson by oil industry cutouts donating to Stanford on his behalf. After Mark published his 2015 PNAS codswallop ( https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1510028112 ), Stanford was given another $70 million by an oil industry cutout. Few people realize that MZJ never received money from any other source than fossil fuel interests supporting his entire career.
The government of the UK are imitating "their betters across the pond" who created the game the net-zero goons on the "left" are pushing. The real focus of attack is nuclear power. Everything else is distractions. Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.
The AIs all are trained on the corpus of (much of) the internet, so they regurgitate the words that most commonly follow each other.
They're trained, and then cut off from updating after a certain point. So they won't learn more if things get updated.
For every Substack like OGH's, there's a thousand press releases with "gas is the most expensive method", so it's not surprising that AI returns that. And it can't update.
It is no surprise that the whole climate change agenda, which has now reached its fulfilment objective in NZ fanaticism, is primarily associated with the far left. Following the pushback against the left in the 1980s (in particular through the success of Thatcherism and Reaganism) culminating in the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the ousting of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe the global left was in despair. With no hope of achieving their agenda at the ballot box, the option of piggy backing onto environmentalism, and the idea of the destruction of the world through man’s greed (manifested through capitalism), to provide an apparent scientific necessity to adopt the leftist command and control economy was a golden opportunity gladly seized. And by promoting it as all based on science, which too few people can be bothered to study in the detail necessary to repudiate, the natural defenders of capitalism have fallen into line rather than fighting back.
In other words extreme environmentalism is not incidentally identifiable with far left authoritarianism; it is purposively an instrument of the far left to achieve its agenda under the guise of science which most of them know is spurious but convenient.
A brilliant article thank you. And congratulations on your continued and well deserved success.
Lets ensure we keep up the articles to ensure we get back from the dark side!
https://nigelsouthway.substack.com/p/the-climate-change-stand-off
Well Done!
"We have somehow allowed the very worst people to take charge of most of our lives".
A lot of people have been noticing that recently. And not just in the UK, but in the whole of "the West", if not elsewhere as well.
The conclusion seems inescapable that this has been the inevitable outcome of our vaunted system of "free enterprise democracy". Nearly 2,500 years ago Aristotle deemed it obvious to any intelligent person that choosing political officials by election was tantamount to plutocracy, as the wealthy would simply buy votes. That is exactly what has been happening - less by bribing individual voters than by exploiting their foolishness, insouciance, gullibility and lack of education. Money is spent on buying media coverage and opinions, which apparently have decisive influence over empty minds.
Ask yourself why the outcome of most Western elections can be predicted if one knows how much money each candidate has been able to raise.
Very good point. It is really sad to watch how so many of the general public fall hook, line and sinker for establishment propaganda as promulgated by the bought and paid for MSM and lying Uniparty politicians, be it the false need to cut CO2 emissions, the false need to get yet another unsafe and ineffective Covid booster or the false need to fear that Putin is about to invade Europe.
At the risk of over-exposing him, I can't resist bringing out another of H. L. Mencken's penetrating insights from a century ago:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary".
He also remarked that "Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it".
I'd argue they haven't taken control, it has been usurped. They all ram this guff into their manifestos and no one can say no to it. We're never given the opportunity to stop these fools damaging our way of life.