We will all pay for Johnson’s Net Zero disaster
By Pete North - January 11, 2022
Nothing is going to improve in the UK unless and until we take on the establishment. If there is a solution to the dinghy crisis, for example, the Tories won’t get anywhere near it. They’d have to take on the embedded NGOcracy and they don’t have the stones for it. What we need to see is a deep level purge of civil society and that isn’t going to happen.
Some may be encouraged that Stonewall has been chucked out of various government departments but this is only happening because gays and high status women have started to notice how dreadful they are. Immigration, however, tends to be a neglected issue, not least because it’s contentious, but also because it’s an issue mainly taken up by low status men (such as I).
You would think there would be more feminists on the immigration issue being that we’re importing mostly men of fighting age with culturally engrained misogynistic attitudes, but their victims tend to be working class white girls who are at the bottom of the victim hierarchy. They don’t matter to anyone powerful.
The overall unwillingness to take on any serious fights is why nothing much is going to improve. We can say much the same of energy, where even the bosses of big energy are marinated in climate dogma. Between them and the activist NGOs frustrating any attempts to increase gas production, I don’t see a radical change of direction even after our bills have doubled. At most the Tories will tinker with VAT and set up a number of redistributive mechanisms but the central policies that created this systemic vulnerability are not going to change.
The only thing to kill off certain aspects of Net Zero is the encroachment of reality. Shortages of rare earth minerals and microchips will delay mass adoption of EV’s but the measures designed to coerce us to buy EVs will remain in place, so people will end up keeping their ICE cars for a long time to come but it will be punishingly expensive to run one. At that point people really will be forced to make a choice between personal mobility and heating.
It’s highly likely that the government will be forced to make some concession to reality eventually on energy production being that it’ll be at least a decade before any new nuclear comes on line and not at sufficient scale to make a difference. We’ll then be paying for all the “green crap” as well as emergency stop gap measures. Precisely when that concession happens I can’t say, but I can say with confidence that it will be far too late to prevent a serious amount of economic harm.
If we are going to avoid a long and deep energy crisis then we need to be on a war footing, but the social change agenda behind the climate dogma is too powerful. Like last time we had a spike in energy bills, the press will blame “profiteering fatcats” and we’ll see calls to renationalise energy. Why they think that will improve matters without changing any of the fundamental assumptions about green energy I don’t know.
In the meantime we’ll waste eyewatering sums on heat pumps and insulation to no useful effect, and then we’ll start to the health problems emerging in children and the elderly from under heated homes. There’s no chance MPs will usefully intervene largely because they’re financially insulated from the consequences of their policies. Moreover they get most of their information from academia, and when research funding is awarded on the basis of ideological alignment, the agenda will stay the same.
Elsewhere in the economy we’ll see the consequences of energy costs and decades of policy neglect. They’ll punish car ownership with a view to pushing us on to public transport, but thanks to Covid lockdown debts, any future upgrades to the rail network have been shelved – not least electrification. It’s highly likely that working from home will become the new normal largely because people can no longer afford to commute.
Though that’s not necessarily a bad thing, being that there are too many long and pointless commutes, GDP is largely contingent on a highly mobile population. The daily commute contributes massively to GDP as commuters buy goods and services away from the home. The revenue from fuel sales must also be replaced somehow. We’re looking at tax rises on top of tax rises. Like socialists, eco-zealots have big ideas and ambitions but not the first idea how to pay for any of it.
One had vague hopes that Brexit might turn things around, being that it was a rejection of the “expert” class and the elites, but for Brexit to matter we needed a government that understood why it was necessary and had the first idea what to do with it. But instead we got Boris Johnson and his mistress. Instead of rebooting the country, we’ve seen a reversion to the 2015 centrist consensus. Our countryside will now be rewilded or given over to solar panels while the cities turn into crime ridden urban deserts. Ironically it may be EU member states who have a right wing revolution before we do.
It would seem that climate change is the new religion of our elites, and Net Zero is the root command of everything government does. Infused with wokery and identity politics, it’s difficult to see any redemption for the UK. Our electoral system is essentially rigged and the establishment parties have made sure our votes cannot change things. It’s going to take something seismic to shock them from their stupor. I don’t even think rolling blackouts will get their attention.
Ultimately without fossil fuels there is no prosperity. Green energy is a fantasy. But for as long as we’re ruled by entitled elites in thrall to the new religion, who believe it is their born right to inflict their economic and social agendas on us without our consent, there is no hope for Britain’s future. Just a long, slow, inexorable decline. But at least we can take shelter under solar panels. They’re useful for something.