Earlier this week the Labour backbencher and Chairman of the U.K. Parliament’s Energy Committee Bill Esterson noted that people will have to adjust their habits to meet Net Zero emission goals for 2030. Such honesty, emerging as it does from the Parliament of Net Zero nodding donkeys, is to be applauded. As far as it goes.
Try a 30% reduction in
energy demand. After 2030, consider that all beef, lamb and dairy will
be banned and “replaced by new diets”. Then there is a massive 45% cut
in most common building materials such as cement, along with a similar
reduction in road freight traffic. The attack on farming will be
remorseless with fertiliser restriction halving “direct emission” from
the soil. To sum up: widespread rationing and blackouts along with food,
holiday and travel restrictions, all within about 60 months.
Look
at what they fund and write and whom they consult, not what they say,
is the best advice to counter all the whoppers that are being told about
Net Zero. Sir Keir Starmer’s statement at the recent COP29 that he
didn’t want to tell people how to live their lives can only be explained
by noting it came from a British Prime Minister who has difficulty
telling a woman from a man.
Thankfully we have the Government-funded
U.K. FIRES project to give us an honest heads-up on the near-term
implications of Net Zero. All of the substantial reductions in energy,
food and industrial materials mentioned above
arise from its “pragmatic approach”. Its evidence-based conclusions
rely on technologies that are available today. It excludes processes
such as carbon capture and hydrogen that have yet to be proven at
meaningful scale.
Its conclusions warm the hearts of the most
committed green ideologues. Its reports also happen to be the most
honest representation of the horrors that await if the Net Zero fantasy
ever becomes a reality.
By 2028 a total of seven million heat
pumps will need to be installed and massive retrofits undertaken in
domestic homes. Meanwhile, all rented and non-domestic properties will
need to be EPC A rated by 2030. The desire to “manage land use for Net
Zero emissions” means a massive cut in chemical fertilisers, so expect
food supply to fall off a cliff....<<<Read More>>>...
