It must not be forgotten that these people are less concerned with producing energy in ways that will allow us to maintain our standards of living and make economic progress than with being ‘anti-capitalist.’
The ‘Net Zero’ slogan is on the lips of politicians of all shades, uttered by royalty and rock-stars alike, and, of course, by those execrable people who padlock themselves to railings and glue themselves to public highways in the name of Just Stop Oil. Net Zero, referring to the reduction of carbon emissions, has been sold to us as an achievable aim and one that we must achieve by around 2050. What few at the receiving end of this slogan know—and few on whom most of the burden of achieving Net Zero will fall—is how little thought was applied between the invention and subsequent imposition of the Net Zero policy. Therefore, nobody has a clue how it is going to be achieved.
