IT IS the year 2050 and Britain, relentlessly driven by the governing Labour-Green coalition, has achieved Net Zero. The nation is quite unrecognisable from the comfortable, well-fed country it was in the early part of the 21st century. Massive wind turbines cover the landscape; the old ones built 25 years ago now knocked down and lying next to the new ones because it was uneconomic to remove them. The whole country is covered in a dense spider’s web of power lines from the multitude of wind and solar farms miles from where the power is needed. Offshore wind farms died ten years ago: it became impossible to maintain them because all the workboats were rusting in port with no fuel. Thousands of acres of formerly productive agricultural land are now solar farms with nothing but weeds growing beneath the panels.
