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Konstantin Kisin

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

The one thing you will need to do if you want to re-industrialize Britain is go from having the highest industrial electricity prices in the developed world to producing lots and lots of cheap, reliable energy, which means

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

But isn't that the problem, Alan, that essentially you're trying to reduce the demand for something that will never be reduced because of the population, for energy, not for fossil fuel energy, but for energy.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

And you haven't got...

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

a ready-made replacement that as cheaper.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

That's Bjorn's point is you have to invest in technology to make alternative forms of energy cheap enough that you don't then need the levers of government to introduce it because people are just going to buy this cheaper energy wherever it comes from.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

But we don't have it yet.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

Do you see what I'm saying?

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

So that's what I mean.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

Overall, as a package, it's not cheaper at this point.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

Or we don't have the way to make it work without fossil fuels.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

Whatever way you want to put it, it's not a viable alternative that is cheaper as well.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

And by the way, making it extremely vulnerable to Russia, which is why the current situation with Ukraine, Germany can't do shit because they've closed all their power stations.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

No, he did say you're going to get more Bolsonaros if you carry on down this path.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

That was his exact words.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

Constantine.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

Can I just first of all ask Douglas and James, what percentage of global carbon emissions is Britain responsible for?

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

Historically or in present terms?

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

Currently.

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How Net Zero Destroyed Britain

About 1%?