How Net Zero Destroyed Britain
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What is the main argument against Net Zero policies in Britain?
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And whatever it takes to achieve that.
Oh, that's the interesting thing, because that's not true in the polls. People will say, yes, we want action on climate. But then when you ask them how much they're willing to spend on achieving that, they'll say something like £10 a year. It's some ludicrously small amount. They're actually not willing to spend all it takes.
It depends how you ask the question. Because if you say to people, how much are you willing to spend? They'll say 10 pounds. But if you say to them, look, your energy bills have gone up and it's because of the war in Ukraine. We won't tell you about the green levies and all this other stuff. And by, oh, green levies, yeah, it's to save the planet. People are actually, a lot of people are on board with that because the money, they don't feel that the money is being taken out of their pocket. That connection hasn't been made in many people's minds.
Well, that's because they've been lied to by policymakers. But people are starting to see through that. In the UK, we are only responsible for 0.8% of global emissions. So we could cut to zero ourselves and literally it makes no difference to global climate change. Secondly, our net zero policies measure territorial production emissions. By making our energy expensive, we're incentivising offshoring of manufacturing. So we could meet our target tomorrow by just shutting down all our manufacturing. But the result of that is global emissions go up. And this is what annoys me so much about what Labour's doing, is they just don't seem to be willing to accept that they're making global emissions higher. Miliband repeats time and again, we must act because of the climate emergency.
All these factories closing, all our steel plants closing. That happens. We then start buying our steel from China and things like girders. And then you have to ship girders halfway around the world in ships that burn bunker fuel, which is like the dirtiest part of the crack. Shipping low value, heavy bulk items halfway around the world is a very stupid thing to do. And that creates a lot of emissions. So not only is the production more polluting because they have dirtier energy in China, then you have all these emissions that you didn't otherwise have from transportation. But because our targets are just looking at territorial production emissions, then, oh, you can just virtue signal that we're, you know.
And British blokes are not getting the job because of it.
Yeah, so we're losing employment. It's bad for the economy.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main argument against Net Zero policies in Britain?
0:00–4:29
2
How do Net Zero policies impact the UK economy?
4:29–9:53
3
What are the environmental implications of offshoring manufacturing?
9:53–15:48
4
How does the UK contribute to global carbon emissions?
15:48–21:14
5
What are the challenges of transitioning to renewable energy?
21:14–26:49
6
How do current policies affect the car manufacturing industry?
26:49–30:48
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