2022-03-06
The GWPF (Global Warming Policy Foundation) highlights Sir Iain Duncan-Smith's call for an "honest and open debate on Net Zero".
"politicians have not sufficiently scrutinised the requirements ... they must level with the public about the sacrifices required"
Professor Michael Kelly FRS (report author):
"The scale of this project is, in terms of resource and time, so great that a war footing and a command economy will be essential for its delivery"
I don't recall that being mentioned before, but maybe it's what we will get anyway if we continue to poke the Russian bear over their activities in Ukraine. It strikes me that to attempt both simultaneously might be asking for an insurrection.
Professor Michael Kelly: Achieving Net Zero (pdf download)
See also:
Revitalise the North Sea and Start Fracking or Lose Putin's Energy War for Good
Britain needs to ratchet up domestic gas production if it wants to win the war
Whilst we remain unconvinced that antagonising arguably the second most powerful military on the globe rather than working to properly implement the Minsk Agreements in the Ukraine and restating to Russia the assurances about NATO expansion that were given at the time of the fall of the Iron Curtain, we can't blame Net Zero Watch for making the sensible point that if we are going to antagonise the Russians we ought to secure our energy supplies, ideally from domestic resources.
