An article in the Critic asks if we are facing another great depression. I’m surprised that there is any doubt about it. Twenty years of vandalism of the energy system was only ever going to have one result, and will not be fixed in a hurry. But how did we end up here? Why did we let it happen? The answers lie in the two great tricks that have been played on the public.
Firstly, the man in the street has been led to believe that global warming is a crisis. Make no mistake, this is a lie. That’s because, in the official view of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, unabated global warming might lead to 3.6°C of warming and result in a loss of just 2.6% of GDP. Yes, those figures are correct; the worst that the climate might throw at us will only cause a small loss of wealth. That makes sense when you understand that by far the biggest impacts of climate change – sea-level rise and flooding – can be addressed through simple and relatively cheap adaptation measures. Nevertheless, relentless scaremongering by green activists and hate campaigns launched against naysayers have done the trick, to the extent that the idea of a ‘climate emergency’ is now received opinion, despite the lack of supporting evidence.
The second trick has been played by the renewables industry and green activists, which have together persuaded most people that an energy transition is possible. To do this they have engaged in a 20-year campaign of disinformation about the costs of wind and solar power and about the availability of storage technologies for when the wind stops blowing and the sun isn’t shining. So, for example, while the green blob shouts that offshore windfarms are bidding very low prices to supply to the grid, serious analysts – including in the peer-reviewed literature – point out that their audited accounts show that their costs remain high, that they are refusing to take up their contracts at the agreed price, and that the whole exercise is, in essence, a scam to fool the politicians into keeping the renewables boondoggle going.
The public has thus been caught in a pincer movement between two huge lies, and politicians, who only survive if they respond to public concerns, have wasted countless billions on renewables and have strangled the fossil fuel industry, the only sure way of keeping the lights on. As a result, families across the country face the prospect of winter nights spent shivering in the dark for years to come, and sky-high energy prices alongside.
Even if politicians wanted to do something about it, they seem to be cornered. They cannot address the energy crisis without being accused of “endangering the planet” and ignoring “cheap renewables”. The lies have done their work.
This explains the new Government’s reluctance to suspend the Net Zero targets and introduce the radical policy measures that are the only way to prevent the energy crisis turning in an economic catastrophe. Lifting the fracking moratorium, the single concrete measure announced to date, will not make a difference without further changes to the regulation of the industry. The team at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy seems to be pinning its hopes on splitting off renewables into a separate market, a plan that will bring no relief in the short term, and which will, at best, reduce wholesale prices to the level required to keep offshore windfarms operating, which is perhaps four times what is necessary to save the economy. In other words, our Government is currently working on plans to make energy prices permanently high.
So yes, another great depression appears a racing certainty.
Andrew Montford is Deputy Director of Net Zero Watch.
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The Davos Deviants will be very pleased with this analysis as it confirms that Agenda 2030 is still on course. At some point however ‘Sod’s Law’ will bite the bastards on the arse and from nowhere. I don’t care how good Billy’s algorithms are.
Exactly what will be required to waken people I don’t know but I suspect by next Spring views on the global warming nonsense / scam will have changed considerably, particularly if a bad Winter and boosters have also seen off a lot more citizens.
The lying continues as the miseries are exacerbated.
We can but live in hope.
(A fine article. Thanks. )
We can predict now that if there are excess winter deaths from the cold, they won’t be reported as that. You can be sure the diktat will go out to not put hyperthermia on death certificates. Doctors will once again fail to honour their hippocratic oath.
That’s probably why they’re refusing to acknowledge let alone investigate the causes of the excess deaths now. Can’t set a precedent of giving out information, which might prove very “difficult to manage” when people start dying of the cold.
Judging by the election results in Italy and Sweden this month people are starting to awaken and reject mainstream parties for more right wing populists. Obviously it’s hard to know exactly why their doing this. Immigration, woke policies, net zero or general dissatisfaction caused by the costs of living crisis are all likely to play a part, but it should be seen as a step in the right direction if it causes the elites to realise they aren’t going to get everything their own way.
I am already depressed about it.
…except that the issue is not the demands of the general public. The Greens come nowhere in UK politics and climate change concerns have routinely and rationally come extremely low in opinion polls, although it’s possible that has changed a bit recently with the relentless media coverage. The policies are demanded by the billionaires, because micromanaging energy usage “for the greater good” is a great way to turn the non-billionaires into a slave class. The Conservatives push deep green policies to please the billionaires, not the general public.
The reason that GangGreen comes ‘nowhere in UK politics’ is that every other political party in the UK has adopted identical GangGreen policies. A few Tories, Graham Stringer in Labour, Sammy Wilson in DUP. Who else?
OK, Lucas might be the maddest (or most evil) of the lot. That doesn’t get you very far.
It’s a recurring pattern.
Lie 1: COVID is an incredibly dangerous disease that can kill anyone
Lie 2: The only solution is to vaccinate the entire world with a new patented vaccine.
The scam: Obscene amounts of taxpayer money siphoned off to the health care industry.
Lie 1: Muslim terrorists pose an existential threat to our countries
Lie 2: The only way to deal with it is to take the fight to them. Fight them over there instead of over here.
The scam: Obscene amounts of taxpayer money siphoned off to the defence industry
Lie 1: If banks are allowed to fail, the global financial system will collapse.
Lie 2: The only way to solve the problem is for the money printing authority to buy assets from banks (i.e. give them money in exchange for dodgy assets).
The scam: Obscene amounts of money are given to banks
In short, the gargantuan power of the state is captured and wielded by powerful industries at the expense and to the detriment of ordinary people.
Exactly. Pharma, the banks, the armaments industry and the green tech industries are literally taking turns to have their way with us. At least they could buy us dinner first.
Agreed….you can extrapolate this to everything you have said…the billions of dollars going from the US to Ukraine are going, unchecked and uncontrolled into the great Ukrainian laundromat…where it will be well washed…..and untraceable….
Always follow the money….
A good analysis. The cosy tie-up between the state (those in charge) and those corporations or industries that have the influence. The very clear definition of fascism.
More evidence that the human race as a whole is fundamentally flawed thus very stupid. Oh that the sensible few where the majority. Talk about dumb and dumber.
Considering that the Euro has dipped below parity with the dollar for quite a bit of the past week, I think it is a bit myopic to focus on Britain’s position and blame the budget.
A much more likely culprit is concerted action by the Biden administration to weaken Europe as a whole, first through panic over a generally mild infection, secondly by fostering an irrational response to minor environmental issues, thirdly by using their corporate pawns to promote a subservient culture and finally by encouraging a war in Europe.
It doesn’t wash with Russia, it doesn’t wash with China and it shouldn’t wash with Europe.
As in Australia where our 2 major political parties offer either Net Zero very quickly, or Net Zero a little more slowly.
No disagreement on the “Climate Crisis”, the “Covid pandemic”, the evils of Western Civilization, etc.
We have a few small parties pushing against the mainstream- all are pilloried by the MSM and the major parties, and are largely ignored by the majority of voters, who are happy to keep their head buried deep in the sand.
The Truss/Kwarteng tax cuts are a drop in the bucket being used to distract people from the real crisis, the man-made energy crisis that Montford describes.
Although, I fear that he is too optimistic as the insanity of net zero policies is far worse than he describes.
People who can’t afford their mortgages/rent; their energy bills; food and the other essentials of life are very easily controlled.
And that’s what it’s about: control of the masses.
None of this is an accident; it’s been very carefully planned. It’s why it was the Anglosphere countries in the global democracies which drove the Scamdemic, and put in place lockdowns and restrictions on liberties previously considered unthinkable, because that’s where the Globalists expected to get the most resistance to their Reset plans.