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Net Zero is a National Security Threat and Must Be Abandoned, Former Security Minister Warns

by Will Jones
1 March 2024 9:00 AM

Decarbonising the steel and electricity industry in pursuit of Net Zero represents a real and present danger to national security and must be abandoned, a former Security Minister has warned.

Writing in a foreword to a new paper from campaign group Net Zero Watch, Sir Gerald Howarth, Minister for International Security Strategy under David Cameron, said:

Our adversaries are watching us like hawks, so let us leave them in no doubt: we are rearming and rebuilding, and Net Zero is firmly on hold.

Professor Gwythian Prins, a defence expert and one of the paper’s authors, agrees that with the recent deterioration of the world’s security situation, “luxury beliefs” such as Net Zero must be jettisoned as a matter of urgency:

This is the moment when the music stops. The Port Talbot closure harshly exposes the costs of luxury ‘green’ beliefs. We cannot be dependent on imports for the full range of necessary steels to rebuild our arsenals – the Navy first and foremost – and, most ridiculously, we cannot depend for them on our global antagonists.

Furthermore, our armed forces are wholly dependent on oil to keep them in the field, and our electricity grid will collapse without gas. Any attempt to abandon them will leave us entirely at the mercy of hostile powers.

The paper also includes a contribution from Gautam Kalghatgi, a Professor of Combustion and Energy Engineering, who ridicules plans to decarbonise the armed forces through use of batteries and biofuels.

Historian (and Daily Sceptic regular) Guy de la Bédoyère sets out the eternal historical lesson that technological laggards usually end up the victims of conquest by their more advanced neighbours.

Mr. de la Bédoyère said:

It is impossible to diminish the effectiveness of a nation’s armed forces without making it a sitting duck for a more ambitious rival’s greed. But that’s exactly what our leaders seem to want to do.

Andrew Montford, Director of Net Zero Watch said:

The three contributors make it clear that Net Zero is leaving us at the mercy of hostile powers. A Net Zero army and a Net Zero economy could both be brought to their knees in a matter of days. In these dangerous times, our politicians must re-order their priorities.

Tags: ArmyClimate AlarmismNational SecurityNet Zero

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RW
RW
2 years ago

Teaching pupils about climate change is completely bizarre. They’re not supposed to worry about political decisions they’re at least old enough to vote.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago

Truly terrifying that this highly politicised ideological propaganda is being taught even in language classes. Whatever happened to the utility of un cafe et une croissante s’il vous plait? Are you only expected to converse with the French about ‘le climat’ these days rather than their amazing food – or the footy, for example? So sad.

(One correction though – the UK’s climate is described as temperate maritime and is not ‘extreme’. Go anywhere away from coasts into continental land masses and the weather does become more extreme – compare London with Berlin or Warsaw, for example.)

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gedhurst
gedhurst
2 years ago

Pure indoctrination.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

Save earth? Net Zero Kills freedom

2019-2021 Freedom Loving Conservative Boris Johnson increased the Communist Propaganda in schools.

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago

Another excellent piece Jack. Good to know all is not lost in future generations. Well done keep up the good work.

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Amari
Amari
2 years ago

I first became aware of the climate change fallacy when I began reading Mark Steyn around 2008-2010. At the time I was teaching English as a foreign language and I realised to my horror that climate change propaganda was all through the course books I was using to teach. Every text book has a chapter on the environment. No wonder, really, seeing they are published by Oxford University Press and the British Council.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Amari

These people managed to capture a generation of people who were to become politicians by begin anti-establishment and thus (viewed from the eyes of a teenager) somehow cool and important. I’ve already encountered people in their twenties who simply roll their eyes when they hear the word climate because they simply can’t stand it anymore. And there’s more of this to come. The COPsers are digging their own graves with this approach because they’re doing exactly what the people who lost out against them did in order to fight them.

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Simon MacPhisto
Simon MacPhisto
2 years ago

Hear hear. Keep fighting the good fight, Jack.

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Adrisha
Adrisha
2 years ago

All summed up neatly here: https://youtu.be/bDcjDc288S4

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