Westminster eco-lobbying outfit the Green Alliance this week published two new reports linking allegedly growing health and mental health risks to climate change. But rather than offering any new research, data or insight, these reports are merely concatenations of spurious green factoids. The reports reproduce their authors’ ignorance, making the link between climate and health by depriving the reader of any historical or numerical perspective. Their unmistakable goal is to influence the new Government. But all they really reveal is the Green Alliance’s desperate clutching at straws to save the green agenda from its looming collapse.
The Green Alliance (GA) is the epitome of the Green Blob think tank: favoured by MPs, funded by opaque ersatz ‘philanthropic’ outfits, blinded by ideology and incapable of reading any room outside SW1. As energy prices began their inexorable rise in 2020, for example, the GA launched a campaign to increase the VAT on domestic gas from 5% to 20%. This, it claimed, would benefit the poorest, because wealthier people tend to use more gas. Arithmetic, it seems, is the first casualty. And the ideological blinding doesn’t stop there.
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