This week, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) appointed a new Chief Executive, Emma Pinchbeck, and it was as if a coronation had made some incredibly popular princess a queen. Britain’s army of obsequious green blobbers and political hacks fell over themselves to pay tribute. Even former Secretary of State for Energy Security Claire Coutinho stopped trading insults with her successor (and Pinchbeck’s likely appointer) Ed Miliband to welcome the “wonderful appointment” who “speaks with both passion and expertise” and “always allowed space for thoughtful debate”.
Green policymakers and the broader blob have long welcomed persons of extremely low calibre into their ranks because environmentalism is a mediocracy that thinks itself an aristocracy. Whereas the constellation of institutions that influence the design of policy and the delivery of vital infrastructure has in the past been dominated by people who came up through their trade, today’s wonks, lobbyists, experts and advisors have little practical experience, if any at all. More often than not they are humanities graduates who can profess only “passionate belief” in renewable power to qualify their status as ‘experts’ charged with informing policymakers.
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