At the Telegraph this week, eyebrows were raised in response to comments from Labour Party backbencher Bill Esterson. The Chairman of Parliament’s Energy Committee, according to the paper, said that “people will ‘absolutely’ have to adjust their habits to meet the U.K.’s ambitious emissions goals for 2030”. This, said Political Correspondent Amy Gibbons, contradicts Keir Starmer’s statements at COP29 in Baku, that he did not want to tell people “how to behave” or “how to live their lives”. Is there anyone alive who believes Keir Starmer about anything?
If you didn’t know that Net Zero requires the public to adjust their habits, lifestyles and behaviours, then you probably have never looked in depth at any U.K. energy policy, much less the thinking behind it. Moreover, if one takes a broader view of the green agenda and its ‘successes’, it would be hard not to conclude that the only point of that agenda is the regulation of lifestyle. It’s certainly not doing anything to save the planet.
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