Think Tank's Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem

Think Tank’s Net Zero Survey Concludes the Public is the Problem

A report by the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank published this week reveals some polling data that advocates of the green agenda will find uncomfortable. It shows that most people really have not bought into the green agenda because, even if they are broadly supportive, “almost half of people think that Net Zero is something being done to them rather than something they are taking an active role in”. But besides some interesting polling data, what this overlong and disingenuous report better exposes is the fact of a widening gap between lofty think tanks and the public – and also reality.

The SMF’s report, ‘Whose energy transition is it anyway?‘ is a very long-winded tour of the failure of policies intended to deliver “clean heat”. Over 60 pages, a disorganised rabble of establishment talking points are assembled in an attempt to identify the causes of Britain’s 28 million households failing to do as they are told. “Clean heat” means the extremely expensive retrofitting measures, including the installation of heat pumps that, according to the survey, have only been taken up by 4% of respondents.

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