Air travel will soon be the preserve of the privileged, an airline boss has admitted, as Net Zero makes low-cost air travel a thing of the past. The truth the Net Zero is making us poorer is slowly leaking out, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
It would drive a new industrial revolution. It would create lots of ‘well-paid, green jobs’. And the wealth it would generate would lower prices, raise living standards and spark innovations that would transform whole industries.
For most of the last decade, corporate leaders have insisted that the transition to a carbon-neutral economy was win-win.
We would save the planet and get richer at the same time. But hold on. The Australian airline Qantas has just broken ranks, admitting that flying may soon be the preserve of only the privileged, while a wealth of research is making it clear that environmental goals have hammered the economy.
In reality, bosses are starting to admit what has been obvious for some time. Net Zero is making us poorer – and that means we have to rethink the way we go about reducing carbon emissions.
If you thought that summer flight to Malaga or Crete with the family was already looking eye-wateringly expensive, you have not seen anything yet. According to the data company Mabrian, budget – and the word “budget” is looking increasingly out of place for the no-frills aviation industry – flights to Spain will cost 26% more this year than last and those kinds of price rises are becoming the norm for many destinations.
But it will get a lot worse very soon. Vanessa Hudson, the Chief Executive of Qantas, admitted this week that flying may well become “so expensive that it’s something only for the privileged”.
It doesn’t stop there.
Chris Wright, Trump’s Energy Secretary, delivered some blunt truths on UK policy last month when he argued that our roll-out of wind farms and solar panels “had not delivered any benefits”. In fact, he said that British politicians were impoverishing citizens “in the delusion that this was somehow going to make the world a better place”.
Likewise, earlier this month, an analysis by Peel Hunt showed that the steep decline in electricity supply since the early 2000s had coincided with a sharp fall in the growth of living standards and that the two were inextricably linked.
There is no point in kidding ourselves any more. The Net Zero drive is making us poorer.
Let’s take aviation, for example. Vanessa Hudson’s point was that sustainable aviation fuel, which will soon be mandatory for at least 10% of an airline’s consumption, is far more expensive than the traditional fossil variety.
It can cost up to five times as much as kerosene and that increase means fares will have to rise prohibitively if airlines are to stay in business. We have only seen the start of the rise in ticket prices and there will be a lot more to come over the next few years. Very soon, only the wealthy will be able to fly and the rest of us will have to stay at home.
The trouble is, this is completely crazy.
Lynn goes on to explain how numerous industries, including tourism, exports and conferences, rely on affordable air travel. And manufacturing of course is already being hammered by high and rising energy costs.
“At least Qantas is being honest,” he says”. “So are a handful of other corporate leaders, even if the majority are still living in the la-la-land where there is no trade-off between hitting our environmental goals and maintaining our standards of living.”
Worth reading in full.
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Just glanced through above updates & noticed the Andrew Tate story , amazing that any one on the opposite side of the “new abnormal” gets got at !!
100% Freddy….I think whether we like it or not, battle lines are going to be drawn up this year, and we are going to have to decide which side we are on!
Funny how we still have no arrests over Epstein isn’t it? Isn’t Bill supposed to have visited Epstein Island 37 times? MSM…..?? Crickets! Do they believe we don’t know and aren’t bothered?
Crickets upon Crickets ! Belfield gone ! Steyn sidelined ( umbrella tip maybe
) & now Tate after rowing with Klaus,s pet Goblin ! Anything is possible atm !
“DAVOS 2023: WEF shifts into high gear in preparing for the next Pandemic”
An excellent article pointing out that Africa is next in line to be “helped” by those angels on the WEF. People might not be suffering with the C1984 but they soon will be and even if they’re not they are going to be treated to the so-called “vaccines.”
There is going to be carnage.
During the “pandemic” the larger development charities were running let-them-eat-cake campaigns for “vaccine equity”, utterly out of touch with what people in those countries actually needed.
This half hour video is superb. It’s about the WEF, but there’s stuff in there that you probably won’t know. Delivered with excellent narration from a four-legged friend. What’s not to like?
https://sagehana.substack.com/p/the-men-who-own-everything-an-excellent
I like Sage Hana. Tunes into my wavelength nicely.
“…with Britain and Europe constructing alternative energy infrastructure to ensure they are never again beholden to Moscow – Urals crude has lost its appeal.”
So says some Telegraph journalist, Oscar Williams-Grut. Is this the best the Telegraph can do?
Reading some of the replies to Bridgen’s Twitter post. The wilful ignorance is extraordinary; it seems that people are coping with evidence that goes against the narrative by just sticking their heads deeper in the sand. The stupidity is mind blowing. I’ve said it before, but I’m now all for this depopulation idea!
Sir Desmond Swayne MP expressing public support for Bridgen:
Bridgen (desmondswaynemp.com)
“Serious questions have been raised about the wisdom of continuing with the current policy. They need to be addressed in detail, but they are simply being ignored.”
“the reason the that the Chamber was empty was because it was the end-of-day Adjournment debate…. No particular indifference or disrespect was being displayed on this occasion.”
Far from impressed with this explanation. Why was the debate not given more prominence? Even if it was the “end-of-day Adjournment debate” the MPs were still aware of what the subject was. The whole things reeks of complete disdain for the people they are supposed to represent. At least my MP was honest in basically saying he couldn’t be bothered. I know where I stand with him (would prefer to stand on him, but…).
“No particular indifference or disrespect was being displayed on this occasion.” I wholeheartedly disagree Mr Swayne, and I’d imagine thousands of your constituents would too.
I would have preferred a much more robust statement from Swayne, but it’s a start. The whole vaxx thing is going to be by far the hardest mountain to climb as people worshipped vaccines even before covid.
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Well Good Morning fellow sceptics..nice to be able to comment again after the ‘technical problems’ de-commissioned me on Tuesday!!……LOL!
The fact that these therapies are still being promoted, in younger people particularly, will just get harder and harder to defend…the avalanche of evidence cannot be ignored forever…this is not behind a pay wall…
https://jamescintolo.substack.com/p/new-study-found-a-9-times-increased
“New Study Found A 9-Times Increased Rate Of Myocarditis In Males After mRNA Booster | 3 Or More COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Associated With A 6-Fold Increased Risk Of Infection Said Cleveland Clinic.
Very important data appeared over the past days that was suppressed by the media. Specifically, two new shocking studies were released that associated mRNA COVID-19 vaccination with higher than previously estimated rates of myocarditis, and higher than previously reported risk of infection.
Start here. A new Nordic study found males aged 12-39 who took a Moderna COVID-19 booster compared to a second dose experienced a 9-fold increase in the risk of myocarditis. It should be noted, the previously mentioned figure was based on populations from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden who have recently stopped recommending mRNA vaccines for males under 30….
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.16.22283603v1
Next, a very prestigious medical institution named The Cleveland Clinic published new data that revealed every COVID-19 vaccine dose increased the risk of infection 6X- much higher than previously documented. The results are harrowing..
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v1 “
(A Doctor commenting on Twitter about the first study pointed out that…
”There are more cases of myocarditis than ICU admissions for COVID in young men in these 4 countries….(Sweden, Finland,Norway and Denmark)…which is presumably why they don’t vaccinate under 30s anymore?)
So this is extremely revealing and alarming. Chris Martensen takes a look at the excellent detective work by Jikkyleaks, and the information uncovered in their FOIAs over in Australia in this 45min video.
A few of the bombshells that we learn is that the TGA knew of the contamination from certain batches but failed to investigate. Not only that, they allowed Pfizer employees to choose their own batches that were not flagged as having any deaths associated with them to get injected with. The TGA allowed extended shelf-life* for certain batches which just so happened to be the batches flagged as having deaths associated with them. Then Chris reveals where these ”death batches” were destined to be sent, which is just extremely concerning tbh.
*The vials are allowed to defrost and be used up to 9 months from that date, whereby normally the vials for older kids and adults would be used within 31 days after defrosting and the vials for kids would be used 70 days after defrosting. Big difference and not exactly qualifying as ”good practice”.
And if this is happening in Australia it’s highly likely to be happening in other countries.
https://rumble.com/v230jdk-australian-covid-released.html
Could you expand on jikkyleaks please? I’ve seen it mentioned before, but not 100% sure about it. It’s a twitter account or more than that?
Jikkyleaks was a fantastic Twitter feed, along with Walter Chestnut…
Brilliant at exposing the fraud..so, of course, both banned!!
Jikky is back, and so is Walter….
both worth watching…
https://twitter.com/thejikky
https://twitter.com/parsifaler
Thanks.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/nyc-electric-garbage-truck-plans-hit-wall-after-trucks-conked-out-plowing-snow-after-just
Reading things like this fills me with great joy. I’ll take ‘wins’ like this, no matter how small they may initially appear, as they help to replenish my internal faith and hope reservoirs.
Oh, loved this ellie
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-12-29-ed-dowd-7500-americans-are-killed-or-disabled-each-day-vax-jabs.html
A very interesting angle on the coming collapse of the West with input from Ed Dowd.
Are we witnessing a “decivilization” event? A “glacial Mad Max?”
Flu jab uptake among NHS staff tumbles to lowest level in a decade
So, even some of our saintly NHS staff are getting the wind up. Very good
https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/30/covid-vaccines-why-is-the-mhra-lying-about-adverse-effects/
A complete strip-down of how the ‘farma funded’ MHRA has lied to the people of this country about the supposedly “safe and effective” ‘vaccines’ from the wonderful Simon Elmer over at Off-G.
I am sure this piece will feature in tomorrow’s News Round-Up and ‘worth reading in full’ as we say round these parts.