Decarbonising the steel and electricity industry in pursuit of Net Zero represents a real and present danger to national security and must be abandoned, a former Security Minister has warned.
Writing in a foreword to a new paper from campaign group Net Zero Watch, Sir Gerald Howarth, Minister for International Security Strategy under David Cameron, said:
Our adversaries are watching us like hawks, so let us leave them in no doubt: we are rearming and rebuilding, and Net Zero is firmly on hold.
Professor Gwythian Prins, a defence expert and one of the paper’s authors, agrees that with the recent deterioration of the world’s security situation, “luxury beliefs” such as Net Zero must be jettisoned as a matter of urgency:
This is the moment when the music stops. The Port Talbot closure harshly exposes the costs of luxury ‘green’ beliefs. We cannot be dependent on imports for the full range of necessary steels to rebuild our arsenals – the Navy first and foremost – and, most ridiculously, we cannot depend for them on our global antagonists.
Furthermore, our armed forces are wholly dependent on oil to keep them in the field, and our electricity grid will collapse without gas. Any attempt to abandon them will leave us entirely at the mercy of hostile powers.
The paper also includes a contribution from Gautam Kalghatgi, a Professor of Combustion and Energy Engineering, who ridicules plans to decarbonise the armed forces through use of batteries and biofuels.
Historian (and Daily Sceptic regular) Guy de la Bédoyère sets out the eternal historical lesson that technological laggards usually end up the victims of conquest by their more advanced neighbours.
Mr. de la Bédoyère said:
It is impossible to diminish the effectiveness of a nation’s armed forces without making it a sitting duck for a more ambitious rival’s greed. But that’s exactly what our leaders seem to want to do.
Andrew Montford, Director of Net Zero Watch said:
The three contributors make it clear that Net Zero is leaving us at the mercy of hostile powers. A Net Zero army and a Net Zero economy could both be brought to their knees in a matter of days. In these dangerous times, our politicians must re-order their priorities.
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If it’s not for Noah, so called free speech advocate DS would be just another propaganda mouthpiece with monochrome view of Ukraine conflict: peaceful democratic Ukraine was unprovokedly invaded by barbaric Russia in February 22. Those pesky Russians who are in the habit of occupying nuclear plants so that they can shell themselves causing nuclear incident…
Even if US didn’t openly provoke Russia, they (US state in partnership with MIC and big business) definitely have million reasons for the war to continue. Europe is weakened by the war and US is making money. Classic.
An excellent article which makes a lot of sense. Obviously the timing of the Russian invasion was, shall we say, fortuitous, allowing TPTB to maintain their fear programme on the back of a waning C1984.
The reasoning expounded by Noah Carl matches very much with the views of proper news organisations which are US based, such as Brighteon / Natural News, and the excellent Technocracy News.
The bottom line is that it is seriously beginning to look like the US deep state has declared war on the world and has recruited some deeply influential and well-funded pockets to their cause – the likes of Gates, Bezos,Zuckerberg etc. In many respects the US is a failing state and their current actions could perhaps be seen as the flailings of a dying man, but this of course makes it very dangerous.
A very plausible theory, it also explains why the
one had to be removed at all costs as he wasn’t onboard with the Ukraine/permanent war project.
Sounds plausible. As they say — America is prepared to fight Russia to the last European.
There’s also the small matter of the Biden family’s dubious commercial interests in Ukraine.
Not to mention the now accepted secret biolabs, funded by the USA, which everyone said was a conspiracy theory.
The difference between ‘conspiracy theory’ and ‘truth’ is now about 6 weeks….
Granted this friction has been boiling for a long while, even before Euromaiden and during Obama’s tenure nothing much was resolved despite the “revolution” (or coup depending on your perspective). But you’re right, the Biden’s connections are certainly worthy of note in this whole debacle, Hunter’s Burisma “contracts” are highly suspect. They were anyway but especially now in retrospect, Burisma being owned by Ihor Kolomoyskyi. We could argue Zelensky owes his rise to power to Kolomoyskyi (and his ‘1+1 Media Group’) in the ‘Servant of the People’ comedy series, plus Kolomoyskyi reportedly was the original funder of the infamous Azov Battalion. I gather there are abundant shale deposits in the Donbas too which again Kolomoyskyi (Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast at the time) presumably wanted to benefit from which may have had something to do with perpetrating the conflict in 2014. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
I’ve said it before.
America’s worst nightmare has been and will continue to be any alliance between the raw materials of Russia and European tec./industry – then it’s Goodnight Uncle Sam and take all your decadent baggage with you.
As an additional bonus that would be our best chance of avoiding The Great Reset.
What’s not to like…
Strange that there’s no mention of the role that eco-zealots may have played in effectively making Nordstream 2 a white elephant. Given that they’ve managed to get Keystone and various other pipelines in America cancelled or so wrapped up in lawsuits that they may never happen it seems obvious that they regard pipelines as an easy target in their war against fossil fuels and would put pressure on the U.S. government to try and stop the flow of gas/oil anywhere in the world.
I’m not sure which is worse, this delusional article from Carl or the number of Daily Sceptic readers who appear to buy in to this nonsense.
Anyone who thinks that the US intelligence agencies or the State Department is capable of organising anything more than a group order at Starbucks is delusional.
Many of us have said from the outset of the Ukraine war that the US deliberately provoked Russia. I have no problem accepting the argument outlined above is highly plausible.
“When you think about it, this is extremely provocative. Imagine if Chinese officials travelled to Canada, and publicly backed a protest movement seeking to replace Canada’s government with a pro-Chinese one. Americans would be outraged”
Whilst there is, as usual, much to agree with in Noah’s piece, he (never mind the Putin fans active in comments) cuts the Russians way too much slack. And his paragraph 4 – repeated above) is laughable.
No need for hypothetical Chinese in Canada. What about actual Russian funding of GangGreen fanatics “protesting” oil pipelines in US and Canada and Fracking in the UK and Europe? What about RT’s disgraceful support for the same “protestors”?
When will Noah notice that?