The “wrecking ball” strategy of the Cult – further bankrupt countries to cause poverty and disease, create shortages of food and energy, overload infrastructure systems
by implementing insane and unworkable bogus/bogey green energy “Net Zero” - case in point – the UK
First off, free speech is under attack by members of the Cult of Moloch who always qualify the expression ”I believe in free speech” with the term “but.. “ – as soon as that word “but..” is added, free speech no longer exists. There are laws already that protect people from expressions of threats and libel, and so on. No free speech qualifiers are needed. Any government or institution that adds the term “but..” after free speech is harbouring an inclination for the removal of free speech and is directly attacking fundamental and inalienable tights of human beings.
American readers can multiply the numbers by 5 to get a sense for how relevant this is to the US. (The percentage remain!).
From here:
Report: Cost of Net Zero Could Top £4.5 Trillion | The Epoch Times
“The government's current plans to achieve net zero by 2050 will cost £4.5 trillion, three times as much was previously thought, according to a report by a think-tank.”
These “plans” require the conversion of hundreds of thousands of acres of prime real estate and rural land into forests of windmills and plantations of solar panels. All of which will be made obsolete as technology evolves in other areas of energy creation. They are many, many multiples of the cost of providing clean (and green) energy from nuclear power.
The costs do not reflect the need to dig up and make safe the tens of thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines that have been laid over decades to provide cheap energy from that source, All those years of inconvenience and costs to dig up roads, lay pipes and maintain them will be wasted. There is nothing wrong with the supply of natural gas. It is of course NOT a fossil fuel, it is a hydrocarbon and a gas. Burning methane creates CO2 and water – pretty essential for life, especially plant life.
CH4 + 2O2 → CO2 + 2H2O
Is the three times higher cost estimated by a think tank of 4.5 trillion pounds v the government estimate of 1.3 trillion pounds?
Check out the track record of “government planning” in the UK using another large infrastructure project HS2.
HS2: What is it, how much has it cost, and how have the plans changed? | ITV News
“In 2013, HS2 was estimated to cost £37.5 billion in 2009 prices but the sums have continued to spiral.”
It’s two main sections of a few hundred miles – you would think that would be straightforward enough given the UK invented rail travel and it has the advantage of decades of evolution of construction and technology to draw on.
The cost now for a project not even half complete?
“A budget of £55.7 billion for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015 but some reports suggest costs have now surpassed £100 billion, having been driven up by recent inflation rises.”
But as with the experience in California for its “super duper” rail link in California.
Critics Vindicated After Warning California’s High Speed-Rail Wouldn’t Work (reason.com)
“The infamous, $113-billion-and-counting California high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles, which was supposed to be completed by 2020 for a cost of $33 billion yet has only begun tinkering on a 171-mile stretch in the Central Valley, is not really "an existing project," says former California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) Chair Quentin Kopp. "It is a loser."
Now, building railways is not the same as ripping up thousands of miles of gas lines and making the empty space safe.
Nor are railway projects the same as building thousands of miles of electricity transmission lines from forests of really ugly, on shore and off shore, wind turbine and acres as far as the eye can see of solar panel plantations – to rural and city locations and into each house, office and factory – after all, a smart person would re-purpose the natural gas pipelines and come up with a smart way to upgrade the far higher load on electricity transmission and, (for example, dedicated battery recharging power lines) to replace the displaced load from hydrocarbon energy usage, right?
See here:
The People Promising Us 'Net Zero' Are Clueless About Energy Storage - Climate Change Dispatch
But the point is simply this.
THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS!!!!!!
THERE IS A MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY COST!!!!
WESTERN NATIONS ARE ALREADY BANKRUPT AND HAVE NO DISCRETIONARY INCOME BEYOND TAXATION!!!
NET ZERO = AN EXTRA 6% ANNUAL INFLATION EVERY YEAR FOR 25 YEARS
That inflation number Is a ball-park derived from the extra 10 trillion over 25 years compared to current UK GDP of 2.2 trillion pounds that will have to be funded via a combination of money printing and fiscal deficits (even with higher taxation).
I am reminded of one old maxim – not perfect – “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
There is no need for any of this expense and the UK is already bankrupt with a desperate need to re-engineer ALL its massive spending programs in immigration, legal, health and welfare systems to improve their quality and cost effectiveness.
My guess is that the actual costs of implementing “Net Zero” in the 25 years or so to 2050, plus all the stupid milestones along the way, are underestimated by a factor of at least ten.
The government estimate of 1.3 trillion pounds – and the challenge of (more than) triple that amount – is woefully underestimated.
Try more than TEN TRILLION POUNDS to pay for “Net Zero” as currently planned.
The UK tax burden is the highest since World War 2. It’s national debt as of September 2022, stood at £2.7 trillion or £44,000 for every person or £75,000 for every taxpayer - those who pay the debt back.
gmseed - The UK National Debt Clock
UK annual nominal GDP is around 2.2 trillion pounds. Remember GDP is not income or profit – changes to GDP represent changes spending by consumers, government, business investors and the trade/current account.
On what planet would it make sense to switch 5 entire years of economic activity over the next 25 years to install infrastructure that will become obsolete in ten years at the most
The result can only be higher taxes, lower living standards, shortages of labour and resources and lower quality I every area od the economy – all whilst NOT solving the problems if today.
Of course, that is not the whole story.
THE WHO CHANGES TO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS WILL COST THE UK ANOTHER – AT LEAST – 1% OF ANNUAL GDP – all whilst creating even bigger shortages for every other type of health – at a time when the 90% of Brits injected with toxins will be reducing the pool of medics and the far higher demand for health care from vaccine poisoning.
The Cult of Moloch has devised a road to ruin, poverty, disease and despair.
It needs adults in the room to recognise the problems, eradicate the Cult and solve problems for the benefit of people, not make them poor, sick and stupid.
Onwards!
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