UKNew NZW reports: Net Zero is structurally doomedThis week, Net Zero Watch published two new reports and fresh polling that exploring public attitudes towards Net Zero. In Net Zero and the Threat to Human Liberty, former Conservative MP and minister Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA shows that Net Zero relies on the same central-planning model that failed repeatedly in the 20th century and consistently produced social, economic and political breakdown. He argues that Net Zero poses a direct and growing threat to peoples’ liberty in modern Britain. In Powering Freedom: The Thermodynamic Roots of Modernity, Professor John Constable, Director of the Future of Energy Institute at the University of Austin in Texas, shows that the defining achievements of modernity and Western civilisation as we know it today risk being undone by the push for renewables. The publication of these reports comes as Net Zero Watch releases new Deltapoll research showing that the public are losing confidence in the UK’s Net Zero agenda. Britain will need to rethink its ICE banThe UK’s ban on new petrol and diesel cars will “inevitably” be pushed back after the EU looked set to drop its measures, senior industry figures have said. The statement cast doubt on Ed Miliband’s net-zero polices, which include banning the sale of pure petrol and diesel cars from 2030. Miliband to push through hundreds of new renewable energy projectsEd Miliband is to wave through hundreds of new wind, solar and battery plants across rural England to meet Net Zero. “This latest example of Ed Milliband’s Net Zero zealotry will open the floodgates for pylons, solar farms and wind farms across our green and pleasant land,” say community campaigners. Falkland Islands calls in North Sea ship to drill huge wellThe Falkland Islands is poised to open its first major oil field, with hopes of unlocking a windfall equivalent to £1m per islander.
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