No to ‘green dream’
If you were going to undertake a major job and re-roof your house, you would make sure that everything was in place before you started. In order to achieve a successful outcome you would ensure that all the materials were on site before starting, and importantly, a big tarpaulin ready to be thrown over if the job hit a big snag. Good planning and common sense should ensure your home was not put at risk.
No such real planning it would seem when it concerns what goes on under the roof, and that which keeps us warm and helps to cook our food, keeps factories working, supermarkets selling, in fact the power which supports every facet of our daily life, energy from Gas and Electric.
Our energy infrastructure has now become too vulnerable to the vagaries of global markets. Driven on by those riding high atop the shoulders of the jolly green giant, virtue signalling authorities, and the greed of those controlling these commodities, those least able will pay the price for the zero carbon pipe dreamers.
And who knows what ‘zero carbon’ actually means I wonder? Is it that in 15 or 20 or even 30 years’ time mankind will be changing back the environmental evolution of centuries? Hardly. How can we guarantee that by those alive today paying higher costs for just about everything, ensuing hardship and going without, we will somehow save the planet? One thing is for sure however, on the back of this messianic crusade, those selling the green dream will cost us all very dear.
Had we not shut down the already proven and working power stations before embarking on this path to global sainthood, and a maximum 1.5 degree rise in a situation we have absolutely no control over, being the greenest cleanest country on the planet, we could have stuck two fingers up to those who will now hold us to ransom and rip us off.
It’s not just our capability to build adequate systems to provide power, but also the security of those systems. Cables and pipes on the seabed leave us vulnerable as pointed out by a senior naval officer just recently, so a good reason to kick Aquind into touch, but also to really get to grips with rebuilding our own land based generators, and not something that relies on the weather.
Maybe its time to put more emphasis on protecting our country for a change, because trying to protect the planet is not doing us any favours, especially when the big polluters still seem to be out of control.
B Nevill
Gosport