'Bravely challenging the Establishment consensus ... forensically
argued' - Mail on Sunday
The British government has embarked on an ambitious and legally-binding
climate change target: reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions to
Net Zero by 2050. The Net Zero policy was subject to almost no
parliamentary or public scrutiny, and is universally approved by our
political class. But what will its consequences be?
Ross Clark argues that it is a terrible mistake, an impractical hostage
to fortune which will have massive downsides. Achieving the target is
predicated on the rapid development of technologies that are either
non-existent, highly speculative or untested. Clark shows that efforts
to achieve the target will inevitably result in a huge hit to living
standards, which will clobber the poorest hardest, and gift a massive
geopolitical advantage to hostile superpowers such as China and Russia.
The unrealistic and rigid timetable it imposes could also result in our
committing to technologies which turn out to be ineffective, all while
distracting ourselves from the far more important objective of
adaptation.
This hard-hitting polemic provides a timely critique of a potentially
devastating political consensus which could hobble Britain's economy,
cost billions and not even be effective.
