‘We’re losing the argument on net zero,’ Green Party warns
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusive/were-losing-the-argument-on-net-zero-green-party-deputy-warns-labour/
Posted by ThatchersDirtyTaint
‘We’re losing the argument on net zero,’ Green Party warns
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/exclusive/were-losing-the-argument-on-net-zero-green-party-deputy-warns-labour/
Posted by ThatchersDirtyTaint
16 Comments
No shit
People care more about being able to eat and have a home then net zero
Maybe don’t say you want to allow massive amounts of immigration without building the houses and inferstructures needed
> Mr Polanski rejected the notion that people were voting Reform due to anti-net zero sentiments, and said they were voting for the party “because the Labour government were absolutely collapsing”
The Green Party as politically astute as ever I see, the Labour Government is going to collapse any day now I am sure
The green party are a bunch of self entitled champagne socialist living in their London bubble.
People care about paying their rent/mortgage, having food on their table, heating their home. Then the next important thing is cultural, stop the mass immigration, improve policing, make the country safer.
No one gives a shit about your windmills.
And they’ll keep losing until someone starts being honest about how much it’s actually going to cost.
Maybe it would help if one of the parties that is such a strong proponent of net zero didn’t attempt to block the pylons necessary to transport the low carbon electricity we need.
I think the public have actually been remarkably resilient in instinctively defending net zero despite massive government failure to deliver. I think what has happened is just that the public are tired of being told how great the green Industrial Revolution will be, getting charged massive amounts to deliver it, and then not seeing any benefit.
People were promised lower bills, our bills are the highest in the world. We were promised industrial transformation and loads of jobs, instead a lot of our old industrial jobs are going and there are few examples of the types of green jobs being recreated in our old industrial heartland.
What the environmentalist movement really need to take the next step are a few fewer policy people saying ‘wouldn’t this be nice’ and a lot more implementation people saying ‘this is how we can deliver this at cost and scale and when you, the public, will see the benefit.’
It is ultimately subjective- If you pick the Medieval Warm Period (roughly 950–1250 CE), when temperatures were comparable to or higher than today in some regions, the current warming trend appears less dramatic. Conversely, selecting the cooler Little Ice Age (roughly 1300–1850 CE) as a baseline exaggerates modern warming.
The argument has been lost when cloud seeding became public knowledge
When I can afford to buy my own house, that I can do so from a healthy supply that hasn’t been thwarted by large numbers of immigration to this country, I might start giving a fuck about the environment.
When a government finds a suitable and affordable way to charge an EV for those that don’t have a driveway, I might start giving a fuck about the pollution my ICE-car gives off.
Yes – I get it’s the green party’s entire manifesto to push for a cleaner planet. Unfortunately, timing is everything. The public aren’t seeing this as an issue right now. The public want access to housing on a relatively easy scale, like many generations before us had. Owning a house seems like a pipe dream for many now, simply because of supply and demand.
They might get my vote if they put ultra-blinding solar panels on the white cliffs of dover. There’s a two-bird-one-stone scenario. Think outside the box Green Party.
“People aren’t angry at net zero. They’re angry at historically high levels of immigration. Which we support.
And they’re angry they can’t afford a home because housebuilding is impossible under the planning system. Which we also support.
And they’re angry because the economy isn’t growing. Which we also want. We call it de growth.
We need to switch to renewable energy. But no using nuclear. Or ugly pylons in the countryside. So it costs far more money.
I’m sure we can get that money from all the millionaires who will definitely still be in the country after we put in massive wealth taxes to fund all our our brilliant ideas”
Net Zero doesn’t matter when India has entire rivers of burned plastic and trash
To be honest, I struggle to remember ever hearing a politician try at make an argument for net zero.
You hear multiple of them saying things like “we have to achieve net zero” or “we have to be world leaders on net zero”, but they never offer a reason why.
Now I’m personally onboard with it, but then I’m wealthy enough that the high electricity prices now that are in large part paying for the transition don’t bother me that much.
If I was struggling to pay my electricity bill, I’d probably have a different view.
I don’t think they have lost it yet but they will when the media decides this is the issue people should care about rather than immigration.
At the moment it’s just a bit of nimbyism and constant attacks on Ed Milliband.
The Green Party seems to think we should all just live in the woods and eat berries off of bushes.
The reason Net Zero is unappealing is that while everything in this country slowly gets worse, whether by action or inaction, the Greens are there to say “What if we made it even more difficult to achieve anything?”
There’s no need to pollute more than is required of course, but all of these measures always seem to be at the expense of the lowest classes.
Just buy an electric car with the money you don’t have, charge it at the stations we haven’t built, and then drive it on the roads we don’t maintain.
Yes of course they’re losing it. It’s a common argument that they say ‘the sooner we start the transition, the lower the costs’. That right there puts people off. Who wants to pay anything for an abstract, untested idea that already divides people?
If you decoupled the gas price from electricity so that people actually saw a financial benefit to all this green investmen you might get somewhere. As it stands all people see is tax being spent with few tangible upsides.