European nations walk back their ‘climate ambitions’ as the exorbitant price tag becomes clear

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European nations walk back their ‘climate ambitions’ as the exorbitant price tag becomes clear​

From Climate Depot
By: Admin – Climate Depot
Opinion | Many Climate Ambitions Will End With 2021
Many Climate Ambitions Will End With 2021

In the U.K., Germany and France, leaders walk back as their plans’ exorbitant price tag becomes clear.
By Joseph C. Sternberg
It’s New Year’s resolution season, and don’t be surprised if politicians world-wide settle into the same informal pledge: Talk as little as possible about climate change in 2022. They’ve gotten a head start on that resolution, working hard at it even before Friday night’s socially distanced parties begin.
The biggest, most entertaining and also most telling climb-downs are happening in the U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in October unveiled an ambitious policy program to get Britain to net-zero carbon-dioxide emissions by 2050. It was Mr. Johnson’s public-relations coup ahead of the COP26 global climate conference he hosted in Glasgow. It also was unusual in its honesty about what such environmental ambitions will cost individual households and businesses—a point politicians usually avoid for all the obvious reasons.

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European nations walk back their ‘climate ambitions’ as the exorbitant price tag becomes clear

The political class remains rhetorically wedded to its earlier foolhardy promises, and the media is too enamored of reality-detached activists such as Ms. Thunberg.

wattsupwiththat.com

Natural gas ,coal ,oil and nuclear.....

Coal seems to be cleaner than solar power and windmills lol
Certainly cheaper

 

[Vastator]

Fossil fuels aren't going anywhere, anytime soon. This whole Green initiative has been nothing but a cash grab. Taking taxpayer money, and lining the pockets of political cronies.

 

[Vagabond63]

Fossil fuels aren't going anywhere, anytime soon. This whole Green initiative has been nothing but a cash grab. Taking taxpayer money, and lining the pockets of political cronies.

The same as rhe fossil fuel industry has been doing for decades, if not centuries, what's your point?

 

[expat_panama]

My take was to just let the global warmers have their rant while I went on about my life, but the problem emerged was that they wanted my money -big time, all in the name of nonesense.

Churchhill once said that the only problem w/ socialism is that eventually u run out of other people's money, & apparently this is true for global warming too.

 

[expat_panama]

The same as rhe fossil fuel industry has been doing for decades, if not centuries, what's your point?

Wait, what are we saying here. Is your take that the oil industry is a 'cash & grab' game that's taking our money against our will w/o giving anything in return?

Look, even if u don't own a car & u live in your mother's basement, sooner or later you or someone who's taking care of you goes to a gas station of their own free will & buys gasoline at prices cheaper (adjusted for inflation) than it sold for 30 years ago.

Somehow that seems more like value for money.

 

[Vagabond63]

Wait, what are we saying here. Is your take that the oil industry is a 'cash & grab' game that's taking our money against our will w/o giving anything in return?

Look, even if u don't own a car & u live in your mother's basement, sooner or later you or someone who's taking care of you goes to a gas station of their own free will & buys gasoline at prices cheaper (adjusted for inflation) than it sold for 30 years ago.

Somehow that seems more like value for money.

What makes you think that "green" industries are not giving anything back in return for the money invested? New technologies always start out "expensive" and become cheaper over time.

 

[Penelope]

We got 1 earth and we better start taking care of it.

 

[wamose]

Liberals-Marxists always seem to start with their desired outcome and then try to develop policy that will make that happen. Cost and feasibility are only considered afterward and that's why so many of these ill-conceived climate plans are doomed to fail.

 

[expat_panama]

What makes you think that "green" industries are not giving anything back in return for the money invested? New technologies always start out "expensive" and become cheaper over time.

We may have a point of agreement here as to the benefit of some "green" industries. My own home for several years had its electricity powered by water power (river on the side of my property) thanks to a generator I purchased.

Of course we can point to scams that some green enterprises push, just like we can point to scams from every other industry. Humans are basically good tho we can do bad once in a while.

 

[Vastator]

What makes you think that "green" industries are not giving anything back in return for the money invested? New technologies always start out "expensive" and become cheaper over time.

The difference is government mandate, vs. voluntrism.