The Net Zero kool aid that British elites keep force feeding to the public has some really absurd implications: Basically that we are totally ok using forced Uyghur labor to produce solar panels in order to lower our CO2 emissions. This is green washing slave labor while feeling virtuous about it because we are “clean and green!” It’s utterly ridiculous. Of course “Great British Energy” solar can’t really come from anywhere other than China, which accounts for 84% of the global production of solar panels. Why can’t we manufacture our own? The irony is because it can’t be done without fossil fuels, which the UK government has pretty much sidelined due to climate policy. The Chinese have no such problems, powering their silicon extractions and solar panel manufacturing using coal. Producing just one panel generates as much as 70kg of carbon dioxide. They also heavily subsidize their solar industry so there’s overproduction and overcapacity, making prices artificially low. There’s no way the UK can compete with that. This doesn’t even take into account the national security threat - Chinese kill-switches have been discovered in US solar farms. Every time I fly over Britain and see neatly parceled farmland filled with arrays of solar panels, I just mourn at the self-sabotaging stupidity of it all.

This makes me so angry Technocracy-driven decline in one picture:

@JackitDaley Lol exactly! Sir Paul Marshall made this point about solar in the UK - a place where, after having lived here for a year, made me develop a vitamin D deficiency for the first time in my life 😂