Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Conservative New South Wales State Premier Gladys Berejiklian has told former Conservative British Prime Minister Theresa May how we can all only hope to emulate Britain’s net zero climate change plan.
UK conservatives’ action on climate change ‘stuff of dreams’, NSW Premier tells Theresa May
By Nick O’Malley
September 2, 2020 — 9.48pmNSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has told former UK prime minister Theresa May that from an Australian perspective it was “the stuff of dreams” to see her conservative government legislate last year net-zero carbon emissions targets by 2050.
Speaking in an online forum hosted by the Liberal Party-linked environment group Coalition for Conservation, Ms Berejiklian said Ms May’s climate policy set an example to other conservative governments. She joked that NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean should inform the Federal government that the state was adopting the UK climate strategy.
“To have a conservative Tory government legislate 2050 emissions is the stuff of dreams in Australia …. We can only help to emulate it,” Ms Berejiklian said on Wednesday night.
Asked how she overcame political obstacles to legislate for net-zero emissions Ms May said there was little opposition and historically the UK Conservative Party has embraced action on climate change, noting that one of the first world leaders to address climate change was Margaret Thatcher.
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Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/uk-conservatives-action-on-climate-change-stuff-of-dreams-nsw-premier-20200902-p55ruw.html
As WUWT recently noted, this “dream” is currently costing ordinary British taxpayers around £10 billion per year, during a time of hardship caused by the Covid-19 lockdown. And it is far from clear how cold climate high population density Britain could ever generate enough renewable energy to be self sufficient.
Even Australia, with all our vast, empty sun drenched deserts, is struggling to find an economically viable path to 100% renewable energy.
One day an enterprising student of history might publish research into the part played by women in the growth and development of the green movement.
Time and again, we read of people like Boris the Brit PM who would like a different course but is swayed by intercourse or a lack thereof. It is not uncommon to find examples of the old saying that behind every good man you find a dreamin’ green woman. I am full of respect for the female, but we have to accept that their makeup is not the hunter/gatherer style of the alpha male, but more often some chemically treated mud from a cosmetic tube. There is no reason to assume that increasing the proportion of the female in decisions like the best way to generate electricity in a nation will be a benefit, especially from the male perspective that an increase in female proportion is limited to a few defined shapes and has little to do with being kept in a kitchen.
One has to be careful these days, to use appropriate words to gain the title of sexist, but for Gawd’s sake, please keep the fairer sex well away from unemotional decisions like choice of national power supplies. Their past performance is dismal and cannot be improved, as can a male’s, by Viagra. Geoff S
Entire 20th century passed you by, didn’t it?
(tip: don’t try explaining all that to actual women)
griff,
The women with whom I mix are educated, intelligent, lovely and nothing like the man-woman hybrids with little style or sex appeal or allure or dress sense, who seem to infest green movements between shaves.
Each one of my lady friends says that men should have control of national electricity generation programs. Historically, this has been their type of duty.
I am sorry that your female friends are in the minority on this. But, when you lack enough of the right hormones, it is easy to be swayed by passing fads. Geoff S
The image of Theresa May is now like the image of Barack Obama for me. I just hate looking at her, listening to anything she says, thinking about her. She is NOT a conservative. She’s a somewhat moderate Socialist, further left than any scientist previously thought. I will never accept anything from her as representative of conservatism, although I will concede that the definition of “conservative” is a bit problematic these days. One of the things conservatism is not, is the mob, as defined like people like Guardian readers, BBC sheeple, and the likes of Griff and Loydo, controlling the electricity grid.
The problem with leftists and Socialists is their desire for free and clean power (to the degree that they are not really secret psychopathic haters of human thriving, who want the grid to be destroyed), leads them to the same Unicorn fart theories of electrical generation as leads them to Utopian thinking about economics. This is WHY you get horrors like the Holodomor, gualgs, Final Solutions, Maoist Cultural Revolutions, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela, and why you get leaders like Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, Stalin.
Just because we want something very badly enough, does not automatically make it true. People still have to do the work, build, think, create the new innovations, invest, take risks. Using government coercion cannot make Utopia come true. And while I’m on this topic, that also goes for you fools who keep pretending that nuclear fusion or small, modular molten salt reactors are mere formalities away from becoming reality. Nothing would make me happier if it were true, BUT IT’S NOT, so give it a frickin’ rest. If you want a molten salt thorium reactor or a plentiful water powered fusion reactor, enroll in a chemistry or materials program and start learning how to battle corrosion or to contain a fusion reaction. In the mean time, I will not be holding my breath, nor will I be persuaded that you have any claim on futurist politics, future discount rates, or Utopia in general.
There is NO FREE LUNCH! The free lunch is an illusion. So stuff your Utopia up your Karl Marxhole.