Newly installed UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is doubling down on the globalist green agenda, to which not only the Left, but many globalists who are ostensibly on the Right subscribe. In 2020, the Conservative government of Boris Johnson issued a ten-point plan for a green industrial revolution. Toeing the party line, Sunak said this at the climate change summit in Egypt (COP27) where the energy crisis resulting from the Russian war with Ukraine was on the agenda:
Putin’s abhorrent war in Ukraine and rising energy prices across the world are not a reason to go slow on climate change – they are a reason to go faster.
Just the opposite is true. It is long overdue for the UK and other Western countries to drop their climate change fantasies and become energy efficient. Donald Trump was mocked by the German contingent to the UN when he warned years ago about Germany’s dependance on Russian oil. Now, green-pushing Germany is now turning to the dirtiest option — coal — in order to cope with its energy crisis. The irrational pursuit of the green agenda, while shutting down efforts to become more energy efficient, is harming the EU and the UK, and not without opposition:
The UK’s leading onshore energy body has hammered the Government’s decision to chase a long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal with the US, while re-imposing a moratorium on fracking.
In most European countries, “horizontal drilling and fracking to extract gas and oil are either illegal or face so many court challenges and popular protests that they are neither culturally nor economically feasible.” The result is that Europe is dependent on Russia, Middle Eastern countries and Africa for energy, severely affecting the EU’s economic and political life. The UK is no different. Sunak has opted to keep the ban on fracking and double down on the green agenda.
“COP27: Time To Act Faster On Climate Change: Rishi Sunak At COP27 Summit,” Press Trust of India, November 8, 2022:
London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday declared that it was time to act faster on climate change because it is the “right thing to do” as he committed 11.6 billion pounds as the country’s commitment to the climate fund during his address at the COP27 summit in Egypt.
In his first major address on the world stage since taking charge at 10 Downing Street, the Indian-origin leader pointed to green energy investment as a “fantastic source of new jobs and growth” as he pledged to build on the “room for hope” created during the UK’s presidency of COP26 in Scotland last November….
“[Russian President] Putin’s abhorrent war in Ukraine and rising energy prices across the world are not a reason to go slow on climate change – they are a reason to go faster,” said Sunak, in his relatively short address at the summit being held in Sharm El Sheikh.
“Instead of developing countries being unfairly burdened with the carbon debt of richer nations and somehow expected to forgo that same path to growth, we are helping those countries deliver their own fast track to clean growth,” he said…
The UK Prime Minister reflected on the fact 90 per cent of countries are now signed up to net zero targets even as he admitted the pandemic “all but broke” the global economy….
Sunak called on nations to honour the promises made in Glasgow and direct public and private finance towards the protection of the planet, which would turn the struggle against climate change into a global mission for new jobs and clean growth.
“And we can bequeath our children a greener planet and a more prosperous future. That’s a legacy we could be proud of. So, as we come together once again in common cause today, there really is room for hope. Together, let us fulfil it,” he noted…….
Wellington says
I’m reminded here more than ever of Rafael Sabatini’s opening sentence in that great novel of his, “Scaramouche,” to wit, “He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
I guess the world has always been mad but now it’s madder than ever. The utter farce which is man-made climate change, for which no scientific evidence exists, demonstrates just how mad (madder?) the world has become. When you add to this the idiocy of hostility to the only economic system that has ever worked, i.e., capitalism, combined with other idiocies, some of them downright malevolent like maintaining as the American Medical Association (AMA) just did this year that newborn babies should no longer be described as boys or girls or the contention that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance, I think it eminently arguable that mankind has entered upon its maddest stage ever. It’s all very grimly humorous, a la Scaramouche, but I would gladly be spared this “laughter” were the world only somewhat mad and not completely mad.
Mankind no sooner than reaching the best results for the human species due to democracy, capitalism and all kinds of wonderful technology is throwing it all away on a myriad of specious convictions—all of them wrong. Man is indeed a collective idiot. What a waste. The rest of the universe has every right to dismiss us.
mg says
Thanks Wellington for a concise picture of the dreadful times we are in. If it could only be shown to be as you so accurately described, it might force many to abandon this self deception disorder and renew the drive for common sense, and sensibility.
gravenimage says
Fine post, Wellington.
Paul Kagan says
Well said Wellington, I could not agree with you more, a man after my own heart. It needs to be said.
The world is getting madder as the years role on.
ntesdorf says
The Chief item on the Agenda at COP27 at Scam El-Shakedown is to secure funds to finance 30,000 people at COP 28.
gravenimage says
UK: Rishi Sunak doubles down on globalist green agenda at climate change summit in Egypt
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Disgusting but no surprise. This is mostly a scam for the third world to shakedown wealthy, successful nations and for the victims to absurdly brag about it.
Scotsman48 says
These ego tripping millionaire morons think they can control the climate when they cant even control their own thoughts.
Egypt is a polluted country and Cairo worse than LA way back in the 1970s and that country is ruled by madmen, but this is where they all fly into on their Private Jets to tell us all about having too many flights to Spain from the UK on a Holiday.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I fear that what Mark Steyn is predicting will come true: this may be the last election that the Tories win, ever! One shudders to think of what will happen to Britain after that. All the horrors that are happening there – be it Covid lockdowns, 48 hour responses to emergency calls, cops going after people who misgender other people, government powerless to stop the relentless influx of Albanian criminals… – all those horrors are happening under a Conservative government
Once Labour comes to power, there will be a food fight on the Right on who gets to succeed the Tories, and it doesn’t look promising. Farage is MIA on the issue of muslim crimes, even though his fellow host on GBNews – Mark Steyn hammers at this issue every week on the grooming gangs. After that, you have Britain First, UKIP, Reclaim and For Britain. Since I don’t see For Britain getting any traction, Lawrence Fox silent on this muslim issue and UKIP conflicted ever since Batten left, I’ll just quietly root for Britain First, and hope that they get to fill that void