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A million green jobs?
-- '400,000 new "environmental sector" jobs will be created by 2017, according to Gordon Brown, who reckoned 1.3 million people would by then be working in "green" jobs.' --
My article from 2009... https://www.theregister.com/2009/04/02/green_jobs_analysis/?page=1
-- '400,000 new "environmental sector" jobs will be created by 2017, according to Gordon Brown, who reckoned 1.3 million people would by then be working in "green" jobs.' --
My article from 2009... https://www.theregister.com/2009/04/02/green_jobs_analysis/?page=1
The green blob is making the same claims now that were made over a decade ago.
They have made no progress. But they don't understand why. https://twitter.com/ShaunSpiers1/status/1327189440394121217
They have made no progress. But they don't understand why. https://twitter.com/ShaunSpiers1/status/1327189440394121217
This was the problem in 2009:
-- "In order to make the argument for the 'Green New Deal', the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) commissioned Innovas, a market analysis consultancy, to research the size of the green economy." --
-- "In order to make the argument for the 'Green New Deal', the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) commissioned Innovas, a market analysis consultancy, to research the size of the green economy." --
It took me four more years to obtain the data from BERR, then DECC.
It was absolute bullshit. It claimed to estimate the size of the green economy. But it included the market for LNG cars and fuel. And R&D into rubber band powered vehicles.
Not kidding. http://www.climate-resistance.org/2013/07/the-phony-green-economy.html
It was absolute bullshit. It claimed to estimate the size of the green economy. But it included the market for LNG cars and fuel. And R&D into rubber band powered vehicles.
Not kidding. http://www.climate-resistance.org/2013/07/the-phony-green-economy.html
12 years later, and they still have no idea about how to realise their ambitions, either of reducing CO2 or "transitioning" to a growing, green economy.
Most of them don't believe in growth anyway.
All they can do is set targets.
Most of them don't believe in growth anyway.
All they can do is set targets.
This is in large part because, over the course of the 12 years, they have never thought to check that their ambitions and beliefs are shared with the public.
They were already a remote class, divorced from political reality. They had no means of communication with the public.
They were already a remote class, divorced from political reality. They had no means of communication with the public.
Targets are easy. Anyone can set a target. They are abstract, remote, intangible. Whole armies of wonks from blob think tanks will cheer and give politicians a standing ovation for targets.
Realising those targets requires getting people who don't share your views to make deep sacrifices that many of them cannot afford.
So carbon bureaucrats make promises that they believe they won't be held to account for. https://twitter.com/ChiefExecCCC/status/1326853599167700992
So carbon bureaucrats make promises that they believe they won't be held to account for. https://twitter.com/ChiefExecCCC/status/1326853599167700992
