Vermont is a poster child for the level of stupid required to embrace the myth of Net Zero, not just rhetorically but actively. They are ramming through a heat standard that can’t be met and that almost none of Vermont’s citizens want.
None of it works, and most of it is impossible to achieve or sustain. Net Zero is Jabberwocky. A nonsense tale with a very real-world cost that Oxford University and Imperial College London decided to dissect and evaluate. If you are serious about this, what will be required?
The report states that all airports must close between 2020 and 2029 excluding Heathrow, Glasgow and Belfast airports, which can only stay open on the condition that transfers to and from the airport are done via rail.
All remaining airports must then close between 2030 and 2049 as to meet the legal commitment of zero emissions by 2050 every citizen of the United Kingdom must “stop using aeroplanes” for a significant period of time.
Not surprising. We saw this in the Green New Deal. A significant decline in mobility despite all those EV aspirations (see also lies, fraud, and misconduct).
The underlying point is that any asset which uses carbon will have essentially zero value in 2050. This in turn may encourage greater use in the run up to 2050 – for example, putting up new buildings at a much faster rate for the next 30 years, knowing that construction must then halt.
This might explain the mysteries of lost cultures and civilizations. After thriving for centuries or even millennia, some assh*le decided they needed to embrace net zero, and that worked. The net result was zero culture and civilization.
It’s a theory.
In addition to reducing our energy demand, delivering zero emissions with today’s technologies requires the phasing out of flying, shipping, lamb and beef, blast-furnace steel and cement.
[B]uildings will become much more expensive because the restrictions on building which generate substantial scarcities; second, transport will become much more expensive because the limits on air travel will generate excess demand for other forms of transport.
Thinking about what education is appropriate for a very different set of industries is a key question. Should we still be training airplane pilots? Or aeronautical engineers?
The alternative is that the government prohibits certain types of behaviour and regulates on production processes.
Finally, we get to the real goal of the mythological idea of Net Zero. The government will have to prohibit behavior and activity because that was what they wanted all along. Net-Zero is just the latest excuse from the carbon cults whose obsession with reducing CO2 is nothing more than political science to advance global socialism, which, once achieved, will pollute like mad to stay in power.
Vermonters are beginning to get a taste of that. A room is full of those chosen to represent their interest who think it is a mandate to impose their will regardless of what they are told. And it’s not just Vermont, is it?
