In a 12-minute video appearance at the 2025 Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference in London, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, “Net Zero is an ominous goal by 2050.” He spoke to.
It’s bold statementespecially given that it reached the UK’s seated audience, there are conservative “Tories” and far left Labour Party, the major political parties that have traditionally ruled the country, and the past decade. They spent pushing their country forward. Meet that net zero goal, as if it were a matter of religious faith. Regardless of the obvious negative economic and social consequences accumulated on British citizens, and equally obvious futility to the overall efforts, the leaders of both parties have made the country on this devastating path. I’m keeping it.
As Wright pointed out, by 2050, NetZero “cannot be achieved by any practical means, but actively pursuing it, while not profitable, had brought enormous costs.” This is objectively true, and the most painful example is the rapid industrialization of the once strong British economy and the intense condemnation of thousands of acres of arable land, home to the enormous wind and sun facilities. It’s to become. (Related: David Blackmon: Trump’s Energy Secretary Wastes No Time to Declaration of the End of the Biden War with Coal)
As Wright points out, “No one is going to make energy-intensive products in the UK anymore.” That clear object lesson of reality came in September for Tata Steel, a venerable steel maker. Ta shutdown The last existing steel manufacturing plant in the UK.
Climate enthusiasts from both major parties celebrated the event, but should we ask what there is really something to celebrate? Certainly, labor politics reaches a signal of virtue about eliminating X tonnes of carbon footprint, but in a global sense, it makes no sense. The UK still needs steel. The only difference now is that steel, which was made by expensive workers in domestic factories, is imported into steel, which was made by repeatedly poverty workers in Pakistan, China and other mainly Asian countries.
Meanwhile, the emissions created by making steel in other countries with low environmental regulations are much greater than steel made in the UK. As Wright pointed out at the ARC conference, “This is not an energy transition. It’s insanity.”
He’s not wrong.
Published on February 13th by the Center for Energy and Clean Air Research (CREA). Report Construction of China’s new coal-fired power plant shows that it reached a 10-year high in 2024. CREA said, “China approved a new coal-fired power generation capacity of 66.7 gigawatts (GW) in 2024, and approvals rose in the second half. After the start of the year, it all began.” It’s all about China reviving its power system. I believe in the favoured story about the political left that is leading the world in converting it into possible energy. In fact, the expansion of the coal sector could actually accelerate again.
The new Chinese focus on expanding the Cole Power Fleet is driven primarily by the enthusiastic focus of globalist leaders in the UK and other Western countries. Germany is another great example of industrializing its economy to meet the food obsession of atmospheric plants. (Related: David Blackmon: Trump Dresses Davos Globalist)
The production of steel and other heavy industrial processes requires reliable, affordable power generation, which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Whether politicians like it or not, coal is the fuel that most certainly and consistently fills all of these tests.
Therefore, if China and other Asian countries are destined to inherit all the heavy industries that are being killed by virtue of the Western countries, they will have more coal power plants to power them. I need it. This is not really complicated.
Meanwhile, the UK is no longer able to produce its own steel and countless industrial products that are essential to modern human existence. If the Labour Government continues its policy of condemning the vast strip of British farmland to accommodate more wind and solar grounds, the kingdom will soon be unable to even feed its people.
Everyone who satisfies this strange religious doctrine based on an obsession with plant foods. Certainly crazy.
David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialised in public policy and communication.
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