Seriously. What is wrong with these people?
We are in the middle of a fortnight during which mad people from madland are touring the country in Climate Caravans.
Yes, Climate Caravans.
Last Saturday two Climate Caravans set off, one from London, the other from Edinburgh.
The Climate Caravans are spreading the important message that our Government must create a million, erm, “climate” jobs.
Yep, “climate” jobs.
This demand, from the “Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group” (Is that pronounced “Cacctug”?), is that the economic crisis should be further deepened by the creation of “climate” jobs. Or is that that the country’s economy will be saved by “climate” jobs?
Whatever, but it’s very important that we have these million “climate” jobs, even though they are excessively hazy about what exactly the jobs would be.
What the feck are “climate jobs”?
Ok, there’s no answering my question, but there’s the suggestion that those million people doing “climate” jobs will be employed by the Government in a mirror of the original National Health Service, but a new department called the National Climate Service (NCS).
So. The idea is that we have a massively huge cumbersome inefficient dinosaur of a structure employing a million people doing … erm, WHAT?!?
Ah, apparently, “workers with new climate jobs won’t always keep doing the same thing, but they will be retrained as new kinds of work are needed”.
Ok, so we don’t know what the first lot of “climate” jobs are, but we know that “climate” jobs are subject to change and a whole body of a million employees will stop doing the first lot of unknown “climate” jobs and will then do different and equally unspecified “climate” jobs.
These people are completely bonkers and jumping on a bandwagon that they haven’t even begun to understand. Who’s funding this nonsense? Aha. Usual suspects!
England's England 
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I'm as confused as you Chris, but maybe the placards give the game away, stating as they do ' Climate Emergency ' and ' Climate Justice '. It is part of the clever process of saying 'Climate Change ' so many times that the population feel that it must be established fact. As for Climate Justice, this means that you are a very bad person if you don't do your pointless little bit to ' save the planet '.
Some conservation makes complete sense. I would not put my heating on at home and leave the windows open or fill a kettle to the brim to make one cup of coffee. Recycling is good up to the point where the reclamation process uses more energy than just making a new item.
If the government might employ a lot of presently unemployed people to insulate for free every home in the UK up to the level that it could be insulated and would promise to reduce that spent on imported energy in line with the energy saved, that might make sense. That is only one suggestion, there may be many more and people would say ' hey that makes sense '. But as all our energy supplies come from private firms, they need their profits for the shareholders and so I guess that if demand fell, they would just put the prices up.
But we seemingly must have Wind Farms which are stunningly inefficient, mostly because the EU say we must as Blair signed up to some grand scheme that he would never have to implement.
For myself I would say ' Sod the lot of you ' and start to dig coal again. We have endless amounts of it and we already own it. Nobody can switch our coal off as a result of some political or economic dispute. Maybe for every 100 tons mined we could plant new trees or even buy tracts of Rain Forest to avoid them being flattened to create open land for cattle destined for MacDonalds Burgers.
Ah, if only I were younger, I would go in to politics, but you know what ? I no longer have the energy to protest. That of course is what our rulers rely on. Public apathy is their greatest weapon.
Peter Moore.
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