Here's An Idea

Global Warming as caused by Man is a crock. We shouldn't use a recession to back away from the idiot measures being introduced to fight it. I'm not sure if we are supposed to see ourselves as Cnut or Icarus, but either way the Sun is having a laugh at our expense.

So, we can get rid of the subsidy towers, which I think are referred to as wind turbines and all the green taxes. That will help the economy quite a bit (and do no harm). We should then ignore all the demands to shut down power stations and do what we need to. That keeps the lights on and industry working.

The carbon levy, by which they tax the entirely different substance carbon dioxide, can be binned helping the economy even more. This is going well. But.....

We really should, as intelligent, inventive animals be doing something about our pollution. Not for the empty headed reasons that Lib Dems espouse and all other stuck-in-adolescence lefties, but because we should be able to do better. The emissions do have some effect, but even if it isn't significant at all, it isn't beneficial either. Wouldn't it be better to design things with a goal from the outset of 'first, do no harm'.

The sole reason a wind turbine gets erected is because there is an incentive. The incentive is money, but somehow the turbine doesn't actually have to be any use to get the money. I think the wind farm companies are probably trying to refine their pitch to government so that they don't have to actually build anything, but still get the money. No one is disturbed by a wind turbine, no birds or bats get murdered and it produces exactly as much utility as if it was physically there.

Let us hope our politicians don't go that far, though  the evidence to date isn't encouraging. No, what I think we should do is actually incentivise people to come up with technologies that don't pollute. For no other reason than pollution isn't nice and we should be able to invent something better.

Everything we do comes down to energy. An apple contains a static energy equivalent to a million tons of TNT. Energy isn't the problem, it is our ability to make use of it that is. And the real problem is, government isn't pushing this as an agenda. Think how rich the UK could be if we took the lead in advances in this area, just because we set off down the road first!

But we are saddled with navel-gazing politicians of no ability whatsoever. Scoring points off other politicians is their entire goal. Big new technological leaps, now! Let's start with the internal combustion engine. (And that doesn't mean stupid battery cars).