Il lavoro deve combattere i miliardari di destra che minano net zero, afferma Ed Miliband

>The government is set to require offshore wind developers to pay into a skills fund to support oil and gas workers, apprentices or school leavers to move into offshore wind.

Obviously a good thing for the oil and gas workers, apprentices, and school leavers, but yet another aspect of government policy that should be funded through taxation but is instead being pushed onto energy bills – unless you think that the nice and friendly offshore wind developers are going to cut their profits instead of adding these costs onto the cost of the electricity they supply.

Labour needs to fight the rich investors in their own party from influencing policy and let the party make the *right* choices for the country. Not the paid choices

That isn’t helped when said billionaires own half the media and so amplify climate denialism as though it’s an open debate, or not happening.

[The Guardian wrote about a perception gap 12 years ago](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/may/28/global-warming-consensus-climate-denialism-characteristics). With denialism being amplified, that perception gap won’t close, it’ll only grow.

What’s more. These denialist have used whataboutism on it “oh what about China” well China is using its vast manufacturing capabilities now to sell wind turbines and solar panels around the world (whereas the West got caught up in that debate, or neglected to get on it fast enough), and their energy policy is shifting to renewables (like hydro, like wind).

They’ve invested in electric cars whereas over here denialists go on about about cobalt, electrical fires, etc (cobalt has problematic mining issues, not denying that, but we act as if oil hasn’t?). They ignore that diesel engines can enter thermal runaway and burn themselves to death (like the airport car park fire).

The argument of lower costs is theoretically sound, but denialists ignore the reason bills have gone up is because of how energy is priced here. Wind and solar power is by far cheaper than fossil fuels, but because our electricity prices are dictated by the most expensive source used (marginal rate) which is gas, which skyrocketed due to the War in Ukraine, and which is subject to price volatility, it is why electricity bills have risen so much.

We have NIMBYs campaigning against solar and battery farms of greenbelt. They and sceptics ignore that to build a new power station (a vast particulate spewing mass of concrete) would require greenbelt land, or to find a decommissioned site that hasn’t yet been returned to nature.

All of that is also confounded by a growing anti-intellectualism. Scientists who’ve spent their lives studying the climate are ignored over political commentators because “what if the scientists get it wrong?” We have Trump and RFK in the US ignoring all medical research of “vaccines don’t cause autism, painkillers don’t cause autism” to push an agenda that ‘natural remedies’ are all you need. Farage didn’t even call it a lie. He non-answered his way out of it. They still take ivermectin (horse dewormer) as though it’s some miracle cure, despite scientists saying it does nothing for what you think it is doing.

Labour can do more, but they’re screaming into a void right now.

Milliband is absolutely barking mad.
Net zero is a total sham.
There isnt a shadowy figure spurring on Brits to reject Labour bullshit.
Labour bullshit is spurring us on to reject….Labour bullshit.