I see consequences playing out rather than purposeful Immiseration. It’s silly that people were willing to live with so much exposure to commidity-based energy costs.
Noting that the UK would continue to be reliant on gas for some years to come, Rees-Mogg told representatives that it was better to source the hydrocarbon locally than be left to the mercy of foreign malign actors like Russia and the Gulf states for hydrocarbons, or even China which makes the vast majority of the world’s solar panels.
This will be great to qoute next time they get bent over by foreigners. Hydrocarbon producers will chase overseas money and leave the British exposed to high prices.
I would pay more for anything currently made in China if it meant we could decouple from them, but I have the money to do so. Not so easy for everyone, especially these days. But any “environmentalist” with money who wouldn’t do the same is a fraud.
And the so-called immiseration that followed was simply asking hydrocarbon industries to clean up after themselves.
Ash ponds should be secured, wells properly capped, carcinogens minimalized, engine soot disposed of, ground water protected. Leave things the way you found them.
The green agenda is everything these companies should have already been doing just to be good neighbors.
Notice how those libs always push their hardcore radicalism and then when it blows up in their faces they spread the blame to lib-con thing. And then later they rewrite history as it being republican fault. Incremental lying until they’re resolved from all and any blame.
You whine about slave labor in other countries but have no problem stealing the fruit of working, tax paying Americans labor and redistributing it to able bodied dead beats and illegals who contribute nothing to the system. Pray tell dude, what’s the difference?