Same old, same old. The law of unintended consequences remains undefeated.
Spiked (6/10/24) reports: "If there’s one thing dull British politicians often get excited about, it’s insulating the nation’s draughty homes. As boring as it sounds, cavity-wall insulation was one of the great green hopes of Gordon Brown when he was UK prime minister. More recently, energy secretary Claire Coutinho committed the Conservative government to spending £1 billion on insulating 300,000 homes. The Great British Insulation Scheme was one of many government-funded insulation initiatives that have cropped up in recent years. It was sold not only as a way to knock hundreds of pounds off household bills, but also as a huge win for making the UK a more environmentally friendly place... Activists demanded that the government pledge ‘a low-energy and low-carbon retrofit of all homes in Britain by 2030’. The government agreed to roll out more insulation, if not to that timeframe. But these efforts have since gone horribly wrong. In hundreds of thousands of homes, the BBC reported last month, ‘botched’ installations could result in infestations of black mould. One Swansea mother says that, since her insulation was fitted three years ago, she has had to scrape mould off the walls every two weeks... The defects of cavity-wall insulation have been known about for years. It looks like the problem could be widespread, too... In many ways, the insulation debacle is an allegory for the broader Net Zero agenda. Activists campaigned for it and politicians agreed to take it on, without anyone stopping to think whether or not it would work at all. The result has been a costly and damaging mess."
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"Every one of the climate policies being enacted by liberal states and the Biden administration screws the poor and the middle class, and in particular, the poor and middle-class folks who live in rural America. You name it — EV mandates, bans on natural gas stoves and heaters, strict emission cuts on power plants, lavish tax credits for Big Wind and Big Solar, or the latest FERC rule on high-voltage transmission — all of them are, in one way or another, regressive energy taxes that fuck the working class."
– Robert Bryce, Substack
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