There’s been a two-week gap since my previous opus, A Case Study In ‘Rewilding’; so here’s a pre-Christmas treat for you to get your teeth into before those Brussel sprouts. Yum! yum!
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THE FOUNDATION SCAM
Here, I am of course referring to the ‘climate crisis’. It’s foundational because if you buy into this, or even if you just silently accept it, then you help erect the ‘Tower of Bullshit’ that’s built upon it.
In this ‘tower’ you’ll find net zero, behavioural control, loss of personal freedoms, open borders, wealth transfer, anti-white racism, personal carbon allowances, and a host of other evils that George Orwell might have warned us about if he’d lived long enough to write a sequel to 1984.
The evils we see around us, the ways in which everything becomes more expensive, and our lives more miserable, can only be imposed if enough of us accept we need to make sacrifices to combat (they love that word!) their ‘climate crisis’.
Because if we buy into the climate scam then we’ll dutifully vote for uniparty politicians and parties controlled by those who dreamed up and now profit from the scam.
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STORM DARRAGH BLOWS AWAY THE COBWEBS (TOGETHER WITH THE SOLAR PANELS UNDER WHICH THE SPIDERS WERE HIDING)
Among the most obvious measures being promoted to fight the ‘climate crisis’ is renewable energy. This usually means wind turbines and solar panels.
A truly disastrous combo.
On the plus side, Wales sees a lot of wind. What we don’t get a lot of is sunshine. Which is why solar panels are an insult to our collective intelligence.
To begin with, solar ‘arrays’ take up a hell of a lot of space, often good agricultural land. Which then gets poisoned. Even the so-called ‘Welsh Government’ admitted as much in this report from March 2023.
The problems mentioned occur if the panels stay in place, but as we saw with Storm Darragh the other week, they don’t always stay in place. For the winds caused chaos at Porth Wen, near Cemaes, in the northern part of Ynys Môn.
It was soon reported in the Daily Mail, and the New Civil Engineer. But it was a full six days before the ‘National Newspaper of Wales’ got around to mentioning it.
The problem is of course that Ynys Môn sees a lot of wind. That wind often comes straight off the Atlantic. To make matters worse, the island is relatively flat, with no sheltering hills.
So you might think it’s a good place for wind turbines. Well, no.
For as the New Civil Engineer also reported, just nearby, at Llanbadrig, a wind turbine had its blades ripped off.
And yet, despite the obvious problems, there are plans for even bigger solar installations on Ynys Môn.
I heard of other incidents where solar installations broke up, and panel parts took wing. One incident involved Aberystwyth University’s £2.9m solar farm at Penglais.
An investment that’s inspired . . .
Four new degrees . . . International Relations and Climate Change, Biology and Climate Change, Business and Climate Change and English and Climate Change.
“English and Climate Change” must have a module, ‘Selling this crap to the plebs’.
For those unfamiliar with the area . . . Penglais is a hill above the town, perfect for catching the wind coming off Cardigan Bay. Though not so good for ground-mounted solar panels, which positively invite levitation.
Even if they reach the grand old age of 20, wind turbines and solar panels will never ‘repay’ the environmental damage they caused in being created and installed.
In addition, massive subsidies are demanded. And when there isn’t enough of our money on offer, developers go off in a huff. As was the case recently in Denmark.
Governments are then advised to come up with “healthier pricing” . . . by the wind industry. If it was up to me, I’d tell them to . . .
The Danish Government must now quickly . . . adapt their auction design to market realities. The industry needs healthier pricing and fairer risk allocation
Once installed, turbines and panels offer unreliable, intermittent supply – that has to be backed up by something more reliable; usually nuclear, or fossil fuels.
And as we’ve seen with Storm Darragh – which was nothing out of the ordinary – ‘renewables’ can’t cope with serious wind.
In fact, turbines have to be switched off in anything other than a strong breeze. And of course they produce nothing in windless conditions. Solar panels obviously generate nothing at night, or when there’s no sun, or if they’re covered in snow.
Which means that on those cold, overcast, windless winter days we experience so often, ‘renewables’ contribute bugger all to the grid.
So the idea that a country can rely 100% on ‘renewables’ is utterly insane. Yet this is what ‘Mad Monk’ Miliband is demanding. Though he’s being paid handsomely to push this bullshit by those who’ll benefit.
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BOLLOCKS IN THE WIND
If we’re talking of wind turbines, then we can’t ignore Bute Energy; maybe the biggest player in Wales, with many wind farms planned, plus solar installations, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), even its own power lines.
And of course, Bute is well connected with Labour in Wales, having created sinecures for party insiders. Then there’s the Danish connection, with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. Which matches funders with Bute projects.
A 25% stake in CIP is held by another Danish outfit, Vestas, and on the Vestas board is former Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Alternatively known as Mrs Kinnock, for she’s the wife of Stephen Kinnock, MP for Aberavon, son of former Labour leader Neil, and the late Glenys, for many years a MEP.
(Talking of Vestas, here’s a very recent mishap with a new Vestas wind turbine in Scotland. And there have been others.)
Mrs Kinnock has her own company, Thorningschmidt Global Ltd, and she also sits on the board of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
The address given for her company is Acre House, 11/15 William Road, London NW1 3ER. Other companies at that address appeared in the Paradise Papers. This is the UK end of Rontec Group (Jersey) Ltd, the empire of Sir Gerald Ronson OBE. For those old enough to remember, Ronson was one of ‘The Guinness Four’.
Mrs Kinnock’s also worked with the World Health Organisation and the Trilateral Commission.
I’ve made the point before that the principals involved in Bute came from property company Parabola. The holding company for the Bute empire is Windward Global Ltd. This is controlled by Oliver James Millican, son of Peter John Millican, chair of Parabola.
Is Bute just a front for Parabola? I ask, because one might need to be very generous to believe that four young executives, including the boss’s son, cut their ties with Parabola at the same time to take a leap into the unknown.
I just wrote “four young executives“, which may confuse some of you familiar with the principal players. For in addition to Millican Jr the other ex Parabola people prominent with Bute are usually Lawson Steele and Stuart George.
But there was a fourth departure from Parabola, Barry Woods. If you look at the list of related companies, you’ll see that Steele, George and Woods each had a ‘Windward’ company formed for them 31.05.2018.
Woods’ company was dissolved in September 2019 when, I assume, he broke with Bute.
If you go down that list you’ll see Windward JR Ltd. Those initials stand for John Reilly. He’s the Project Manager for Bute Energy, and a bit of a joker. For here he is quoted by NorthWalesLive in May 2023.
John Reilly, project manage . . . said: “As a nation we’re in a Climate Emergency, and a cost-of-living crisis.
The cost-of-living crisis is partly caused by Net Zero, forced on us to fight a non-existent ‘Climate Emergency’, yet Reilly tries to turn facts on their head. It’s too late for this bullshit, pal. Too many people now see through it.
The latest accounts for Windward JR, which became available to view earlier this month, show a remarkable upturn in fortunes.
A company that never had more than a few hundred quid in the kitty now has over a million. With the filed accounts offering no explanation for this windfall. So where might it have come from?
Answers on the usual postcard.
UPDATE 22.12.2024: The accounts for Windward LS have become available on the Companies House website. They show the arrival of roughly £5 million. We can expect a similar amount to appear in Windward SG Ltd. And probably a larger sum in some other company for Oliver James Millican.
UPDATE 23.12.2024: The accounts for Windward SG Ltd (to 31.03.2024) are also now available. They show an unexplained increase in Assets from the previous year’s £87,950 to £4,722,225.
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A WOMAN OF SOME IMPORTANCE
In June ’23 I put out Taking Control, Of Everything, where I tried to explain how, through funding, appointments, and other means, the ‘Welsh Government’ seems to take over bodies that should be non-political.
In particular, I drew attention to recent changes at the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and the Football Association of Wales (FAW).
I mentioned Dr Carol Bell who, according to this bio from Chapter Zero (one of her many directorships), leads (the FAW’s) sustainability strategy“. Which, given how ‘sustainability’ operates in the wider world, will probably bankrupt Welsh soccer.
Since I wrote last year Dr Bell has taken up a number of new appointments.
In January she started Aileni Ltd, with crachach luminary Geraint Talfan Davies, and Geoffrey Hunt of Arup. In March, she became Treasurer of Glamorgan County Cricket Club. Then she got involved in three archaeological bodies. And on April 23 Dr Bell joined Bute’s Windward Energy Ltd.
She is a non-executive director of Norwegian Bonheur ASA. A non-executive director of Cyprus-based platinum and chrome mining company Tharisa. Dr Bell’s Market Screener bio mentions Hafren Scientific Ltd, another mining and drilling company, which for some reason isn’t mentioned in her Linkedin profile. Strange, seeing as she’s the chair.
Hafren Scientific has three outstanding loans with the Development Bank of Wales (DBW), of which Dr Bell was a director until a year ago.
The first DBW loan was made in December 2014. And in that very same month Dr Bell joined both Hafren Scientific and BlackRock Energy and Resources Income Trust Plc. (Though it appears she left BlackRock in March.)
I used to think that Dr Bell and others worked for the ‘Welsh Government’, pushing the Globalist agenda. Now I wonder if she works for a higher authority to ensure Welsh politicos follow orders.
And as we’ve seen, earlier this year, and within weeks of leaving(?) BlackRock, Dr Bell joined Anglo-Scottish investment company Bute Energy. Intriguing.
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FINAL THOUGHTS
John Reilly’s “Climate Emergency“, was concocted by very rich individuals and corporate entities wanting to exercise political and social control through uniparty political systems in Europe and North America.
Their strategy is to destabilise and weaken the West from within, thereby making the Globalist takeover easier. Using tactics like DEI, ESG, CRT, Net Zero, open borders, and a comprehensive rejection of Western traditions and values.
To promote this strategy Globalists have recruited environmentalists, Islamists, vegans, sexual deviants, and of course, the Quisling Left. For all the measures designed to weaken Western societies are promoted as ‘progressive’, with critics dismissed as ‘far right’, etc., etc.
Of course, politicians come and go, whereas other institutions and structures are more enduring, even self-perpetuating. Higher education and the civil service might come into this category.
Academe is obviously in the service of the Globalist agenda, and it’s long been rumoured that senior levels of the UK civil service have been ‘captured’. More than that, it’s said they – not the politicians – now make (or convey) major policies.
It can be seen in Wales. I’ve chronicled the assault on Welsh farming for a decade or more, and it’s usually led by civil servants sent down from London by Defra. Which is believed to have devised (or conveyed) the Starmer regime’s inheritance tax.
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CONCLUSION
Matters are coming to a head. The lunacies that have prevailed for too long are in retreat. We shall see major change in 2025. And it may not be bloodless.
The German government has effectively fallen, there will be elections in February. Already moves are afoot to stop the ‘populist’ AfD from winning. In France, De Gaulle’s Fifth Republic totters from one crisis to another, the country run by pygmies not fit to utter the great man’s name.
Across the West, Globalism and Cultural Marxism (Wokeism) are in retreat, and people realise the threat posed by Islam. Change is coming.
Here in the UK there’s talk of cancelling some of next year’s local council elections in England due to ‘reorganisation’. The truth is, Reform must be stopped.
As I write this, it’s rumoured Canadian PM Justin Trudeau will resign. Whether he does, or whether he clings on until next year’s elections, he’s finished.
Down in Argentina, President Milei has taken a chainsaw to bureaucracy and socialist corruption – and the country is thriving.
And finally, it’s just a month until Donald J Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States of America. And then things are really going to change.
I’m looking forward to 2025 so very, very much.
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© Royston Jones 2024
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
Another great write up Jac.
Thought something would have been mentioned about the sinister Labour introduction of the dangerous 1984 type surveillance by police officers in South Wales and Gwent police forces who have now been given an app on their phones for facial recognition in these areas..
Facial recognition: App lets police identify suspects in street – BBC News
All part of the bigger picture.
https://premium.weatherweb.net/weather-in-history-1500-to-1599-ad/ click on the link…its NOT political but taken from the chronicles of the time, flood famine freezing temps in Europe and UK 15 to 1600. You realise that the climate has never been stable…and I am not a climate denier in that I do think that since the dawn of the Industrial Era we are now speeding things up…However eminent historians and others have said that the last 10K years have been a very stable time in earths history…I think I am correct in saying that we are still coming out of the ice age..sorry if I am wrong…and that is why mankind, womenkind etc lol…have advanced so much..stablity in climate has allowed us to flourish…who knows…all debates are interesting if they inform and cause us to question what is real or not.
The Earth’s climate goes in cycles over which we have little or no control. Man may or may not be influencing it. But to pretend that carbon is a problem is insane. Carbon levels have rarely been lower. If they go much lower life on Earth will end.
I havent even mentioned electric car charging…lol…priceless!!!
The National Grid is not fit for purpose. You cant link into it. So there are aprox 1000 turbines atm sitting there idle cos they cant link in. Actually in Oct and Nov we had very little wind…nothing much moved and as is correctly said…if the sun dont shine. The Ozzies have already discoved that a lot of this is a huge cost due to maintenance of turbines and hydro tidal systems is enormous!!..what none of you have mentioned is why we need so much electricity. We can never meet demand ever on clean energy. The first rule of economics…demand and supply. As I have ranted before on deaf ears. Internet!! our total reliance on it for everything in our daily “smart” lives on our phones, apps, streaming tv, mobile data and our smart Alexa apps at home and turning on the heating via hive and our washing machines etc etc…the NHS, Police, Banking, Retail, Logistics, Local Govt, Gas and Elec suppliers, Smart meters – dont work. Education. Data management and computer systems in offices, graphic design and on and on…and all this has to be kept on computer servers in Data Centres all has to be cooled and takes up trillawatts elec…so need I say more…but most people havent considered this…its part of their lives and they expect it…omg going back to washing by hand haha…no tv…what would we do!!…so think about it…all these promises are all “stuff” to shut us up and to keep politicians in their jobs…its got nothing to do with the benefit of this country or the planet…its about politics and jobs and ego and nothing else…wake up!!…I suppose Starmer could cut back on the 1.5m housing…weve got no one to build them anyway, so dont hold your breath…and we could put up solar panels instead…on green field sites…as a friend has just found out as she freezes with her now air cooled heating system…that its extremely expensive to run as it wont work when its below 40 and so she has to put her elec rad on…these ppl dont tell you this…they get paid by the Wgov and the buyer to have this installed but people dont understand how it works…conned…end of rant
Decarbonising the economy isn’t about ‘climate change’, it’s about demonetarising oil producing countries. This includes the USA – which is why they don’t like it.
I think what people in the UK get wrong is their interpretation of politics in Europe. Lots of little parties win seats and the end result is often a coalition.
While the UK press rave about the rise of the right, in reality little has changed – except that right wing voters have tended to coalesce under a single banner while the left remains split. A classic example of this was the much vaunted rise of Marine Le Pen and the Rassemblement National. However when the left wing parties in France united they beat Macron’s centrists into second place with the RN trailing in third.
The RN only got about 25% of the seats in the French National Assembly, and this seems to be a trend across the EU and the rest of Europe. The truth is that ‘populist’ parties aren’t all that popular. If we take the AFP for example ( because Jac mentioned them specifically) the best vote they managed was 33% in Thuringia. In other states their vote has been far lower.
Meloni’s party in Italy only got around 26% of the vote and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands only holds around 25% of the seats in their parliament.
Another common mistake is to assume that all these ‘far right’ parties are cast in the same mould. They aren’t. Meloni, for example, apparently adores Zelensky and would support him to the ends of the Earth. Le Pen, on the other hand wouldn’t give Ukraine another centime in aid.
So basically it is a matter of perception rather than reality. For example France under De Gaulle was probably more right wing than it is now, but the UK press love a good rant, and the largely imaginary rise of the right fuels the agenda of their billionaire owners.
Two other points. Trump didn’t achieve much during his first term in office. Anybody expecting miracles the second time around is likely to be disappointed. Secondly Argentina’s economy isn’t doing as well as Jac seems to think. Its GDP growth in 2022 was 5.2%. In the year since President Milei took office it’s around 2.0% . They also devalued the peso by 54% against the US dollar which is probably only going to give short term benefits.
Ifor! Where have you been, I put this out yesterday morning!
In your swift tour of Europe you seem to have concentrated on individuals and parties rather than on issues.
Starting with France. The reorganised left in France has stolen some of the lovely Marine’s thunder by coming out against mass immigration. Which gives us that modern rarity – a socialist party in an advanced economy thinking about the white working class. Remember when Labour did that?
The situation in Germany is more complicated, partly by regional differences, which then link with unresolved problems of reunification. But polls show that immigration is a major issue, and so is the deindustrialisation being imposed by Net Zero. For when it appears that those doing best are recent arrivals of whom little is really known other than that they’ve paid nothing into the system, do not need to work – yet live high on the hog.
Italy is also fragmented. A country like Germany that only unified in the mid-19th century. Which results in a multiplicity of political parties and regional loyalties, with deals being done. But the fact remains, Meloni is prime minister.
France under De Gaulle may have been more conservative because the world in the 1950s was more conservative. But it was De Gaulle who realised the days of empire were over, and that France needed to re-position herself within Europe. (Though he also foresaw the problems of an over-powerful union.)
Argentina was heading for Weimar levels of inflation. Milei has brought it down to somewhere near zero. The benefits will soon begin to flow. He’s achieved it partly by slashing a self-serving and very costly bureaucracy. A lesson being learnt by others.
Such as Donald J Trump in the USA. So why did you not mention him?
Would you consider the UK fragmented in a similar regard as Italy and Germany?
No, very different. Germany and Italy unified along lines of language and sentiment. But Bismark excluded Austria because its empire was multi-ethnic, it would have given the new Germany a Catholic majority, and Vienna was a more attractive city than Berlin.
Whereas Italy had to concede Corsica to France, but otherwise took in all the Italian-speaking areas other than the bit in Switzerland.
It was in many ways bringing together in one state people who had always thought of themselves as German or Italian. The cultural or linguistic terms ‘Italy’ and ‘Germany’ had been in use long before political unification.
The UK as we know it today is made up of four countries, three of which regard themselves as different nations (confirmed by different languages), and the fourth is a creation of settlement by one of those nations upon another nation that has now left the Union
Which reminds us that warfare, conquest, dispossession, cultural oppression, religious discrimination, and economic exploitation, all play a big part in the UK’s past..
Italy and Germany can’t really be compared to that.
Here’s a $64,000 question for you – where does South Tyrol fit into this respective coalescence of the Italic and Germanic peoples? My guess would be the Catholicism factor playing its part again.
Which country was the ‘blame’ for the Plantations of Ireland out of England and Scotland, then? Perhaps directed from London but for expediency those planted were largely from Lowland Scotland due to geographical proximity?
It’s a bit of a paradox in a way, that such, in many ways, decentralised, federal states like Germany, the US or Australia very much regard themselves as one nation, whereas here in the UK we have our own (sometimes overlapping) national identites within what was for centuries a unitary state.
A thought experiment might illuminate this: imagine if Washington imposed a Tryweryn on a flyover state, say Wyoming – remote from the East Coast conurbations but still very much a part of American heartland. The local people may well be pissed off at the drowning of their villages, but such chagrin would not align along national sentiment. However, the state could contest the decision by Washington in the Supreme Court, the complete inverse of our case of being a distinct nation with no such recourse under Ivory Tower Westminster rule.
Another difference I feel with the UK, is that unlike say Spain or Germany, there is no equivalence in nomenclature. In Spain, the bits that aren’t Aragon or Catalonia or Galicia, or whatever, may be informally referred to as Castille, but it is not a distinct entity and/or nation with a sharply outlined presence like England, to my knowledge at least (I’m good friends with a Spaniard and I’ve never heard him describe himself as Castillian). In Germany, when considering say Bavaria with its identity and ‘Landheit’, there is no such concept of ‘The Rest of Them’ as a unit of one identity – Die Anderen Länder?
South Tyrol was taken from Austria after WWI. Punishment for losing. Germany lost territory. So did Hungary. Serbia was rewarded with Jugoslavia. The Czechs were given their own state (including Slovaks and Sudetenland Germans). It was all a disaster, which, with the conditions imposed at Versailles, guaranteed WWII.
The examples you use – Germany, USA, Australia – are united by language and identity, there are no minorities strong enough to assert themselves other than Stone Age original inhabitants. These will be pandered to, allowed to open casinos, exploited by the left, but never fully compensated because to do so would undermine the state built around them.
As for Wyoming, what’s special about it? People might be pissed off, but they’d be compensated and they’d move. Americans are always moving.
Spain is far more complicated. ‘Castilian’ is not just a regional identity, it’s an alternative name for the Spanish language itself. No one would dispute that Catalans, Basques, and Galicians are not Castilian. But what about south Catalonia (Valencia)? And Andalusia, with its Moorish heritage? Or Cantabrians, who also speak Castilian, but many see them as Celtic, for there was a big Celtic presence in Iberia during Hannibal’s time, and later.
Then there’s Navarre, with its capital at Pamplona, originally a Baque kingdom. Castilian in the east and south, Basque in the west and north. A very divided province that’s not part of Euskadi.
One problem with Spain is that there’s no alternative name for a very complex country, unlike English and British. Might avoid a lot of bad feeling if there was a name for the country that recognised the non-Castilian identities.
My point about Wyoming was to illustrate that superficially, it could be compared to Wales, in a hypothetical Tryweryn-esque scenario. Both are relatively sparsely populated ‘sub-national’ units, remote both geographically and in sentiment from the seat of power of the respective polity. Any such similarity ends there, as the former is not the exclusive national territory of an ethnic group, yet the latter has none of the constitutionally mandated protections the former does against egregious actions of the top-tier government.
People of Wyoming moving elsewhere if pissed off brings into sharp relief this contrast, as equivalent migration from Wales would be considered more along the lines of ethnic displacement and cultural erosion.
Galicia, I’m sure I read, is considered by some to be the seventh Celtic Nation. You must have seen that Pan-Celtic flag with that spiral thing in the centre? There are variants with the Galician flag taking up a segment. Spain gets even more complex linguistically when you consider Galician is closer to Portuguese, Catalan to French, and Euskara defies attempts at classification I believe, much like Albanian.
But the point about Wyoming is that there is no sense of being a separate identity to the rest of the USA. A Tryweryn-style situation would be interpreted as being put upon by a big city, or the federal government, or the corporate world. What made Tryweryn so important in recent Welsh history was that it brought into sharp relief the unequal relationship between Wales and England. And it did it more effectively than any Plaid Cymru pamphlet or any speech by Gwynfor Evans. It was there – in black and white and in your face. ‘We’re going to take hat we want and there’s fuck all you can do about it‘.
My Dear Jac – I do think we are indeed making the same point.
I blames the booze.
To answer your point about Ireland. Once the clan structure in Ulster had been broken, and after ‘The Flight of the Earls’ (O’Neil and O’Donnell), Ulster was open to Plantation, and much of it was spontaneous. The North Channel is only 12 miles wide. But governments in London and Edinburgh wanted Anglophone, Protestant, Lowland Scots. For the very good reason that the Highlanders, largely a law unto themselves, were from the same culture as those who were being dispossessed. And many of the clans remained Catholic.
He has learned!!!
Here’s a one-minute video you might enjoy.
The National Grid Group says that in 2023 “wind power contributed 29.4% of the UK’s total electricity generation”. Presumably you don’t agree with that. What’s the correct figure then, 0%? That is the impression I get from reading your article.
You say: “Even if they reach the grand old age of 20, wind turbines and solar panels will never ‘repay’ the environmental damage they caused in being created and installed.” Is that just an idea that you had, or is there any convincing evidence for it?
You appear not to believe in climate change, or to believe that it is not anthropogenic. But you make no attempt to justify either of those points of view.
I think the work you do is really important, especially the research you do which would never otherwise get done (or if it was done the results would never see the light of day). I agree with a lot of the conclusions you draw and positions you take. But there is a danger that you are devaluing your own work by overstatement, overgeneralisation and posturing.
I do agree that the true requirements for sustaining human civilisation, such as it is, on a planet undergoing climate change have never been presented to the public with honesty and candour. At the very least we are going to have to move around much less and make less mess. But it is getting increasingly hard to conceal the reality, as it unwinds. There is certainly no intention from our rulers to offer or allow a “just transition”. Since the turn of the century I have been convinced that our “civilisation” is not up to coping with this challenge, and that gets more obvious with every month.
No one disputes that wind and solar make a contribution. But equally, no sensible person disputes that that contribution is erratic and unreliable. That is dictated by the sources on which they rely.
I believe in climate change. I don’t accept that impoverishing us, restricting our movements, destroying livestock farming, and other measures, will do anything to influence the climate. That’s because the ‘climate emergency’ is being used for purposes that are unrelated to the climate.
Why do you say, “human civilisation, such as it is” and “civilisation” (in quotes)? Are you one of those who believes we should ‘knock it all down and start again’?
We don’t need to knock it down, it’s coming apart in our hands faster and faster. We knew what we needed to do forty years ago, and if we had made a good start then that might have been sufficient. But shorter-term priorities and inappropriate values prevailed, and still do beneath the PC flim-flam. You will have seen those cartoons of a man in a tree busily sawing through the branch that he is sitting on. We can’t even provide for our own survival in the most basic way, so no, I don’t think we should call this a civilisation, whatever our cultural pretensions. You could call it a collective delusion. What’s more, rich people can hire bright people to tell them what’s really going on. So we have to ask, what’s the real plan? And then we are in the realms of conspiracy theory. Well wash my mouth out with soap and water …..
Western civilisation is coming apart for reasons that can be linked to measures being introduced to combat a mythical ‘climate emergency’. Also . . .
After it became obvious, with the fall of the Soviet Union, that the political and economic models of socialism don’t work, socialists reformed with Cultural Marxism. Multiculturalism, women with penises, white guilt, etc. All with the same objective as Communism – bring down the West.
That’s why we are where we are.
Maybe you don’t believe in the Greenhouse Effect (discovered and confirmed in the 18th century). You and I may not like identity politics, PC, mangling the language (I mean English here, but I expect there is a similar deranged process in Welsh), etc, but “cultural marxism” doesn’t cut any ice with the little CO2 molecules. They have their innate physical properties, and they simply get on with behaving in accord with those properties. Why are people finding that “hundred year” weather events are happening to them every year? Why are great swathes of Australia and Siberia and California and Canada up in flames almost every year? Yes I know there have always been forest fires!! But plot the incidence and extent on a graph, and see where the curve is leading.
The two biggest conspiracies (probably there are many others!) are a) the conspiracy of the fossil fuel industries and their attendant governments to put the interests of their shareholders above everyone’s survival, and b) the conspiracy of governments, political parties and media pundits not to tell the whole truth or even most of the truth about the “climate crisis” and the behaviour changes that would be needed to avoid its culmination.
Think I’ll stop now, I’m probably not even making you think.
The weather is not becoming more severe. The USA has experienced fewer and less severe tornados in the past decade. If anything, the reverse is true, but agencies we rely on to report the weather have been suckered into the ‘global warming’ scam. So we have to be regularly frightened to keep us believing the scam.
We’re at the stage now where anything above 20 degrees celsius will be described as a life-threatening heatwave.
But it’s falling apart for two major reasons. First, people wake up to the fact that there is no great deterioration in the weather. Second, As the cost of Net Zero becomes apparent, people say ‘Sod that“!. When people refuse to pay for something they see is false, it’s over.
The climate scam is on life support at the moment. What’s stopping it from slipping away is that so many influential people, so many reputable institutions and organisations, bought into this bullshit, and they just can’t admit they’ve been made fools of.
Here are two recent examples of what I referred to; one from Germany, the other from Canada.
I’d fervently wish that you were right, but I pretty much know that you are wrong, tragically. Being made fools of would be the least of it. Being killled is much worse. People say “sod it” when they find out that the changes they will need to make are not at all the nominal “win-win” changes that they were sold by politicians and pundits, whose twin aims are to offer the electorate something it will vote for and to preserve their pundit careers (no one needs to have your advice once the situation is past redemption).
People saying sod it does not prove or disprove a claim – for instance for the last 50 years people in the UK have been saying sod it when asked to pay for the levels of societal care that they say they want.
And you haven’t mentioned the fires. (It’s just poor forest-floor management, I expect you will say.)
And we have neither of us mentioned the methane that the tundra emits when it warms, and the methane clathrates that will gassify under warming coastal waters. And the tipping points (positive feedback loops) that are bound to exist, but we never did the research to predict or understand. You know about methane I suppose (I expect you will say I am just anti-livestock!)
It’ll soon be Christmas. Ghost stories are associated with Christmas because people enjoy being scared. And for some, I suspect the ‘climate crisis’ serves a very similar purpose. Especially for those with the kind of low opinion of mankind and civilisation your displayed in your first comment.
I explained that, and justified it. We can’t even safeguard our own future as a species, which we have jeopardised with our own hidden desires, so how do we represent anything of lasting or particular significance? Our species has put most of its eggs into the basket of intelligence, but we have turned out not to be intelligent enough. Someone asked Ghandi what he thought of Western civilisation, and he replied that it would be a good thing!
Then you should have said, ‘economic model’, rather than ‘civilisation’. Because civilisation means music, architecture, literature, art, philosophy and so much more. Are we to dismiss Mozart, Michelangelo, Dostoyevsky, the great medieval cathedrals, because we burn coal, or because someone’s chopping down trees in the Amazon? No.
And that’s why Gandhi was wrong with his glib one-liner. Suggests to me he’d watched too many Groucho Marx films while in the West. Hollywood, another aspect of Western culture.
Sorry no, our civilisation is everything that we do and the ways that we do everything. Not just a grab bag of some of our activities that some of us see as impressive.
But this is becoming semantic.
Our problems are rooted a lot deeper than a poor choice of economic model. Bye
Climate change has happened over millennia, only the doom mongers refer to records since the Industrial Revolution. I wonder why!
It is also untrue that gales/storms/hurricanes are increasing due to the “climate crisis/emergency.
They’re not interested in facts. It’s all computer predictions, falsified ‘records’, ‘experts’ like Greta Thunberg. Put it all together and we have a scam sustained by hysteria.
Disagree with you for 40 years ago. 40 years ago I was in the IT business still am…selling computer systems into the food industry, in particular the Baking business. 4mb of ram lol…imagine!!..order processing for wholesale food manufacturing companies. They didnt have CD roms then…In the 90s we were trying to introduce RDMS = relational database management systems into GPs…they didnt have computers and we had to wait 5 years. We tried to roll out key stage 11 interactive teaching progs to the schools but in the late 90s they didnt have CD roms or computers in most of the UK schools…so we abandoned it. 22 years ago saw HDMI cables being introduced to replace scart..22 years ago…and we were still using SD as opposed to HD…so no they didnt know anything about this 40 years ago in 1984 there werent even mobile phones…well some but motorola was my first in car huge sat in a box..lol…we didnt have digital mobiles till 2000s…before that it was analogue and that went because they needed the bandwidth…Netflix wasnt even around…..think about it….
rich people can hire bright people to tell them what’s really going on. well thats better than hiring chimps isnt it…pays peanuts you get chimps…but imo you cant say that anymore…watch Private eye 2024 on youtube…dumb Britain…with Hislop and his team..priceless..lol.
Renewables are not unreliable but they are variable. They do exactly what we would expect, very reliably, and our ability to predict what they generate is astonishingly accurate, so much so that they are traded a day ahead of generation
Variable = unreliable. If I can’t predict whether or not my car will start in the morning then it’s unreliable.
That’s exactly what I mean. We can predict if renewables will generate and are therefore reliable. They would be unreliable if they broke down a lot. It’s how we manage to use such large amounts of renewables because we are so good at predicting what they will generate
Have you been drinking?
Not for 30+ years!
How do you think it’s possible to balance the grid in real time, second by second, if they didn’t have reliable forecasts of renewable generation?
How could they be so certain of wholesale prices based on quantities generated 24 hours in advance?
How the hell are they reliable or dependable if the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine?
If there is no wind or no sun they reliably don’t generate anything (reliable = does what you would expect)
We have never depended on only one form of generation, and we won’t in future. Off the top of my head all the following are down in the 2050 plan
offshore wind
onshore wind
solar
nuclear
biomass (with/without CCS)
other bio eg biogas
gas with CCS
hydrogen
hydro
battery storage
pumped storage
other long duration energy storage
plus market mechanisms to manage (shift) demand
with NESO “conducting the orchestra” like they do now
And you really believe that? It’s about as plausible as the climate predictions made by Al Gore and John Kerry.
Fossil fuels are reliable, and abundant. That‘s the problem for some people.
Really believe what? All those things are happening right now in various proportions, so my belief is based on the fact that my lights come on when I flick a switch
Of course fossil fuels are (generally) reliable and abundant, that’s never been in question, and we will be using them as chemical feedstocks for centuries, and burning them for energy, just not burning them unabated
I’ve never looked at the climate predictions of Al Gore or John Kerry
Abundant for how long though? It is prudent to be making preparations for when they eventually run out. That inevitability has thus far evaded discussion here as far as I can see.
Abundant until enough of us accept that nuclear is the only viable long-term answer.
Is that nuclear fission or fusion? If the former, it again relies on an expendable fissile elements, both in the sense of there being a limited amount in the ground to be mined, and due to natural radioactive decay, which admittedly can take billions of years depending on the half lives of the particular element/isotope.
With nuclear fusion, you’re on to something if we can crack it at scale and safely, but I fear far too many vested interests in energies green and ‘dirty’ will do everything they can to prevent this happening.
as I have said in my rant…demand and supply and demand is increasing…now everything is becoming app based if you want access to banking your energy supplier, NHS etc…but there isnt the capacity in the mobile phone system to be able to do it…all needs to be upgraded…5g is still not really reliable. I cant get it and I am half a mile from town but the transmitter is having issues…has been for years but they dont know when it will be fixed…cost v uptake and us putting up…I have to change to 2g inside my house then I get 5 bars connection…3g is almost gone to make room for 5g but 2g is staying because its needed…so getting probs go to connections on your phone etc and change to 2g.. when I have to show my gas engineer from Br Gas it says it all…should have charged him for my IT services…but I am going on…but to the point…turbines and wind are not constant…its been very calm apart from the recent storm and even in Fishguard W Wales the local commuinity turbine on the hill has been at a stand still…climate change means more highs and lows and not a constant…so you cant plan…and France has not got rid of its nuclea power as we have so we are a bit screwed..lol.
We haven’t got rid of nuclear and are building more. But we don’t have the “luxury” the French have of lots of pumped hydro potential, and direct links into neighbouring countries to dump the excess. The Italian and Spanish grids are big sinks for unwanted French nuclear power
The intermittency really isn’t anything a consumer needs to worry about, just as they don’t worry about gas power station outages. The uptime of some of our gas stations is shockingly bad, but no one cares as NESO manage the overall system such that we always have exactly what we want and need. It’s no different with variable renewables
yes, but how long lol…and I dont know enough about the new mini nuclear hubs..something I need to get info on…time lol…its just decades of nothing and you could see end of the 90s the rise of the internet…but politics is all about the now, keeping their jobs and promising what ppl want to hear and not what is reality. An old friend recently said…oh thx for sending me such depressing news…but its reality you cant pretend it doesnt exist…Brave New World and 1984 and atm we are in Animal Farm with the 5 year plan and Hector being worked to death…lol…or you could say soon Minority Report will become a reality with the thought police and AI which hopefully will benefit medical research but now we have mirror bacteria and if you get an AI interaction you will end up with smart bacteria…and then woops lol…all the best for Xmas and 25
is that yearly or monthly or daily lol…it depends…we have the blessed liebour govt in in Wales and in England who will tell you anything just to keep their jobs and shut us up..Waspi..eg
Very interesting and informative post again Jac. Have a well-earned break over the Christmas period to recharge the battery [powered by renewables!] ready for the new year.
Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda i bawb.
Compliments of the Season to you and your family Jac. Apart from the usual Xmas fare, there is a hell of a lot to digest and, like you I await 2025 in great anticipation.
I can sense the tide is turning. You know they’re getting desperate when they are openly trying to interfere with or delay elections, or stop certain parties from standing – or even being heard. This is happening in Romania, Germany, France, and now England.
Yep
I was amused to see the four new courses offered at Aberystwyth.
Brought back memories of another degree course offered in response to the “energy crisis” of the 70s, this time at Swansea University.
Lasted for just three years, the few students who enrolled saw through the nonsense then being peddled. Repeat performance soon at Aber?
Good to see that the Kinnock family retains its socialist roots……
Come the Revolution, the Kinnocks will rush to the barricades – in a chauffeur-driven limo.
Lol..priceless
Thankyou for putting the whole spiders web of many years weaving together in this post with all leading to the big fat globalist spider in the middle. The model of indoctrination, censorship, demoralisation and destabilisation has always been the route in the ultimate totalitarian plan adding guilt and gaslighting into the mix results in a Mass formation of some just going along with what they are told to stay in the group. The last stage of any communist style plan is starvation so coming for the farmland and all assets to make people wholly reliable on the meagre crumbs that they will receive from the state for total compliance. The WEF motto was “You will have nothing and you will be happy”! The plan has become more and more obvious to so many that they have been desperately rushing to push it on so now corruption shown is off the scale. Amazing time to be alive and watch.
A very Merry Xmas wish.
I think you’ve put your finger on the difference between today and perceptions 10 or even five years ago. People can see that the assault on agriculture has nothing to do with saving the planet, and everything to do with a corporate land grab and control of the food supply.
Once that is realised, then other things make sense. Keep prodding and, eventually, the whole ‘climate disaster’ narrative starts falling apart. This, as I say, is the foundation for all the deprivation and impositions being suggested. Remove the ‘foundation’ and it all collapses.
Exactly
“You will have nothing and you will be happy”
That comes from a work of fiction doesn’t it?
No, the WEF is very real.
Of course they are and we choose to join. That quote though is from a work of fiction
Who’s ‘we’?
The U.K.
But the quote is from a work of fiction
Although, I don’t own my car, and don’t want to, and I’m happy
I suggest you need to reconsider that answer.
Do we, the public, choose to join? Which political party do we vote for if we wish to leave the WEF?
I’ve no idea, never considered it
“We” did not choose to join and the quote is not fiction, it is from a 2016 Agenda for 2030
The U.K. chose to join, we were not forced, it was not mandatory
See my other comment about the fictional statement. It is an imaginary world where things are very different, created to prompt people to think. It is not a statement of intent, which I’m sure you know (got to love the bit about flying cars though!)
The UK government may support the WEF, but governments do not join.
You know what I mean, we chose to join in
This came from the WEF (unelected World Economic Forum)
“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” actually originates from the WEF’s “8 predictions for the world in 2030 published in 2016 and it is still on the WEF Agenda blog.
Yes, written by Ida Auken a Danish politician as a thought piece to trigger debate with a very clear footnote that it is not the view of the WEF. Given she is describing a life in a nameless city in the future, it’s clearly a work of fiction
It’s a text book piece of “scenario visioning” where you describe in detail what something could be like as a means of identifying novel ways of doing things
Its a good, brief, bit of writing, and we already have some of the things from it (like me not owning my car, and preferring it that way, and will be even happier when I can just order a driverless vehicle turn up)
Looks like you would be much happier to join the Dave’s crowd with Stammer from your comments and happy to give up all your assets as the plan for not owning anything includes the basics like borrowing. Can opener rather than owning and sharing home space with others, taking it in shifts to sleep in the bed. Agenda 2050
Who is Dave?
I’m happy to not own a car, as I have zero interest in them, but not to give up all my assets, not that I have many. When I need a new heat pump, I would happily not own one of those and just lease it
But there is zero chance of anyone having to give up all their assets as it’s not being suggested by anyone and would have no purpose. It would be disaster for many economies
Are you honestly telling me that’s what you think the WEF want? Does anyone else think like this? If so, who is dreaming up that theory and convincing you, and more importantly, why?
Or is this just a wind up?
What do you think the Farmers inheritance tax is all about? Massive land and asset grab as the tax collected is a mere drop in the ocean. Strange how Gates (taken over huge amounts of US farmland) and Larry Fink (Black Rock) visited with Stammer just before the announcement of Labours plan to yet again do what they said they would not and come for the Farmers. Take a look back at history at every communist style regime the land is taken from farmers under the guise of every one being in the collective working the land for the good of each other. You say to lease back to the farmers who run their farms 24/7 do you honestly think anyone but an owner would slave like that? Millions died from starvation when this totalitarian style takeover happened, China, Russia, Nth Korea to name a very few.
Modelling figures have been proven to be so biased and incorrect due to figures being put in to get the wanted result, just as Ferguson demonstrated and how ridiculously wrong was he, resulting in sheer scaremongering and horrific results.
Of all the people to visit Starmer – Gates and Fink!
The 3 wise men – more like 3 dodgy guys, minus Soros who couldn’t make the trip ? or was he off bending someone else’s ear ? Looks like Syria will be the next carve up especially if these manipulators have any say at all. They could clash with Erdogan, Big Oil and Tehran who might all gain from shoving more pipes across the Middle East. Some speculation that Chinese would back a big road and rail route from some Central Asian hub and another from Indian Ocean to feed freight across to Syria’s Med coast. That would knacker any bandit that thinks choking Suez is a big deal. Only snag – you can’t build those things overnight and by the time it’s finished there could be even more regime changes in that part of the world. Sooner have ONE big regime change here in UK.
That whole region is a shambles. People talk of ‘Syria’ as if it’s some homogenous country desperate for peace, when in reality it’s a patchwork of groups that just don’t get along.
About one third of the national territory is controlled by the Kurds, and they’re unlikely to listen to whoever claims to running the show from Damascus.
But of course the Turkish government is at war with its own Kurds, and so Erdogan is guaranteed to be involved in what happens in Syria.
The area of Kurdish control stretches into Iraq, so there’s another possible way the conflict could spread.
Then there’s the Alawite minority, from which the Assads come. They are getting very twitchy about revenge attacks.
There’s a sizeable Christian minority in Syria. If they’re persecuted it might provide the pretext for Russia to get involved again. The USA might not get involved but it might intervene to evacuate the Christians. Maybe move them to Lebanon.
Then there’s the Druze community. I read somewhere that Druze villages in the very south of Syria had asked to be incorporated into Israel.
And talking of Israel, using the confusion in Syria as a distraction the IDF has taken the whole of the Golan Heights; and Mount Hermon, at over 9,000 feet the highest point in Syria. As they said, ‘No one will now be able to attack communities in northern Israel’.
And then there’s the Assads’ old backer, Shiite Iran, reminding us of the ever-present divide within Islam itself.
LOL
Davos not Dave’s, mind you Davos crowd give up nothing still jetting around, driving, petrol cars, land and property!
The NESO Clean Power 2030 report (produced specifically for Miliband), and Future Energy Scenarios 2024 (how to reach 2050), are very clear that there is no intention to have only renewables
Clean Power 2030 includes nuclear and gas, while FES2024 includes more nuclear, gas with carbon capture as well as renewables such as tidal. It’s true that the majority of generation will come from wind, offshore wind, and there will be solar and onshore wind
Interestingly, after all the noise made about lifting the so called ban on onshore wind in England, only about 10% of turbines will be in England (which creates 80+% of the demand)
Its not true to say wind is backed up by nuclear, as nuclear can’t back up anything. It is very inflexible in operation, if you try to vary the output you reduce its life and make more waste, so you just let it run at the same rate all the time. Wind turbines are constrained to keep nuclear running. Nuclear needs flexibility, which the early ones got from pumped hydro and the later ones got from gas
There was an article in the Telegraph last month by Jonathan Leake that showed the future cost of managing our current stock of nuclear waste was about equal in value to all the electricity the nuclear stations had ever generated, so purely economically nuclear in the U.K. is a non starter. It was only revived by Blair because of net zero. No net zero = no nuclear (something Reform U.K. haven’t grasped). Except of course, we do need a nuclear supply chain to keep the subs going, but we could have that by just funding the navy a bit more
You and I are never going to agree on ‘renewables’, but I’m more relaxed now because I believe the tide has turned. Twenty or thirty years ago it was easy to talk of global warming and get almost everybody to agree that something must be done. With that ‘something’ invariably being wind turbines.
But now, with so many wind farms, solar arrays, UK consumers are paying more than consumers in any other country. What happened to the cheap electricity we were promised? And the jobs? So people start questioning the justification for renewables that only benefit the foreign corporations that own them.
And once they start to question renewables, then they move on to other aspects of the scam. Few believe that the inheritance tax changes for farmers has anything to do with raising revenue for the exchequer. And as the picture clears people realise what 20mph was really about. Everything starts falling into place.
And all these little things add up to a rejection of the Globalist agenda. Which is why I’m quite optimistic as we head into 2025.
But the 20 mph is wonderful! I’m convinced my journeys are quicker as junctions flow so much easier. It’s like being in Norway again
Maybe I’ve got a really good council who implemented it well
Maybe you’re just trying to be contrary.
Not at all. There is a fascinating piece of mathematical modelling that could probably explain my observations, but driving now is much, much better and you hardly ever have to wait at junctions, the traffic just keeps flowing
its a similar argument for not driving like crazy on the motorway which just results in endless stop/start and longer journeys
You obviously don’t experience the daily stop-start queue from the “Prince of Wales” Bridge to the Brynglas Tunnels (13 miles) caused by eco loony Drakeford cancelling the relief road (the planning alone for which cost the taxpayer £125+ MILLION). How does this square with “lower speed reduces air pollution and helps to mitigate the climate crisis/emergency”?
Has anyone tried to compare the environmental costs of NOT building that road with the damage it’s claimed building it would cause?
An interesting one here in Gwynedd is the roads and a few fields being dug up between Llanberis and Pentir to lay a new cable for National Grid.
https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/network-and-infrastructure/dinorwig-pentir
It’s been an absolute pain for a small hydro scheme and I reckon if locals new at the start of Dinorwig what they would have to put up with over decades they’d have said nein, danke – this isn’t the first time the A4244 and A4086 environs have been dug up for power cables in the the 15+ years I’ve lived around here.
I reckon the environmental impact assessment for the scheme would make interesting reading to an expert when compared to what has actually occurred in this over running scheme. Heavy plant and specialist rock crunching machinery aside, lots of diesel vans running constantly when in situ (observably so, Core now, Waitings before), generators for traffic lights, idling motorists, etc. It’s an utter nonsense,
“Few believe that the inheritance tax changes for farmers has anything to do with raising revenue for the exchequer”
No one I know thinks it’s anything but! Who are these few and where are they?
What?
F it’s not to raise tax for the exchequer, what is it for?
To release farmland for investors and others.
What would they want it for?
Because they want to control the food supply. And Bill Gates has invested in insects and artificial ‘meat’. You’re beginning to sound deliberately obtuse.
Why?
In the 1960’s ICI invested in making artificial meat from North Sea gas. Many others tried similar things as the big concern was that the world couldn’t feed a growing population, so alternative protein sources were looked at (single cell proteins – first year chemical engineering, 1981)
ICI built a plant on Teeside to make it. They turned methane into methanol then fed that to fungi which was subsequently processed to form protein fibres which were formed into chunks. They even had a name for the product, Quorn
But the price of gas scuppered using that as a feedstock, so by the time Quorn hit the consumer market they had switched to glucose made from wheat, and ICI had offloaded it as non-core
Looking at insects as a human food is far less science fiction than the Quorn story. Such developments happen all the time as a natural part of a competitive consumer industry
I don’t dispute any of it. But the motivations of those today pushing artificial meat are different. They aren’t interested in feeding a growing population, instead they argue for reducing the population. And if you’re comfortable with eating bugs or ‘meat’ produced by ‘Dr’ Bill Gates, then that’s fine with me. But don’t expect me to eat it.
But that’s where we’re heading. The Globalists and the environmentalists, vegans and others they fund, talk openly of banning meat and dairy. Not because they’re concerned with our health, or with animal welfare, but because they want to destroy livestock farming. And they want to do that to release the land currently grazed by cattle and sheep.
That land will then be covered in trees, or solar farms, or whatever else politicians are giving out huge subsidies for. Subsidies they’ve been encouraged to give by those funded by the ultimate recipients. As a reward, there’ll be land put aside for rewilding.
You have a very vivid imagination, you should write a novel
It’s happening now. Where have you been?
Not in my world
The WEF mantra…..you will own nothing, eat ze bugs and be happy……
“rejection of the Globalist agenda”
I still don’t understand what this might be
I’ve explained it often enough.
Not in a way that I understood
Watch this.
Few believe that the inheritance tax changes for farmers has anything to do with raising revenue for the exchequer.
I beg to differ. It will raise revenue as estates will be taxed. Whether it raises a significant amount is open to debate but given the eyewatering prices of land, livestock, and other assets like machinery the allowances will be used up pretty damn quick. The fly in the ointment is farm liquidity – I mean cash not milk. If inheritors can’t stump up the cash to settle there will be nothing stopping HMRC from taking over chunks of land as settlement of debts.
At that point it gets sinister because adjacent farms may not have the means to buy those plots so UK or Wales Gov could then assume permanent ownership and invite some goodlifer society or planet saving crew to take up tenancy on chicken feed rents. That would permit said dreamers to do their far from useful thing subsidised by benefits and grant aid drawn down from the array of madcap schemes a government of the day might float around the place. Doomsday scenario ? Not at all. It’s one of the many scenes likely to transpire as the country glides gently through the next stage of its decline.
Or take the land and lease it back
Who will they lease it to? The measures we see now go hand in hand with the plan to destroy livestock farming.
The same ones who’ve just been farming it, they are the ideal tenants
What measures are there to destroy livestock farming? There was Brexit, sure, but the fields are still full of cows and sheep, although that’s about as far as my knowledge of the industry goes
Are you seriously telling us that you are unaware of a widespread campaign to do away with livestock farming? Using the insane excuse that cow farts are destroying the planet. Because the true reasons cannot be stated.
Yes, I am totally unaware of a “widespread campaign”. There are no more ruminants on the planet now than before the American plains were cleared. I am aware some people are trying to find ways of reducing methane emissions (mainly burps), which if easily possible would be a good thing. But certainly not a widespread campaign to do away with livestock farming
Its just free market economics with feed additive companies dreaming up new things
If you really believe that methane emissions (cow burps) are a serious threat to the world, then you’ve fallen for the scam.
Any methane emission is a bad thing, hence all the effort to reduce it in gas wells, but it’s not something I ever worry about and wouldn’t change dietary habits for (rice paddies are far worse), but if someone wants to develop a slightly better way of raising cattle, and someone else wants to buy it, I’m not going to stop them
So you’d buy milk from cows fed ‘Dr’ Bill Gates’ Bovaer?
If that’s what Lidl sells then yes, assuming it’s been suitably tested and fit for animal consumption
No one gets worked up about the exotic chemicals in silage additives. Or feeding single cell proteins to pigs with their fish meal
Ignoring all his visits to Epstein’s child porn island, and just concentrating on his involvement with foodstuffs and medicines, do you trust Bill Gates?
I have very little interest in Bill Gates but he must put his money into loads of things. I have no reason to distrust him (or trust him for that matter)
3 nitro oxypropanol is derived from propanol/propionic acid (or probably synthesised from butanol) which can form naturally in silage (but not as much as lactic acid). I assume it’s just suppressing the activity of the methanogens in the digestive system. I suppose it might improve feed efficiency by stopping loss of carbohydrates
Ironic that it’s nitrated though! There must be a reason they done that
Far more benign than the glyphosate in all our grain crops
Stop showing off!
“Across the West, Globalism and Cultural Marxism (Wokeism) are in retreat, and people wake up to the threat of Islam. Change is coming”
To wake up and be aware is literally the definition of woke (“I was asleep, but now I’m woke” in African American vernacular)
so you Jac must be the Grand Wizard of Woke?
Just in case someone else is tempted, I have re-written that section. Hope you didn’t suffer from flying ‘renewables’ debris during the storm.