{"id":54050,"date":"2025-01-02T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/?p=54050"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:22:53","slug":"future-generations-deserve-better-than-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/future-generations-deserve-better-than-net-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Generations Deserve Better Than Net Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/future-generations-deserve-better-than-fearmongering\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-53306 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Comments-box-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"36\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s a gathering of envirogrifters on February 4 at the Pierhead Building in Corruption Bay. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1LqD6fExljwiAYLIJtx5JeHhHJ8L1OPZW\/view?usp=sharing\">an invitation<\/a> from Daniel Lock of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natureservice.wales\/\">Nature Service Wales<\/a>, a newish outfit and local branch of the scarcely older <a href=\"https:\/\/ffcc.co.uk\/\">Food, Farming &amp; Countryside Commission<\/a> (FFCC).<\/p>\n<p>Reminding us that &#8216;environmentalism&#8217; sees new groups spring up almost every day, proliferating like maggots on a corpse. That&#8217;s because &#8216;the environment&#8217; nowadays is a great investment opportunity, just like the &#8216;climate emergency&#8217;. As a result, the toad-savers are now regularly rubbing shoulders with &#8216;investors&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25ca<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DIFFICULT TO KEEP UP<\/p>\n<p>As I suggest, its Welsh arm is new, and FFCC itself was <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/12562770\">officially formed in April 2020<\/a>. Though it certainly existed before that date.<\/p>\n<p>The guiding light seems to have been Sir Ian Michael Cheshire, <a href=\"https:\/\/landsec.com\/sir-ian-cheshire\">chair of &#8216;green&#8217; Land Securities Group<\/a>. He left FFCC in July &#8217;24.<\/p>\n<p>Landsec is, according to Wikipedia, &#8220;<em>the largest commercial property development and investment company in the United Kingdom<\/em>&#8220;. Companies House can&#8217;t tell us who owns holding company Landsec Securities Group Plc, but the <em>Financial Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/markets.ft.com\/data\/equities\/tearsheet\/profile?s=LAND:LSE\">throws up some familiar names<\/a>, with two BlackRock companies jointly owning 10%.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54058\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54058\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Landsec.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54058\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Landsec.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Landsec.png 1026w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Landsec-600x326.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Landsec-1024x557.png 1024w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Landsec-350x190.png 350w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Landsec-768x418.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Landsec-900x489.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Landsec-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But back to the Food, Farming &amp; Countryside Commission.<\/p>\n<p>If we trace back a little further we find that FFCC was incubated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thersa.org\/about\">Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce<\/a> (RSA).<\/p>\n<p>I know this because I came across it by a roundabout route &#8211; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jane-davidson-24070337\/?originalSubdomain=uk\">the Linkedin profile of former Labour Assembly Member and minister Jane Davidson<\/a>. From which the extracts below come.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54067\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54067\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson.png 683w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-600x289.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-350x169.png 350w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This link between Jane Davidson and FFCC is confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/ffcc.co.uk\/news-and-press\/new-chair-for-ffcc-wales-inquiry\">this page from the FFCC website<\/a>. Which tells us that in September 2021:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>After three years, Jane Davidson is stepping down as Chair of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission\u2019s Wales inquiry.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The link is further confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thersa.org\/projects\/archive\/public-services-communities\/food-farming-and-countryside-commission\/devolved-nation-inquiry-in-wales\">this mention on the RSA website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article informs us Davidson was succeeded by another Corruption Bay insider in the form of Chris Nott, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitallaw.co.uk\/people\/chris-nott\/\">senior partner at Capital Law<\/a>, one of the &#8216;Welsh Government&#8217;s favourite firms.<\/p>\n<p>The sequence seems to be that Jane Davidson became a Fellow of the RSA at the start of 2014. Before the year is out she&#8217;s chair of the RSA&#8217;s Welsh Advisory Board. In November 2017 the RSA launched the FFCC. Then, Nature Service Wales was set up in the second half of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The suggested timeline is partly confirmed by <a href=\"https:\/\/ffcc.co.uk\/publications\/rsa-journal-food-farming-countryside\">this piece by Abergavennyshire &#8216;farmer&#8217; Sue Pritchard<\/a>. Who became chief executive of FFCC following her involvement in the RSA incubation period.<\/p>\n<p>Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/suepr\/?originalSubdomain=uk\">Linkedin profile<\/a> also tells us she attended very expensive Atlantic College. Like the daughters of Stephen Kinnock, Labour MP for Aberavon. Whose wife, former Danish PM, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, is coining it from wind turbine going up all over Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Davidson herself was privately educated at Malvern Girls&#8217; College.<\/p>\n<p>It don&#8217;t matter from which angle you come at it, you soon realise the proselytisers of the climate scam, and the &#8216;mass-extinction-around-the-corner&#8217; crew, belong to the middle class going through one of its periodic fits of &#8216;<em>Isn&#8217;t it ghastly!<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u223c<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I shall return to the FFCC and the Wales Nature Service at a later date, but for now I&#8217;m going to concentrate on the ubiquitous and very influential Jane Davidson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">\u25ca<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">JANE DAVIDSON AND FRIENDS<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how many entries you can find when searching the internet for &#8216;Jane Davidson&#8217;. An interesting one I turned up is an event she attended last year organised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/soif.org.uk\/\">School of International Futures<\/a> (SOIF) which is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>a global non-profit transforming futures for current and next generations<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But she wasn&#8217;t lonely. For <a href=\"https:\/\/soif.org.uk\/foresight-retreat\/\">also there was<\/a> the former Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe; and her successor in that post, another Labour stalwart in the form of Derek Walker.<\/p>\n<p>So we had three Labour insiders on the same jolly.<\/p>\n<p>SOIF is organising another get-together of the hand-wringers this year at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exclusive.co.uk\/lainston-house\/\">Lainston House in Wiltshire<\/a>.\u00a0But it don&#8217;t come cheap . . .<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54071\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SOIF.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54071\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SOIF.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SOIF.png 739w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SOIF-600x405.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SOIF-350x236.png 350w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SOIF-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wonder who&#8217;ll be there from Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Among the SOIF funders we find the UN, the WHO and &#8211; it should go without saying &#8211; George Soros&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/\">Open Society Foundations<\/a>. Fitting in a way, seeing as Davidson, Howe, and Walker, are all linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/blackmountainscollege.uk\/about\/\">Coleg Soros in Talgarth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Where, among the funders, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ateamfoundation.org\/our-a-team\">A Team Foundation<\/a>. In its latest accounts this lot explains its donation thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Black Mountains college curriculum challenges the basis of our destructive economy.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, we gotta do away with this &#8220;<em>destructive economy<\/em>&#8221; . . . that&#8217;s provided us with homes, jobs, cars, cheap energy, regular holidays. Let&#8217;s swap it for a future in which the only jobs will be for Davidson, Howe and their friends telling us what we <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> have, and what we <em>can&#8217;t<\/em> do.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;ll be funded by those who&#8217;ve grown rich from dispossessing 99% of us &#8211; <em>but\u00a0it&#8217;ll all be done for our own good!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So look on the bright side . . .<\/p>\n<p>Er, no; there isn&#8217;t one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25ca<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WHO IS THE REAL JANE DAVIDSON?<\/p>\n<p>If we refer back to her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jane-davidson-24070337\/details\/experience\/\">Linkedin page<\/a>, we see nothing before 2000. That source begins with her appointment as Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills, after being elected to the Assembly in May 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Though the important job was Minister of Environment, Sustainability and Housing 2007 &#8211; 2011. For the &#8216;environment&#8217; is her true calling. Maybe her mission.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/static\/uk\/wales\/13012.stm\">BBC profile from September 1999<\/a> helps fill in some gaps. So let&#8217;s deal with the purely personal first. Not because I enjoy doing it but because Davidson has been so secretive about it. For example, never using her married name. Yet, thanks to the BBC, it&#8217;s in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>And the Beeb tells us she married Guy Roger George Stoate in January 1993. Stoate was a lecturer, and here he is in 2009 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucu.org.uk\/article\/3808\/Lecturers-and-students-take-jobs-protest-to-Assembly\">protesting at our Notional Assembly<\/a> &#8211; where his wife was the Labour Member for Pontypridd!<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that would be a good reason not to call yourself &#8216;Mrs Stoate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Since they moved west Guy has run a second-hand bookshop in Aberteifi, called Leafed Through. It&#8217;s a &#8216;community&#8217; bookshop. Stoate and his bookshop are regularly in the local rags <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambrian-news.co.uk\/news\/community-bookshop-donates-ps500-to-ceredigion-badger-group-605705\">making donations to other &#8216;community&#8217; groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54074\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Badgers.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54074\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Badgers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Badgers.png 1279w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Badgers-600x441.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Badgers-1024x753.png 1024w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Badgers-326x240.png 326w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Badgers-768x565.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Badgers-900x662.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Badgers-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">(I can&#8217;t help thinking the <em>Cambrian News<\/em> missed a glorious opportunity there. Can&#8217;t you see the headline? &#8211; &#8216;Stoate gives monkey to badgers&#8217;.)<\/p>\n<p>As luck would have it, Tom Kearney of the Ceredigion Badger Group was also in the Labour party . . . &#8217;til last month, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/23981994.labour-members-quitting-ceredigion-keir-starmers-leadership\/\">he resigned over Starmer not being socialist enough<\/a>. I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;ll say it again, the Labour party in rural Wales is almost entirely made up of middle class English interferers, more alien than the Tories ever were.<\/p>\n<p>With too many of them running &#8216;community&#8217; ventures in Welsh communities they know sod all about. Driven by the same belief in their superior organisational abilities that helped build the empire they now repudiate.<\/p>\n<p>But back to Mrs Stoate.<\/p>\n<p>Look again at the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/static\/uk\/wales\/13012.stm\">BBC profile<\/a> and let me direct you to the gap from 1996 until the first Assembly elections in May 1999. Was she working her Ponty constituency, even before Labour won the May &#8217;97 general election and confirmed we&#8217;d be offered devolution?<\/p>\n<p>If not, then what <em>was<\/em> she doing? Answers . . . post card . . .<\/p>\n<p>But the bigger question is, when did she become the scheming zealot we see now, involved in everything; the ambassador for Agenda 2030 and the climate scam?<\/p>\n<p>It may have begun when she attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/conferences\/environment\/rio1992\">Rio Earth Summit in 1992<\/a>, where she claims to have experienced a &#8220;<em>damascene moment<\/em>&#8220;, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablebrands.com\/read\/sb7-copenhagen-day-2-circularity-impact-valuation-and-other-ways-to-put-a-positive-spin-on-business\">this piece from the Sustainable Brands (SB) website<\/a> (scroll down) following a 2017 conference in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54079\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-Rio.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54079\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-Rio.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-Rio.png 885w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-Rio-440x600.png 440w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-Rio-751x1024.png 751w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-Rio-176x240.png 176w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-Rio-768x1047.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-Rio-220x300.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That article is interesting for two main reasons.<\/p>\n<p>It tells us Jane Davidson bought into the climate scam over three decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>But she had to be in Rio for the &#8216;conversion&#8217; to happen. So why was she there? Because at the time &#8211; according to her BBC profile &#8211; she was working as a researcher for the late Rhodri Morgan, then Labour MP for Cardiff West.<\/p>\n<p>Surely Rhodri Morgan didn&#8217;t send her? I can&#8217;t see that, especially as the House of Commons was sitting from 2 June 1992 to 16 July 1992 inclusive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54082\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-UN.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54082\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-UN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-UN.png 1234w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-UN-600x424.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-UN-1024x723.png 1024w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-UN-340x240.png 340w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-UN-768x542.png 768w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-UN-900x635.png 900w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Davidson-UN-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So why was she in Rio? And who paid for the trip? Again, answers . . . post card . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u25ca<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CONCLUSION &amp; RECOMMENDATION<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily trust Wikipedia, but <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Davidson#:~:text=Prior%20to%20her%20election%20to,development%20its%20central%20organising%20principle.\">here&#8217;s what it says about Jane Davidson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>She was minister for environment and sustainability in Wales from 2007 to 2011 where she was responsible for the <span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"tooltip\"><span class=\"c5aZPb\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" data-enable-toggle-animation=\"true\" data-extra-container-classes=\"ZLo7Eb\" data-hover-hide-delay=\"1000\" data-hover-open-delay=\"500\" data-send-open-event=\"true\" data-theme=\"0\" data-width=\"250\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwiQg5_-yNSKAxU1VUEAHUypDrEQmpgGegQIHRAI\"><span class=\"JPfdse\" data-bubble-link=\"\" data-segment-text=\"Welsh Government\">Welsh Government<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0agreeing to make sustainable development its central organising principle<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, &#8220;<em>sustainable development<\/em>&#8221; has such a positive ring to it. Surely, only a maniac intent on destroying the planet would <em>not<\/em> want it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes; that&#8217;s how they want us to see it.<\/p>\n<p>The problems come, first, with the realisation that the &#8216;danger&#8217; the planet is facing is greatly exaggerated if not entirely imaginary, and the measures demanded to mitigate a manageable or non-existent threat are destroying economies and the lives of hundreds of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>And for reasons the zealots prefer not to discuss, it&#8217;s the West that&#8217;s suffering.<\/p>\n<p>But the damage didn&#8217;t end when Davidson left the Assembly in 2011. For the SB article we looked at earlier tells us Davidson confesses to having written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuregenerations.wales\/about-us\/future-generations-act\/\">The Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a Google AI overview puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 was a key starting point for Wales&#8217;s efforts to reduce its carbon emissions and transition to a net zero economy<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though it wasn&#8217;t really the &#8220;<em>starting point<\/em>&#8220;, this legislation means that <em>everything<\/em> done in Wales must accord with the diktats of UN Agenda 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Every economy-killing, cost-raising, poverty-increasing\u00a0lunacy.<\/p>\n<p>I am delighted to report that the party to which I belong is serious about repealing this legislation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54081\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gwlad.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54081\" src=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gwlad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gwlad.png 734w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gwlad-600x174.png 600w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gwlad-350x102.png 350w, https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gwlad-300x87.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to open enlarged in separate tab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Davidson&#8217;s influence on political decision making didn&#8217;t end when she left the Assembly, nor with the passing of the Future Generations legislation. Because she never really left; she&#8217;s always there, sitting on this board, chairing that panel.<\/p>\n<p>Giving her more political clout than anybody you&#8217;ve ever voted for.<\/p>\n<p>One such position is chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/netzero2035.wales\/about\/members\/\">Wales Net Zero 2035 Challenge Group<\/a>. An unsavoury crew of bought academics, enviroshysters, assorted grifters, and fraudsters who might be banged up if they weren&#8217;t selling their duff products on behalf of &#8216;<em>the planet<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;findings&#8217; of this crew will be even more damaging for Wales than what&#8217;s gone before. But we can&#8217;t afford any more of it.<\/p>\n<p>If the wreckage of the Welsh economy and the collapse of our public services was treated as a crime scene, then Jane Davidson&#8217;s fingerprints would be everywhere. Which is why I consider her to be the most dangerous individual in the disaster that devolution has proved to be.<\/p>\n<p>I say that because incompetence and stupidity are one thing (and found everywhere in devolved Wales), but what Davidson and her kind are doing is a deliberate and calculated attempt to de-industrialise and impoverish Wales in order to showcase our self-destruction to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>And so I say, Agenda 2030 and Net Zero must be rejected if our people are to have decent jobs; if they are to live in homes they were able to buy; in a country where public services work; where food is plentiful, cheap, and we aren&#8217;t told what we can eat.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Wales we should demand for our children. Not the dystopian vision being offered by &#8216;environmentalists&#8217;, and used to enrich their corporate backers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2666 end \u2666<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Royston Jones 2025<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnjs.buymeacoffee.com\/1.0.0\/button.prod.min.js\" data-name=\"bmc-button\" data-slug=\"editor4\" data-color=\"#FFDD00\" data-emoji=\"\" data-font=\"Cookie\" data-text=\"Buy me a coffee\" data-outline-color=\"#000000\" data-font-color=\"#000000\" data-coffee-color=\"#ffffff\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a gathering of envirogrifters on February 4 at the Pierhead Building in Corruption Bay. Here&#8217;s an invitation from Daniel Lock of Nature Service Wales, a newish outfit and local branch of the scarcely older Food, Farming &amp; Countryside Commission (FFCC). Reminding us that &#8216;environmentalism&#8217; sees new groups spring up almost every day, proliferating like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/future-generations-deserve-better-than-net-zero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Future Generations Deserve Better Than Net Zero<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8150,7851,217,124,1257,5478,34,130],"tags":[8219,8221,2356,6870,1557,8223,8215,6532,8207,7143,8211,4129,8220,8206,4862,671,436,8209,8222,8214,8210,8218,6688,186,8225,8213,8212,8217,8208,1426,1535,8216,8226,8224,6926,8228,6973,8227,6939],"class_list":["post-54050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abergavennyshire","category-climate","category-colonisation-of-wales","category-environmentalism","category-greens","category-gwlad","category-labour-party","category-wind-turbines-2","tag-a-team-foundation","tag-aberteifi","tag-atlantic-college","tag-blackrock","tag-cardigan","tag-ceredigion-badger-group","tag-chris-nott","tag-coleg-soros","tag-daniel-lock","tag-derek-walker","tag-foodm-farming-and-countryside-commission","tag-george-soros","tag-guy-roger-george-stoate","tag-guy-stoate","tag-gwlad","tag-helle-thorning-schmidt","tag-jane-davidson","tag-land-securities-group-plc","tag-leafed-through","tag-manufactures-and-commerce","tag-nature-service-wales","tag-open-society-foundations","tag-pontypridd","tag-rhodri-morgan","tag-rio-earth-summit-1992","tag-royal-society-for-the-encouragement-of-arts","tag-rsa","tag-school-of-international-futures","tag-sir-ian-cheshire","tag-sophie-howe","tag-stephen-kinnock-mp","tag-sue-pritchard","tag-sustainable-brands","tag-tom-kearney","tag-un","tag-un-agenda-2030","tag-wales-net-zero-2035-challenge-group","tag-wellbeing-of-future-generations-wales-act-2015","tag-who"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gS9T-e3M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54050"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54112,"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050\/revisions\/54112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacothenorth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}