Net Zero Means People ‘Will Have To Change Their Lives’

The global warming zealots have exaggerated and lied routinely for decades, so it’s almost encouraging to hear one tell the truth – especially when that truth exposes their dark hearts.

The Labour Party’s Bill Esterson, the most senior British Parliament “backbencher charged with scrutinizing the government’s energy policy,” told the Telegraph that ordinary “people have to change their lives” to conform to the demands of the United Kingdom’s net-zero crusade.

This is in direct contradiction to the statement of Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who said he’d “made a commitment during the election and shortly after the election that we’d be a government that trod lightly on people’s lives.”

“I’m not now going to go around telling people how to live their lives,” said Starmer.

Esterson’s admission also fails to align with the statement from Labour Party British Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who said that pursuing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions didn’t require a deceleration of economic growth.

While much of the talk is about lifestyle changes forced on us in the future, in which we will …

• Eat less meat and maybe none at all
• Cut out dairy products
• Consume bugs
• Drive automobiles chosen for us by politicians and bureaucrats, or take public transit instead
• Minimize air travel
• Turn over control of our thermostats to the government
• Depend on unreliable and costly “green” energy sources
• Use less water
• And endure “World War II-style rationing”

… we have already had to swallow a host of climate-related lifestyle revisions. Here’s a partial list:

• We’ve been forced to give up incandescent light bulbs and replace them the LEDs and CFLs.
• The war on cars, says Steve Milloy, our friend at junkscience.com, has produced “fewer roads, fewer and smaller parking spaces, EV preferences, bike lanes.”
• In California, the most combative theater in the war on cars, there’s a war on natural gas and gasoline.
• Milloy also notes that “the weakening of the grid has made power outages more likely, forcing people to buy home generators.”
• Gas-powered lawn equipment has been banned in several locations.
• Environmental, social and governance investing and management has raised the costs of pension funds, consumer purchases and worker compensation.
• Milloy reminds us that more than 15 years ago he warned us in his book “Green Hell” that “there is not an aspect of our lives that is not adversely impacted by climate idiocy.”
• The Biden administration essentially remade the appliance industry by setting new energy efficiency standards for a couple of dozen household items, including dishwashers, dryers, air conditioners and microwave ovens. The claim that in the long run consumers will save money is contradicted by history which shows in some cases the upfront costs of energy-efficient appliances exceed the projected savings.

Give Esterson credit for coming clean. But deduct points, all of them, for helping perpetuate the global warming fraud.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board