Saturday, 23 November 2024
Virtuous can-kicking
There are a number of plausible drivers for Net Zero and windmills on the hills. From virtue-signalling in politics, media and celebrity gossip, a widespread fondness for bandwagons plus what isn’t far removed from slush funds and racketeering. And a dash of simple stupidity.
An important influence which is often forgotten is the political predilection for kicking the can down the road. Rather than tackle a nuclear future with its many political and regulatory drawbacks, politicians in the developed world use wind, solar and Net Zero as a particularly handy way to kick the nuclear can a very long way down the road.
It’s a powerful political attraction, this virtuous can-kicking. Although there are hints that the end of the road is now worryingly close and the virtue somewhat flaky, it is long enough for the present. Possibly one of the main reasons why virtuous imbecility may prevail for some time yet.
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Virtuous imbecility will continue, I suspect, until the lights go out.
I think virtuous imbecility would most likely be at east held in check by violent insurrection. Not the type that occurred after Southport, but more like the sort the IRA used to practice some of the time.
When you have kicked the can to the end of the road, the story doesn't end. The can bounces back off the wall at the end of the road and a determined politician can continue to kick the can on the rebound until the can is destroyed. He, or she, will then look foolish trying to kick nothing, although ridicule may not be enough to overcome a political behaviour.
The current 'wall at the end of the road' appears to be the growing realisation that COVID was the result of a lab leak and that lockdowns were harmful. Some (ex)politicians (Matt Hancock) are still kicking...
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