RE: AGW protesters glue themselves to gov energy department (UK)
November 15, 2018 at 9:25 am
(This post was last modified: November 15, 2018 at 9:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 15, 2018 at 8:59 am)Editz Wrote: Investing in renewables - good idea...how does one do that exactly on a large scale? That's government's job innit? Good idea, again, though.
I'd say no. Not only is it not the governments job, the government cannot not be entrusted with that job. If it were a job, and the government were any employee...then they would have long ago been terminated for cause, and we'd have found someone who was interested, and could do the job.
Someone like you, someone like those activists.
That we conceptualize this thing as someone else's job, even in the face of that someone else's repeatedly demonstrated incompetence, provides at least some of the explanation for why the job is not getting done.
I don't expect trickle down climate policy to work any better than trickle down anything else. The investments made by governments in renewables have followed a familiar pattern. That cash is gobbled up by the industry's worst actors. Solar development initiatives, for example, provided the necessary capital to destroy industry watchdogs by means of unscrupulous producers literally buying up those seats and turning the body into a marketing firm for dirty panels. This coup ran responsible producers directly out of business. This is analagous to a development initiative in all beef patties being coopted by people looking to sell ground cat meat. The cat meat processors purchased the resellers and planted stooges on advisory boards. They redefined all beef patties to refer to cat meat, then fobbed off as much cat meat as they could while beef producers went out of business. Now that money is gone, disappeared into the pockets of cat meat processors, and with them the market space that would have robustly supported anyone looking to sell all beef patties. I mean,.yeah, sure, we'd love to buy some..but we already have thirty pounds of cat meat in the freezer and money is tight.
Those producers blew the bullhorn about this for as long as they could as loud as they could - all for naught.
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