Three issues are accelerating this realignment – climate policy, immigration and divisions over cultural attitudes. Support for Net Zero is almost universal among establishment institutions. Billionaires like Elon Musk, green capitalists in Silicon Valley and Wall Street investors all seek great opportunities in what US treasury secretary Janet Yellen has called ‘the greatest economic opportunity of our time’ – namely, addressing the so-called climate crisis.
For the bureaucracy, this green drive – largely a product of government edict – provides opportunities to expand its power, as well as to swell its ranks. For them, any expansion of the regulatory state provides both psychic rewards and more power over citizens. This oppressive model emerged most clearly during the pandemic in virtually all major countries, with the exception of Sweden. Lockdowns and other Covid restrictions were celebrated by Lise Kingo, chief of sustainable development at the United Nations, as ‘a fire drill’ for regulating life according to the Net Zero principles of the global elite…
Of course, the mainstream media and the governmental bureaucracies will dismiss any scepticism towards Net Zero as extremism. But popular resistance and disinterest cannot be permanently ignored. Just one per cent of US blue-collar workers, according to a new Monmouth poll, consider climate a major concern. Even as the Biden administration spends hundreds of billions in taxpayer funds on green projects, most Americans don’t want to spend any more than $2.50 a week to combat climate change.
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