The Green Revolution is Destroying UK Jobs, Livelihoods and Communities
by Chris Morrison 24 April 2025 9:00 AM
The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) appears to be at least a month late in producing its latest estimate of so-called green jobs. Don’t bother is good advice. Hunt the green job – a category that cannot be defined since all jobs that avoid direct processing of hydrocarbons can be rebranded with a virtuous label – is an annual statistical joke. Last year, the ONS informed us that in 2023 the number of people employed in “environmental charities” was similar in number to the 47,000 at work in renewable energy. But the truth is starting to dawn. There will be no green revolution no matter how much state money is thrown at the project. Few recent projects in the UK demonstrate this more clearly than plans to waste £22 billion of public money to capture carbon dioxide from the same British factories that Net Zero deindustrialisation is already closing at a rapidly gathering pace.
Led by the energy policies of the Mad Miliband, the economically illiterate Labour Government is diverting vast sums of money from productive job-creating use to fund technologies that are unproven, unlikely to scale and simply uneconomic. This latter class includes wind power, where the lie is told that it is cheaper than gas while British electricity suppliers drive away productive business by charging prices as high as any in the developed world. This presumably comes under the heading of a ‘Noble Lie’, a convenient and much used political weapon embedded throughout the entire fast-fading fake climate emergency project.
Barely a day goes by without the laws of physics intruding on the green boondoggle. In 2020, flush with £1.5 billion of cash from the French government, Airbus promised an emission-free hydrogen-powered plane by 2035. Nobody it seems told them that huge on-board insulated tanks storing highly explosive hydrogen at minus-253°C made no technical or economic sense. Airbus has now quietly dropped the project, returning to the real world where everybody else knew it was totally unfeasible.
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