UK Climate Lobby Losing Control As Net Zero Costs Hit British Households
The public is turning against the consequences of a reckless green agenda.
by Maurice Cousins August 01, 2025, 2:41 PM
For nearly two decades, Britain’s climate lobby has operated from a position of near-total dominance. It has shaped national policy, set the terms of debate, and enjoyed unrivalled access to ministers and advisers. [emphasis, links added]
Public institutions echoed their priorities, dissent was marginalized, and it was lavishly funded by both the state and Big Philanthropy. Royalty and celebrities endorsed the cause. A technocratic consensus took hold and hardened.
Since 2008, its success lay not merely in claiming that climate action was necessary, but that it would make us richer, healthier, and more secure.
Green policies, we were told, would lower bills, create jobs, and free us from petrostates such as Vladimir Putin’s Russia. This was Net Zero as a win-win: a moral imperative and an economic opportunity to be seized.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/uk-climate-lobby-net-zero-costs/
