‘The climate lobby is losing control’: ‘The public is turning against the consequences of a reckless green agenda’
By Admin
August 2, 2025
8:26 am
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-climate-lobby-is-losing-control/By Maurice Cousins
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. Public institutions echoed its priorities, dissent was marginalised, 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 win-win: a moral imperative and an economic opportunity to be seized.
That message mattered. For years, working-class voters saw environmentalism as a luxury belief — the preserve of affluent types who could afford to fret about carbon footprints. In the 1970s, during an earlier green moment, Labour stalwarts haunted by mass unemployment of the 1930s dismissed such ideas as indulgent. Anthony Crosland called them “morally wrong.” Tony Benn, then Energy Secretary, sneered in his diaries that the environmental movement was “overwhelmingly middle class”.
The promises of a painless transition and shared prosperity have not materialised
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/08/02/the-climate-lobby-is-losing-control-the-public-is-turning-against-the-consequences-of-a-reckless-green-agenda/
