Heat Pumps, Just Transition, A Tote Bag Of Grief
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Green New Dealer believes the climate crisis can be solved by a sufficiently long memo, ideally one printed on recycled paper, ideally not printed at all, ideally read aloud by Greta. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from the IPCC on climate change and the International Energy Agency.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Green New Dealer On A British High Street
- Maintains a tote bag, an opinion on heat pumps, and a low background hum of grief.
- Refers to oil and gas executives as the suspects.
- Holds any policy that mentions jobs and decarbonise in the same sentence is, by definition, sensible.
- Treats a wind turbine as spiritually upright.
- Has explained nuclear power is either the answer or the question, depending on the day.
- Refers to net zero the way a reformed smoker refers to next Monday.
- Maintains a list of countries that get it.
- Treats cycling infrastructure as a moral category.
- Refers to gas boilers as elderly relatives we love and yet must speak about firmly.
- Holds any flight longer than three hours requires a small note of apology.
- Has rebranded his garden as a carbon sink.
- Refers to the Treasury as the building between us and the future.
- Treats ESG as a vibe, a strategy, and a slightly desperate compromise.
- Maintains a folder of glacier photos labelled formerly.
- Holds the cure for climate denial is more graphs.
- Refers to fossil fuel subsidies as state-sponsored arson.
- Treats any party without a Just Transition section as a museum exhibit.
- Has explained, at a wedding, the seating plan should follow per capita emissions.
- Refers to insulation as the most romantic word in policy.
- Believes the Green New Deal is both an ambition and a personality test.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to a Saturday CLP meeting, a Reform UK rally in a leisure centre, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see NewsThump.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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