Net zero is in trouble. In utterly predictable trouble, in the king’s-wearing-no-clothes trouble.
The signs are all around. Governments from coastal America to Communist China and businesses from automakers to toy makers have promised that they will produce no net carbon emissions by some date conveniently far in the future. But as years have gone on, those dates have come to seem inconveniently near. Something has to give.
Like the Danish King Canute who brushed aside his English courtiers’ urgings that he stop the incoming tide, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delayed from 2030 to 2035 the ban on the sale of gasoline-powered automobiles and also postponed a ban on gas-fired furnaces and hot water heaters. Of course imposing such privations on ordinary citizens is just the point for climate activists who combine a penchant for aristocratic private jet travel with a loathing for the plebeian tastes of low- and middle-income consumers. As the Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker points out, a British ban on carbon emissions and return to subsistence agriculture “wouldn’t make the slightest difference to the climate.
Administration policy aims at a 67% sales share for electric vehicles in the 2030s, astronomically higher than the 7% this year.
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