An Examination Of The Logic of Multiculturalism
In The Ponzi Class, I wrote:
‘Oppression in the 21st century is not, contrary to clapped-out Marxist ideology from the mid-19th century, perpetuated by the bourgeoisie but by the Ponzi class, who grab and waste public monies on themselves and their own pet projects, leaving ordinary people poorer.’ (The Ponzi Class: Ponzi Economics, Globalization and Class Oppression in the 21st Century, page 4).
Is there any greater example of the degeneracy of the ruling British Ponzi class than the posturing proposal that there be a new law committing the UK to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. The existing target is to reduce them by 80% of 1990 levels by 2050 – a target that is a struggle. The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions have already fallen by 44% since 1990.
The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has warned that the cost of this new proposal could be as much as £1 trillion. Then there are the human costs in the change to our quality of lives, standards of living and the destruction of heavy industries, such as steel (see the blog post on British Steel). Gas boilers for home heating would need to be banned, as would petrol and diesel cars. Air travel would need to be rationed. Red meat consumption would need to be restricted.
In fact, the UK is only responsible for 1.2% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and this amount is already falling. However, China and India are responsible for 27% and 6.5% respectively. Both China and India have been rapidly building new coal-fired power stations to fuel their industrialization. Africa’s greenhouse gas emissions are also increasing due to an increase in economic activity and a rapidly expanding population.
The fact is that this ridiculous proposal, championed by Theresa May as part of her legacy, will have a massive detrimental effect on the UK and have no material effect on the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Nor is there any sense in destroying British industry simply to reduce the UK’s gas emissions from 1.2% to 1.1%, say, if that simply means that production and jobs are transferred to China and India, both of which use coal-fired power stations. Such an act would increase the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
May declared that there was a ‘moral duty to leave this world in a better condition than what we inherited’. May was not elected to run the whole world. She is the British prime minister and her responsibility is to the UK and its interests, and those of its people. Those interests are positively harmed by this exercise in politically-correct, globalist posturing.
The extent of the selfishness of the British Ponzi class is a wonder to behold.