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Geoff Lean's avatar

I have just stumbled across this super piece, and have promptly subscribed. To take up your request on net zero, people I find well worth reading/talking to include Dr Simon Evans who produces detailed, sourced analysis on it for Carbon Brief (and was environmental journalist of the year in the British Journalism Awards a couple of years ago) and James Murray, Editor of Business Green, who - for my money - is the best envronment/energy commentator writing at present (much, though not all, of his stuff is behind a paywall, alas). I'll shortly send links to a few documents to the email you give below. Best, Geoff

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Akiyama's avatar

I'm Reform-curious, in that I want less immigration, less crime, less "net zero"*, and more freedom. And I've lost faith in the Conservative Party. But . . .

Farage is an admirer of Donald Trump, which I find a bit worrying

Their cloud-cuckoo-lander economic ideas

Their deputy leader, Richard Tice, is a dimwit

What I really want is a political party led by Matthew Syed, the Sunday Times columnist. I want all the same things he wants.

*By "net zero", I mean environmental policies that will cost a lot of money, or inconvenience a lot of people, but won't actually make any noticeable difference as far as global warming goes. For example, subsidising the wood-burning Drax power station. Policies that are performative, rather than effective.

I expect you've already seen this:

https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/reforms-very-expensive-pylon-plan

Relevant to net zero:

https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/we-can-already-stop-climate-change

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