anti-net zero is the definition of anti-intellectualism. imagine the average Londoner in 1800 saying "we need to abandon clean air and workers rights - i like dying at 38!"

The Royal Society recommend the UK should have 100,000GWh of energy storage by 2050 (it's currently 39.3 GWh from 4 pumped storage facilities). That's over a 2,500 fold increase. That means building 10,000 storage facilities or 400 every year. A typical pumped storage facility has a 300 to 400m dam built to hold back 10 million cubic metres of water, with a fall to the turbines below of about 400 metres.
That's at the same time as increasing wind power generation from 75TWh (in 2020) to 665TWh (in 2050 - these are UK National Grid figures). That's around 100,000 giant wind turbines (manufactured in China using dirty coal power). And by the time you get to 2050, the 4,000 wind turbines you needed to install in 2025 would have reached the end of their working lives and will need to be buried in landfill, and replaced with another 4,000, each and every subsequent year forever. It's all impossible and absurd.
The cabling and additional structures to connect all this together will essentially require the UK consuming huge amounts of  copper and other rare metals for the next 25 years.
1.5 billion tonnes of concrete
42 million tonnes of steel (which is going to need 27 million tonnes of coking coal)
1.9 million tonnes of copper
1.3 million tonnes of zinc
184,000 tonnes of manganese
122,000 tonnes of chromium
56,000 tonnes of nickel
54,000 tonnes of other critical minerals.
No doubt all of these materials will be ethically sourced using low carbon processes.
Nuclear power would require less than ½ of these resources and Coal power around ¹/10th.
The cost will be unaffordable and the skilled manpower levels unattainable. And that is just to eliminate the less than 1% of the global CO2 emissions that the UK is responsible for. So times that by 100 for the whole Earth going Net Zero. Good luck with that.

Saving money is driving me to go green. Ironically drill baby drill trump has made me push to be self sufficient. Now I have solar panels and batteries, getting a heat pump in a few weeks and it'll be ev next when I can afford it. Its saving me money and helping the planet, win win

Uk has “climate leadership”?

China operates 64 nuclear power reactors and is currently building another 36-38 reactors along side their green energy program.

The rest of the world laughs at this so called leadership

very cogent and clear arguements.

You'd stand a better chance if USA, China and India were reducing their emissions to our kind of levels. Instead of scaring us, you should have been honest about supply 25 years ago and the country would have been on board.

I'm fully in favour of the move to renewables but this chap makes the same mistakes that the Brexit zealots did. The argument that we are seen as global leaders is utterly spurious. Did the EU collapse and all the members follow us when we left? Of course not. Other countries will do what is in their best interests including selling us their oil and gas. We are blowing £120bn a year on interest repayments, if we want to borrow even more then the least we can do is exploit what's left in the North Sea. It's not a matter of cutting bills here it's a matter of our country being skint and needing every penny we can find to pay our drive to renewables.

28:21 - "We have a lot more than 1% of the world's influence in this area because of our track record"

What track record? In China, the government looks at what the UK does and they do the exact opposite, it's been serving them pretty well so far.

Yes-yes, continue this policy) make UK great again! 😂😂😂

Geologists agree we're at the end of a natural ice age. Temps will go up with or without humans. The rates stated are bunk though, just like the hundreds of predictions before.

UK should've invested in nuclear decades ago.

The 'investment' in saving the planet is making energy cheaper and the climate healthier. The cost-effective thing to do is 'invest' more as the savings are already greater.
Saving the planet is NOT a sacrifice! That nonsense is the political thinking of the insane and the right wing.

I’ve got an old VHS video that has an alarmist, climate change trailer, where the world spins round faster, gets red hot and explodes.
Just imagine if I had been worrying about it all this time, I’d be in a right old state by now.

Why did nothing happen for so long?
Global elites had been taken in by a new ideology, neoliberalism, and they were looking for market based solutions and the private sector to tackle the climate change problem.
In 2010, they finally realised nothing was really happening.
PANIC!
They were going to need Governments to tackle the climate change problem.

The trouble is; they have geared everything up for market based and private sector solutions.
Governments don’t have the money to implement climate change measures.

Why are there so many homeless people on the streets?
Global elites had been taken in by a new ideology, neoliberalism, and they were looking for market based solutions and the private sector to tackle our problems.
Nothing happened.

Why is our infrastructure in such a bad way?
Global elites had been taken in by a new ideology, neoliberalism, and they were looking for market based solutions and the private sector to tackle our problems.
Nothing happened.

..... etc .....

Everything is falling apart at the seams.

Elites getting taken in by the neoliberal ideology is causing all sorts of problems.
It certainly isn't helping with climate change.

What is he talking about? Electricity is becoming more and more expensive, even with solar panels on the roof. Transport costs are rising because diesel is becoming more expensive, and the overall cost of living keeps increasing.

At the same time, there are fewer and fewer jobs because companies are moving their operations abroad to countries where operating costs are lower and regulations are less restrictive.

We are effectively undermining our own economy. We impose increasingly costly regulations such as ETS on domestic industry, making it harder and more expensive for companies to operate here, while at the same time importing products such as steel from countries that do not face the same level of restrictions.

Instead of protecting and strengthening our own industry, we are making it less competitive and then relying on imports from abroad. How is that supposed to make our economy stronger?

Why should we in the UK suffer significantly higher energy costs when the rest of the world continues to use fossil fuels. This is idiotic and extremely damaging for the people of the UK. We didn’t vote for this.

He sounds like a tired old record. More politician than economist. We have been following his agenda for 15 years plus and where that got us. The absolute destruction of our industrial base, highest energy prices, no energy independence. Sure we reduce our emissions (which would have happened anyway with better energy efficiency technology) but has the climate got better or worse? Then to top it all off he ignores the big elephant in the room the USA starting a war leading to oil tankers and refineries getting blown up. No mention of the environmental damage that creates!

Oh we’re leading alright, all the way into oblivion and destruction because of climate ‘leadership’

China kept burning coal and we didn't.