Snake Oil Sustainability
The real problem isn’t fossil fuel, recycling, or sustainability — it’s the economy.
There is so much talk today of regulating carbon emissions through punishing taxation, recycling products to reduce notional waste, and an utterly mad rush to renewables and so-called ‘green energy’ that it hurts the ears.
What I see is the same world that’s leaving people colder, hungrier, and increasingly at the mercy of every more costly and intermittent energy supplies.
And the problem with so much talk is that the voices are so loud, the conversations so long and protracted and driven by the loudest of those voices, that they all obscure the real elephant in the room — the elephant that’s causing all of the problems but no-one’s paying any attention to because of all the noise.
Yes, that elephant indeed is the economy — or rather the economic system that we all so regrettably take for granted in the modern world.
It makes me weep, regularly, when I read the news about climate change and the programmes designed to mitigate this through all kinds of approaches such as renewable energy to wean us off fossil fuel, recycling everything to distort our linear economy into a circular one, and above all the endless greenwashing propaganda that is pumped out by the companies at the heart of it all, trumpeting how they’re…
