The policy to erase Britons’ collective carbon footprint—otherwise known as Net Zero—has been a matter of broad political consensus for decades and has been little challenged by the media or in the court of public opinion.
But that public support is “paper thin” and relies on people not really grasping just how much their lives will change as Britain heads into a Net Zero future, according to the head of a Net Zero watchdog.
“I think realisation is coming,” Andrew Montford, told NTD’s Lee Hall. “But I don’t think people truly understand just how difficult life is going to be. So for example, people now fly off on their summer holidays, without thinking about it too much. In the Net Zero world—or in reality, the Absolute Zero world—that is really going to be something that is reserved for the very wealthy.”…