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“Please tell“
You’ve been told many, many times by other contributors, in clear, concise terms with supporting evidence, which you simply ignore and repeat ad nauseum the same crap you’ve been spouting for ever.
I’m not prepared to waste any more time on this.
Net Zero
Thank you for your valuable contribution Shibboleth.
The economics of the situation are coming clearly in to view.
People losing their incomes to India or China are no longer quite so believing of the Net Zero Dogma.
You may have noticed that the Net Zero U.K. Labour Party are in some difficulties.
The Prime minister might be gone before Christmas.Economics will always win in the end or that civilization will meet its end.
In a new poll, for the last two weeks, The Labour Party ( Net Zero) are in fourth place.
The party that is polling double that of The Labour Party, is Reform.
If there is to be an early General Election both Reform and The Conservative Party want to ditch Net Zero and “Drill Baby Drill”
Since the Industrial Revolution got underway, three hundred years ago, most people live longer lives, most people are more wealthy, yet this is at a time that Carbon dioxide has increased and the World has got slightly warmer.
If, from the inception of the Industrial Revolution the World had got slightly colder, I wonder if most people would have found their lives improved?Very interesting, an article I have just read on The Guardian, suggests that Britain was already starting to “Industrialise” from the end of the Tudor period, the time of James 6 (1)
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/apr/05/industrial-revolution-began-in-17th-not-18th-century-say-academics
To be honest, i had suspected that many were moving away from agriculture and moving into mining or making things, particularly for the empire, and the Royal Navy.
Britain was more than 100 years ahead of the rest of Western Europe.
This almost certainly shocked into being by the discovery of The Americas.The first Atlantic explores were mostly Italians, Portuguese and Spaniards.
Yet The Industrial Revolution started in the North West of Europe, probably in the Protestant areas.“The Huguenots were French Protestant Christians, primarily Calvinists, who faced intense religious persecution in France from the 16th to 18th centuries. This persecution, especially after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, led many to flee to other countries, including England, the Netherlands, and other parts of Europe. The Huguenots were often skilled artisans and professionals who made significant contributions to the economies of the countries where they settled, and they are credited with giving the English word “refugee” to the English language.”
The Lands that opened “some” peoples minds were the Lands, we now called Italy. I guess this was more incredible art aimed at rich buyers/patrons, rather than mass markets.Cobalt / Coltan
DR Congo is the world’s largest supplier of cobalt, which is essential for batteries in electric vehicles!
Quote BBC
“Rescuers are searching for survivors after a bridge collapsed at a cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 32 people.Unauthorised miners forced their way into the southern Kalando mine on Saturday despite being banned from the site, said local official Roy Kaumba Mayonde.
Military personnel guarding the site then reportedly fired guns, causing the bridge to collapse after panicked miners rushed across it, government mining agency SAEMAPE said.
The military has not responded to this allegation.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx3n7nq1d9oWhen we have been told that the modern solution to transport is Electric Vehicles, how clean they are, they never talk about the whole of life of the batteries/minerals.
I still do not think there is much accountability to reprocess the battery minerals, this is going to be a very dirty dangerous job but if we are kept on the path of EV somebody will have to make recycling work.The Americans are currently massed on the seas off shore of Venezuela
Quote Wikipedia
“Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced in 2009 that a significant reserve of coltan was discovered in western Venezuela”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColtanIt has recently been said that the U.S.A. has now surpassed China, in being the biggest operator, end user of African minerals.
The state that controls the minerals is the one that makes the money and calls the shots.
Donald Trump does not want that state to be China, he wants it to be the U.S.A.How about this person Clark, do you think he is an idiot?
John Francis Clauser
won Nobel prize in 2022https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clauser
Quote John Clauser
“The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience, in my opinion, there is no real climate crisis.”Trouble at mill.
it is too hot in the jungle of Brazil
COP30 on firehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cn5159k1krzo
Brazil seems to be unable to control the narrative on Global Warming
COP 30 not “encouraged” to discuss de-forestation .
Brazil wants more Oil exploration and more Natural gas exploration.It is almost as if they do not fully understand what Climate Alarmisim is all about?
On the BBC there are hints that so many jobs are being shed in the North Sea, that The Labour Administration are going to be softening their hardline NET ZERO doctrine.
Probably meaning, they will allow more fields to be actively worked?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0r9gyjkky0o
possibly something will come out in the budget, today?Well we have been given the Rachel Reeves Budget for decline.
A recent poll
for Find Out Now, taken 26/11/2025
Reform = 31
Conservative = 18
Greens = 17
Labour = 15
Lib Dems = 12so Labour are collapsing
and they seem to want to take all of us down with them.Here is a piece from NakedCapitalism that might interest you Michael.
“For more than 45 years, the UK has suffered not one, but two economic curses: the resource curse and the finance curse. Both were chosen, primarily by Margaret Thatcher, and both inflated the pound, destroyed industry, and left Britain dependent on hot money and speculation. In this video, I explain how we got here — and what we must do to rebuild a real economy based on work, fair reward and democracy.”
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/the-uk-is-cursed-how-finance-destroyed-our-economy.html
I am not sure I agree with all of it but it does present some valid points for consideration. You might find it interesting to read through. Particularly how wasteful was the use of income from North Sea oil and how financialisation helped destroy the UK economy.
