{"id":265037,"date":"2023-07-02T20:35:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265037"},"modified":"2023-07-02T20:35:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T18:35:55","slug":"zac-goldsmiths-resignation-letter-proves-there-is-no-pleasing-the-net-zero-fanatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265037","title":{"rendered":"Zac Goldsmith\u2019s Resignation Letter Proves There is No Pleasing the Net Zero Fanatics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0WILL JONES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Zac Goldsmith resigns over the supposed \u201capathy\u201d of the Government on environmental issues (yes, really), Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph says it just goes to show that there\u2019s no pleasing the Net Zero extremists. Here\u2019s an excerpt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The resignation of Zac Goldsmith<\/a>, prompted by the Government\u2019s supposed \u201capathy\u201d on environmental issues, should teach Rishi Sunak a salient lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tory peer quit his role as a Foreign Office minister, claiming the U.K. had \u201cstepped off the world stage\u201d on climate and nature, adding: \u201cToo often we are simply absent from key international fora.\u201d Because that\u2019s exactly what the world needs right now \u2013 VIPs flocking by private jet to more fora on flora and fauna. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of Boris Johnson\u2019s closest allies, there was undoubtedly more to his dramatic sayonara than green concerns. You do not need to be Poirot to work out the hidden meaning in his suggestion that \u201chaving been able to get so much done previously, I have struggled to even hold the line in recent months. The problem is not that the Government is hostile to the environment, it is that you, our Prime Minister, are simply uninterested\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is no secret that Johnson and his supporters despise Sunak and will do everything in their power to undermine him between now and the next general election after \u2018Big Dog\u2019 was forced out of the Commons kennel over partygate. But what Goldsmith\u2019s resignation letter proves is that there is no pleasing the environmental extremists of this world \u2013 or any extremist, for that matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Conservatives have been bending over backwards to meet a Net Zero target that is seemingly anathema to many of its own supporters, yet still those such as Goldsmith, like overgrown Greta Thunbergs, are bleating on about doing more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not enough for the likes of this entitled Old Etonian that we should be stripped of our right to drive petrol and diesel cars come 2030, or forced to replace our gas boilers with expensive heat pumps. He won\u2019t be satisfied until wind farms have taken over the entire British Isles and we\u2019re all commuting by eco-scooter \u2013 regardless of the crippling cost to the U.K. taxpayer \u2013 while other nations build more CO2<\/sub>-belching coal-fired power stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goldsmith (net worth: an estimated \u00a3300\u2009million) might not be affected by the \u00a3170 green levy that has just been slapped on our energy bills, but sadly that\u2019s not the case for many Brits who, until yesterday, paid his wages. When he talks of a kind of \u201cparalysis\u201d in Whitehall is he aware there is a cost of living crisis, or is he too busy auditioning to replace Chris Packham on Springwatch?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Worth\u00a0reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Zac Goldsmith resigns over the supposed \u201capathy\u201d of the Government on environmental issues (yes, really), Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph says it just goes to show that there\u2019s no pleasing the Net Zero extremists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":265041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691820689,691819134,691818154,691820688,691820687],"class_list":{"0":"post-265037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-boris-johnson","9":"tag-climate-alarmism","10":"tag-net-zero","11":"tag-partygate","12":"tag-zac-goldsmith","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0Feat15c-1110x624-1.png?fit=1110%2C624&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-16WN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":280239,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=280239","url_meta":{"origin":265037,"position":0},"title":"Rishi Sunak speaks sense on Net Zero","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"24\/09\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Britain\u2019s prime minister Rishi Sunak was denounced before he\u2019d uttered a word on net zero ahead of his short\u00a0remarks\u00a0on Wednesday. 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