{"id":297835,"date":"2024-01-21T19:13:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T18:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297835"},"modified":"2024-01-21T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T18:14:00","slug":"port-talbot-has-been-sacrificed-to-the-angry-god-of-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=297835","title":{"rendered":"Port Talbot has been sacrificed to the angry god of net zero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Its workers had good jobs producing steel. Now a whole community has been left with nothing<\/strong><\/em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to murder a town. The Port Talbot steelworks is not part of Port Talbot, the steelworks is Port Talbot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say 12 per cent of the residents work at the plant but, if you only count those of working age, it\u2019s more like a third. The Indian owners\u00a0Tata Steel announced the loss of up to 2,500 jobs<\/a>, many of them the main breadwinner in their families. The Telegraph<\/a> has the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The knock-on effects on the delicate ecosystem of the wider community \u2013 on the cafes, the hairdressers, the corner shops, the gym, the pubs where the men get a beer after a long, thirsty shift \u2013 will be as devastating as they are inevitable. It is a knockout blow for South Wales which has had to soak up so much punishment over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone who cares about that small corner of our country is enraged, sorrowful. My Welsh barrister friend sent a one-word text: \u201cDemocide\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Seventies, my family used to drive through Port Talbot at night as we neared the end of the long journey to visit my grandparents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a thrill it was to see that great castle etched on the skyline, a Hogwarts of industry with a solitary gas flame flickering atop a thin tower. As a child, I imagined a fire-breathing dragon lived in the steelworks, but it must have been the red glow of the two blast furnaces. As part of a transition to \u201cgreener, cheaper\u201d steelmaking operations, we learnt they would be closed. That mighty Welsh dragon was slain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why? The high price of UK energy makes Port Talbot uncompetitive but other countries heavily subsidise their steelworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, this human catastrophe is a political choice. Make no mistake; some 141,931 people (the population of greater Neath Port Talbot) have been sacrificed on the altar of net zero. That absurd and misanthropic creed which calls British workers losing their jobs \u201cprogress\u201d while their carbon will now be emitted in India and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never mind that Nato has just warned there will be a war with Russia \u201cin the next 20 years\u201d<\/a>. Clearly, this is the ideal moment for the UK to shut one of the best steel-making furnaces in the world, start producing \u201cnet zero steel\u201d out of Steptoe and Son scrap, while importing the higher quality steel needed to make weapons from \u2013 Oh, dear! \u2013 our enemies and competitors. The only G7 nation with no first-class steel manufacturing \u2013 are they serious? You might almost get the impression the nation was run by a fifth column plotting its downfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately for Port Talbot, those who should be defending the plant against the green globalists are heavily-compromised hypocrites. Little relief is to be expected from Wales\u2019s First Minister Mark Drakeford and his fatuous 20mph speed limit. \u201cFor lower emissions\u201d as a sign on the M4 which runs above the town boasts. (Driving slower can actually produce more emissions, but science must never get in the way of virtue signalling.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Kinnock<\/a>, Labour MP for Aberavon, did attack the decision to \u201cfollow the Conservative business model of managed decline for British steelmaking\u201d which would destroy the jobs of thousands of people, \u201ceach of whom have dedicated their lives to an industry which underpins Britain\u2019s automotive industry, railways, defence sector, consumer goods, construction, wind turbines and so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stirring words, although Stephen has somehow forgotten that the policies of his own eco-zealot party are entirely in tune with the annihilation of Port Talbot. When Sir Keir Starmer promises \u201cthousands of green jobs\u201d, he leaves out the part about the destruction of nearly all our remaining manufacturing jobs to appease that angry god, net zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tory government, too, is complicit in this vast act of national self-harm. Euthanising Port Talbot steelworks will make diddly squat difference to the UK\u2019s relatively low CO2 emissions while causing incalculable human suffering. Still, looking on the bright side, something to boast about at the next Cop summit, eh Rishi?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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