{"id":383930,"date":"2025-06-20T10:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=383930"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:39:46","slug":"ed-miliband-is-losing-the-fight-for-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=383930","title":{"rendered":"Ed Miliband is Losing the Fight for Net Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ben Pile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to various reports of an offshore wind industry conference this week, Ed Miliband has claimed confidence in \u201cwinning the fight on Net Zero\u201d against his critics. His main weapon,\u00a0says the\u00a0Guardian<\/em><\/a>, is jobs. Billions of pounds of \u201cinvestment\u201d, reports the newspaper, will \u201cusher in a \u2018green industrial revolution\u2019 for workers in manufacturing heartlands such as Teesside,\u00a0Scotland, south Wales and East Anglia\u201d. But rather than restoring Britain\u2019s forgotten centres of former industrial prowess and taking on any kind of fight with Net Zero sceptics, all Miliband is doing is repeating extremely tired promises that obfuscate signals from reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word \u2018jobs\u2019 in the mouths of wonkish political hacks such as Miliband is equivalent to gifts dropped from the anointed political class to a starving population, like so many chicks begging for worms. They believe that entire industries come into existence by the strokes of bureaucrats\u2019 pencils, executing the political orders from enlightened politicians. In this respect, Ed Miliband\u2019s conceits are exactly the same as Boris Johnson\u2019s, who proclaimed a \u201c10 point plan for a green industrial revolution<\/a>\u201d in late 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, at the height of the Covid debacle, unemployment had reached 5.3%<\/a>. This fell to 3.6% in the summer of 2022 as the economy emerged from the chaos that Johnson (and many others) had unleashed. Perhaps the \u2018green industrial revolution\u2019 was happening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But perhaps it was not. From there, the unemployment rate rose to 4.1% by the time of the General Election. And since then it has risen again to 4.6%. Percentages often obscure the reality of the numbers. 1,628,000 people were claiming unemployment benefits<\/a> in May 2024. In May this year, the figure had risen to 1,735,000. A decade ago, the claimant count was just 795,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are building this new era of clean energy abundance, helping deliver new jobs, energy security and lower household bills through our Plan for Change,\u201d said Miliband, via the Telegraph<\/em><\/a>. This coincides with reports<\/a> that the Ofgem energy price cap, which was lowered for the quarter beginning July<\/a>, will likely rise again in October by approximately 3%. Energy companies are further predicting even more rises in the first two quarters of next year, which, if true, will completely undo the modest fall for the July-September price cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miliband\u2019s promises of \u201cjobs\u201d are as good as his promises for \u201clower household bills\u201d. Yet he seems to suffer no consequences for the failure of either to materialise. Throughout the course of the green agenda, since Miliband was last in office with the energy brief, the same promises of economic growth, jobs and industrial revolution have been made by all parties of government. And the only way these promises have been given a veneer of plausibility is by conceiving of the \u2018green\u2019 economic sector as a distinct thing to the rest of the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, if you force, through law, the closure of conventional generation plants and the requirement that energy retailers supply customers with power generated from renewable sources, then the \u2018green sector\u2019 will appear to \u2018grow\u2019. By the same logic, if some tyrant were to force the closure of your bakery, and to require customers to come to Ben\u2019s Bread Shop, where I sell lower quality produce at three times the price to hungry people with no freedom to choose, then my business will \u2018grow\u2019. Thus, the illusion of \u2018green growth\u2019 and \u2018green jobs\u2019 is created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no market for electricity. Yes, there are suppliers and customers. But the customers are captives, and the sellers are subject to price controls (the Ofgem price cap), and the wholesalers\u2019 and retailers\u2019 profits are guaranteed by legislation and regulations. Visit any so-called \u2018price comparison\u2019 website and you will find very little meaningful difference in the offers. Any resemblance to a market is purely superficial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As then-leader of the Labour Party, Miliband\u2019s great tactic for his catastrophic 2015 General Election campaign was the \u201cweaponisation of the NHS<\/a>\u201d. Denied the opportunity to lead the country, but now, in 2025, back in power in a smaller office, Miliband\u2019s strategy for winning a smaller political battle is the weaponisation of jobs \u2013 i.e., to make the promise of jobs a political issue. If you\u2019re against Miliband\u2019s policy agenda, then ipso facto<\/em>, you\u2019re against jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an extremely condescending political strategy that requires people to be dim enough to take such a framing for granted and at face value, and insane enough to believe that Miliband means it and is capable of delivering it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he isn\u2019t. The statistics from the last 20 years prove it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the Guardian<\/em>\u2019s attempt to inflate Miliband\u2019s credibility falls flat on its face. Citing analysis from green industry lobbying outfit RenewableUK, the Guardian <\/em>claims that \u201c55,000 people now work in the UK wind industry\u201d, and that \u201cthat between 74,000 and 95,000 people will be needed to meet the government\u2019s plan to quadruple Britain\u2019s offshore wind capacity\u201d. By 2030, it claims, 112,000 people will have \u201cgreen jobs\u201d in the wind power sector. Green jobs at last?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, no. Let\u2019s look again at the unemployment figures. Elsewhere in the Guardian<\/em><\/a>, though pinning the blame on Miliband\u2019s colleague, ONS data are revealed to show that \u201cat least 250,000 jobs were lost since Rachel Reeves\u2019s autumn budget\u201d. Even if we took the green lobbyists\u2019 claims as read, it would not undo even a few months of the Labour Government\u2019s bonkers policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, it was Tony Blair\u2019s own analysis that warned of the risks to the jobs of \u201c700,000 people who work in the oil-and-gas, automotive, boiler-manufacturing and steel-manufacturing sectors and their wider supply chains, which could all be considered at risk from the green transition\u201d. As I reported<\/a> earlier this year, the former Prime Minister\u2019s putative criticism of Net Zero should not be read that way \u2013 he wanted to save Net Zero by selling Britain out to Chinese manufacturers \u2013 but the point that Net Zero undermines more jobs than it creates is well observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miliband promises \u201cgreen jobs\u201d but cannot answer the criticism that these jobs will cost employment elsewhere in the economy. This has been a point of controversy for the duration of the climate policy agenda, with critics explaining this very simple fact as far back as the mid-2000s. But it fell on deaf ears in the news media and met a brick wall in Wesminster\u2019s offices of all parties. They each merely repeated the promises of green jobs over, and over, and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it is very simple to understand. All forms of green generation are more capital-, labour-, land- and resource-intensive than conventional forms of generation. It doesn\u2019t matter what the so-called \u2018learning rate\u2019 beloved of green economists actually is, green technology will always be less efficient with respect to these measures than conventional techniques are. No amount of \u2018innovation\u2019 can make it possible to produce usable energy from ambient sources for less manpower, less money, less land and with fewer bits of machinery than is required to produce the same from extremely dense sources of energy, such as coal, gas, oil and uranium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green lobbyists leant into the fact of green energy being inefficient with respect to labour, to turn it into a virtue: \u2018creating jobs\u2019. And that explains why it the myth of green jobs has persisted. Miliband will perhaps one day say, \u201cLook at all these green jobs I made,\u201d citing the shiny new 112,000 wind workforce. But he will omit from his analysis the 700,000 jobs that he destroyed. He will say he got something right, and that there should therefore be more \u2018investment\u2019 in the green sector. Another 112,000 \u2018green jobs\u2019 will be \u2018created\u2019, but another 700,000 jobs elsewhere will be destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the other inefficiencies that count. It should be written on every idiot civil servant\u2019s forehead: jobs are a cost<\/em>. That might sound like an argument for mass unemployment. But that\u2019s not how it rolls. When people have money to spend, which is not being spent on utilities, then they spend it on other things. And that spending allows the seemingly spontaneous creation of industries and jobs, without Westminster\u2019s help. As I put it previously<\/a>: \u201cLook after the cakeshops, and the AI data centres look after themselves.\u201d And by \u201clook after\u201d, I don\u2019t mean subsidise them, or incentivise them, or whatever. I mean simply represent energy consumers\u2019 interests in energy policy. Make Energy Cheap Again. Or more precisely: Stop Making Energy Expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But SMEE is not how Westminsterians think, if they think at all. They believe that jobs and industries are created by politicians, acting on data produced by extremely clever and morally unimpeachable academics and think tanks \u2013 Green Blob lobbyists. They think that the \u2018green industrial revolution\u2019 must be \u2018kickstarted\u2019. And consequently, when the myopic intervention inevitably fails, they think it just needs more \u2018kickstarting\u2019 to \u2018boost\u2019 the sector back into life. Only bad people could disagree. And that is why Miliband\u2019s weaponisation of \u2018green jobs\u2019 is doomed to fail: he cannot even hear, much less comprehend, criticism. He\u2019s a coward, not a fighter, and has no answer to critics. His agenda is a wrecking ball, aimed at and in motion towards what remains of our industries and jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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