{"id":391033,"date":"2025-07-27T18:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=391033"},"modified":"2025-07-27T18:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:39:16","slug":"where-did-all-the-green-jobs-go-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=391033","title":{"rendered":"Where Did All The Green Jobs\u00a0Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energy Minister, Michael Shanks<\/a>\u2019, claims last week that scrapping Net Zero, as Nigel Farage proposed, would cost a million jobs, were soon shown to be a fantasy when the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its own analysis<\/a> of green jobs the day after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual they padded out the numbers to make it sound impressive, ending up with a total of 690,000. However, the vast majority were jobs which have been around for decades and have nothing to do with Net Zero \u2013 waste, forestry, water, energy efficiency and so on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/economy\/environmentalaccounts\/bulletins\/experimentalestimatesofgreenjobsuk\/july2025<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Amazingly there are more jobs in environmental bureaucracy than there are in the whole of the renewable sector, which employs 77800.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two thirds of the total have been around for years, as mentioned above. Another 48000 are simply rebadged \u2013 for instance, where carmakers switch from making petrol cars to electric ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it is those 88100 jobs in the green bureaucracy that really stand out \u2013 environmental charities, consultants, education, civil servants and in house pen pushers. All the hangers on that you and me have to pay for one way or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Reform get rid of them, we should all raise a toast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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