Spyware, Solar Panels, Spin: Is China hijacking the UK and Spain’s Green Revolution? The strange case of Net Zero, Blackout and China’s solar panels: What we haven’t told us about green transitions. Credits: beebright, shutterstock.
here we go again…
Another week, another shiny Net Zero pledge, another round of inflated speeches by a man wearing rolled sleeves who couldn’t change tires, of course, rewiring the country’s energy grid. This time, Ed Miliband has been rebranded as the environmental leader for workers. The promising UK promises to run clean electricity by 2030. Not 2050. 2040. Let’s sink that a little.
A fantasy budget of £40 billion a year?
Miliband wants to pour 40 billion pounds year Transforming the UK’s energy infrastructure. problem So no one can find out where that money comes from, or how it will be spent without stumbling on deficits, cost overruns, and supply chain disruptions. His plans depend on the expansion of wind and solar power, but major projects like Hornsea 4 are already There is It was suspended or cancelled due to increased costs.
The UK’s energy transition is no longer looking like a moonshot, and is beginning to look like a 40 billion pound fireworks with wet fuses.
Meanwhile, in the real world…
Ask the owners of small business at London Flower Market how the Green Revolution feels. Spoiler: It’s not inspiring. It’s bankrupt. They are choking under Ures’ fees, paying through the nose for a new vehicle they can’t afford, and can see customer footprints disappear when delivery becomes a logistics nightmare. These are not Russian oil barons, but the owners of British florists and cafes. Collateral damage caused by the war, where no one voted. We are not “environmentally friendly.” We bulldoze the bottom of our economy in the name of optics. It’s a political special effect for cameras.
A backdoor to the future of China’s UK energy?
But wait, it gets better.
They are in a hurry to electrify the country, and recent reports say they are importing China-made infrastructure. Embedded spyware. That’s right – our green dreams are wired through kits made by companies with close ties to CCP. The US has already pulled plugs into similar devices. England and other Europe? We’ve doubled and our eyes are closed. Spain, the Netherlands, the UK and the US are particularly at risk. In 2024, Spain imported 10.57 GW solar panels from China, accounting for 11% of all Chinese solar panel exports to Europe.
So, in summary, we use veterinary-free hardware to borrow billions we don’t have and build infrastructure that we don’t have. Hardware including Chinese spyware devices. Everything is in the name of security, sustainability and sovereignty.
Carbon Offset Shell Game
Let’s talk about those sacred words: Carbon Offset.
They sound great. They are also often total trash. Planting the tree in another hemisphere while spitting out the drains at home is like eating a cake as I promised a jog next Tuesday. More than 60 climate scientists have called for fraud. Point to fake offset schemes, double count credits, and “net zeros” to promise it to creative accounting using green stickers.
It’s not “Net Zero.” It’s “fake zero.” We burn jet fuel and buy dul like in the Middle Ages. Only now, our church is an app, and sin is measured in metric tons.
Spain’s less robust approach
Want to see how adults do it? Look at Spain.
Rather than washing calendars in green, Spain is planning Slow, structural transitions It utilizes local resources, renewable energy, job retran and smart technology. Their 2050 plans are not perfect, but they are grounded. It deals with net zero like an economic strategy, not a press stunt. McKinsey Even known as Spain is also known as the “decarbonisation hub of Europe.”
Final Thoughts: What is the real agenda?
Let’s dull it.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting a cleaner planet. But when policies crush ordinary people, weaken the country’s infrastructure, hand over geopolitical control based on our rivals, we Must do listen: Who exactly is zero at work? Because it’s not the man who will deliver flowers in a diesel van at 4am. Not a woman trying to heat the flat without selling kidneys. And it certainly isn’t a taxpayer who makes bills for virtue signature infrastructure that we don’t own and cannot be amended.
The question is not whether we will be green or not. The problem is Whether to do it intelligently.
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