THUS Magazine

Gloomy energy picture

Every now and again (actually most times) The Economist says something I wanted to say, better than I could. This week, the free market bible points out that posturing aside, the current UK government’s record on implementing effective climate change legislation leaves much to be desired. A new initiative, spearheaded by climate change Czar Adair Turner and sponsored by Ed Miliband, newly-appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, aims to redress the imbalance between good intentions and inertia. The debate is whether we should have made hay while the sun shone and we had cash to invest (and money to burn) or whether straitened circumstances will accelerate the imperative to use energy more wisely. Moreover, the UK targets are not as ambitious or far-reaching as some of our European neighbours. Read this informative and balanced argument here. I can’t improve on it.