In the last few days of 2024, I discovered the “climate and
nature” bill. Originally touted in 2020 by a Green MP as the “Climate and Ecology
Bill,” this bill was surreptitiously re-introduced as a private member’s bill by
a Labour MP in 2023. It was supported by current or former MPs of no less than
seven establishment political parties.
The bill demands the setting of a “climate target” based on
the Paris agreement, which many other countries in the world, including India,
China and the USA, are now beginning to distance themselves from. It also demands
that the UK “halts and reverses its overall contribution to the degradation and
loss of nature in the United Kingdom and overseas.” Yet no evidence is provided
of any such “contribution” to any “degradation and loss.”
The bill also demands that the UK government bring about: “the
end of the exploration, export and import of fossil fuels by the United Kingdom
as rapidly as possible.” And “avoidance,” “limiting,” “restoring” or
“offsetting” of “adverse impacts in the United Kingdom and overseas on
ecosystems and human health” of “United Kingdom-generated production and
consumption of goods and services” and “all related trade, transport and
financing.” This looks to me like a demand, not only to rapidly end all use of fossil
fuels in the UK, but also to end all economic and financial freedom. It is,
obviously, a recipe for economic collapse too.
The bill’s second reading is scheduled for January 24th
upcoming. Further, a shadowy, extremist organization called “Zero Hour” [[1]] is
pushing this bill with everything it has. It appears to be, in origin, a
private limited company, first set up in August 2020. Its Companies House
information is here: [[2]].
It claims to have 60,000 supporters in all.
“Zero Hour” claims the support of almost 200 members of
parliament, from 10 different parties. These include 88 Labour and Labour Co-op
(22% of their MPs), 72 Liberal Democrat (100%!), 12 Independents (80%), six SNP
(67%), four Greens (100%), four Plaid Cymru (100%), two Tories (2%), two SDLP
(100%), one Alliance (100%) and one DUP (20%). It also claims support from more
than 50 peers (including 24 baronesses and seven bishops), six mayors
(including Sadiq Khan, of course), 34 borough councils, including mine, and
more than 300 other councils.
The cat, so to speak, is out of the bag. No longer can
anyone be in any doubt that a substantial proportion of the UK political
establishment are setting out their stall to destroy our Western industrial civilization.
Although this particular means of bringing it about has been resisted in the
past by forces of relative sanity inside government, it would seem that this
time round, the activists sense blood. With extremists like Starmer and
Miliband in positions of power, it seems unlikely that they will fail to use
all their strength and deviousness to force it through.
So, the question now is how we the people of the UK must respond to what, as is becoming increasingly clear, is a treasonous attack against our human industrial civilization. This has the feel of an issue with the potential to trigger a popular revolution.
