Andrew Bolt: Climate activists bugging us to economic oblivion

Insects for dinner, homes the poor can’t afford to heat, and cars only the rich can buy — that’s the world we’ll soon live in thanks to climate activists.

The European Union last week urged us to save the planet by eating insects.

“Let’s give it a try,” it burbled, because this diet meant “less global warming emissions”.

Our green world is taking shape, particularly with power prices exploding and climate activists pushing the Albanese Government to force us to buy electric cars by banning gassier – but cheaper – petrol ones.

Insects for dinner, cold homes the poor can’t afford to heat, and cars only the rich can buy. Maybe you should check how much worse this global warming nirvana could get.

One place to start is a report last month by Deloitte, commissioned by the NAB bank, gleefully predicting that reaching Labor’s 2050 target of net zero emissions will need – drum roll – $20 trillion of investment.

The European Union last week urged us to save the planet by eating insects.

That’s 20 times the size of our government’s massive debt. Who’ll pay for all that?

Oh, yes: you.

And who’ll make a motza? That would be NAB, Deloitte, and all those other green carpet baggers selling everything from wind farms and solar panels to climate consultancies and green bonds.

Business thrives on fads, and even more when governments force you to buy what they’re selling.

No wonder billionaires are among the loudest climate hucksters, and it’s the poor who protest – like the starving in Sri Lanka, after climate policies banning artificial fertilisers ruined their crops.

Big companies selling everything from wind farms will make a motza from the climate wars.

Take billionaire Andrew Forrest, demanding government grants for his magic plans for green hydrogen, “the purest source of energy in the world, and one that could replace up to three quarters of our emissions”.

With it we could make “green steel” and dominate world supplies.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was sold.

Green hydrogen had “enormous potential”, he said, even though it’s made by running massive amounts of electricity through water to create a highly explosive gas that’s hard to transport or use in homes.

Oh dear.

On Monday, Australian steel producer BlueScope admitted green steel was at least decades away, after its partner Shell quit their planned pilot plant to test green hydrogen.

And what difference will it all make?

US president Joe Biden on Tuesday signed into a law the deceitfully named Inflation Reduction Act, lavishing more than $500 billion on climate schemes.

Bjorn Lomborg ran the figures through the United Nations’ climate model and worked out Biden’s billions will lower the world’s estimated temperature in 2100 by just 0.005 to 0.016 degrees. Nothing.

Think of that, as you munch insects in the dark