The UK’s insatiable climate agenda has led to an economic disaster, with high electricity rates and energy poverty affecting many citizens.
Government “green” policies have driven manufacturers away and investors are fleeing, with thousands of jobs being lost.
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British Climate Crusade Creates Economic Disaster
By Vijay Jayaraj, as published by CO2 Coalition on 21 January 2026
Across the Atlantic, a self-inflicted disaster is steadily unfolding. One of the United States’ closest allies, the United Kingdom, has surrendered energy riches and industrial prowess.
This decline is not the result of any shortage of capital, technological capacity or natural resources. Instead, it is the consequence of an ideologically driven climate agenda that has elevated “green” symbolism over engineering reality.
For years, politicians have beaten their chests about the UK’s “world-leading” renewable capacity. They paraded statistics showing wind and solar generating most of the electricity, conveniently ignoring that this only happens when the wind blows and the sun shines.
When “green” generation doesn’t perform, British taxpayers pay for natural gas-fired power plants to back up idle facilities and stabilise the grid. They also pay “constraint payments” to switch off wind turbines when it is too windy to operate them.
This is the great deception of the Levelised Cost of Energy (“LCOE”) metric that the green lobby loves to cite. LCOE excludes the enormous price of grid balancing, backup generation, curtailment payments, transmission expansion and subsidies – all required to prop up the green sham.
In the real world – where bills must be paid – the UK has created for itself some of the highest electricity rates on the planet, up to four times more than in the United States. One-third of Scots live in energy poverty. But the real cost never shows up in glossy charts that promote manipulated data representing wind and solar as cheap.
The price caps of Great Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets now dominate household conversations, which are amplified by each winter’s anxiety over lifestyle choices. Heat or eat has shifted from a slogan to a lived reality. Once a power behind the Industrial Revolution, Britain has shamefully imposed on its citizens energy poverty. Families ration warmth while politicians celebrate decarbonisation targets.
One reader told UK’s Independent of heating only a single room with a wood-burning stove, mimicking a 19th century living standard 200 years later. Such is the “Green Industrial Revolution” promised by know-nothing managers of energy policy.
And for what? So that the UK can reduce its negligible contribution to global emissions of harmless carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, China and India build coal plants to power the manufacturing exported to them by those who have frittered away British industrial might.
Manufacturers have little choice but to leave when a “carbon tax” and heavy-handed regulation on carbon dioxide emissions artificially inflate the cost of energy. Steelmakers are on their knees, facing energy bills that have surged by billions, rendering British steel uncompetitive against foreign rivals free of net-zero dogma.
Nowhere is the insanity more visible than in the North Sea. For decades, offshore oil and natural gas were the crown jewels of the British economy, providing cheap, reliable energy and revenue to fund public services.
Today, this resource is being sacrificed at the altar of climate theology. The Prime Minister’s punitive windfall taxes and refusal to issue new licenses have effectively killed North Sea energy development. Investors have fled. Rigs are decommissioning. Thousands of skilled jobs are evaporating.
Compare this to UK’s neighbour, Norway, which continues to extract oil and natural gas from the sea and sells to global customers, including the UK. While Britain dismantles its energy sovereignty to appease the likes of Extinction Rebellion, Norway enriches its citizens and funds its sovereign wealth fund. The contrast is humiliating. The UK imported over 50% of its natural gas supply in 2024 from Norway.
Apologists for this British collapse point to anything but the truth. They blame Brexit and the Russia-Ukraine war. They blame a “global recession,” pretending that the UK’s de-industrialisation isn’t an outlier. But the fundamental reason for the collapse is the “green” agenda espoused by the political establishment for 20 years.
It has been a bipartisan failure. Tories chased the “green vote” by banning fracking and demonising diesel. The Labour Party doubled down with net-zero mandates that defy the laws of physics and economics. They built a grid fragile to the weather and expensive to the user.
A crusade to avoid an imaginary climate catastrophe of the future has created a very real economic disaster in the present.
Originally published in Real Clear Markets on January 21, 2026.
About the Author
Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an MS in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, both in the UK, and a bachelor’s in engineering from Anna University, India.
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Is there any one who can still doubt that the Climate Change Scam is but a pretext to implement greater controls and restrictions on the population, and has nothing to do with climate, carbon dioxide, the environment, or any of the other nonsense that are the scam artists main talking points?
No doubt at all, but in the mean(short) time these blinkered robber barons are filling their pockets, as usual from the blinkered dumbed-down Joe Public; with the continuing remorseful descent into the demise of what we all depend upon: – our Mother Earth. Utter tunnel vision madness.
Great article Rhoda. This is a clear and much-needed articulation of what many ordinary people in the UK are now experiencing firsthand, but are rarely allowed to say out loud. The article cuts through the slogans and exposes the gap between glossy “net zero” narratives and the lived reality of soaring bills, collapsing industry, and growing energy poverty.
What’s especially valuable here is the dismantling of the LCOE myth; the way so-called cheap renewables are endlessly propped up by hidden costs, subsidies, curtailment payments, and fossil-fuel backup, all quietly transferred to the public. When these realities are included, the moral posturing around “green energy” collapses very quickly.
The comparison with Norway is particularly damning. It shows that this is not about environmental stewardship, but about political ideology overriding engineering, economics, and national interest. Britain once powered the world; now it celebrates policies that force families to ration heat while exporting manufacturing and importing energy at inflated prices.
This piece doesn’t deny the need for responsible energy policy; it simply insists that it be grounded in physics, economics, and human welfare rather than climate theology. That alone makes it an important contribution, especially in an environment where dissent on energy policy is increasingly marginalised or dismissed as heresy.
Articles like this are essential if we’re to move beyond slogans and start having honest conversations about what has been sacrificed; and who is paying the price.