With his left hand glued to the U.K. Department for Business, Energy, & Industrial Strategy , ecologist Aaron ThierryTuesday that"I'm having to do this because our government is basically ignoring all the evidence and we have tried all the rational, normal, evidence-based policy approaches and they're just not acting according to it."
Gayle pointed out in his coverage of the Scientists for Extinction Rebellion action that it"came a week after the government published a new energy strategy that promised to continue the exploitation of North Sea oil and gas, failed to set targets for onshore wind, and gave nuclear a central role." That finding, she noted, directly conflicts with the government's new energy strategy,"which is still going for increased extraction of North Sea oil and gas."
"There are people who are very wealthy and powerful from the way that the world is set up now and they don't want that to change, they don't want to decarbonize because that will limit their opportunity to generate money from fossil fuels," Gardner said. "Doing so would put our energy security, British jobs, and industries at risk and simply increase foreign imports, not reduce demand," the spokesperson claimed."Our British energy security strategy sets out a long-term plan to ramp up cheap renewables as we transition away from expensive fossil fuels."