President Donald Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright has called on Europe to abandon the globalist green agenda before any more damage is done to citizens’ security and quality of living.
During a virtual address at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, Wright blasted the “lunacy” of the “climate change” agenda.
Wright particularly called out the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Net Zero 2050 in his conversation with Chris Uhlmann of Sky News.
“Net Zero 2050 is a sinister goal,” he said. “It’s terrible.”
Energy policies like Net Zero 2050, “have not delivered any benefits, but it’s delivered tremendous costs,” Wright warned.
The top Trump administration official suggested these costs go far beyond the gas pump or a family’s energy bill.
It materializes in the form of large-scale deindustrialization, Wright noted.
The ongoing attacks on the energy industry are impoverishing workers and increasing inequality.
He cited the United Kingdom as an example.
“If you make energy more expensive and less reliable, as the United Kingdom has done over the last couple of decades, you lower the standard of living of your population, shrink their opportunity set, and you simply export your industry,” he explained.
“No one’s going to make an energy-intensive product in the United Kingdom anymore.
“It’s just been displaced somewhere else.
“It’s going to be made in a coal-powered factory in China, loaded on a diesel-powered ship to get down the river, on a bigger diesel-powered ship to be unloaded at the docks in London.”
Wright said this cycle “is not energy transition.”
“This is lunacy,” he said of the globalist climate agenda.
“This is impoverishing citizens for the delusion that this is somehow going to make the world a better place.”
Wright fielded a question from Uhlmann about Vice President JD Vance’s remarks in Germany on Friday.
As Slay News reported, Vance challenging Europe’s regulatory, energy, and security environments in Paris and Munich.
“Energy realism is critical if you want to have humanism,” he said, specifically addressing Vance’s critique of European energy policy.
“Germany itself has spent a half a trillion dollars in an attempt to revolutionize or change their energy system,” Wright explained.
“They went from 80% of their primary energy from hydrocarbons to 74%.
“They didn’t switch away from hydrocarbons; they just invested in a whole new energy system that added tremendously to costs.
“[Germany] doubled—more than doubled—the capacity of their electrical grid, and delivered 20% less electricity at two to three times the cost,” he added.
“This is a proud, great industrial nation in Germany.”
“What I would love to see is the return to sobriety,” Wright told the crowd assembled in London.
“And it’s not just in Europe.
“We have plenty of it in the United States as well.”
Vance’s speech in Germany went viral when he took aim at far-left climate activist Greta Thunberg.
“Trust me, I say this with all humor,” the VP said to European elites.
“If American democracy can survive ten years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.”
WATCH:
Thunberg became a poster child of the globalist Left’s “climate change” agenda.
The 22-year-old Swedish environmental crusader stole the spotlight among liberals over her climate fearmongering before she even turned 18.
Speaking before a U.S. Senate climate panel in 2019, Thunberg said:
“I know you are trying, but just not hard enough. Sorry.
“Don’t invite us here to just tell us how inspiring we are without actually doing anything about it,” she said at age 16.
Two years later, before the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment, Thunberg asked U.S. lawmakers:
“How long do you think you can continue to ignore the climate crisis, the global aspect of equity, and historic emissions without being held accountable?
”You get away with it now, but sooner or later, people are going to realize what you have been doing all this time.
“That’s inevitable,” Thunberg continued.
“You still have time to do the right thing and to save your legacies.”
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