The Conservative leadership once advocated powering 21st-century Britain with a green industrial revolution based on the smart, internet-linked, decentralised technologies being invested in by Silicon Valley, China, and others.
Now, unified in majority government, they seem intent on the reverse: exploiting shale gas, building new nuclear facilities, and actively undermining clean-energy competition. It is the new Labour leader who offers the vision of a renewable-powered UK economy today, one maximally efficient and optimally wired, allowing avoidance of both shale and new nuclear.
Which vision should the business community be backing?
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For more on the drama unfolding in the carbon war from someone at the ‘front lines’, you can download the latest chapter of Jeremy’s book here, for free. A chapter is released at the beginning of each month up to the climate talks in Paris in December. The last scene will be the closing night of the Paris summit, followed by a concluding chapter about the next phase of the carbon war.