Who are potentially the most expensive man and woman in Britain, due over the
next 36 years to cost this country £1.3 trillion, equivalent to our entire,
ever-swelling National Debt?
The man is Ed Miliband, who in 2008 pushed through the final version of the
Climate Change Act. It made us the only country in the world legally
committed between now and 2050 to cutting our emissions of CO2 by a
staggering 80 per cent. Even then, the Government projected that this would
cost us up to £734 billion. The latest figures from the EU and the
International Energy Agency suggest that, for Britain to reach this target,
it would now cost even more: £1,300 billion.
Less well known, however, is the extraordinary story of how this most
expensive Act ever put on the statute book originated in the first place.
Google “Bryony Worthington YouTube” and you will see the video of a young
climate activist, now known as Baroness Worthington, describing how she
first conceived the idea of such a policy when she was campaigns director on
climate change for Friends of the Earth."
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