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What Is To Be Done?

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What Is To Be Done?

By Neil Lock

(May 1^st, 2024)

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, also known as Lenin, is hardly a good role model for freedom lovers. Nevertheless, he had a habit of asking good questions. The one, with which I have titled this essay, was probably his best. And today, I’m going to try to put forward some possible answers to it, from the viewpoint of a denizen of the UK in late April 2024.

Two warnings: The essay is long. And some of the ideas are radical!

A brief summary on green and anti-car policies

It is now five years since Tory minister Michael Gove met with Extinction Rebellion on April 30^th, 2019. That day, Gove set in motion the flying circus of bad green policies, with which we have been oppressed ever since. The “net zero” scam, rising taxes, steepling energy bills, inflation, anti-car policies coming at us from all directions, and many more.

Over the last few weeks, I have been putting together the back-story behind the anti-car policies, that are causing so much pain to people in the UK. The summary paper is here: [[1]]. Now, I already knew that the “human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing catastrophic climate change” meme was nothing but a scam, used by the political élites to rationalize harmful policies like net zero. But what I discovered only recently is that the idea that people must be forced out of our cars, or taxed out of existence, or both, for some nebulous “clean air” agenda, is no more supported by science and evidence than is the climate change idiocy. Indeed, I formed the view that, very probably, no air pollution problems with large-scale serious impacts on health have occurred in Western countries since the early 1970s. And certainly not in the UK since the introduction of ultra-low-sulphur diesel in 2000. So, the whole accusation is a complete fraud….

https://libertarianism.uk/2024/05/01/what-is-to-be-done-2/