The United Kingdom, the authors warn, has followed a similar trajectory – with comparable results in terms of declining industrial competitiveness and soaring electricity prices. UK electricity consumption has fallen by 23% since 2005, in large part because energy-intensive manufacturing has shrunk or relocated abroad.

Energy use was used to estimate the real PRC's economical development as regime would lie.

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Long regarded as the leader of Europe’s green transition, its Energiewende — expanding renewables while phasing out nuclear — has cost around $800 billion since 2002, yet delivered only modest results and left German industries paying up to five times more for electricity than American competitors. Much of the progress in renewables has been offset by the closure of zero-emission nuclear plants. Estimates suggest that maintaining nuclear capacity could have achieved a 73-percent emissions reduction at half the cost, highlighting the limits of ideologically driven policy. The comparison with the United States is instructive. In the US, emissions have declined even as the economy more than doubled since 1990

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government risk-sharing increases moral hazard. When taxpayers bear a large part of the downside, the incentives to take excessive risks become stronger. Experience from several green mega-projects shows that technological optimism is often combined with a lack of cost control.

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Despite massive spending—$680 billion allocated between 2021 and 2027, or more than a third of the European Union’s total budget—the Green Deal has delivered negligible climate results. EU emissions rose in the last quarter of 2024 compared to 2023, and the longer-term reductions over the past 15 years largely reflect economic stagnation, pandemic lockdowns, and the economic shock from the war in Ukraine—not the fruits of green policy.

Small farms, which are more ecologically sustainable than industrial agribusiness, are being driven out by rules that accelerate land consolidation. The result is not only economic devastation for rural communities, but also ecological backsliding, as smaller farms are replaced by larger, more intensive operations.

www.compactmag.com/article/the-european-green-deal-has-failed/

Electric cars becoming as disposable as mobile phones.

If there was a doubt how big a crabon footprint there was.

This pricing strategy creates a paradox. While it makes green transportation accessible to a broader segment of the population, it encourages a culture of frequent replacement. In many cases, the cost of upgrading to a newer model with a better battery and updated software is low enough that consumers view it as a reasonable monthly expense rather than a major life purchase

This volatility is likewise reflected in the plummeting resale values of used EVs in China. Because the technology moves so swift, the second-hand market for EVs is struggling. A three-year-old EV may lose a vast majority of its original value because the “tech stack” it carries is no longer competitive. This creates a cycle where owners are encouraged to trade in their vehicles quickly before the value bottoms out, further shortening the average lifespan of the car on the road.

www.world-today-journal.com/china-ev-disposal-why-electric-cars-are-scrapped-faster-auto-news/