The introductory paragraph is a supreme salad of all the buzzwords so favoured by those who deny the incontrovertible reality that climate change is a natural phenomenon. Phrases like “just transition,’ “decent work,” “sustainable economy,” “deepening democracy,” “economic renewal,” are already proven to be fake, phony and false in states like Germany and Democrat- run states in the US like New Jersey, California and Pennsylvania.

What these false prophets avoid is reference to how, without fossil fuels, mining of ore would occur, how planes would get into the sky, and how sustaining an economy comes about when it has been de-industrialised.

Instead of trotting out glib images of new opportunities and referencing codes of good practice (which are only of interest to lawyers to exploit), their pie-in-the-sky narrative never explains how food production will be maintained. Take petroleum products out of life and explain how mass transportation can occur, mass cultivation of crops without diesel tractors, diesel transport, plastic packaging – the list is endless.

What the denialists also avoid is that the cost of batteries to store solar energy is prohibitively expensive. What they are also silent about is the terrible environmental damage that is incurred by the mining of lithium for the batteries that will be required for their “sustainable economy.”

Yet this is what their ‘just transition’ entails – simply to address the concocted calculation that decarbonisation would reduce by 1,5 degrees C what is a historically proven, naturally occurring cycle of warming and cooling periods.

Finally, another falsehood in the February 18 article is that Spain, Germany and Canada are managing their ‘just transition’ well. No, they are not. Unemployment is up, and electricity costs have driven industry away to China and India. Alberta in Canada, which sits on a massive oil reserve, is revolting because of the green regulations which Ottawa imposes.

Journalism without credibility does not belong in Business Report.

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