So why are we making such an effort when so many other countries aren’t
Because it's the right thing to do! It's utterly bizarre that the UK is a world leader in renewables, but still buys oil from rather unpleasant regimes who don't like us very much
and has to occasionally pay wind farms not to generate because there isn't enough demand!
Even if you completely put aside the environmental arguments, the idea of our country being held over a barrel by the Arabs, or Putin, or some rather unpleasant folk in Latin America for our oil, is just absolutely nuts! Right now, we are boycotting Russian oil (for obvious reasons), yet we're actually still buying small amounts of Russian oil from India (after the Indians have added their cut, of course)!
As memories of our empire and world-leading position in the pecking order of nations, fades, we spend a lot of time collectively crying into our (warm) beer about the glory days when Britain was "great", and whining about how other countries are passing us, yet we're not actually showing any kind of leadership on the world stage, in the areas where we
could so easily take the front stage. Instead, we'll just wallow in our national apathy, wait for some other country to do this, and then moan some more about our place in the world.
Our country is one of the windiest in the developed world, and we have a huge length of coastline, yet we seem to have left it to other countries to become world leaders in wind turbine design. I mean, Denmark, of all places?! Surely we're bigger and better-resourced than Denmark?!
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Yet, instead of being world leaders, we just sit back and buy them off the Danes (and others), instead of having the world coming to us for the technology.
Similarly, we have some of the best potential in the world for tidal power, but instead of getting that famous British ingenuity and inventiveness to work, we just sit on our arses, competing against each other for the biggest NIMBY award.
I live just over the hill from what
was the world's first commercially operating nuclear power station, generating domestic electricity. Now we're going cap-in-hand to the Chinese and the French... Another squandered opportunity...
