We’re at Yes Minister’s 4th stage of denial with energy as well as Covid. Where the deliberate blockers of…

We’re at Yes Minister’s 4th stage of denial with energy as well as Covid. Where the deliberate blockers of essential public infrastructure and administration now use the results of that blocking to argue against fixing the damage, saying it’s too hard, and too late. /1

That was their trick with Covid too, to allow it to spread so far and so fast, that it was then possible to say ‘you can’t put that genie back in the bottle now, we’re all going to have to be infected.’ With energy they say the massive changes needed to electrify the economy…/2

…(after their decades of blocking all of those changes) are now a reason to say it can’t be done, it’s too hard, and too late. 3/3

(For those unfamiliar with the Yes Minister 4-stage blocking strategy.) https://t.co/Ezw9oqy9E6