But you're missing the point: any costs imposed on the British public now - and they are huge - will make no difference at all to the global CO2 concentrations upon which climate change apparently turns. These costs are, quite literally pointless. Actually, they are worse than that, because the best chance we will have of adapting to changes in climate will be to be prosperous when it happens. If we've chosen to self-harm whilst we wait, the worse the impact will be. I just see no possible answer to this objection.
But you're missing the point: any costs imposed on the British public now - and they are huge - will make no difference at all to the global CO2 concentrations upon which climate change apparently turns. These costs are, quite literally pointless. Actually, they are worse than that, because the best chance we will have of adapting to changes in climate will be to be prosperous when it happens. If we've chosen to self-harm whilst we wait, the worse the impact will be. I just see no possible answer to this objection.
So leccy demand is going down but installed generation capacity at its highest ever!