Ensuring the energy transition is equitable

While the impacts of change are real, the state mandated interventions are all too often ideologically driven or worse targeted at maintaining voter support. As all centrally controlled economies have shown a bunch of bureaucrats and political hacks are incapable of determining and managing the needs and requirements of a large and varied group of people, and the almost universal failure of efforts to regenerate areas affected by economic change proves the point.

Social mobility, the ability and mindset to move to where the work is was often a major factor in the growth and success of the old industrial areas. The lack of such is now a major factor in the problems now faced. Owning your own home is always a good slogan and a vote winner and in stable times a good thing generally but it has a down side if circumstances outside your control require you to up sticks and move or be left subsisting on the dole.

The solutions to these problems are complex but the simplistic throwing of ever larger quantities of public money at them simply doesn’t work, except in buying votes for cynical or deluded politicians.

Useless to say something, but you’re just only hunting a Fata Morgana, a mirage. The planet is a closed system, but the main factor of energy usage , the population, is growing. Therefore you have to transform more and more not usable energy into for us all usable energy. This alone already costs resources, energy beforehand itself and quite a percentage is lost into the environment and unused again. So you want more and more, but at the same time less and less? That’s quite impossible and crazy. You’d better get this schizophrenia treated quickly at a trusted forensic hospital of your choice. lol