“Green growth” programs have been all the rage among government planners across the developed Western countries. President Biden’s misnamed $369-billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), celebrated its first anniversary as the most aggressive Federal action on tackling the climate crisis in American history.
The EU’s $270 billion “Green Deal Industrial Plan” was launched in February with the goal of enhancing the competitiveness of Europe's net-zero industry against the US’ green subsidies promised by Biden’s IRA.
But the Church of Climate is a broad-tented one, and it has its own increasingly-radicalized sceptics straying from the ‘green growth’ party line. The sceptics are none other than from within the Church’s inner sanctum, a global group of 789 “climate policy researchers” surveyed in Nature Sustainability, a sister peer-reviewed scientific journal to the prestigious Nature journal
