Wind power is far from ‘woke’
Energy policy is, ultimately, a judgement call on the future. It is a suite of decisions tied to predictions about demand, supply, geopolitics, and public consent. Some decisions pay off for decades. Others unravel as the world shifts. Even 'letting the market decide' requires a strategy. Markets sit within infrastructure, taxation, and regulation. These, too, are political choices. Renewable energy has become associated with one specific vision of the future: the need to transition to net zero. Because that case is sometimes made in moral rather than practical terms, some on the Right have viewed the sector as an example of the 'madness of net zero stupidity', evidence of the current government's 'eco zealotry' and based not on science or economics but 'a literal ideology'.
