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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Chimney Sweeps Making Comeback in Great Britain
Rising energy costs the cause
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
November 13, 2013 12:49 pm
Great Britain is in the middle of the largest boom in chimney sweeps since
Victorian times, the Cato Institute reports.
The boom is a result of high gas and electricity prices.
According to the Cato Institute:
Why are the energy prices so high? The British government’s
pathological obsession with renewable sources of energy. Converting
renewable energy (e.g., wind and solar) is much more expensive than
conventional sources of energy (e.g., coal and gas). Since the government
mandates that a certain percentage of energy consumption has to consist of
renewable sources, energy prices are rising – fast.
That leads to this amazing paradox: Progressivism started in Victorian
England – a time and place of tremendous and unprecedented material and
social progress that, nonetheless, also had a darker side. The stories of
workers living in freezing and damp dwellings, children chimney sweeps
suffocating while on the job, and environmental degradation, were both
horrific and true.The evolution of progressivism has come full circle and
progressives have turned reactionary: To combat the (highly uncertain)
effects of climate change, modern-day progressives have embraced policies
that lead to more burning of wood, freezing homes for the poor and
vulnerable, and chimney sweeps back at work. |
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