Professorial Pride

His Majesty's Government has proclaimed that the master race will require fossil fuels to generate a quarter of its energy even by 2050, after the climate breakdown has been allowed to proceed more or less unhindered for the intervening twenty-seven years. The Department for Energy and Sham Net Zero (DESNZ), whose business it is to self-fulfil this profitable prophecy for the benefit of the deserving classes, stated that the figure is derived from the findings of the Climate Change Committee, though naturally His Majesty's Government does not deign to show its working just for a bunch of tree-hugging woke boffins. The CCC denies that its figures justify any such conclusion; it is perhaps a measure of the ivory-tower delusions of self-importance afflicting mere experts that they respond with such haughty ingratitude even when real people condescend to name-check them.