Those are old and inefficient drives, but I don’t know how anyone lives in the UK with those sort of electricity prices. That is a preview of the future the degrowthers wish for us. And I want absolutely no part of that.
We should be aiming for absurd energy abundance, not austerity. In reality (as we’ve already seen in the UK) austerity does not work and cannot work. It is a philosophy of failure and ennui. It will not save the planet and in its extreme cases will lead billions into starvation.
Degrowth is another form of death wish, no different than the climate deniers. Both are clownish idiots.