Virtually all heavy industry across the West is now in chronic decline. It's all been handed to China. Manufacturing jobs are hollowed out everywhere in the West, striking at the heart of our power-intensive sectors like electric arc steel, aluminium smelting, and fertiliser production. Once-universal baseload power - abundant, dense, cheap, reliable - is largely being degraded and decommissioned in favour of the costly pipe dream of wind and solar technology. This pursuit of intermittent, rarified sunlight and wind power is the costliest social experiment in human history, estimated to cost $275 trillion to meet Net Zero. This was a PR target dreamed up to create a new pan-global society in the smouldering ashes of our once predictable lives. The supply chain for this transition of power has been handed to Beijing. China now produces roughly 90% of all photovoltaic components, refined critical minerals, and panel hardware—cementing its position as the greatest manufacturing power in history through an unprecedented transfer of Western wealth. In place of high-density power generation, more than a million wind turbines and an estimated 9 billion solar panels are now scattered across our open farmlands, hillsides, and coastal vistas. Because these sources are intermittent and unreliable, integrating them into existing power grids presents a colossal $21 trillion global infrastructure challenge. This may well go down as the single greatest transfer of public assets by elected democratic governments in world history. Without any serious consultation with their own citizens, Western governments eagerly aligned with the UN and signed onto framework agreements like the 2015 Paris Accord. This end goal of rising networks of socialism and globalism is the certain destruction of sovereignty, democracy and freedom. What began as voluntary international targets has rapidly morphed into binding domestic legislation. The resulting legacy systematically excluded taxpayers from decision-making, while elite-driven administrations power ahead. These socialist leaderships are committing billions in subsidies to unproven pet projects—such as Australia’s grandiose plan to become the world's first green hydrogen superpower. Prior to this shift, Western industrial policy prioritised dense, dispatchable energy security. Today, mostly socialistic governments lock in multi-decade decarbonisation commitments that outlast their electoral tenures by decades. Vast tracts of public and agricultural land are greenlit and bulldozed for transmission corridors, access roads, and sprawling industrial turbine arrays. It's all to serve an intangible belief system that vilifies carbon dioxide, the driver of essential energy and biological growth. The result: The most expensive household power bills in modern history, the destruction of dispatchable coal and gas capacity, and severe damage to national industrial, economic, and defensive resilience. Net Zero stands as perhaps the most diabolical act of self-inflicted harm ever visited upon democratic nations by their own leadership. Government by decree is the government of Lenin, not government by representation. Locking in 30-year subsidy contracts strips future generations of their democratic right to adjust failed policy based on real-world performance. It's a brutal, heavy-handed use of power.