The government's own official Committee on Climate Change says that "a decade has been wasted in the fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
"The policies were not delivering".
According to a report published on 30 June, the problem has been the government relying on nudges, exhortation, and sweet-talk rather than "crunchy policies that provide strong incentives".
In our words, rather than the official committee's: othing less than widespread public ownership and workers' control is likely to swing economic activity sufficiently away from the imperatives of short-term profit-grabbing for a minority.