I know a lot of this money just gets siphoned off into green tech firms anyway, but something that I'm actually proud of Britain for is how we've gotten rid of coal and opened up all sorts of windfarms and dams. 40% renewable energy for a nation is no mean feat.
Now we're going to go backwards. And the money won't even go somewhere else useful. It'll get scraped by Tory organisations and schemes like sending immigrants to Rwanda. NHS and education won't see a scrap of it.
You jest, but it seems like 70% of anti-environmentalist arguments are just an emotional attachment to pollution. When I was in sixth grade, we watched a video talking about climate change and the actions on mitigating it, and the video both-sides it by saying "but on another hand, are we willing to give up our American way of life?"
Not me mentally screaming "YES! This country is uncultured dogshit!"