In his April 2 Press Club Speech, outgoing Net Zero Economy Agency head Greg Combet set out the government’s grand vision for our future. Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050; an electricity grid dominated by cheap and morally superior wind and solar power; a reinvigorated manufacturing sector (producing green steel and solar panels); and a new age of economic prosperity as a renewable energy superpower no less.

This vision is plainly and obviously utopian.