Make no mistake, though; our home-grown scolds would love nothing more than to bring our modern lifestyle to a screeching halt, and to that end, it would be shocking if they were not looking to their British counterparts. One of the squeakiest of those squeaky wheels is one Dale Vince, a primary donor and activist associated with the road-blocking group "Just Stop Oil."

Dale Vance is now pushing for eco-panic to be brought into British elementary schools.

While Vince runs his onshore wind farms, children as young as seven are being educated in the technology of the past by his foundation-funded Ministry of Eco Education (MEE). Fed a diet of climate and ecological catastrophe, the children are also being encouraged to build their own model wind turbines.

At this age, children probably don’t understand what electricity is and a primer explaining the difference between an amp and a volt might be more useful. Or perhaps just learning to read and count properly. Times change, but probably not very much. When your correspondent was seven, the nuns at his Catholic primary school were very excited by something called the Second Vatican Council and scrapbooks were kept about something that in truth meant nothing to Dartford schoolchildren. I have it in mind that slightly older pupils were making models of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Get them young and you get them for life, as the Jesuits say. Meanwhile, any doubts about the existence of the Almighty would have been met with condign punishment similar in some ways to Vince’s recent suggestion that “climate denial” should be illegal.

Oh, check out the photo of Vince in that linked article. A keffiyeh? Seriously?

At this grade level, of course, school kids aren't prepared to give something like the climate change argument anything like a fair assessment. I suspect most of them aren't prepared to discuss the Second Vatican Council, for that matter, but that's neither here nor there. In pushing for this, Vince is operating on the old maxim "give me the boy and I'll show you the man," as in, "dump a bunch of nonsense into young skulls of mush and it becomes very hard to shift as the skulls got older."

But wait - who is this Dale Vince anyway, and what is that comment about running his onshore wind farms? Oh, it turns out that Dale Vince lives a pretty posh lifestyle - financed in part by those wind farms.

Just Stop Oil and Labour donor Dale Vince traveled by private jet, drank champagne, and 'had no problem in participating in conspicuous consumerism', his ex-wife told the High Court yesterday.

Kate Vince questioned her former husband's public commitment to a sustainable lifestyle, saying periods of their marriage had been marked by 'an exceptionally high standard of living' including luxury international travel, top-of-the-range petrol cars and designer clothing.

She denied she was using their High Court divorce hearing to humiliate her ex-husband, a £5million Labour donor and green energy entrepreneur estimated to be worth £100 million who has given high-profile support to environmental action groups Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion.

Oh, and those wind farms? They collect, it seems, a hefty subsidy.

Time for a closer look at Dale and his companies to see how well his claims stand up to scrutiny. My main findings are:

• Ecotricity and its sister companies have benefited from over £100m in direct and indirect subsidies since 2002.
• Dale Vince treats the group like a massive ATM, withdrawing over £7m from his director’s loan account over many years after selling some of his shares back to the company.
• Dale bought some shares in one of his subsidiary companies for £49 and sold them five years later to an unrelated company for more than £36m.
• ·He has since loaned £19.9m of his money back to his company to prop up its finances. This is quite a lot to lend from someone who claims to have only a few thousand in his current account and no other savings or investments.

Well, well, well. John Kerry, it seems, isn't a patch on this guy.

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So, Dale Vince isn't just your normal run of climate hypocrite like John Kerry, Al Gore, or Leonardo DiCaprio. He's a con artist, a flim-flam man of the first water, raking in great flipping bushel baskets of cash from climate schemes that make Al Gore's "carbon offsets" look like a downright pedestrian effort. He collects government cash and buys and sells shares "creatively" in a way that would make Nancy Pelosi blush. 

And he wants to inject his climate panic into British schools, perhaps in part to make sure that the gravy train won't be cut off.

He has counterparts here, in the United States, too. You'd better believe it - and if you have kids in school, pay attention to what they are being taught, and who is teaching it to them.