Plenty of that fuzzy thinking has to do with climate, and the UK's and the London "green" policies are harming Londoners. The Daily Sceptic's Tilak Doshi has some details.

The UK papers carried stories recently about the punishing penalties that London’s drivers have paid under Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ulez (ultra-low emission zone) scheme. Under this scheme, a daily fee of £12.50 is charged on older petrol and diesel cars which enter the zone. The GB News headline reads: ‘Sadiq Khan’s Ulez sees motorists fork out millions in penalties despite pleas it’s “not about making money”.’ A Freedom of Information request revealed that more than £70 million has been raised through Ulez penalties from drivers living in London.

The Ulez scheme was introduced in 2019 covering Central London. The increase in Ulez penalties followed the expansion of the scheme in 2021, to include both the North and South Circular roads covering an area of 3.8 million people. Ulez coverage then grew further in 2023 to include the whole of Greater London. It now covers over 1,500 square kilometres and approximately nine million people.

Londoners are fighting back:

A search on X – the least censored of social media outlets by far — on ‘Blade Runners’ yields many entries with videos of activists in London, who sabotage, vandalise or remove Ulez cameras, sometimes in broad daylight. Gadfly social media commentator Katie Hopkins made a parody that went viral on YouTube about how people are using cheap filling foam to vandalise Ulez cameras.

Sadiq Khan claims that he is fighting for climate justice, Londoners’ health and a better future for everyone.

Sadiq Khan is fighting for climate justice, perhaps, or at least, he thinks he is. But Londoner's health?

The "ultra-low emissions zone" scheme seems much like "climate" or "green energy" schemes always favored by climate scolds. The extra expenses they entail don't hurt the wealthy elites that favor these schemes, but they do fall hardest on the people least able to afford not only the fees but also the expensive electric vehicles one would need to evade them. It's a small wonder the people of London are rebelling, and the more Sadiq Khan pushes these policies, the more Londoners are going to resist.

And, as Tilak Doshi notes, the science that Sadiq Khan bases this on is, at best, questionable.

The Nobel Laureate for Physics in 2022 John Clauser said that “[t]he popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasised into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience”. With Elon Musk’s DOGE revelations, the corruption of science by USAID and other agencies channelling US taxpayers’ money for climate agencies and NGOs is now documented with receipts.

It's not all a matter of money, either. The increased fees are driving more Londoners into using public transport, like London's famous "Tube" system, essentially a subway, but there's a catch to that as well. The air quality, it turns out, in the underground Tube is worse than the air at street level; in some places quite a bit worse.

A report by the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants claimed that air at Hampstead station, the deepest Tube station in London, had a particulate matter concentration 30 times worse than that of standing by a busy road in the capital. A 2017 estimate of the social costs of air pollution from cars in the UK found that it amounted to £25 a year or less for each car. In other words, just two entry fees for the Central London Ulez would cover the social cost of this pollution for a whole year.

The constant refrain from the London mayor’s office that the city has a toxic air quality ’emergency’ that is dangerous to people’s health is questionable. Like much of the propaganda that pervades mainstream media coverage of the ‘climate emergency’” it is unconvincing. London’s air pollution levels have dramatically declined over the past few decades, along with that of other major cities such as Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York, which were known for their smog-filled skies in the 1950s and 1960s.

That's not helping the health of Londoners. It's harming it. Cities are, at best, dirty places, but air quality in most of the Western world's cities has improved remarkably since about 1965 - I've seen that for myself. Any Boomer can tell you tales of Los Angeles and its famed smog, and our grandparents could have told us of the days when every urban apartment relied on coal for heating and cooking, and the cities were covered in a permanent layer of soot.

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Of course, we can't argue this issue without noting, perhaps with very little sympathy, that Londoners voted for this. We might well lay the blame for this in any number of areas, but education would surely be one. We didn't have as much of this kind of horse squeeze making its way into public policy when the schools still taught mathematics, reading and writing, math, and most of all, critical thinking. Too many school systems now define "critical thinking" as "you'll think what we damn well tell you to think." 

Worst of all: These policies never land heavily on those who most loudly favor them. They will retain their private jets, their yachts, and their filet Mignon with spotted owl appetizers.  And it’s not the climate they are pushing for. It’s power, the power to control what hoi polloi say and do, and that’s for sure and for certain. The foot soldiers of the climate movement are loud, loutish, and annoying. But the leaders, many of them, wield power. London, today, is showing us the result of that.