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Konstantin Kisin joins James Smith to discuss the economic and strategic implications of the Net Zero policy.

Konstantin Kisin joins James Smith to discuss the problem with Net Zero, a quiet crisis where ideological virtue signaling is actively making the West poor, weak, and strategically irrelevant. Kisin explains how our obsession with carbon metrics functions as a dangerous accounting trick that exports British industry to China while gaslighting citizens into accepting a lower standard of living. They strip back the myths of modern activism to expose a deeper civilizational time bomb: a generation suffering from historical amnesia and a lack of meaning, now being incentivised toward economic suicide by a government that prioritizes "waffle" over the survival of its own industrial base. 👁️ Try Neutonic: https://www.neutonic.com/jamessmith 🧪 Check your Test: https://www.manual.co/smith 📝 Business Mentoring: https://www.jamessmith.business 🏋🏼‍♂️ Online Coaching: https://www.jamessmithacademy.com We cover: ⬛ Why Net Zero is an accounting trick that exports emissions and imports poverty ⬛ The "Status Game" behind climate activism and doomsday narratives ⬛ How the welfare state traps young men in a cycle of dependency and video games ⬛ Why mass immigration is used to conceal the…

People in this episode

Host: James Smith

Guest: Konstantin Kisin

Topics covered

• Net Zero
• climate activism
• economic impact
• energy policy
• historical amnesia
• dependency culture

Keywords

• Net Zero
• carbon metrics
• economic suicide
• climate activism
• energy prices
• dependency
• immigration
• historical amnesia

Sponsors

Neutonic, Manual, James Smith Business, James Smith Academy

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