So, what exactly is the endgame here? Do people simply lose their pensions so that their retirement funds can cosplay as venture capitalists for politically fashionable fantasies? How is this supposed to unfold? If only a handful were affected—ideally the well-connected darlings perched on society’s upper balconies—it would be swept quietly under the bureaucratic rug. But this isn’t small. This isn’t containable. This is a slow-motion detonation.
The green fairy tale isn’t paying out the way its evangelists swore it would, and now it’s ripping a chasm through the balance sheets of retirement funds. That gap has two ways to close: the fund collapses and people lose their lifelong savings, or the managers march hat in hand to the state and demand a bailout. And given that public finances in nearly every Western country are already stretched thinner than the excuses of a failed minister, good luck making that palatable.
You can bet the Green Blob will respond the only way it knows how: with even louder disinformation campaigns, more shrieking at dissenters, more moral grandstanding to drown out the arithmetic. But they’re about to run into an enemy immune to propaganda—people who suddenly realize their retirement is gone. That’s a vicious audience. Hungry. Cornered. And unforgiving.
No matter how you tilt the lens, the picture is rotten. There’s no pretty path, no clever shortcut, no narrative bandage for what’s coming. It’s ugly, and the ugliness is about to get personal.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/net-zero/sweden-net-zero-pension-push-cautionary-tale-britain/