The following report is by Euro News:
Sweden’s new right-wing government has sparked an outcry after scrapping the Ministry of Environment in a move the opposition has branded “devastating”.
Previously, the ministry was a high-profile stand-alone department with a minister in the cabinet, but now it will operate as part of another ministry instead.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson unveiled his new cabinet on Tuesday, and although he did appoint a Minister of Climate and Environment – 26-year-old Liberal MP Romina Pourmokhtari – she will work under Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch, the new Minister for Energy, Business and Industry, rather than lead her own ministry.
The leader of the Swedish Greens, Per Bolund, noted that for the first time in 35 years Sweden would have no dedicated environment ministry.
It is impossible to describe more clearly how little this government values the environment and the climate. This is a historic decision with devastating consequences for environmental issues.
Said Bolund
Pär Holmgren, a Swedish Green Party MEP, said, “expect huge cuts in green funding leading to a devastating impact on climate policies that we, the Greens, worked so hard to put in place.”
Isabella Lövin, chairperson of the board at the Stockholm Environmental Institute and herself a former minister of environment, said that green issues in Sweden had been “set back 35 years”.
It’s not the first time that environmental issues in Sweden have been handled by other ministries.
Before the first dedicated environment ministry was established in 1987, the Ministry of Agriculture and then the combined Ministry of Environment and Energy dealt with those policy matters.
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, one of the first in the world, was established back in 1967.
What is the new Swedish government doing about the climate crisis?
In the Swedish government’s new programme, unveiled last week, the environment is flagged as one of the seven key priority areas to tackle in the first year of office, although many initiatives are more closely linked with the energy crisis.
The policy agenda, outlined in a 62-page document, committed Sweden to meet current national and international goals – like the Paris Agreement – on reducing carbon emissions.
The government has also earmarked more money for nuclear power, with €36 billion credit guarantees to build new nuclear power stations, and also plans to introduce rules to make it more difficult to shut down existing nuclear plants.
And to ensure the safety of electricity supply in the shorter term (and to keep prices low), the government will investigate whether it’s viable to reopen two nuclear power stations in the south of the country which were closed over the last few years.
A price cap for energy bills, funded by the government, will be introduced by November, and the country’s network of charging points for electric vehicles will be expanded.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
I am not an expert in Swedish politics by any means, nor am I there, but when I look at this, I honestly think that is just another bait & switch like all the other regime changes we have been seeing throughout the year. Maybe I am just being overly pessimistic, but I suspect that a lot of these same climate goals will still be covertly pushed and applauded by an unsuspecting population that is being propagandized in a different way. But regardless, this move still affirms that global push to “ignite the right” and attempt to dismantle all the “woke” agendas, even though it is the same stuff with a new coat of paint.
As always with everything, I’d advise prudent and caution.
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Proverbs 14:15
But if you are in Sweden or in the Scandinavian lands, let us know your thoughts on this move.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Im from sweden,
but not so political interested. But I heard that we are going to invest 400 billions SEK (swedish krona) on nuclear power.
https://www.svd.se/a/rEa5Wm/m-satsar-400-miljarder-for-ny-karnkraft
I think people will think this is good. Because on the electrical Bills here are going throu the roof and also gas and diesel prices.
We shut down other nuclear power plants some years ago. And I read something about Greta wanted nucleae power back. So there is a agenda probably.
Thanks for letting me know. It had completely slipped my mind, but I have touched on the nuclear push before, and apparently nuclear radiation is somehow “green” now HAHA!
All of this climate talk! Did you notice something BIG that ties in with this? What is missing here? GOD! With these “climate activists”, God isn’t really needed; they seem to put mankind on par with God, like we’re screwing up the planet SO badly and there is absolutely NOTHING God (if, in their estimation, He even EXISTS!) can do about it, like He’s in Heaven wringing His hands! THAT’S what’s most Satanic about this whole “climate activism” push!
Another thing I don’t like is all of this “mother Earth” GARBAGE! It’s like I say, what about Father God INSTEAD? 😉 I remember hearing about the Gaia theory in high school in the mid 1990s, but it was (of course!) presented as the Gaia FACT, basically, the idea Earth is a living organism, or some related foolishness! Some things are alive, but obviously, rocks aren’t, for example!