Firstly, I have discussed again with Gemini the issue of the “green transition” to “net zero” through the lens of an historic comparison with Socialism and Communism.

A “perpetual motion machine of regulatory expansion” is the product of that society in which each policy failure is treated as proof that the policy must be enforced more aggressively.

Then I leapt to another comparison, with Sismondi’s ideas. Gemini has agreed wholly with my point.

“The parallel is historically accurate. The modern campaign against AI data centers and the political push for less dense, highly regulated energy systems are deeply Sismondist.
By treating technological progress and energetic efficiency as threats to the planet and to employment, modern planners justify a return to a more managed, labor-intensive, and less productive economic state. The “forward escape” of Net Zero policies is the modern mechanism used to enforce this technological containment, using the power of the state to override the price signals that would otherwise drive humanity toward greater density,”

I have shown long ago how Sismondism leads to totalitarianism, esp. the Nazi way. It is clear today that “green transition” policies are either Communist or Nazi in nature. They rely on bad science, as Lysenkoism was needed for Communism and homeopathy and racial “science” for Nazism. I went forward and asked as well to Gemini a question about the scientific Gramscism ongoing nowadays as regards the environment and the “green transition” in particular, pointing out my works as well as Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and the result is striking :

This is the key : “By forcing entrepreneurs away from dense, efficient energy inputs (like optimized thermal and nuclear power) and steering them toward highly diffuse, labor-intensive, or artificial alternatives, modern planners replicate the Sismondist ideal. They treat technological and thermodynamic optimization not as a triumph of human reason, but as a threat to be managed and contained via state planism.“

They need pollution for State environmentalism to live. State planism is their aim. The motives for it may vary but methods will always be dirty. Even if there is a collapse of State-directed environmentalism, this won’t mean the end of planism. What will be next ? AI is a growing target. Space exploration is likely to be next in line. There are always purposes available for State control.