Professor David Betz, who has made some pretty alarming predictions about public disorder in Britain, has spoken to the Daily Heretic about how an energy gap with blackouts or failures of gas delivery might create public disorder problems. He started off by talking about the infamous London Riots of 2011. Professor Betz said that these riots had on average 2000 participants with only 200 of the rioters that could be called ‘hard core’.
He said that if the lights went out on successive occasions it might get not 2000 people out on the streets but 20,000 with he implies a ten times the level of hard core rioters within that group.
Professor Betz always says how bad things we could get but always gives reasons for his belief, However, what’s anger inducing is that at least one of the fuses for an explosion of disorder, energy affordability and security, was directly built by Britain’s political classes. We now have an energy system that is creaking, expensive and which does not have access to easy to dispatch energy of the sort we used to have before the fetish for unreliable renewables, I tend to agree with Professor Betz that a massive power outage in somewhere like London or Birmingham or Manchester would bring violent chaos much worse than we saw in London in 2011.
Power cuts, especially if they are extended in time period or are frequent might kick of extreme violence and crime as well as fill the streets with angry Britons. A collapsing society will as Professor Betz says result in Britain ‘tribalising’, forming groups with others with whom they feel safer. There could be mass movements of people from cities who are trying to get away from the problems that politics and energy availability issues have created. What Professor Betz says should worry us because if order cannot be guaranteed and trust in the central government has been withdrawn by the public then Britain’s future as a modern day Lebanon or Yugoslavia might not be a vague prediction but become a reality.
Here’s the short, 10 minute clip of Professor Betz
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