The Problem With Net Zero - Konstantin Kisin (Video)

In this 25 February 2026 published video, 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 incentivized toward economic suicide by a government that prioritizes “waffle” over the survival of its own industrial base.

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 reality of a shrinking economy
• The urgent need to prioritize cheap, reliable energy over ideological virtue signals

https://youtu.be/tN_iuAnoZ8E

Timestamps:
00:00 Net Zero’s Economic and Geopolitical Failures
05:42 Energy Prices and Carbon Accounting Illusions
07:18 Why Ideologies Appeal to Lost Generations
10:00 Status Games Drive Activist Movements
12:22 Greta Thunberg and Incentive Structures
15:13 Personal Branding and Business Mentorship
16:21 Historical Amnesia and Educational Gaps
19:03 Travel Exposes Western Privilege and Safety
22:30 Direction of Travel Matters More Than Absolutes
25:03 Parasites Need Problems to Solve
31:33 Soviet Subversion and Western Self-Destruction
34:38 Israel-Palestine Through an Ideological Lens
37:53 Ukraine Support and European Weakness
41:03 National Pride Erosion and Military Service
45:00 Podcast Success Takes Years of Investment
51:34 Welfare Dependency Traps Young Men
58:01 Video Games Cannot Replace Real Life Achievement
1:02:15 Long-Form Conversations Change Political Discourse
1:09:06 Police Officers Make Split-Second Life-Death Decisions
1:23:25 Economic Solutions: Energy, Taxes, and Growth
1:28:30 Illegal Immigration and British Values
1:34:21 Integration Over Diversity Politics
1:39:50 Wealthy Brits Leaving Due to Cultural Hostility