How not to endear yourself to the locals

To me it's a bit catch 22

If we go renewable too soon we risk becoming an uncompetitive economy, but if we don't we lose the moral high ground.

being sensible the Pandemic has given us an opportunity to reset.

We have businesses that won't reopen as they aren't economic unless they can cram people in, etc.

So we will have empty shops etc, and people out of work.

so we retrain people to fit insulation etc.
we rewire shops so that they don't have bright lights on all night.
we devise a scheme to insulate older properties and those with solid walls.we supply and fit this free. This then reduces the carbon footprint of those properties, It would also make heat pumps viable in those properties.
we financially reward people for being green and penalties for being non green, Lower council tax for recycling etc, so lets say 12.5% off for solar panels, 10% added for single glazing. 10% off for regular recycling. ( just on my street  within 4 houses each side, 2 put everything in the black bags ).

standing charges on Utilities limited to 10% of the bill, at the moment for example If I use 1KW of electricity it effectively costs 35P a Unit, use 20 units and its effectively 15P a unit