More good news

Here is a very interesting post that tells a very different story from the one we commonly get from the mainstream media, and that includes shows I generally like such as Tucker Carlson Tonight The article is at the American Thinker by Anony Mee (yes, a nom de plume) entitled Demographics: Deglobalization Will Fix Climate Change.

(Certainly, you should read the article itself. More interesting still, though it takes about an hour to watch, is the Peter Zeihan presentation embedded in the article. It paints a very bright outlook for the United States, if we can just avoid screwing it up ourselves.)

But back to the article itself. Mee makes the point, following Zeihan's analysis, that world wide, the population is in decline and will continue to decline throughout this century. The neo-Maltusians were wrong, as a lot of us said. Man has the unique ability to adapt to new environments. Declining population, along with inadequate fuel supplies that are easily disrupted mean that the Chinese will probably not attack us militarily. Russia is in even more of a pickle. She has lost according to news reports (which are unreliable) 10,000 troops in Ukraine. But due to population decline, Russia can not afford to lose even one trooper. (Also, what about the incompetence of Russian general staff losing 10,000 men in a fight with a smaller less militarily sophisticated nation.) While both countries remain as nuclear threats, their internal problems will keep them busy for a while at least.)

Meanwhile, on the issue of the climate:

The boogeymen of my youth—Erlich’s The Population Bomb and Toffler’s Future Shock—begat the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. That document and its spawn (Kyoto, Paris, UN 2020 and MDGs, UN 2030 and SDGs, etc.) are the base upon which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Green New Deal, and all other attempts at a massive North-to-South wealth transfer were built. As a body of work addressing “the environment,” all of this is now irrelevant.

Worldwide, the population is declining and it will continue to do so more and more precipitously for at least the rest of this century. Consumption, along with the required supporting industrialization, will contract right along with it. The population pyramid has turned into a population diamond.

I’m with Dr. Patrick Moore, a founder and former director of Greenpeace when he says that whatever anthropogenically accelerated climate change we’ve had has been a very good thing. It brought the world back from the near brink of a mass extinction event due to cold. In fact, the world has greened perceptibly since we began pumping carbon into the atmosphere. His most recent presentation digs into the science of this starting around the 12-minute mark.

The carbon currently being produced is being gobbled up by the expanding vegetation. We do not need to build massive pipelines to haul it across the nation to bury it in wells. Funnily enough, though, there is no outcry over carbon pipelines as there was for gas and oil pipelines. They are each as safe and, when buried, as undisruptive as the others.

We do not have to throw more bad money after bad money. (Remember Solyndra?) We do not have to cover square mile after square mile with solar panels and killer windmills that take more carbon to produce and install than they will ever recover in power generation. Did Biden even know what he was saying in Boulder, Colorado, after the fires? No one moves to Boulder to look at man-made monstrosities. They live there to dwell in a cathedral of God’s creation.

I would point out, though, that with declining populations, many things we enjoy today will become too expensive for the average person to afford. That is not necessarily all a bad thing. We have become much too dependent on cheap goods. Making things that last used to be the norm, so maybe a return to those times may also be a good thing. But overall, the outlook is good, unless...