Andrea Widburg at the American Thinker today has a post entitled The war on fossil fuels is ending - and the good guys are losing today. Widburg writes:
There are several entities that saw a benefit in declaring war on fossil fuel: The environmentalists who are so historically illiterate that they believe a world without fossil fuels will be a bucolic paradise, rather than a Hobbesian nightmare; the leftists who want to break the West to rebuild it as a socialist paradise; the Great Reset/New World Order crowd, which envisions happy, possession-free serfs; and the Chinese, who foresee a bloodless conquest of the West which, believe me, will not be anybody’s paradise. While the winner among these groups isn’t clear, the loser is coming into focus: Ordinary people across the Western world.
The latest example comes from Germany. In 2018, President Trump warned Germany, which was proudly shutting down its own coal production and refineries, not to become dependent on Russia’s oil and gas:
Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation. That is why we congratulate European states, such as Poland, for leading the construction of a Baltic pipeline so that nations are not dependent on Russia to meet their energy needs. Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.
Germany and other European countries, basking in Greta Thunberg’s approval and wallowing in their virtue, sneered at Trump’s words and went their own way. And then, in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. There is no “I told you so” big enough to encompass Trump’s prescience.
As an aside, this situation illustrates the problem with so very many people who do not understand basic scientific principles, or history either. Scientific principles tell us that the Sun, despite being hot, is actually a very diluted energy source. The Sun gets temperatures on earth as much as 120 degrees Fahrenheit at most. But most of the earth, most of the time, is much cooler, thank God. In case you hadn't noticed, to melt steel in a blast furnace, to take one example of energy needs in an industrial society, you need 2732 degrees F. And then there is the fact that solar panels are notoriously inefficient, converting only 17% of the solar energy that falls on them into electricity. Wind turbins suffer similary problems in terms of producing energy. Producing either solar panels or wind turbins have huge environmental problems that environmentalists overlook in their haste to get rid of fossil fuels.
But, okay, let's say that we cover enough of the earth with solar panels and wind farms to supply enough energy to power our society and of course, charge our electric cars. How much habitat would that remove? Why is it okay to remove habitat for solar panels, but not for housing? Aren't we always told we are destroying the environemt as it is? In Eastern North Carolina, solar panel farms occupy land that was fertile farm land. We are used to contradictions from the Left. They are the masters of congnative disonance. But really, what is going on?
My friend Wolf Howling has put together a list of the disasters unfolding across the world—Holland, Sri Lanka, Ghana—thanks to naïve governments or opportunistic elites who threw all their eggs into the green energy basket. Obama was willing to do that to America but Trump gave us a four-year respite.
Now, the Democrats are again trying to suck us back into a pre-modern time, although it’s unclear whether our ultimate overlords will be homegrown socialists, New World Order elites, or the Chinese. (The environmentalists are useless; they’re part of the wrecking ball, not part of the next phase.) Even though Congress refused to sign on to the madness of the New Green Deal, Biden’s rogue administrative state is going full speed ahead.
If you want to understand the massive fraud that’s being foisted upon us by multiple groups, all anxious to end the West’s centuries of dominance and, especially, the prosperous Pax Americana, take the time to read the too-little-heralded testimony that William Happer and Richard Lindzen gave in Congress last month. We are the victims of an enormous con that threatens to throw the world into darkness—and we’re currently beginning the very last battle in this sustained war.
So, what the beneficiaries of this climate change madness are hoping to gain is power, and of course, wealth. And they really don't care about the rest of us, as long as we service their needs like good little serfs. I did mention that too many are unaware of history. But the 19th century ended just 120 years ago. This was a time when the average person lived his or her entire life within 10 miles of where he was born until the invention of the bicycle. Horses were harnessed for power, but of course horses left bacterial laden manure everywhere, increasing deseases. Child birth was a true hazard to many women, and most children died within 5 years. Cancer and heart attacks weren't a problem because the average age at death was 40. The average person literally worked themselves to death. that's what the climate alramists have in mind for us.
Fianlly, I had a post the other day entitled It Is You Choice in which I alluded to the belief among the World Economic Forum scavengers that most of us constitute "useless" eaters. What these paragons of economic thought have not factored in, is that the luxuries we take advantage of, and they truly are luxuries, is because there are so many of us. People create markets. Without people and their needs and wants, there are no markets. Most of these items would be prohibitively expensive if made a few at a time, even for the rich. You see, most of them would not even have been invented in the first place if there were not enough people who could afford to buy them. One can not ignore the laws of economics any more than one can defy the laws of physics
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