A History Lesson from Ancient Rome

 Vince Coyner has a bit of history for us in a piece at the American Thinker entitled Lessons for Voters from Rome's Decline in Britain

At the end of the 2nd century AD, Britain was a fully developed province of the Roman Empire. It was as Roman as any city in the Empire. While still largely rural, Roman Britain developed towns and cities that mirrored those found in Italy or North Africa and connected them with a spectacular roadway. They had majestic villas, sprawling estates, baths, plumbing and, of course, aqueducts. The Romans brought industrial sophistication to mining, unprecedented architectural capabilities, and improved agriculture. The province was awash in imported goods from around the Empire: Wine from Gaul, olive oil from Hispania, pottery from North Africa, and philosophy teachers from Greece; all the while exporting precious metals, agricultural products, shellfish, and salt across the Empire.

One of the extraordinary things about the Roman Empire was the unprecedented, widespread prosperity it created from the Pillars of Hercules to the Levant and virtually everywhere in between. While there had always been a market for fine goods such as silk, porcelain, and exotic foods, the Romans brought those goods to the masses. By building roads, ports, and transportation hubs, and funding the trade necessary to support the Legions, the Romans drove economies of scale and created a mass market for goods that had formerly been available only to the rich. In doing so, they created a cosmopolitan empire so thoroughly Roman that people from what are today Morocco, Britain, Germany, and Israel likely spoke some version of the same language and would have found familiar products available wherever they were in the Empire.

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In less than a century, Roman Britain went from a rich, flourishing cosmopolitan province with bustling urban centers and goods from across the known world to an economic and cultural backwater where modern architectural, plumbing, and farming techniques seemed to have disappeared along with most of the imported goods.

Most of the people living on the island in the middle of the 4th century probably assumed, as most 2022 Americans do, that civilization’s advances move only in one direction—upward. They expected to continue to enjoy inexpensive food and pottery and clothing from elsewhere while selling their wares in return. The government would continue to protect them and maintain the ports and roads that facilitated trade.

While the United States is not the Roman Emmpire, we have some of the same advantages. But the climate change alarmists' war on energy will cause us to run out of diesel fuel soon. Electricity blackouts are predicted because we have an inadequate supply of natural gas to run our power plants, and because so called "green" energy is not reliable. Yet we depend on both. Without diesel, trucks can't make deliveries to stores, so our food runs out. And think about all of our devices that use electricity: telephones, computers, cooking our food, pumping our water supply, pumping our gasoline, and on and on. In many ways, we are more vulnerable than the British were at the end of the Roman Empire.  If population declines as it did in Britain when Rome collapsed, we can expect 200 million deaths.  

What you have to understand is that the chaos, death and destruction that climate change alarmism is bringing is a feature not a bug.  That is the goal.  People who can not produce anything themselves want power.  This is all about power for those who call themselves our elites.