Sustainability and Greta the Climate Soothsayer

"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”     
- Dr. Paul Ehrlich, Stanford professor of Biology

World Health Organization air quality map

The non-profits and think-tanks have now adopted and added another descriptor to their strategical predictions – sustainable. Mimicking and adopting the dictates of U.N. Agenda 21/2030 Sustainable Development 17 goals, everything is now sustainable. If it is not sustainable, it is not hip and worthy of discussion.

The sustainable reports and forecasts are apparently made more challenging by a “mercurial and unpredictable” president. What they mean is that they cannot control President Trump and thus have a hard time influencing the outcome of his policies. He is not playing ball with them by their rules.

They bemoan the “disappearance” of the “liberal progressive order” (read globalism) and its possible replacement with “autocratic dictatorship” influenced by “nationalist populism” and the narrative “China owes us.”

In an executive summary of global trends, the Atlantic Council describes economic migration as a “potential plus for the West.” Statistics forecast that the U.S. population will decline by 2030 if we are not receiving “migrants.” But the “trick will be how fast they can be integrated” and contributing to the economy.

As Europe has shown, the unchecked economic migration has been “politically destabilizing” not to mention erasing borders and national identity. But it was the intent of the EU to become a super state with no sovereignty left in any of its member-states.

Global warming is still everyone’s boogey man.  The climate change industry is back with its Wunderkind Greta Thunberg, the truant teenager, this time at Davos, Switzerland, wondering why the heads of state are not listening and heeding her dire warnings about climate change. The climate change industry might be in danger of suffering setbacks if the shrill and unscientific consensus voices at Davos are not supported. How dare you ignore climate change as a threat?

In her shrill, furious, and hysterical speech, Thunberg said, “Our house is still on fire. Your inaction is fueling the flames by the hour. We (who is we?) are still telling you to panic, and to act as if you loved your children above all else… “We don’t want these things done in 2050, 2030, or even 2021. We want this done now.”

We, the good parents whose children go to school and learn, do not need to be chastised by a truant, arrogant, and smug teenager who knows nothing about climatology and should go back to school to study Economics and science before she can lecture states on policy and the rest of the planet on how to live.

How extraordinarily irresponsible that she has a platform to speak, threatening us, “how dare you,” reading a script prepared by environmental activists who are her adult handlers! 

Niall Ferguson from the Hoover Institution wondered why she did not address the biggest polluters of the planet – “Sixty percent of CO2 emissions since Greta Thunberg was born is attributable to China… but nobody talks about that.” Everyone expects Europe and the U.S. to fix the problem. He suggested that India and China must be constrained, and Greta should travel to Beijing and Delhi, not New York and Davos.

Environmentalists have declared that poor countries should not be allowed to use fossil fuels for cheap energy. They can’t be allowed development based on cheap energy from coal - rich countries must provide them with everything they need to produce expensive and unreliable renewable energy.

If you don’t help third world countries and transfer wealth to them, they are going to experience sea levels rise, horrible floods, and severe weather. Apparently, the omnipotent humans can mitigate weather and, if we listen to Democrat Party political ads while campaigning for the presidency, they can stop climate change if we all pay a carbon tax, very profitable for the climate change industry.

The world, as decreed by the U.N. migratory plans, apparently has “environmental migrants” (mostly male) as a result of climate change, sea level rise, and inclement weather. They are no longer economic opportunists in search of a country that gives generous welfare benefits to such migrants without request for work in kind, just “free” money. They are fleeing climate change and wars, leaving women and children behind to fend for themselves.

Billionaires and famous environmentalists have already told poor countries that they cannot adopt our Western lifestyle with cheap electricity from coal because the earth would suffer too much – it is better that they remain primitive and poor, hoping that the developed world would provide them with expensive solar panels and taxpayer subsidies for electricity and battery storage technology from the rich Western nations. Energy production in the poor world must be done sustainably otherwise Mother Gaia will be in Armageddon danger.

There is nothing that we do as human beings that does not involve some type of energy, most of which is provided by fossil fuels. Solar panels and wind turbines cannot function without the use of fossil fuels, they must be maintained and supplanted by energy and oil provided from fossil fuels or nuclear and hydro power. When the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow above 32 MPH, renewable energy must use electricity produced by other means.

Margaret Atwood wisely said, “If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns, breakdown of social order, water shortages, and outbreaks of bloodshed and disease.”

Using corn as biofuel causes erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and a dead zone. Corn needs fossil fuels to grow because it requires a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. And there will be a shortage of corn for food if it is used for biofuel instead.

Fossil fuels and steam have created our modern civilization. Now environmentalists want us to devolve to a time when there was no cheap fossil fuel; they want us to invest in expensive renewables which would never supply enough energy for large economies. Only in the progressive universe will renewable energy be somehow safe, healthy, clean, and durable.

Elizabeth Warren, Democrat presidential contender, said, “I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It’s an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet.”

If you ask anyone, who is charging their electric cars from the many stations that have popped up all over the country, where the electricity is coming from, they will tell you that it is from renewable energy sources which is not true.

The real reason for the global warming hoax later repackaged into the climate change industry was stated plainly by Dave Bower, Friends of the Earth Founder. “We must reclaim the roads and the plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers, and return to wilderness tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.” They want to destroy capitalism. There won’t be many places for humans to go if this green new globalist world becomes reality.

Paul Driessen said it best, “not using fossil fuels is tantamount to not using energy. It is economic suicide and eco-manslaughter.” Perhaps that is the intent.  Maurice Strong, head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (the birthplace of U.N. Agenda 21), stated, “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”