Green Energy: What’s REALLY Going On?
I think your link is broken.
It's obvious, the gubment wants to have total control of EVERYTHING in EVERYONE'S lives. From what we drive and how far & where we can go, to how we cook our food, heat our water & dry our clothes, to how we heat and cool our homes.
Control. Power. Transfer of wealth. That's pretty much it. Anyone who believes the climate hysteria is a moron.
This post seems to be based on good intentions of good people. Now do bad intentions of those that wish to control the masses, push one world order, and the usurpation of freedom as we have known it with top down edicts…As I see it there is no great conspiracy there amongst most "environmentalists" or environmentally friendly folks. They simply want clean energy that doesn't pollute the environment like coal, oil, gas, and other fossil fuels do. They've been sold on the benefits of "clean" energy.
What nobody with an agenda mentions is the downsides or weaknesses of "clean" energy. The environmentalists think solar panels everywhere would be great without realizing that the energy it takes to make the things is mostly "dirty" and will never be balanced in many geographic locations. They aren't sold on many of the toxic materials in solar panels or electric batteries polluting the environment, or windmills disturbing the mating cycles of nearby animals. This completely ignores the large birds killed every year by giant windmills.
There is a small portion of the earths geography where people and perfect wind/solar combinations are right for going totally green. My understanding is that it is about 10% of the worlds geography and most of it is in the SW United States.
For the green industry they just want money, like EVERY other industry. So they sell their upside and never mention their negatives, or downplay them if confronted.
We humans have done bad things to our environment. There can be no denying that. To what extent it is irreversible I don't know. To what extent can be measured is limited. We know that pollution destroyed the oyster population in New York harbor and they're trying to bring it back. We know that we devastated bison herds out west. We intentionally hunted many birds to extinction in the last couple of centuries. Burning one (1) gallon of gasoline in a car creates over 19# of CO2. There are currently about 1 billion cars on the road worldwide. If 25% of them drive daily that is 250,000,000 cars. If those that are driven only consume 1/2 gallon of gas daily that is 2.5 billion tons of CO2 added daily. That's not nothing. Of course nature can easily swamp that with a volcano somewhere but that doesn't alter the fact that we do put the human finger on scales in a big way, from pollution to altering forests and lands to farming with less diversity of crops.
All that said the greenies ignore other facts. Our population is decreasing. China is in freefall. So by the number of humans alone the damage will reduce over the next several decades. We have improved fuel efficiency over the last 100 years so we're on a good track there. I'd love to see more nuclear power used everywhere but that's not on the table for awhile. We're re-shoring our industry to the USA and Mexico which will greatly reduce supply lines and thus reduce transportation emissions.
In the end anyone who supports anything doesn't want to see or discuss the negatives of their chosen path. We all do this. We support the 2nd Amendment and gun rights without ever wanting to bring up mass shootings that ARE more problematic here than elsewhere. We certainly don't want to bring up how easy it is to murder with a gun over a knife of club. There certainly is a downside to easy access to firearms, we just chose to not bring it up. We argue with those who do. I'll certainly argue that the need to protect ourselves from criminals and governmental tyranny outweighs the tragedy of firearms misuse, but that doesn't mean I want to focus on the negatives of my beliefs.
Cleaning up the environment is not something anyone is against. Most everyone would support cleaner air, water, and less toxins in the land that we've put there. This is an extremely complicated issue that no one solution can fix. Solar, wind, and EV's aren't a solution in the way that many think they are. But many have been sold on this idea so once convinced they are hard to dissuade.
Regards,
Doug
This post seems to be based on good intentions of good people. Now do bad intentions of those that wish to control the masses, push one world order, and the usurpation of freedom as we have known it with top down edicts…
To me an electric car is like a 100 mile dog leash.
Went visiting this weekend, still in this state. We ended up with 320 miles on the single tank of gas. Rode comfortably with 4 full sized adults in the car and had plenty of room in the trunk for luggage and purchases. Got back to Lafayette, refueled in 5 minutes, including a bio break. Drove to the other side of town to deliver a purchased item to it's new owner. We were home in plenty of time for dinner and a nap.
That is part of life I would really miss. It would also make zero difference to whatever cause the lefty jerks want to try to sell. That would make my loss, lets just say, "stressful".