OK, let's take off the blinders. There is plenty of fuel available to heat and cool the homes in Belgium, Germany, and everywhere else. Coal is abundant. Natural gas is overwhelmingly abundant (details can be provided if you like). And while it takes an ungodly amount of time to build a nuke plant, there is an infinite amount of nuclear fuel available (spent fuel can be pre-processed and re-used virtually forever).
But "we" have chosen to turn our collective back on all this fuel and embrace the malarkey called, "renewables," on the dubious belief - based on intrinsically flawed computer models - that something good will result from our suffering. Note please that the "benefit" of this suffering is way off in the future and far from certain, while the suffering itself is immediate and definite. Want to go through a hard Winter with your thermostat set at 50 degrees F? I sure as hell don't. But that's what Germans have been told about the coming Winter.
Read the following statement carefully: "Put simply,
China’s CO2 emissions have increased more since 2005 than the entire current amount of CO2 emissions from the USA. Today, CO2 emissions from China exceed the combined total of all such emissions from the USA, the UK and the EU countries."
China and India have "promised" to START reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, oh, about 2030 (or later).
By what convoluted logic does it make sense to turn our backs on abundant resources to fuel our lives, when this horrible sacrifice will make NO DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER in the climate during the life of any living person, and probably longer (or never)?
Make no mistake; the leaders of Belgium and Germany could SOLVE the current crisis by simply saying, "Never mind. We are going to use our coal, continue operating our nuke plants, and start fracking for natural gas, IMMEDIATELY."
What can you say about a self-inflicted injury? Any sympathy? Not from here.
For the record, that quoted paragraph above comes from this article:
There’s something wrong about the way we’ve discussed global climate change and the ways to avert it. It is unlikely that we will be able...
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