The real-world consequences of green extremism

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The real-world consequences of green extremism​

The real-world consequences of green extremism - Washington Examiner

Energy The real-world consequences of green extremism By Hugo Gurdon, Editor-in-Chief July 13, 2022 02:46 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Energy The real-world consequences of green extremism By Hugo Gurdon, Editor-in-Chief July 13, 2022 02:46 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print...

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18 Jun 2022 ~~ By Hugo Gurdon

Much of the world groans under immiserating rules handed down by a “theory class,” even though they obviously don’t work. The accolade for the most disastrous policy outcome is hotly contested, and Wednesday’s grim revelation of 9.1% inflation shows that President Joe Biden’s spending agenda is a strong contender. But even that might not take the cake.
Worse, perhaps, are the results of hyper-alarmism on climate change. Excessive environmental policies are proving disastrous worldwide. Suddenly, all the green chickens are coming home to roost.
Intolerant “liberals” keen to “save the planet” are ruining it — officiously preventing the poor from lifting themselves out of poverty, forcing wealthy nations to retreat from comfort and efficiency into backwardness, even killing people by the hundreds of thousands.
Humankind long ago acquired the technological ability to thrive in all climes, but citizens of the most advanced nations must now check the weather forecast to know if their fridges and household lights will work or be shut down in an electricity blackout.
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The results of shortsighted, self-defeating enviro-extremism are bad enough in rich nations. But they are even worse in the undeveloped world. In Sri Lanka, which banned chemical fertilizers in a fit of adherence to global green pressure, crops collapsed and food inflation spiked to 80% in June. The result has been a public revolt, including the overthrow of the president and an occupation of his palace by disgruntled citizens.
The specter of starvation is now being reported from Africa, and the latest analysis from the U.N. World Food Program suggests that 670 million people, 8% of the world’s population, will face hunger by the end of the decade.
The World Health Organization calculates that 439,000 Africans die every year from indoor air pollution because they are forced — for cooking, lighting, and heating — to burn charcoal and cattle dung, which one researcher compared to smoking 400 cigarettes per hour in the home. The reason Africans still use these primitive methods to generate energy is that green ideologues in rich nations won’t allow them to get financing to build coal-fired power stations.
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Who suffers? Those in poor nations, of course, and we in the rich nations that impose our obsessions on ourselves and on others wherever we can.
But we can’t impose them everywhere. So, who doesn’t suffer? Our enemies, China in particular, that watch our self-harming foolishness with delight and perhaps a little astonishment. Beijing, which in recent years built more coal-fired power stations than the rest of the world combined, sits back and watches as the self-doubting, self-hating West cedes its prosperity and global leadership.
We’re now able, with our dazzling technology, to look billions of light years from the surface of our planet all the way to the rim of outer space and to peer back as far as the beginning of the universe. But here on Earth, we blind ourselves with ideology and cannot see what’s staring us in the face.

Commentary:
Indeed, the Elite rich lecture us on 'Gobal Warming'/'Climate Change' on a daily basis while zipping around in their private Jet plains and burning enough electricity in their homes to power small cities.
Never forget that the whole "CO2 global warming" scam was invented by the 'Elite Neo-Malthusians' as a tool to force a drastic die-off of human populations. This is only the beginning. Ultimately, WE are the carbon they want to reduce.
Meanwhile, China and India continue to build their coal fired generating plant systems on a daily basis, while pourin thousands of tons of Carbon and pollution into the atmosphere.

Then there's AOC that tells us"
AOC Says Earth Will End in 12 Years: Useful Idiocy | KPRC AM 950 | Kenny Webster's Pursuit of Happiness

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10 times 'experts' predicted the world would end by now

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while selling her "Green New Deal", said that the world will end in 12 years if nothing is done to address climate change.

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[Rambunctious]

They are going to force it on us... this is the new tyranny....

 

[skookerasbil]

Slowly, the world finding out...green energy is ghey.

Germany will be taking the big bumpy cucumber this fall when the cold weather hits....these mofu's are fucked.
Unicorn chasing being exposed...


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[ReinyDays]

SciAm reports that 1.6 billion people cook all their meals by burning wood ... it's frightfully hateful to deny these people fossil fuel power ...

Hateful ...

 

[ding]

SciAm reports that 1.6 billion people cook all their meals by burning wood ... it's frightfully hateful to deny these people fossil fuel power ...

Hateful ...

I use propane mostly but I do usually use my smoker about once a week so that's using wood. I am a very bad man.

 

[skookerasbil]

Bah Bah Booey.


Global Coal-Fired Electricity Generation Surges To Record High | ZeroHedge

 

[Dagosa]

They are going to force it on us... this is the new tyranny....

Hope so.

 

[Crick]

The real-world consequences of green extremism​

Much of the world groans under immiserating rules handed down by a “theory class,” even though they obviously don’t work. The accolade for the most disastrous policy outcome is hotly contested, and Wednesday’s grim revelation of 9.1% inflation shows that President Joe Biden’s spending agenda is a strong contender. But even that might not take the cake.

The cause of the current inflation we are suffering is not Biden's economy. It is the result primarily of the pandemic and has been exacerbated by the consequences of the war in Ukraine.

Worse, perhaps, are the results of hyper-alarmism on climate change. Excessive environmental policies are proving disastrous worldwide. Suddenly, all the green chickens are coming home to roost.
Intolerant “liberals” keen to “save the planet” are ruining it — officiously preventing the poor from lifting themselves out of poverty, forcing wealthy nations to retreat from comfort and efficiency into backwardness, even killing people by the hundreds of thousands.
Humankind long ago acquired the technological ability to thrive in all climes, but citizens of the most advanced nations must now check the weather forecast to know if their fridges and household lights will work or be shut down in an electricity blackout.

To what "excessive environmental policies" do you refer and what is the harm that they have done?

How are liberals preventing the poor from lifting themselves out of poverty?

What wealthy nations have retreated from comfort and efficiency into backwardness?

What hundreds of thousands of people have been killed by environmental policies?

The results of shortsighted, self-defeating enviro-extremism are bad enough in rich nations. But they are even worse in the undeveloped world. In Sri Lanka, which banned chemical fertilizers in a fit of adherence to global green pressure, crops collapsed and food inflation spiked to 80% in June. The result has been a public revolt, including the overthrow of the president and an occupation of his palace by disgruntled citizens.

Sri Lanka was under no "global green pressure" to ban chemical fertilizers.

A key tipping point in the economic crisis is widely considered to be former President Rajapaksa's abrupt ban on chemical fertilizers and pesticides in April 2021, in favor of organic cultivation. Even proponents of organic farming shake their heads as they look back on the decision, which came when the economy was already on the brink due to COVID-19's impact on tourism.

"The president's committee of advisers to implement the new agricultural policy had no knowledge of organic farming," explained Thilak Kariyawasam, president of the Lanka Organic Agriculture Movement, a professional organization founded in 1994 to promote such farming. A 46-member task force charged with creating a road map had "no understanding of how organic agriculture works," he argued.

"They couldn't find adequate organic inputs for the upcoming season, which became a huge problem for farmers," Kariyawasam said. "Organic farming doesn't give results overnight. It needs two to three seasons to develop microbes that enhance soil quality. It is during this time that the farmers needed governmental support. But that support was missing."

Sri Lanka aims for food security after ill-fated fertilizer ban

As millions suffer from hunger, officials promise 'gigantic' farm modernization

asia.nikkei.com

The specter of starvation is now being reported from Africa, and the latest analysis from the U.N. World Food Program suggests that 670 million people, 8% of the world’s population, will face hunger by the end of the decade.

Hunger has never NOT been a problem in Africa. On a global scale, hunger had been decreasing for decades. The recent spike is not due to green policies but to the COVID-19 pandemic

The World Health Organization calculates that 439,000 Africans die every year from indoor air pollution because they are forced — for cooking, lighting, and heating — to burn charcoal and cattle dung, which one researcher compared to smoking 400 cigarettes per hour in the home. The reason Africans still use these primitive methods to generate energy is that green ideologues in rich nations won’t allow them to get financing to build coal-fired power stations.

Bullshit. They've been cooking with wood, charcoal and cattle dung for thousands of years. Environmentalists have been working hard to get them off the habit because of the harm it is doing to them and the forests being razed to make charcoal. And here is an informed response to the paper on which your comments are based: Africa is Not a (Coal) Country: A reply to Nature Energy - Energy For Growth

Who suffers? Those in poor nations, of course, and we in the rich nations that impose our obsessions on ourselves and on others wherever we can.

The poor will suffer more from global warming than will the rich. They do not have mobility, they are dependent on local crops and are concentrated on coastlines while seas are rising.

But we can’t impose them everywhere. So, who doesn’t suffer? Our enemies, China in particular, that watch our self-harming foolishness with delight and perhaps a little astonishment. Beijing, which in recent years built more coal-fired power stations than the rest of the world combined, sits back and watches as the self-doubting, self-hating West cedes its prosperity and global leadership.
We’re now able, with our dazzling technology, to look billions of light years from the surface of our planet all the way to the rim of outer space and to peer back as far as the beginning of the universe. But here on Earth, we blind ourselves with ideology and cannot see what’s staring us in the face.

Commentary:
Indeed, the Elite rich lecture us on 'Gobal Warming'/'Climate Change' on a daily basis while zipping around in their private Jet plains and burning enough electricity in their homes to power small cities.
Never forget that the whole "CO2 global warming" scam was invented by the 'Elite Neo-Malthusians' as a tool to force a drastic die-off of human populations. This is only the beginning. Ultimately, WE are the carbon they want to reduce.
Meanwhile, China and India continue to build their coal fired generating plant systems on a daily basis, while pourin thousands of tons of Carbon and pollution into the atmosphere.

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Pure unsubstantiated rant.