Same in the UK: Chickens always come home to roost. Perhaps some good will come out of this mess, as we learn that there is a difference between Net Zero fantasy and brute reality. Mad and bad as he may be, even Putin is saner than our own leaders – The ones that we elected all by ourselves.
We have two universities in the top 3 in the world (the obvious ones), but given their decolonising and diversity agendas affecting their curricula and culture, and the lowering of entry standards to let the poorly educated in, I don’t understand how they can have such high rankings.
The competition is killing itself faster than is Oxbridge.
Steve Jolly
1 year ago
“it is becoming increasingly clear that no money in the world can increase the supply of energy if, simply, there is not enough.”
Bravo to the author for being brave enough to state the obvious. This is, in a nutshell, why the green movement is doomed to fail sooner or later. It was/is bound to come up against the human need for energy/food/etc. sooner or later and a choice between climate change or freezing/starving in the dark is not a choice at all. Even if one or a few extremely creative and/or totalitarian regimes succeed in getting their populations to swallow this particular pill, the chances of this occurring in every nation in the world is basically zero. Simply put, some people somewhere will continue to burn fossil fuels unless and until an equally cheap and reliable alternative is found or we run out of them entirely, which might take quite a while. Whatever the consequences of that will be, they are already well beyond the ability of any government, or all of them, to avoid. Any protestation to the contrary is sheer hubris on the part of elites, who eternally overestimate their ability to control the masses. So, logically, if we’re going to dump money down a hole, we’d be better off dumping it into research into fusion power, hydrogen, or even more exotic technologies that have a small chance of eliminating the need for fossil fuel/nuclear plants entirely rather than reshuffling deck chairs with wind/solar and/or trying to use creative economics to shield people from physical realities.
It would be funny and appropriate to just leave them there so the world could gawk at their stupidity for however long it took them to get bored and extricate themselves. People who do that are basically religious fanatics, face gluers instead of suicide bombers, but unlike suicide bombers, they aren’t partially backed by ancient traditions, culture, and one of the world’s major organized religions. They are just voices screaming into the void, cursing the rain, or pick another futility analogy.
“Unless a significant course correction takes place, it will be the final one before a descent into a world of permanent European stagflation and economic decline.” You mean like South America 70 years ago?
Matthew Powell
1 year ago
It’s possible that the European economy isn’t viable without Russian raw materials. I suspect that behind the scenes, many politicians no long care who wins anymore, just that the war ends sooner rather than later.
…until the next crisis is manufactured emerges. Can’t just have the people out there living their lives as they wish, after all.
Warren Trees
1 year ago
“…a serious lack of energy, is part of a massive wave of deindustrialisation across the continent.” A Green dystopia paradise.
joe hardy
1 year ago
Just a heads up from a blue collar guy in America: we will not be donating our children for the cause of German green wokeness. They made their bed and now they can sleep in it. There is a limit on what Americans will support in Ukraine.
Jerry Carroll
1 year ago
Blame the Germans for slacking off with the sly encouragement of the Russians.
Same in the UK: Chickens always come home to roost. Perhaps some good will come out of this mess, as we learn that there is a difference between Net Zero fantasy and brute reality. Mad and bad as he may be, even Putin is saner than our own leaders – The ones that we elected all by ourselves.
Putin is indeed mad. Our leaders reacted rationally to a naive and ignorant electorate.
They ignore the working class electorate
We have two universities in the top 3 in the world (the obvious ones), but given their decolonising and diversity agendas affecting their curricula and culture, and the lowering of entry standards to let the poorly educated in, I don’t understand how they can have such high rankings.
The competition is killing itself faster than is Oxbridge.
“it is becoming increasingly clear that no money in the world can increase the supply of energy if, simply, there is not enough.”
Bravo to the author for being brave enough to state the obvious. This is, in a nutshell, why the green movement is doomed to fail sooner or later. It was/is bound to come up against the human need for energy/food/etc. sooner or later and a choice between climate change or freezing/starving in the dark is not a choice at all. Even if one or a few extremely creative and/or totalitarian regimes succeed in getting their populations to swallow this particular pill, the chances of this occurring in every nation in the world is basically zero. Simply put, some people somewhere will continue to burn fossil fuels unless and until an equally cheap and reliable alternative is found or we run out of them entirely, which might take quite a while. Whatever the consequences of that will be, they are already well beyond the ability of any government, or all of them, to avoid. Any protestation to the contrary is sheer hubris on the part of elites, who eternally overestimate their ability to control the masses. So, logically, if we’re going to dump money down a hole, we’d be better off dumping it into research into fusion power, hydrogen, or even more exotic technologies that have a small chance of eliminating the need for fossil fuel/nuclear plants entirely rather than reshuffling deck chairs with wind/solar and/or trying to use creative economics to shield people from physical realities.
Yeah? Tell that to the people who glue their faces to the streets and public buildings.
When it comes down to survival people who do that just don’t count. Unless they become a food source.
It would be funny and appropriate to just leave them there so the world could gawk at their stupidity for however long it took them to get bored and extricate themselves. People who do that are basically religious fanatics, face gluers instead of suicide bombers, but unlike suicide bombers, they aren’t partially backed by ancient traditions, culture, and one of the world’s major organized religions. They are just voices screaming into the void, cursing the rain, or pick another futility analogy.
Politics used to be the art of the possible.
“Unless a significant course correction takes place, it will be the final one before a descent into a world of permanent European stagflation and economic decline.”
You mean like South America 70 years ago?
It’s possible that the European economy isn’t viable without Russian raw materials. I suspect that behind the scenes, many politicians no long care who wins anymore, just that the war ends sooner rather than later.
…until the next crisis
is manufacturedemerges. Can’t just have the people out there living their lives as they wish, after all.“…a serious lack of energy, is part of a massive wave of deindustrialisation across the continent.”
A Green
dystopiaparadise.Just a heads up from a blue collar guy in America: we will not be donating our children for the cause of German green wokeness. They made their bed and now they can sleep in it. There is a limit on what Americans will support in Ukraine.
Blame the Germans for slacking off with the sly encouragement of the Russians.