The truth nobody wants to talk about is that if climate activists get exactly what they want, the result will be genocides -- like, multiple peoples being wiped out, all around the world.
Stuff like growing food, like heating your home, like transporting food to supermarkets, that isn't a luxury. It's right at the bottom of maslows hierarchy of needs. If you don't get these things, you and your family will die.
Europe has gotten a taste of what would happen in the past couple years with the cataclysmic rise in energy prices resulting from a single source of energy being cut off, Russian NatGas. Imagine if we shut off all the alternatives as well except for direct renewables -- The results would be much, much greater.
Of course, any state that actually adopted those policies would have to figure out a carbon neutral source of gunpowder to put down the mass insurrections the attempted genocide would cause. We're already seeing insurrections in many countries around the world from just a little scarcity, that's just a taste of the world in such a scenario. Moreover, if you think Russia is being aggressive now, wait for a world where NATO has given up on fossil fuels but Russia hasn't. Western Europe will be like a ripe fruit, ready for the picking.
That isn't to say we do nothing -- there is no future in which we can continue to use fossil fuels forever so we need to work to utilize existing alternatives (and it's important to note that there are alternatives right now being totally ignored that are practical and developed that we're just straight-up refusing to use because they aren't sexy and nobody will get rich building electric streetcars and running overhead cables) and come up with new practical alternatives -- but we can't replace one extinction event for another.
Stuff like growing food, like heating your home, like transporting food to supermarkets, that isn't a luxury. It's right at the bottom of maslows hierarchy of needs. If you don't get these things, you and your family will die.
Europe has gotten a taste of what would happen in the past couple years with the cataclysmic rise in energy prices resulting from a single source of energy being cut off, Russian NatGas. Imagine if we shut off all the alternatives as well except for direct renewables -- The results would be much, much greater.
Of course, any state that actually adopted those policies would have to figure out a carbon neutral source of gunpowder to put down the mass insurrections the attempted genocide would cause. We're already seeing insurrections in many countries around the world from just a little scarcity, that's just a taste of the world in such a scenario. Moreover, if you think Russia is being aggressive now, wait for a world where NATO has given up on fossil fuels but Russia hasn't. Western Europe will be like a ripe fruit, ready for the picking.
That isn't to say we do nothing -- there is no future in which we can continue to use fossil fuels forever so we need to work to utilize existing alternatives (and it's important to note that there are alternatives right now being totally ignored that are practical and developed that we're just straight-up refusing to use because they aren't sexy and nobody will get rich building electric streetcars and running overhead cables) and come up with new practical alternatives -- but we can't replace one extinction event for another.
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