How wisely it is said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Marx and Engels had good intentions when they wrote the Communist Manifesto and Capital. How’d that turn out?
The appeasement and anti-war movements of the 1920s and 30s had good intentions, too. But all they did was give brutal dictators more time to build up their war machines and all-but guarantee a global cataclysm. Even well into the War, not a few of them refused to admit their catastrophic mistake. Ghandi went so far as to urge a British surrender to Hitler.
Nearly a century on, European politicians especially have clearly learned nothing from the bloody lessons of the past.
As Germany scrambles to secure the gas needed to prevent their wind and solar ‘powered’ grid from total collapse, Vladimir Putin is laughing all the way to the bank.
And the Russians aren’t the only ones profiting from the West’s maniacal obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. China – with plenty of unwilling assistance from its captive Uighur ethnic minority – is doing very nicely selling wind turbines and solar panels to the virtue-signalling West.
It’s almost as if the script was written for them by Putin and the CCP: Western economies merrily wrecking and weakening their own economies and enriching a couple of wanna-be world powers, in the bargain.
Climate-Science.Press
It’s hard to overstate just how much appalling damage is being done to Western interests, at the same time empowering would-be dictators.
Anyone with a passing interest in history knows energy and warfare often have been connected, with competition for resources a main source of conflict. Without an adequate supply of various sources of energy, countries will struggle to secure victory over adversaries […]
The link between energy and foreign policy is being powerfully illustrated by recent events in Europe and the potential incursion of Ukraine by Russia.
Blindly enthralled by the lunacy of the climate alarmists, Britain and most of Europe have systematically wrecked their energy system. As a result, more and more Britons are plunged into energy poverty every winter.
Germany is in an even worse state. Not content with imposing the staggeringly expensive energiewende, former Chancellor Angela Merkel panicked in response to Fukushima, and ordered the closure of Germany’s nuclear energy industry. This blind, knee-jerk move may in the long term prove to be even more disastrous than her equally knee-jerk move to throw open the gates of Europe to millions of illegal immigrants.
[Germany] has exposed itself to a growing reliance on natural gas sourced from Russia – about 40 per cent – to power its grid. The construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline has created further complications by potentially creating a direct link from Russia to Germany and thereby bypassing Ukraine via older pipelines.
The delay in approving the pipeline – its approval is vehemently opposed by parts of the German Coalition government – is a significant factor in the standoff between Europe and Russia.
In the meantime, without Russian gas, Germany’s grid would simply not be operational. Be sure that Vladimir Putin is fully aware of that fact.
Well may we say that, for the third time in a century, a German leader has wrecked Europe.
As for history repeating: we in Australia have little to boast about. Once, Australia sold war-making material to an aggressive, brutally authoritarian regime in our own region — and it came back in the form of guns and bombs. Now, we’re crippling our energy capacity in order to bankroll and empower another.
We have become accustomed to recognising the benefits that China has secured from the pursuit by developed economies to meet climate targets. Not only has China been allowed to play by different rules – it is only required to reduce emissions from 2030 – but its dominance of the manufacturing of turbines and solar panels have provided a very useful economic boost for the country.
The Australian
At the same time, the unprincipled greed of mining billionaires, captains of industry and ideological fellow-travellers has allowed China to run roughshod over democracies in its neighbourhood, turn strategic swathes of the Pacific into a Chinese lake, and infiltrate and subvert Australia at every level. Chinese Communist Party thugs openly bully Australian students and even athletes. Political parties trouser literal shopping bags of cash from Chinese operatives. China blatantly and repeatedly pillages industrial, scientific and military intellectual property.
And, year by year, in the name of worshipping at the altar of the Climate Cult, our capacity to defend ourselves is crippled more and more.
We almost deserve what we get.
