Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t M; “… Green Leap Forward has led humanity to another man-made disaster. …” – warning from a respected American civil rights activist who was born and raised in Communist China.
The West Imitate Mao, Take a Green Leap Forward
By Helen Raleigh
September 21, 2022 1:33 p.m. ET…
Like Mao, supporters of the green energy revolution today have grown impatient with the slow progress of renewable energy. Fossil fuels and nuclear power provide 80% of the energy the world needs. Despite years of subsidies, renewables are still unstable and unreliable, because the sun doesn’t shine at night and the wind doesn’t blow all the time. Almost all renewable energy power plants require nuclear or fossil fuels for backup.
Instead of phasing out fossil fuels while investing in renewable energy research and development, Western green energy revolutionaries have launched their own version of the Great Leap Forward in Europe and the United States Green people today operate in a democratic system unlike Mao, but they have had to resort to government coercion to replace fossil fuels (and nuclear power) with renewable energy in a drastic deadlines. The European Union plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, and the Biden administration promises to “achieve a 50-52% reduction from 2005 levels in air pollution.” net greenhouse gas economy-wide by 2030”.
One of the key lessons from China’s Great Leap Forward is that the catastrophic failures inevitably stem from politicians’ insistence on ignoring reason, logic, truth, and economics. Europe’s current energy crisis, California’s ongoing power outages and Sri Lanka’s food shortages are all warning signs. Green Leap Forward has brought humanity fast forward to another man-made disaster.
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Helen Raleigh is a widely respected author and civil rights activist.
If there’s one lesson we can learn from history, it’s that prosperity is fragile. It is entirely possible for States to tax their own existence, by redirecting too much effort to a futile economic activity, or their own legislation to become destructive, by implementing policies Economic policy harms, destroying the fragile web that provides abundance that many of us take for granted. .
We’ve all seen the warning signs – Sri Lanka ran out of food, Europe, Texas, Australia and California suffer from power supply instability due to predictable intermittent renewables and price spikes.
Mao also ignored the warnings. Just a few decades before the catastrophic famine of Great step forward, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin killed millions with a similar policy of forced industrialization. The famine affected much of the Soviet Union, including areas that shared a border with China. Mao or some of his advisers must have had some awareness of what happened in the Soviet Union – but they were too afraid to speak up, or be ignored or punished when they did.
Our politicians seem to be making mistakes similar to those made by Mao and Stalin. They are impatient, too hasty in transforming the national economy, just as Mao and Stalin did. They are ignoring warning signs, growing evidence of unresolved issues, and are continuing to defy goals and missions.
Green policies are starting to put pressure on farmers today, just like Mao’s policies affecting farmers in China and Stalin’s Russia. Lack of fertilizer and fuel price pain is a direct consequence of the green energy policies pursued by President Biden and other Western leaders – fertilizer production is energy intensive, so energy prices have a direct impact on availability. yes and cost.
Our politicians are endangering all of us with their ignorance and arrogance.
Terrible historical events, like Mao’s event Great step forwardStalin’s The Soviet Holodomor, or an ongoing crisis like the food shortages in Sri Lanka, or the energy shortages in California and Europe, are in some ways like the great wars. They seem to have a sort of social dynamic of their own. They can progress very quickly from a few isolated problems into a national disaster. They occur only when large groups of people benefit or strongly support the policies that have created the disaster and are ready to act, strongly repelling efforts to change course, even after the policies have failed. started to create big problems.
Once active, these deadly events are hard to stop. The culmination of years of bad choices cannot be rectified overnight. We can only hope to push back early and hard, to try to avert the worst of the crisis.
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