The Deadly Threat, Socialist Magnetic Resonance, and Other Strange Advances on the Energy Road – Emerging With That?

From BOE REPORT

December 8, 20217: 00 am Terry Etam

It’s time to flip a new leaf. Maybe it’s the spirit of the season, maybe it’s the delirium after the third shot (tip: just wander into a little pharmacy and ask for one, they’re happy to inject anything whatever), or maybe it’s a change in the energy world. At any rate, despite what the news may tell you, there is a converging energy harmony going on, which is really good news. But going there to investigate is a dangerous journey.

People ask if the madness that attacks energy commentators who respect hydrocarbons is offensive or offensive, but they are not. I don’t read the comments; I used to be, and recognize a few familiar voices that pop up week after week to crap about everything. The only emotion I can muster is pity – it’s a way to spend your life, determined to do something that drives you crazy.

A wave of responses caught my attention albeit in a weak death-threatening fashion. Years ago, I defended Rachel Notley in a pole (not even a full teammate hug, just a protest against the ridiculous notions I’d heard blaming her for it. all the woes of oil patching, many of which were caused under previous governments). Some consider the recognition of anything good by the ‘enemy’ as an act of war, and one unhappy reader ruffled his hair so much that he volunteered to strangle me.

I repeat that joyful memory as a fair warning to the one who has nothing and the like: today we (at least temporarily) associate weapons with an entire socialist publication. international meaning and a self-declared member of the “left climate”, because, believe it or not, the energy profile has some substantial things in common.

Before you believe your eyes and/or put on strangulation gloves, hear me out. From an energy perspective, the story is actually a very good one.

The first is the Jacobin socialist site, where almost a breath of fresh air compared to the mindless web of attention seeking is the stream of modern media – they (Jacobin) state who they are, why they are there and their vision for the Future. That vision to me is crazy, destructive, and mortifying, but at least they’re honest about it. Furthermore, their clear stance allows them to comment lightly on the energy landscape in a way that the mainstream media now find themselves unable to do.

ONE recent articles in Jacobin titled “The Problem with Alice Waters and the “Slow Food” Movement” that put Ms. Waters on the line for her disdain for mass-produced food: “Waters’ food politics is politics is not of the people, the way the old left has defined it, but instead… the professional management class (PMC) PMC has sought to differentiate itself from the working class through cultural ideas, even many of its members adopt egalitarian cultural values ​​and claim to be champions of the less fortunate… slow food really isn’t an eco-friendly or meaningful choice. climate awareness… The main reason Big Ag in places like the United States causes so much harm to the environment is because it accounts for most of the agricultural output and land use.”

This is the argument some of us have made for years about Canada’s high per capita emissions – when you are the world’s supplier of agricultural, mineral and energy products, there is no any immaterial environmental traces involved. “Environmental damage” is also a conditional or consequential term – whether the “damage to the environment” caused by a mine or pipeline is more or less offset by the benefits to humans. People of the product? Would you trade your cell phone or heat to prevent such damage?

Let’s tie that to the energy scene explicitly with a quote on Twitter from self-proclaimed ‘pollution and climate activist’ Chris Keefer: “This is a completely baffling fact. Germany works to block Africa’s fossil fuel energy infrastructure development while shutting down Russia’s carbon-free and coal-burning nuclear fleet and supplying Russia with more gas.” More than a few of us energy commentators have been saying the same thing for a very long time.

Now let’s hear from a self-proclaimed ‘climate left’ member that sounds like it’s coming from the hydrocarbon industry itself (the whole article didn’t, but what it actually did). In one posts for the Breakthrough Institute ‘Blue Collars, Green Jobs?’ The author examines how the cultural-climate elite dismissed the concerns of California unionists opposed to the Green New Deal.

What is relevant for the energy landscape is this example/comment from the paper (among others): “The Green New Deal eliminates the technological climate solutions that the sector has developed for many years. decade. The resolution makes the agreement ‘not rooted in a technical-based approach and makes promises that are unattainable or unrealistic.’ “Who are these geniuses and where have they been hiding?

The article offers some turning points about the hydrocarbon industry, as would be expected from a self-proclaimed residual climate author, but that’s okay – the overarching message is so important that the highlights pale in comparison. Furthermore, it is precisely because industrial workers and farmers are engaged in the energy, transportation, manufacturing, mining and agricultural sectors that are most involved in decarbonisation… but perhaps they know better than anyone why decarbonization is so difficult. They may think that carbon-intensive companies have worked hard to delay climate action and that fossil fuels have historically brought great benefits to mankind. Not only was it obvious to them that coal kept people warm in winter and powered the factories that built the modern world, but this was what they were looking for. proud belong to. That is to say, unlike mainstream climates that leave stories of global warming as the product of corruption or elite capitalism… the industrial worker’s understanding of the problem This is very clear:…[Greenhouse gas] Emissions are an undesirable consequence of the technologies on which people of good will depend in their daily lives. “

The climate author has even put Greta on a mission to promote limiting or eliminating air travel, because her choice is to travel on a multi-million dollar racing yacht. to attend climate protests.

Welcome to 2021, where nothing makes sense. Or not?

In fact, these developments are great news. The articles and opinions above are the best to hit the energy/climate debate in a decade. Reality is sinking here, there, and everywhere.

Public thoughts from the other side of the political spectrum are extremely important, because they break down the wall of energy madness we face, stories that hydrocarbons are killing. all of us and existence depends on eliminating them as a source of fuel.

I’m not going to sit here and defend socialism – philosophically, I don’t want to defend it, and practically I don’t want any beatings – but it’s only fair to point out that the true socialists have the interests of a working and oppressed man at heart (like defending Africa’s right to energy progress as above, and I repeat: “Germany tries to block the development of Africa’s fossil fuel energy infrastructure while shutting down its carbon-free nuclear fleet and burning coal and mostly Russia more than gas.”).

Germany is not alone. 350.org Founder Bill McKibben said he was pleased to see the fight against climate change move beyond the environment to towards social justice. But then McKibben, who lives in the super-wealthy northeastern United States, was eligible to write an article. licensed “Let’s heed the dire UN warning and stop the pipeline in East Africa now.”

Who does that? What kind of person thinks that kind of colonialism is still acceptable? Even Marxists who believe that climate change is a terrible threat are scratching their heads.

These hard-line activists, bewildered/coerced Western governments, and the unfortunate media are becoming isolated on islands where anti-heroes Their renewable-centric argument is increasingly narrowing their audience. Even CNN has question whether the cultured, college-educated elites that shape their viewership could be seen as ‘annoying, offensive and out of touch.’

The far-left-center remarks cited above from Jacobin and the Breakthrough Institute are important because they break down the artificial divide we’ve been forced to live with for a decade, the one that haunts us. image that the fight against climate change is a political issue. Not so. Metaphorically speaking, it’s a plumbing problem.

Our current energy system has evolved over the past 150 years into a global network that will take many, many decades to get back up and running, even with an encouraged business and population community. fully encouraged.

We don’t have either. We have a population that loves its convenience items and a business community that has to deal with the incredibly challenging realities of actually building tools. Building a few hundred miles of new transmission lines is an adventure that spans decades; Don’t let anyone tell you they can build a few hundred thousand miles in our lifetime (that’s just the United States).

The world as we know it has a number of things to celebrate, among them: people who are growing want to grow, and they are not going to be stopped. The rich nations of the West have the time and money to devote to new technologies that will eventually revitalize the energy world, but that half a billion people in the rich West won’t command the 7 billion. How should the other live? No more.

Energy transitions are not the enemy of hydrocarbons, whatever the devil the factions advise you to say otherwise. An energy transition will flow out of the current system, if and only if that system continues to meet the needs of all the world’s people.

Comrades, nice to meet you with some general alignment on energy profiles. Peace will break out everywhere as the world learns about energy (perhaps the hard way).

Keep an eye out for those weirdos, make sure they don’t step on the little guys/girls. About all the other things… would love to stay and chat, but let’s call it a day and go out while everything is fine. See you later.

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