Posted on 12/26/2024 8:48:07 AM PST by citizen
Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is one of cinema’s most enduring classics, a sentimental yet profound exploration of how one person’s contributions ripple through a community. The story’s alternate timeline, where George Bailey never existed, paints a grim picture of what life would be like without his sacrifices. Inspired by this tale, let’s imagine an alternate reality of a different sort—a world where fossil fuels never existed. Could we, like George’s Bedford Falls, find ourselves in a global Pottersville? Let’s explore how the absence of fossil fuels might affect the very fabric of our lives, from economic systems to daily conveniences, and why this thought experiment is crucial in evaluating the ongoing calls to abandon these energy sources.
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In It’s a Wonderful Life, George Bailey realizes that his sacrifices and hard work were not in vain—they built a community that thrived because of him. Similarly, fossil fuels have been the “George Bailey” of the modern world, powering our transition from subsistence to abundance.
As we confront the challenges of energy policy and climate change, we should take a lesson from Bedford Falls. Instead of demonizing the energy sources that built our world, we should seek balanced solutions that preserve the benefits of modernity while addressing genuine environmental concerns. A world without fossil fuels might look idyllic in the abstract, but in practice, it would resemble a dystopian Pottersville—harsh, impoverished, and unrecognizably bleak.
Fossil fuels, like George Bailey, are far from perfect, but without them, our modern “wonderful life” would never have come to be.
climate change is just global warming renamed ,LOL
We already know what a life without fossil fuels looks like. Feudalism. Slavery. Short life spans. 50% infant morality.
Leftists crave these things
Fossil fuels are actually pretty darned perfect.
Climate Change is the religion of wealthy Leftists
Trains would be powered by steam, created by coal, A fossil fuel.
It so happens that my wife and I watched that movie Tuesday evening.
They crave them for you & me. In their mind, we suffer but not them.
They are too stupid, silly and fanatic to realize everyone would be scralbling to simply get by, even the well to do.
I think yes, there’s\d still be coal but less of it for almost everyone and at greater expense.
without modern forms of energy we’d ALL be relegated to only two forms of congregant community...living like the Amish or the muslim. best to choose Amish living because they won’t force compliance with their simple standards of living. “no work, no food” is a simple standard.
All production is based on expenditure of energy
It could be a cave-man collecting berries and weaving his own shirt from straw
Or he could employ an ox’s greater energy to grow more crops
Or he could invent a coal-steam engine and grow even more food and create vast looms to weave cloth and make other tools.
Money is an abstract human-created (often government-imposed) concept to represent the totality of this production. If government prints more money, it doesn’t create more goods. It only causes prices to rise.
Therefore, money is just an abstract measure of energy expended.
And debt is claim on future energy expenditure.
NO country has ever become richer by expending less total energy. A nation or culture may develop better energy sources, or become more efficient, but expending less energy and becoming more prosperous is an absolute impossibility
SO access to cheap supplies of energy is the absolute one thing Trump, the GOP and any sensible government official can do to help general prosperity and their own political power.
It also is clear the democrat-left plans to limit energy will ALWAYS be self-defeating.
I forgot how good the movie is. Watched it recently and was wowed all over again.
“Fossil” fuels aren’t perfection by any means, but they sure are way ahead of “green energy” which many think are the future but by now have pretty much proven not to be. I guess it depends on which future you are thinking of...the foreseeable future or the future predicted in God’s word. That one may not include the so-called “fossil” fuels but we don’t know that as in regard to the Millenium. After that, I doubt that any fuel will exist, but then again I do not know.
I usually watch is several times at Christmastime.
"Every time an angel rings the bell, another Democrat goes to hell …"
We would get a large and perhaps a long-lasting dose of an 1800s style of living if the Sun decides to give us another EMP of the size of the Carrington Event or greater.
If of sufficient size, the violent disruptions, misery and death toll would be immediate and almost incalculable.
And Tennessee Ernie Ford would be singing about less than sixteen tons.
LOL...well, I’d rather they be saved by turning from the dark side.
Yes, we’d be depending on John Henrys and black powder for the coal extraction.
Before that trains ran on wood…. There goes a lot of trees.
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