Posted on 04/24/2021 6:23:27 PM PDT by RandFan
The collapse of the once-free West into a conformist wasteland is grim enough by itself, for anyone who believes in free thought and assembly.
There are so many things that it is now impossible to discuss without being driven into the wilderness. Dissent on these subjects – you know what they are, though there will soon be more – is a suicide mission, which can even bring the police to your door.
And I suppose for most people this is just a nuisance on the edge of life. But the Green Dogma – which has taken over every major government on the planet, and is now pretty much accepted by all media, publishing houses and educational bodies – is different.
So I won’t do that. The kamikaze life is not for me. I’ll just say two things. The British Government’s policy on climate change doesn’t even make sense on its own terms. And it is going to affect you personally whether you have an opinion on it or not.
For reasons I have never discovered, our Government is more rigid about this than almost any other. Unlike many advanced countries, we have written our carbon-reduction targets into law, making it much harder to pull out of them if things get tough.
So far, the main thing we have done is to close perfectly good coal-fired power stations. Well, you might say, so much the better for the atmosphere.
But China, with vast, newly discovered coalfields in Inner Mongolia, keeps opening such stations. In fact, China’s coal-fired power generation is more than ten times bigger than Britain’s entire electricity output from all sources. It is not just China.
India is also a greedy consumer of coal....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
We need to remove all the pollution control equipment off our power plants and factories and start pumping particulates into the air to stop global warming. Listen to Bill Gates. The logic is impeccable. ;-P
Gates is a buffoon, a very rich buffoon. The year without a summer. It could happen again if this clown gets his way.
https://www.earthdate.org/the-year-without-summer
HA..! Britain is already well on it's way to becoming a turd world country, just like we are, and it ain't got nothing to do with the greenies.... :(
I read that the UK has more natural gas reserves than oil reserves.
It makes sense for the UK to switch over to electric cars since electricity can be generated from natural gas but if the UK runs short of oil, it would have to be imported.
As for wind power, parts of Scotland are blessed/cursed with frequent strong winds I believe.
I read that the Crown Estate owns the UK seabed and that the Crown Estate gets to keep 25% of the offshore windmill site royalties while the rest goes into the national coffers. Naturally, Prince Charles and his California resident son and the son’s wife strongly support the UK offshore windmill business.
My father once said in the 1960’s that 1944 was a very cold year.
I’ve never been able to verify that.
Exactly. Mass immigration from islamic countries already has them half way there.
Peter Hitchens is a breath of fresh air every day.
We have guns. Lots of em
No one in other nations do
Big difference
Yes. Some insane, wealthy misanthropists want us to join the objects of their vacations...and for them to join us, here.
“A baby is born in a mud hut
A baby is born in a mud hut
With a worm fastened to his gut
With a worm fastened to his gut”
—Harder Before It Gets Easier
David Wax Museum
This is some hippy-dippy crap.
Logic is anathema to the Left. All that matters is feeelllings and blind obedience to the latest golem.
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