Posted on 07/16/2022 4:14:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
This is a war with many fathers, all having different goals, and one big loser: the Western way of life.
There are several entities that saw a benefit in declaring war on fossil fuel: The environmentalists who are so historically illiterate that they believe a world without fossil fuels will be a bucolic paradise, rather than a Hobbesian nightmare; the leftists who want to break the West to rebuild it as a socialist paradise; the Great Reset/New World Order crowd, which envisions happy, possession-free serfs; and the Chinese, who foresee a bloodless conquest of the West which, believe me, will not be anybody’s paradise. While the winner among these groups isn’t clear, the loser is coming into focus: Ordinary people across the Western world. The latest example comes from Germany.
In 2018, President Trump warned Germany, which was proudly shutting down its own coal production and refineries, not to become dependent on Russia’s oil and gas:
Reliance on a single foreign supplier can leave a nation vulnerable to extortion and intimidation. That is why we congratulate European states, such as Poland, for leading the construction of a Baltic pipeline so that nations are not dependent on Russia to meet their energy needs. Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.
Germany and other European countries, basking in Greta Thunberg’s approval and wallowing in their virtue, sneered at Trump’s words and went their own way. And then, in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. There is no “I told you so” big enough to encompass Trump’s prescience.
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When they do, they will tell us that they meant well.
“….can’t I infer that the author thinks Germany is the good guys?”
Yes, but only to the extent that Germany is part of the Western world, which it is.
Here it is in the author’s own words:
“While the winner among these groups isn’t clear, the loser is coming into focus: Ordinary people across the Western world.“
So, on a global level, there is the West vs the East, and the author is calling the West “the good guys”.
Of course, if you focus only on the West, there are good guys and bad guys too, and it’s fair to say Germany has been one of the bad guys. But to do so is to completely miss the author’s point about global East/West power shifts.
I got his point. It was very strained. The West is full of maggots who would like nothing better than a Sino-centric world and most of Asia hates China.
Treating either as monolithic is silly.
Anyway. Nice talking to you.
True, “The West” has certainly fallen short of its ideals. We talk a lot about liberty and self-governance, but it rarely gets put into practice, and doesn’t last long before getting corrupted.
But at least we talk about liberty - maybe that slows down the collapse a bit. I am not under the illusion that the West is necessarily “the good guys”.
But when it comes down to “us vs them”, with “them” being Red China, I’ll throw in with the West any day, even Germany, if they can ever get their shit together.
Fair points. Agree.
“Just to be argumentative, methane is found in many planets of our solar system. Especially the giant ones - where no biological life has ever existed.”
Being factual is not being argumentative however some folks don’t understand that everything on this planet that we use, make, discover, throw away... everything comes from the planet itself. Including all the space debris that the planet collects... (in case somebody wanted to go there).
It’s all here and it will be here in some way shape or form 450 billion years from now.
But we in this society and this handful of Millennia that have passed with our direct cognizance of is all going to be a thin layer of strata much like something that you would see at the Grand Canyon for example.
That’s our Legacy. Which btw is the legacy of everything on this planet every time it goes through a makeover.
No foolin’ - science fiction... is afterall fiction.
“I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.” Albert Einstein
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