Link: https://news.yahoo.com/coal-rush-energy-crisis-fires-040359264.html
Interesting article that gives fuel (pun intended) to the idea that African nations are being artificially held back from advancing because the Euro-elites NEED a permanent “underclass”, grunt labor.
The hydrocarbon deposits are very large in Africa but the technology to develop them is being artificially priced out of the means of the 3rd world countries.
It’s unlikely for nations with average IQ levels of 67 to industrialize themselves.
Even a basic agrarian society collapsed in Zimbabwe when they ran out the functionlal
Humans.
They have a few people capable of becoming civilized, but they are vastly outnumbered by those who can only destroy.
When I was stationed in Germany, I once drove by a Nuclear Power Plant. I did not realize it at the time. I simply marveled at those giant towers (cooling towers) so close to the road. I realized sometime later just what they were. Likely after the Three Mile Island business, and that film ‘China Syndrome.’ My ignorance was profound.
Now, these days, this climate change nonsense has entire nations rejecting energy sources that are directly under their feet. Entire Economies and populations have placed themselves in grave danger with insipid national energy policies.
Coal has been rejected, nuclear power has been shunned, and we are digging up Lithium (and Cobalt, other elements) in trace amounts while scarring the Earth all in the name of ‘Environmentalism.’ It is just crazy. Germany is returning to nuclear power, and likely coal. It is gloomy and overcast for more than half of the year there, at least where I was, so Solar is out of the question.
I suppose that I could go on, but there seems little point. We are being steered into the old Barry Maguire song, and like riding a roller coaster we have our hands in the air, as if surrendering.
None of this computes for me.
Mark