Posted on 01/09/2020 6:35:18 AM PST by Red Badger
Independent physicist John Droz, Jr. alerted me to the website of Deep Green Resistance (DGR), an international environmental organization that calls for the total destruction of what it refers to as the “global industrial economy,” a.k.a. capitalism. Given the group’s hard-left credentials, its call for dismantling capitalism throughout the world is not surprising.
What is surprising is that in an unusual show of progressive candor, Deep Green Resistance openly acknowledges what skeptical scientists have been saying for more than two decades: that renewable energy is a government-backed hoax that enriches big corporations -- and green energy investors like Al Gore -- at the expense of taxpayers and the environment. If you find that admission hard to believe, please keep reading. The questions and answers below are verbatim from the FAQ page on the organization’s website:
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Will green technology save the planet?
No. Wind turbines, solar PV panels, and the grid itself are all manufactured using cheap energy from fossil fuels. When fossil fuel costs begin to rise such highly manufactured items will simply cease to be feasible.
Solar panels and wind turbines aren’t made out of nothing. They are made out of metals, plastics, and chemicals. These products have been mined out of the ground, transported, processed, manufactured. Each stage leaves behind a trail of devastation: habitat destruction, water contamination, colonization, toxic waste, slave labor, greenhouse gas emissions, wars, and corporate profits.
The basic ingredients for renewables are the same materials that are ubiquitous in industrial products, like cement and aluminum. No one is going to make cement in any quantity without using the energy of fossil fuels. And aluminum? The mining itself is a destructive and toxic nightmare from which riparian communities will not awaken in anything but geologic time.
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Could that mean racism only benefits Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?
Know anybody else that makes dough of of it?................
“ And aluminum? The mining itself is a destructive and toxic nightmare from which riparian communities will not awaken in anything but geologic time.
WTH does that even mean?“
It would take thousands and thousands of years for a green weenie tribe wiping their butts with leaves and living off of the land to live where aluminum was once mined.
It's hard on rivers.
It means that aluminum (really bauxite) mining can really destroy river ecosystems, to the point that it can take tens of thousands of years for an affected river to recover.
Solar panels and wind turbines aren’t made out of nothing.
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The same goes for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants.
This is a nutball organization. If you're going to seize on this statement as the truth you also have to accept their basic premise that electrical production of any kind is unsustainable and destructive.
"The only truly “green” sources of power come from the earth and don’t require destruction. By that, we are talking about photosynthesis and muscle power. Permaculture, as well as other traditional subsistence methods such as hunting, animal husbandry, fishing, and gathering, must be the foundations of any future sustainable culture; otherwise any claims to being “green” will be falsehoods."
I'm not sure these are the guys we want to point to as an authority.
They want ant idyllic pastoral agricultural civilization circa 1880 and no population over a billion or so....................
Sounds good provided they have broadband.
It means he uses unintelligible statements in order to make suckers believe he knows what he’s talking about.
We knew that.
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance dazzle them with BS
Baffle them with BS, I meant
....and they did, too.............
And, liberals are easily baffled. “If an original thought ever crossed their mind, it’d be the shortest trip on the planet.”
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