~50 years ago they were quite concerned about global cooling and a new ice age. Go figure.
~30 years ago it was going to be over-population. Now if you look at demographics it's entirely obvious that population collapse is the real concern.
The mercurial "they" are not exactly brilliant at predicting the future.
Which reminds of something Jordan Peterson said: "There is always a crisis." Indeed. The question isn't whether there's a crisis or a perceived crisis, it's how will we handle it?
Sep 26, 2023·edited Sep 26, 2023Liked by Ken Smith
"In the 90s, we were told to fear the apocalypse of "peak oil." There were breathless predictions of running out of oil and the calamity that would befall society."
Back in the 90s, one of my science teachers told our class we'd run out of oil by 2018! Fortunately, coal would last until 2032...
Even though I was fairly young, she stated it so assertively and the dates were so ridiculously precise that I couldn't help but memorise them.
'The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) - Jan 22, 2019.
According to one of our leaders, we only have about 7 years and some change to solve this. If this is true, it seems obvious that nuclear power would be a great stop gap, but for some reason we aren't pursing it.
I'm reminded of two things.
~50 years ago they were quite concerned about global cooling and a new ice age. Go figure.
~30 years ago it was going to be over-population. Now if you look at demographics it's entirely obvious that population collapse is the real concern.
The mercurial "they" are not exactly brilliant at predicting the future.
Which reminds of something Jordan Peterson said: "There is always a crisis." Indeed. The question isn't whether there's a crisis or a perceived crisis, it's how will we handle it?
Spot on. That's why the antidote is courage. There is always a cohort of society promoting fear. Courage is a form of civil disobedience.
"That they do this is a tacit admission of two truths: 1) oil is money, and 2) central planners do not actually care about carbon and the climate."
The third thing they don't care about is the country.
Sadly, that seems to be increasingly true.
"In the 90s, we were told to fear the apocalypse of "peak oil." There were breathless predictions of running out of oil and the calamity that would befall society."
Back in the 90s, one of my science teachers told our class we'd run out of oil by 2018! Fortunately, coal would last until 2032...
Even though I was fairly young, she stated it so assertively and the dates were so ridiculously precise that I couldn't help but memorise them.
'The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) - Jan 22, 2019.
According to one of our leaders, we only have about 7 years and some change to solve this. If this is true, it seems obvious that nuclear power would be a great stop gap, but for some reason we aren't pursing it.
Weird.
The sky is always falling for a particular subset of society. Resist.