Vladimir Lenin stated, if the government tells a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. Nowhere is this maxim more true or relevant than on the subject of “climate change.” Right now, Brandon is in Rome for a G-20 climate summit where empty suits will gasbag about the earth’s imminent destruction in 10 years due to fossil fuels. Yawn. Using fear as a political tool to control the masses has been a tool of tyrants since the Sumerians. They want your money, so they can spend it, and in order to get it, they need to make up a big lie to scare you into submission. Most politicians could not run a hot dog stand. Deceitful rhetoric and manipulation is their game. “Climate Change” is nothing but a Chicken Little tactic to appease the Left’s insatiable appetite for power and control. This particular “fear narrative” started in the 1970s. Carl Sagan, a left wing “scientist,” warned of “global cooling” and a “nuclear winter.” That didn’t work, so then the narrative changed to “global warming.” That didn’t work either. Most leftists don’t know how to change the oil in their cars, but they are very clever with semantics. Thus, “climate change” was born. Climate is not static, it has and always will “change.” In fact, the earth’s self-cleansing mechanisms don’t work without climate change. Knowing that one can’t argue that the climate isn’t changing, the Left points to every variance in climate to proselytize that environmental apocalypse is upon us. If you think the Left has used the so called “pandemic” to operate in a dictatorial fashion, then you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Pop Quiz Question: Do politicians have an incentive to lie?
Repeat the lie, repeat the lie, repeat the lie. If you challenge the lie, you are a “climate denier” and must be punished. Your voice cannot be heard, even though you can provide clear and convincing evidence that all of this blow hard nonsense is a tyrannical hoax. Whenever government forces conspire to censor speech, you can bet they are censoring truth. History is replete with good hearted folks “believing the lie” and wandering into a maze of mass hysteria or collective robotic conduct. Remember Orson Wells’ Martians invading New Jersey? For whatever reason, illusory sociogenic “illnesses” are real. For example, millions of people voted for Joe Biden and believed he was not demented! Throughout history, there has been a plethora of instances where large collective bodies act in unison and can’t stop: dancing, shaking, meowing like cats, buying Dutch tulip bulbs, accusing care givers of abusing children, burning witches or guillotining French noblemen on Paris streets. If large collective bodies can uncontrollably meow like a cat, then a large collective body can also believe utter nonsense.
CO2 is a natural life sustaining substance. It’s what greens the planet. The amount of CO2 that man produces compared to natural C02 is trivial. Indeed, it is infinitesimal compared to certain natural recurring events; volcano eruptions, forest fires, etc. Geological evidence indicates that the earth’s C02 levels are near all-time lows and 1/20th of their all-time high. Moreover, there is very little correlation between C02 and temperature. So folks, quit meowing like a cat just because your neighbor is sitting in her window sill meowing. You don’t have to play along.
Pop Quiz Question # 2. Do politicians benefit by leaving people alone or by taxing and regulating their activities?
As for me, I love fossil fuels. I get all warm and fuzzy thinking about them. If I was the Chairman of the Ministry of Culture, I would make sure there was a monument to fossil fuels in every town square in America. I love the smell of gasoline. Watching a woman pump her own gas is sexy. Is there a better smell than diesel fuel exhaust on a cold mountain morning?
I love fossil fuels for two reasons. 1) Fossil fuels are winners. I love and respect winners. 2) Fossil fuels are great lovers. If Barry White was a form of energy, he’d be a fossil fuel.
Why are fossil fuels winners? Because for over 150 plus years, they have won. There have been lots of energy types that have tried to dethrone them, but fossil fuels are the WWF champs of all energy sources. Why? There is this wild mystical phenomenon in the world that can take a myriad of competing ideas and figure out which idea is the best! Perhaps you have heard of this magical and ethereal spirit of truth? It is called the MARKET! Billions and billions of people making trillions and trillions of decisions with their own capital and labor have judged all energy sources and determined that fossil fuels are the winner. They are the champ! They are cheap, plentiful and reliable, so much so, that practically every other industry in the world is predicated on their use. Moreover, thousands of technologies would not even exist but for the market’s universal adoration of fossil fuels.
Pop Quiz Question #3? Who is smarter, John Kerry or the Market?
Why are fossil fuels great lovers? Because they love humanity, and have done more for humanity than Greta Thunberg, Al Gore or even Mother Teresa. Nature in and of itself is filthy and nasty. Disease, pestilence, animal waste, pollution, fire, floods, hurricanes and danger of all kinds. Man’s purpose is not to be subject to nature, but to be a steward of nature. While hugging trees, screeching and howling at the moon and engaging in pagan Mother Earth rituals sounds like a jolly good time, I’d rather live in a world where man’s ingenuity lifts our civilization to new zeniths. I love people more than running around half “nekid” in the woods being chased by mountain lions. Call me crazy. Fossil fuels give us a “better nature” and a cleaner environment with less death and misery than we have ever had during the entirety of the earth’s existence. If you were to ask a man living in 1776 which time period had a cleaner environment, it wouldn’t even be close, he’d laugh, and say “why 2021, of course.” Moreover, the climate was much more apt to kill you then than it is now. As early as the 1930s, there were years when well over 10 million people/year would die of climate issues; hurricanes, floods, natural fires, etc. By 2016, only 6,400 people worldwide died due to these issues. Before the use of fossil fuels to clean and purify water, millions upon millions of people died of disease.
God’s not a dumbass. He didn’t put the snail darter or the spotted owl in control of the earth. He put man. Up until a couple of hundred years ago, man had lived in pretty much the same conditions as he had since the beginning of time. To quote Thomas Hobbes, man lived in “continual fear and danger of violent death” and “life was solitary, brutish, nasty and short.” It’s no mystery that since the wide spread use of fossil fuels, life expectancy and quality of life has sky rocketed. There has been an explosion of industry and technology that has lifted humanity out of its Hobbesian existence to heights unimaginable to anyone living even a generation ago. Hospitals, information, trade, living standards, travel, science, entertainment, leisure, art, housing, luxury goods, cleanliness and an inexhaustible supply of new technologies. Not that many years ago, man’s chief concern was having enough food to eat and not freezing to death. This would be a good time for me to tell all the Gen Z and Millennial whiners and snowflakes to shut the F-Up and quit complaining. Instead of crying over your soy latte or hurt feelings, you ought to be damn appreciative that you live in the luckiest generation of mankind. You should also learn how it came to be this way, so listen up, and put that therapy dog back in his kennel!
There is no natural or intrinsic value to oil or any other resource. These substances are only valuable due to the ingenuity of man who can shape these substances into new technologies that benefit humanity. Man is a pretty smart creature, and when he is not handcuffed by government dictates and oppression, he is capable of great things. However, none of these substances would ever be pulled out of the ground or developed into anything useful but for Anglo-American legal tenets protecting private property from intrusion. Did you know that there are much more board feet of timber in America now than when John Smith got to Jamestown? That’s because when man has a property interest in an asset, he nurtures it and makes it more valuable. Freedom and property rights are the essence of capitalism. Absolutely nothing in the world that we value would exist without these forces coming together. For these same reasons, socialism never works. Nobody owns anything, no one has any incentive to produce and there is no market conveying information allowing for wise and prudent decision making. Under socialism, there is only a fat politburo member, wearing a badly tailored brown suit, making economic decisions for YOU from his dacha in the Urals.
It is likely that one day fossil fuels will be replaced with another energy source. We need not worry about when or if this will happen because we have the MARKET to look after us. All government “green” energy dictates make us poorer. They are a misallocation of resources. Capital in the hands of free people inevitably flows to where capital is needed based on market information. When fossil fuels get too expensive or a better energy source is created, the market will shift to fill the void. Top down dictates only thwart the development of new energy technologies.
We need not worry about energy policy or the subterfuge of “climate change.” We need to worry about the trickery and manipulation of the Left to use “climate change” to impose socialism on all of us. Having Yuri make decisions for us from his dacha in the Urals is no different than having Joe Biden make decisions for us from his favorite ice cream shop in Wilmington. Top down dictates are completely antithetical to market forces. They are what makes socialism, socialism. The Left is too smart to advocate socialism, so they wrap their agenda in Christmas wrapping wanting you to believe they are giving you a great gift.
Final Question: Who benefits from socialism? The people who starve to death and are miserable or the political class?
Bonus Question: Which version of Let’s Go Brandon is the best? Loza Alexander’s or Bryson Gray’s?
