Category: Eco-Crap

Another Nail In The Male Coffin

Eco-Crap, Pussification Parade, Science!

There’s a massive danger to Earth, uncovered by !Scientists!:

Men are bad for the planet, a controversial new study has claimed.

Researchers from 13 countries have joined forces on a new paper, titled ‘Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene.’  According to the experts, men tend to have a greater carbon footprint than women, largely through travel, transportation, and tourism.  Blokes are also less concerned with climate change – and less willing to change their everyday practices to fix it. 

No shit.  We’re too busy building stuff, moving stuff, drilling for stuff and in general making the planet habitable for everyone.  But wait, we’re doing even MOAR Evil Things!

In addition, typically ‘manly’ activities negatively impact both the environment and the climate.  This includes things like fishing and hunting, as well as meat consumption.  ‘Men tend to be more involved in owning, managing, controlling heavy, chemical, carbon–based, industrialized agriculture, high environmental impact and extractive industries, and of course militarism, with its own devastating environmental effects.’

However did they miss “car racing”?  And only in the fevered mind of academia would hunting and fishing be a danger to the environment, when any fule kno that practitioners of the above are the most ardent supporters of environmental protection.

Of course, it’s all dressed up in the usual pseudo-scientific gobbledegook:

Professor Jeff Hearn, professor of sociology in Huddersfield’s Department of Social and Psychological Sciences, said: ‘There is now plenty of research that shows clear negative impacts of some men’s behavior on the environment and climate.  What is astonishing is how this aspect does not figure in most debate and policy in a more sustainable world.’

That’s because “most debate and policy” concerns itself with more important issues, such as whether Sidney Sweeney’s ever going to do OnlyFans.

On that topic:  they also missed “wanking”.  I’m not sure how that lovely activity is linked to Global Warming Climate Cooling Change©, but I am sure that as we speak there is a group of some asshole “scientists” busy working on a (taxpayer-funded) study on the topic.

People are being paid — in thirteen countries, no less — to produce bullshit like this.

Fach.

Wine Lakes, Butter Mountains

Bad News, Eco-Crap, Gummint

Thanks (once again) to The Divine Sarah at Insty’s, we have this brilliant analysis of how government can totally fuck up the market — any market — by ignoring the effects of pricing, deficits and surpluses.

Now, I know it’s about Britishland, and I know that just this is going to cause some of my Murkin Readers to roll their eyes, mutter something about “foreign entanglements”, and go off to wank over Megyn Kelly’s latest nutjob rant or whatever..

Don’t.

As I have said countless times before, I always look over The Pond to see what the Euros and Brits are doing, because they provide at worst an object lesson on what not to do, and at best a warning that we should never allow our own Gummint to repeat their mistakes Over Here.

And I also don’t want to hear bullshit like “Oh, this could never happen here” because not only can it happen, it’s already happening at the state level (cf. California, New York, Illinois and most recently, Virginia).  All it takes is one general election which sweeps the Socialists into power, controlling House, Senate and the White House, and everything bad that is happening in Yurp and Britishland will absolutely happen here, just on a national scale.

So follow the above link, read it, learn from it, and let’s make damn sure that such fecklessness and idiocy can never happen here.

How Steep The Slope?

Eco-Crap, Watermelons

I think it was Adam Smith who said:  “There is much ruin in a nation.”  What he meant was that a nation’s downward decline from prosperity to ruin can take some considerable time — nearly five hundred years, in the case of ancient Rome — because all the foundations of that prosperity and the institutions which maintained it may have inherent strength;  and decay, while apparently certain, can still be resisted or even held back and improved by the efforts of the nation’s people.

None of which applies, of course, when the nation’s institutions are actively destroyed or its policies undermine its very foundations.

Which leads me to Germany, which is doing both by not taking the Greens out and standing them in front of the machine-gun pits.  (Okay, maybe that metaphor could be interpreted as a little too strong, given Germany’s not-so-distant use of said pits, but you know what I mean.)

I suspect that you’ll change your opinion on that metaphor when you read this article:

In response to the intensifying European energy crisis, the green lobby in Brussels and Berlin is accelerating the pace of transformation. Politics lacks the imagination for a real energy crisis scenario. Civil society submits, nearly paralyzed, to its fate.

Anyone who expected that empty gas storage in Germany and the escalating energy crisis in Iran would silence the green lobby in the country must think again. The political representation and its media apparatus — the extended arm of the green crony system — fight with all means to preserve the green transformation complex, regardless of the force with which the waves of reality now crash against the thin green dam.

While economists and business associations worldwide foresee a new energy price shock — with the potential to derail the global economy — solutions to the mercantile bottleneck at Hormuz barely emerge from Berlin’s intellectual narrowness.

On the contrary: On this side of ideologically dismantled infantilism, political elites focus primarily on the survival of their power construct — the Green Deal.

As the saying goes: even civilized societies are always only two missed meals away from chaos. And energy — a steady, secure, and affordable stream of this life force — is the very foundation of what we call civilization.

Stepping back to illustrate the societal phenomenon: under the Green Deal, a highly complex web of politically proliferating environmentalism has emerged — a highly opaque yet extremely effective redistribution machine. Supported by decades of cultivated green moralism, widely accepted in the population — or at least hardly questioned until now.

In this way, an extraction mechanism has emerged that systematically siphons wealth from the productive machinery of society. This wealth is channeled precisely into the green parasitic system, which can proliferate in the shadow of political programs and moral justification without facing significant resistance.

Over time, a state within the state has emerged, its structures deeply grown into economic and institutional fabrics. This entity now seems to be entering a new phase — one of exponential weakening of its host body. Rising energy prices, which over the long term translate into higher inflation rates, are a symptom of the host’s weakening.

I apologize for the lengthy excerpts, but as I read the article, I couldn’t help thinking, “There but for the grace of Donald Trump goes America.”

But more to the point:  if we fail to see that the Green Catastrophe will, if we allow it to, become as much a part of our polity as it is in Europe.  Hell, thanks to the Obama Dozen Years it nearly did, and it’s taking a Herculean effort by the Trump Administration to undo and untangle us from that strangling creeper.

Suicide may be woven into the Western European polity;  but I’m sure as hell hoping that it’s not in ours.

Compare And Contrast

Eco-Crap

If you’ve already read yesterday’s post (Never Mind The Waves) about switching offshore wind farm funding to oil and natgas, then read on.  If you haven’t, read that first, then this one.

Here’s what happens when you elect a government which supports rabid eco-freaks by giving them control of the rudder.  Here’s the background:

North Sea Giant Ready To Exploit UK’s Biggest Oil Field This Year

Sounds good, dunnit?  And then the sting:

Britain’s largest oil field could be producing thousands of barrels a day by the autumn if Ed Miliband approves the North Sea project.

Well, that didn’t take long did it?  Because Miliband is the all-time believer in the “Wind Is Going To Save Us” school of thought — in fact, he’s the fucking headmaster.

So, to sum up:  Britishland is sitting close to a gigantic oil and gas field — bigger than anything they’ve ever had before, and larger than anything in the North Sea — and all that has to happen is for Rubber Band to wave the starter’s flag.

Which he isn’t going to do, even if pressure is applied to him by a core  Socialist  Labour Party constituency:

The powerful Unite union added its voice to the clarion calls demanding the Energy Secretary change tack in the wake of a price spiral triggered by Donald Trump‘s war on Iran.

General Secretary Sharon Graham, who has cut funding for Labour in a row over party policy, said he should not ‘let go of one rope before having hold of another’.

‘We all know that whatever happens the UK will still need for oil and gas for decades to come and the war in Iran is just the latest reminder that when we rely on overseas production our energy security is at the mercy of global events,’ she said. This comes as the Conservatives are set to force a vote in the Commons demanding an end to the ‘sheer lunacy’ of a ban to reduce prices at the pump.

And here it is:

But facing MPs today, Mr Miliband suggested it was unimportant where the UK got its gas.

‘Gas is bought and sold on the international market so whether it comes from the North Sea or imported it is charged at the same price,’ he said.

He went on to praise the amount of money raised by a renewable energy action earlier this year, saying technology like wind turbines and solar panels were ‘homegrown power that we can rely on’. 

You have to marvel at the idiocy of a man who sticks to this insane policy, even when time and time again all his guff is proven to be demonstrably false — when the winds drop and the sun doesn’t shine, and areas of the country go dark and people shiver because there’s no power to provide them warmth, as happened just this past winter.

Miliband is quite literally going to bring the UK to its knees.

And at some point you have to ask yourself whether he’s doing it out of the ignorance of policy, or just out of spite.  Either way, the result is going to be the same.

He doesn’t just need to be kicked out of government;  he needs to be given a free ticket on Air Pinochet.

…and all the more ironic if he were to be ejected right over the Rosebank field.

Never Mind The Waves, Stop The Wind

Eco-Crap, Good Stuff

…and use the money for gas.  There’s an elegant solution to end the eco-nonsense boondoggle known as “wind power”, and this seems to fit the bill:

The Trump administration is pulling nearly $1 billion out of offshore wind projects off the East Coast and forcing that money into U.S. oil, natural gas, and LNG production, replacing planned wind development with active oil and gas production.

TotalEnergies paid about $133 million for a lease in the Carolina Long Bay area and roughly $795 million for another in the New York Bight in 2022, locking nearly a billion dollars into projects that are now being shut down. The company is only reimbursed if it first invests that same money in domestic energy production, including LNG infrastructure, upstream oil, and natural gas development in the United States.

Sounds good.  Now read what IntSec Burgum said, and it gets even better:

“Offshore wind is one of the most expensive, unreliable, environmentally disruptive, and subsidy-dependent schemes ever forced on American ratepayers and taxpayers.”

Hell, that’s so searing a statement, I could have said it.  Only with a lot more Bad Words and death threats.

Pour yourself a cuppa joe, settle back and read the whole article.  If you’re not giggling like a little girl by the end of it, we can’t be friends.

As for the Greens, the reaction is typical:

More like the above, please.