In Reply to Energy Equates to Wealth
and Guest Contributor – Chemist – Thoughts on Energy
You don’t need to be all that intelligent to realize that the entire green movement is built on extremely shaky engineering underpinnings. And I’m pretty sure those at the top fully realize the sheer unreality of the movement. But, I think it’s a decoy and that the base impulse behind the entire thing (at the top levels anyway) is Malthusian in nature. There are just too many people, increasing at an exponential rate and that trend will not end well.
I have sorta had those leanings myself for a good portion of my live. Decades ago, I remember watching some documentary showing the world population through history. During the Napoleonic wars in 1800, it was around 1 billion, with the GREAT majority of that in China. Over 200 years later, during WWI, it had only grown buy around 15%-20%. I remember thinking that, whatever the problems of the early 20th century world, very few people ascribed them to a lack of population.
When I was born after WWII, the number was around 2.75 billion. What’s it up to now? 10 billion?
I’m not wise enough to know if there is a optimum human population or what it is. I do know that if there is a provable optimum and that population level is significantly below current (as I suspect), I am not aware of any method of getting from here to there by any means that I could condone or tolerate.
I’m not sure that last statement applies to the top elites of the green movement. I think they just may want to bring the whole structure down and let the chips fall where they may as long as they are protected.
Eggs, after all, must be broken.
“I think they just may want to bring the whole structure down and let the chips fall where they may as long as they are protected.”
That has been the Modus Operandi of revolutionaries since there were governments.
They never seem to learn that they will not be protected.
Just ask Robespierre.
As much as I realize that Earth cannot support an infinite number of people I think we should be part of the decision making process as to how we avoid such a situation. I don’t want to be one of the lab animals for the oligarchs to experiment on.