The earliest civilization that archeologists have identified is Sumer. Located in the southern portion of the Tigris-Euphrates basin the Sumerians invented irrigation agriculture, domesticated several of the familiar farm animals and formed the first empire. Their technological advances allowed them to grow their population until it probably included a million people. Pretty good for six or seven thousand years ago.
So why aren’t we all speaking Sumerian and praying to Enki and Enkidu (Enki see, Enki do)?
Well as it turns out, using the Tigris and Euphrates as an irrigation source for hundreds of years eventually raises the salinity of the soil to the point where agricultural yield falls way off. That’s right. The technology that made their civilization possible was eventually unsustainable.
Sustainability is a buzzword that Gaia worshippers love to bandy about. And typically, they’re talking about fossil fuels as being “unsustainable.” But more and more the sustainability of things like wind and solar energy systems have begun to be questioned.
As an example, down in Texas a hail storm destroyed a significant part of a 4,000 acre solar panel array. And local people are worried about the damaged equipment leaking harmful chemicals into the groundwater. And this is far from the first occasion when hail has destroyed these arrays. And wind turbines have been having their own problems. Maintenance has been found to be more expensive and frequent than estimated. And the impact on bird life has been shocking for the wildlife lovers among the green energy crowd. Dead eagles and other raptors are a common sight around these installations.
But the main complaint about these supposedly sustainable technologies is that they have significant environmental costs compared to the limited power production they represent. In other words, replacing the current power generation capacity with these sustainable technologies would create enormous ecological impact from the production of the equipment and from the sheer size of the area needed to contain this capacity. Imagine a landscape covered for miles and miles with wind turbines. And the whole area littered with bird carcasses.
The current green energy technologies remind me of the compact florescent bulbs that the Obama administration tried to push on us. It was a technology that had more problems than the technology it was supposed to replace. Basically, it was a pretend solution to a situation that was being presented as a critical problem but was actually a manufactured crisis.
Now here’s the thing. Problems with technology occur. One problem that we have anticipated for a long time is what to do when fossil fuels run out. Now whether that’s a hundred years in the future or a thousand years there will most probably will be a point where we’ll run out of recoverable coal, oil and gas. And long before that time comes mankind should have a plan to replace this energy source with something else.
But the answer can’t be going back to living in caves as the green energy people want you to believe. And if this country and the rest of Western Civilization decide that following the lead of the Greens is the answer then someone else will find the better way and move forward without us.
Will it be the Chinese, the Russians, the Indians? It’s very hard to know who. But it will happen. And if we allow ourselves to be bullied by the likes of Greta Thunberg and John Kerry then we’re going to doom our children to living like stone age people and eventually be displaced by more rational societies.
I’m hopeful that the great experiment with green energy that California has pioneered will soon bear fruit and cause some horrific catastrophe. Maybe a huge number of electric cars will get stuck in a traffic jam out in the desert and thousands of stranded motorists will die of heat stroke. Something like that could allow rational people to realize how stupid the Greens truly are and return people to a sane way of thinking about energy and its place in our lives.
Well, Enki see Enkidu.