{"id":16626,"date":"2021-11-15T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=16626"},"modified":"2021-11-15T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T01:27:09","slug":"guest-contributor-tomd-thoughts-on-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/15\/guest-contributor-tomd-thoughts-on-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor – TomD – Thoughts on Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Reply to\u00a0Energy Equates to Wealth<\/a><\/p>\n

and\u00a0Guest Contributor \u2013 Chemist \u2013 Thoughts on Energy<\/a><\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need to be all that intelligent to realize that the entire green movement is built on extremely shaky engineering underpinnings. And I\u2019m pretty sure those at the top fully realize the sheer unreality of the movement. But, I think it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

When I was born after WWII, the number was around 2.75 billion. What\u2019s it up to now? 10 billion?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n

Eggs, after all, must be broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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