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The earliest civilization that archeologists have identified is Sumer.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Their technological advances allowed them to grow their population until it probably included a million people.\u00a0 Pretty good for six or seven thousand years ago.<\/p>\n

So why aren\u2019t we all speaking Sumerian and praying to Enki and Enkidu (Enki see, Enki do)?<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 The technology that made their civilization possible was eventually unsustainable.<\/p>\n

Sustainability is a buzzword that Gaia worshippers love to bandy about.\u00a0 And typically, they\u2019re talking about fossil fuels as being \u201cunsustainable.\u201d\u00a0 But more and more the sustainability of things like wind and solar energy systems have begun to be questioned.<\/p>\n

As an example, down in Texas<\/a> a hail storm destroyed a significant part of a 4,000 acre solar panel array.\u00a0 And local people are worried about the damaged equipment leaking harmful chemicals into the groundwater.\u00a0 And this is far from the first occasion when hail has destroyed these arrays.\u00a0 And wind turbines have been having their own problems.\u00a0 Maintenance has been found to be more expensive and frequent than estimated.\u00a0 And the impact on bird life has been shocking for the wildlife lovers among the green energy crowd.\u00a0 Dead eagles and other raptors are a common sight around these installations.<\/p>\n

But the main complaint about these supposedly sustainable technologies is that they have significant environmental costs compared to the limited power production they represent.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Imagine a landscape covered for miles and miles with wind turbines.\u00a0 And the whole area littered with bird carcasses.<\/p>\n

The current green energy technologies remind me of the compact florescent bulbs that the Obama administration tried to push on us.\u00a0 It was a technology that had more problems than the technology it was supposed to replace.\u00a0 Basically, it was a pretend solution to a situation that was being presented as a critical problem but was actually a manufactured crisis.<\/p>\n

Now here\u2019s the thing.\u00a0 Problems with technology occur.\u00a0 One problem that we have anticipated for a long time is what to do when fossil fuels run out.\u00a0 Now whether that\u2019s a hundred years in the future or a thousand years there will most probably will be a point where we\u2019ll run out of recoverable coal, oil and gas.\u00a0 And long before that time comes mankind should have a plan to replace this energy source with something else.<\/p>\n

But the answer can\u2019t be going back to living in caves as the green energy people want you to believe.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Will it be the Chinese, the Russians, the Indians?\u00a0 It\u2019s very hard to know who.\u00a0 But it will happen.\u00a0 And if we allow ourselves to be bullied by the likes of Greta Thunberg and John Kerry then we\u2019re going to doom our children to living like stone age people and eventually be displaced by more rational societies.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hopeful that the great experiment with green energy that California has pioneered will soon bear fruit and cause some horrific catastrophe.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Well, Enki see Enkidu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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