Nothing like seeing my darling state (Vermont), once again leading the way (to perdition).
I have great admiration for Phil Scott. When the former governor, Shumlin, was leading a vote to shut down Vermont Yankee, Scott was one of only four state senators who voted against shutting it. He has a lot of courage.
I think Scott is somewhat worn out with battling the Democratic supermajority that can override his veto. I think he chooses his wording very carefully, in the hopes that some Dems will not join the supermajority.
Despite being a Republican, Scott is popular in Vermont. We are also the home state the home of Bernie Sanders, after all. I think Scott would lose any chance of influencing policy if he always spoke as strongly Republicans would like him to speak.
We lived in VT for 3 yrs, during the big “gay union” push around 2000. I never paid attention to politics much before that and once those eyes are opened, theybdint ever close again. I’ve tried. 🤦♀️
“Hugues Falys would have blamed that supermajor for his misfortunes, the likes of which no farmer from preindustrial times has ever experienced, of course.”
The farmers of the devastating Dust Bowl era experienced much more misfortune than this farmer. Most of them lost everything to the most extreme weather that region has ever seen on record. I even knew a woman whose husband went out to the field one morning and got caught in a sandstorm. His body was found days later in a sand drift. I doubt if she would think this modern farmer’s “misfortunes” were worse than any previous farmers have ever experienced.
I do regret turning some of the smaller children upside down in the trash can in the cafeteria in high school, and pulling jock straps over the heads of some classmates. I’m sure they are all billionaires. Who is laughing now?
The person who stabs their victim is guilty of the crime - not the person who makes the knife or who sells it. Likewise, we are all guilty of causing climate change by using hydrocarbons and products made from hydrocarbons (which is just about most stuff). We would all get pretty angry if we were denied access to hydrocarbon products.
Indeed, and that is why we are being told to stop using so much of everything, including food. It's also why a growing number of us are starting to get angry, as you say.
You know I just can't remember being bullied - but like most things I don't like - I just instantly ignore and forget them! Sorry you were, but it didn't hurt too much later... did it?
But being in the trenches fighting solar, brings a whole other dimension to the term bullying. The lying, cheating and shear depth of the deception is just breath taking! Your description of Vermont uses less petroleum.... but actually the fact is they use more per capita.... but simple omissions are not lies - right?
The same story from the wind, solar and battery gallery right now is that they are saving the day and look how much of a percentage they are on the grid.... (in Texas... that's all I know...)
look deeper - it's spring - low daily demand - it is mandated wind and solar be used first (RPS adopted in 1999), nuclear is at just over 1/2 capacity, coal about 1/3 and gas is at about 9-10%.
Good time for scheduled maintenance before summer.
So the bully in the room is the renewables industry - they know they can get away with anything and try to cover up whatever they don't want you to know.
They have to do environmental studies for the EPA I am told, or at least a review - but if you ever want to see their review - good luck, you are not going to get it.
I can do the same review by pulling up Texas Parks and Wildlife for the county!
They do have decommissioning plans and a bond with the owner... from a few who have told me - they are not enough - but owners are not in the know of what it will take....
They do have recycling plans...
They do have drainage plans...
No they are non-toxic panels - just glass made out of sand.... (right!!!)
No it is not a conflict of interesting if the voting board member leased to another solar facility.... or their father leased....
Yes they can give you a non-participating lease worth hundreds of thousands, but you have to shut up and not say another word....
They don't tell you that this lease agreement is null and void when the company sells....
They want to be a big part of the community and donate to the church or youth 4-H and then the funds don't actually materialize for that purpose....
do I need to go on....
NO - they are the bully in the room and think they can buy everything and every one and you know they are mostly right on that one!
Oh, no, what I call bullying was in fact rather mild position assertion by the more aggressive kids. Being invisible is good. No trauma to speak of.
You are absolutely right, the transition industries right now are the equivalent of that rich, extremely privileged kid that no one dares touch because the kid will tell mum and dad and they have the power to harm everyone who dares touch their child. Truth is a relative concept in this context.
Imagine how much the poor farmers back would hurt if he were plowing with a team of oxen, or pulling the plow himself instead of driving that air conditioned tractor.
I sometimes wonder why the energy companies don’t fight back. OK, Vermont. We see the problems our product has caused. We are sorry. We will immediately shut down operations in Vermont and encourage other energy companies to do the same to prevent more damage and suffering.
Exactly! It's high time oil and gas heeded the advice to "Keep it in the ground". They'll only get richer if they do it. But then they'll probably get sued for withholding vital commodities because these people eat cognitive dissonance for breakfast.
You've hit the nail on the head. Victimology is the force behind every bulling action. If you feel powerless, you will be and once there, you'll be happy to give authority to anyone who will beat up your bully.
Subsidies, counter-subsidies, rebates, ad nauseam - all forced by government. Frederic Bastiat had it right: "The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
I love the "subsidies" that oil companies receive, like depreciation and depletion being deducted as expenses in the operation of their business before computing tax owed on remaining profit.......like every other business is allowed. Oh, just like those taxpayer funded direct payments made to the solar and wind companies, right? Not quite by a long shot! Then again there's this inconvenient truth:
"The state has no oil or gas industry but over half of the energy consumed in it is petroleum-based, per the EIA, with figures for 2021. Not only that but “Although the state uses less petroleum than all the other states, Vermont uses more petroleum per capita than almost two-thirds of the states.” Well, isn’t that interesting."
Oh Bernie, didn't your mother tell you that when you point your accusatory finger at someone else, three fingers point back at you? Apparently not.
The solution to the problem, if you believe that oil and gas are causing catastrophes, is to stop using oil and gas and anything made by or using oil and gas.
Yes. It's really simple but for some reason very few are choosing this solution and the ones who are don't glue themselves to roads, they just move to the wilderness and I respect them for it.
Irina; The land and oceans are heating up rapidly, rapidly in the context of years/decades not hundreds or thousands of years, who knows at what point the ocean currents will change dramatically. The Artic ice sheets are melting, rapidly, but maybe don’t appear to when viewed from above, they’re melting from beneath, accelerated by warmer water. Where I’ve lived for over 50 years we use to have frosts, especially air frosts regularly in winter, frosts are now rare, air frosts rarer. And snow, every year light to heavy, one, two, thee, four feet arriving several times through a winter. From 1970’s it was noticeable things weather wise were changing. For last seven years we’ve had light snow, like 6 inches max, but gone within 24 hours. This year to date we haven’t had any, if we don’t it’ll be eight years of little to no snow.
I’m not saying we should stop burning FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils (FFFF). Coal, Oil and Gas have allowed us to in my lifetime to grow a population from 2.5 billion to 8 billion and maybe higher, but our carbon footprint print means we’ve overshot the Earth sustainability by around 3 Earth Planets. We absolutely need those FFFF’s, but they’re FINITE and rapidly depleting, those in the know, know, so not investing. What government, especially a democratic government, wants to tell its citizens the bad news, so instead they’ll print money, one in particular USA, after all its the reserve currency the petrodollar hiding the real cost of FFFF’s especially Oil which Coal and Gas costs are dependent on. By 2035 it will be obvious to all what’s happening, there’s nothing we (humanity) can do. The Baby Boomers and Gen X should live their lives to the full, because the generations after will pay our hedonistic lifestyle c/o FFFF’s with their lives🤔
I’m doubtful of there being a total extinction of humans, but I could believe in a situation that results in a drastic self inflicted ecological cull reducing Earth’s population down to as low as 600 million left living like 17th century serfs. We’re in a Meta and Polycrisis of: dangerous geopolitical events, ecological overshoot, resource depletion of minerals, energy minerals (Coal, Oil, Gas and Biomass), and global heating. Excluding dangers of current geopolitics, I doubt I’ll be alive anywhere near when the worst events takes effect, my grandchildren may but my great grandchildren will, and so a child born today will.
Am I a Doomer, I’m afraid so, would I tell children what their future may hold, NO! But if they asked, then yes🤔
I’m sorry if you find the thought of extinction upsetting, it’s a bit like being told you’ve got terminal cancer: denial, disbelief, guilt, anger, sadness, despair, resignation but finally calm acceptance. Maybe checkout a couple of other Doomers I’m just an amateur compared to them, both are on SM: X-Orcist/Twitersphere, 73.8K and 4.1K respectively. You can place your bet with this one: Mathematician Prof Eliot Jacobson - Climate Casino- Watching the World Go Bye. And then there’s Lyle Lewis, Former endangered species biologist with the US Department of Interior; recently published his book “Racing To Extinction - Why humanity will soon vanish🤔
No need to apologize, Barry. We, or something like us have been around for 200,000 years or so. Pretty good run for a species. If it’s over, I’d rather we go out living it up in comfort rather than shivering in a mud hut. I actually feel pity for you living with your sad view of the future. I think it is a form of mental illness. There is a lot of literature that backs my view. I’m not interested in reading more doom and sadness. I’d do suggest that you seek help.
200,000 years are you serious Lee, do you really think that’s a long time, we laugh and make fun of the dinosaurs being extinguished but they lasted 165,000,000 years. Just a bit of info for you it’s now believed that it wasn’t just a meteor that took the dinosaurs out, as a massive volcanic eruption in what is now India about 250,000 years before the cataclysmic Chicxulub asteroid impact may have played a role in the extinction of dinosaurs.
Had we not discovered how to use FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils energy we might have had more of a chance of living well at least until the next natural 6th mass extinction but unfortunately humanity might just have helped it to come sooner.
Don’t worry about my mental health I’ve already come to terms with what’s in store. Maybe checkout “Watching the World Go Bye - On Being a Doomer”🤔
I used to believe it, Barry but there are way too many questions with the research that claims the above. The weather *is" changing but it's not the fault of carbon dioxide. Maybe we should look up to the Sun as some scientists have suggested? I guess that's why some have proposed that we shade it to arrest climate change. I'd rather we stick to our hedonistic lifestyles, to be honest. And don't forget that those lifestyles are only common in a small part of the world. Most people on the planet live nowhere near a hedonistic level.
Irina, I never mentioned CO2 or AWG. FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils are depleting rapidly, like, they were created over millions of years but have and they continue to be extracted and burnt 10 million times faster than they were sequestered. I did say “The Baby Boomers and Gen X should live their lives to the full” so guess you’ll be okay, but those you may have birthed or a child born today won’t be so lucky. So yes consume and party away, and if you like boozing and dancing there’s a song best sung by Peggy Lee, titled “Is That All There Is” check it out, think you might enjoy it🤔
In some respects I’m pleased to hear that Irina, though not partying, dancing and boozing is that by choice or circumstances. You say when it comes to most others they don’t either. We can only go by what we see and experience. When it’s recycling box day for bottles, with the exception of birthdays, anniversaries and Christmas, my box doesn’t go out because it’s empty of bottles, sometimes there’s the occasional wine box but cardboard goes in a separate bin with plastic. Walking around the village for exercise (not snooping), the village has a few thousand dwellings, most household’s boxe’s are overflowing with bottles and aluminium beer cans, maybe those households don’t dance but they’re still boozing, just hope they’re enjoying themselves, not drowning their sorrows. Some time ago visited a village friend’s family, age I’d say in their 50’s Gen X. They had slaves, yea yea I know I have slaves that come in the form of energy, but this family had slaves controlling other slaves; Alexia turn on TV, Alexa lights on, Alexa turn them down, stop. What else does Alexa do I asked, well Alexa can at our command start dishwasher and washing machine, and Rover the auto vacuum cleaner. Is that all the automation, no, from my smart phone, tablet or laptop from wherever we are the fridge can tell us what needs reordering, and then there’s the audio system, audio system! Hi-Fi music/radio player to you, we also have cameras in every room and outside, so we can monitor what’s going on, oh and the cameras act as motion detectors so adjusting the rooms aircon dependant on if the rooms occupied or not. Some people live way way way beyond any king or queen of old. Surely it must save some time for dancing, while we rape and cook Gaia🤔
That’s a very broad statement Irina, a get out of jail free card. I’ll just say whilst I live in England (UK) I don’t live in Esher, Surrey, far from it, and the person/s I’d call a technophile, live in a moderate semidetached house, I’m told they’re not unique in my village apparently. I did ask if the technology (gadgets) needed additional wiring or drilling and chasing walls, was told apart from fixings for surveillance cameras everything was plug and play Bluetooth. Now China alone turns this stuff out in the billions, so I guess there must be billions of people with it. Maybe you live frugally Irina, I’d like to think I do, but I still party, given the opportunity, and I’m sure those who aspire to the Global Norths lifestyles like to as well. Just saying🤔
Well, this goes to show, the Super Majors are all in the crosshairs of every movement that roams the earth. As they all try to build out on renewable energy, spending billions of new technology for carbon capture (a dud), emissions controls, funding environmental groups - they still get nailed! As we all know, the bullies don't stop until you stand up, and for the Super Major's that is something they will never do.
They should sue the sun for fusioning so damn much. It's really the root cause of all these "problems".
Well, they are trying to shade it, you know...
Great essay!
Nothing like seeing my darling state (Vermont), once again leading the way (to perdition).
I have great admiration for Phil Scott. When the former governor, Shumlin, was leading a vote to shut down Vermont Yankee, Scott was one of only four state senators who voted against shutting it. He has a lot of courage.
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/video-why-sen-phil-scott-voted-to-relicense-vermont-yankee-2180179
I think Scott is somewhat worn out with battling the Democratic supermajority that can override his veto. I think he chooses his wording very carefully, in the hopes that some Dems will not join the supermajority.
Despite being a Republican, Scott is popular in Vermont. We are also the home state the home of Bernie Sanders, after all. I think Scott would lose any chance of influencing policy if he always spoke as strongly Republicans would like him to speak.
We lived in VT for 3 yrs, during the big “gay union” push around 2000. I never paid attention to politics much before that and once those eyes are opened, theybdint ever close again. I’ve tried. 🤦♀️
It does sound like an extremely difficult position to be in, for Scott. Good for him he's not giving up.
“Hugues Falys would have blamed that supermajor for his misfortunes, the likes of which no farmer from preindustrial times has ever experienced, of course.”
The farmers of the devastating Dust Bowl era experienced much more misfortune than this farmer. Most of them lost everything to the most extreme weather that region has ever seen on record. I even knew a woman whose husband went out to the field one morning and got caught in a sandstorm. His body was found days later in a sand drift. I doubt if she would think this modern farmer’s “misfortunes” were worse than any previous farmers have ever experienced.
We don't talk about that. There were no farming misfortunes before climate change and that's it. It is truly infuriating, to be honest.
Great article!!
Thank you!
"The victim is the perpetrator and the perpetrator is the victim"
I do regret turning some of the smaller children upside down in the trash can in the cafeteria in high school, and pulling jock straps over the heads of some classmates. I’m sure they are all billionaires. Who is laughing now?
We see it all over these days. Every activist out there is a “victim.”
The person who stabs their victim is guilty of the crime - not the person who makes the knife or who sells it. Likewise, we are all guilty of causing climate change by using hydrocarbons and products made from hydrocarbons (which is just about most stuff). We would all get pretty angry if we were denied access to hydrocarbon products.
Indeed, and that is why we are being told to stop using so much of everything, including food. It's also why a growing number of us are starting to get angry, as you say.
You know I just can't remember being bullied - but like most things I don't like - I just instantly ignore and forget them! Sorry you were, but it didn't hurt too much later... did it?
But being in the trenches fighting solar, brings a whole other dimension to the term bullying. The lying, cheating and shear depth of the deception is just breath taking! Your description of Vermont uses less petroleum.... but actually the fact is they use more per capita.... but simple omissions are not lies - right?
The same story from the wind, solar and battery gallery right now is that they are saving the day and look how much of a percentage they are on the grid.... (in Texas... that's all I know...)
look deeper - it's spring - low daily demand - it is mandated wind and solar be used first (RPS adopted in 1999), nuclear is at just over 1/2 capacity, coal about 1/3 and gas is at about 9-10%.
Good time for scheduled maintenance before summer.
So the bully in the room is the renewables industry - they know they can get away with anything and try to cover up whatever they don't want you to know.
They have to do environmental studies for the EPA I am told, or at least a review - but if you ever want to see their review - good luck, you are not going to get it.
I can do the same review by pulling up Texas Parks and Wildlife for the county!
They do have decommissioning plans and a bond with the owner... from a few who have told me - they are not enough - but owners are not in the know of what it will take....
They do have recycling plans...
They do have drainage plans...
No they are non-toxic panels - just glass made out of sand.... (right!!!)
No it is not a conflict of interesting if the voting board member leased to another solar facility.... or their father leased....
Yes they can give you a non-participating lease worth hundreds of thousands, but you have to shut up and not say another word....
They don't tell you that this lease agreement is null and void when the company sells....
They want to be a big part of the community and donate to the church or youth 4-H and then the funds don't actually materialize for that purpose....
do I need to go on....
NO - they are the bully in the room and think they can buy everything and every one and you know they are mostly right on that one!
Oh, no, what I call bullying was in fact rather mild position assertion by the more aggressive kids. Being invisible is good. No trauma to speak of.
You are absolutely right, the transition industries right now are the equivalent of that rich, extremely privileged kid that no one dares touch because the kid will tell mum and dad and they have the power to harm everyone who dares touch their child. Truth is a relative concept in this context.
Imagine how much the poor farmers back would hurt if he were plowing with a team of oxen, or pulling the plow himself instead of driving that air conditioned tractor.
I sometimes wonder why the energy companies don’t fight back. OK, Vermont. We see the problems our product has caused. We are sorry. We will immediately shut down operations in Vermont and encourage other energy companies to do the same to prevent more damage and suffering.
Liked the bully analogy. Nice piece.
Exactly! It's high time oil and gas heeded the advice to "Keep it in the ground". They'll only get richer if they do it. But then they'll probably get sued for withholding vital commodities because these people eat cognitive dissonance for breakfast.
You've hit the nail on the head. Victimology is the force behind every bulling action. If you feel powerless, you will be and once there, you'll be happy to give authority to anyone who will beat up your bully.
Subsidies, counter-subsidies, rebates, ad nauseam - all forced by government. Frederic Bastiat had it right: "The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
Excellent! Keep up the good work!
I love the "subsidies" that oil companies receive, like depreciation and depletion being deducted as expenses in the operation of their business before computing tax owed on remaining profit.......like every other business is allowed. Oh, just like those taxpayer funded direct payments made to the solar and wind companies, right? Not quite by a long shot! Then again there's this inconvenient truth:
"The state has no oil or gas industry but over half of the energy consumed in it is petroleum-based, per the EIA, with figures for 2021. Not only that but “Although the state uses less petroleum than all the other states, Vermont uses more petroleum per capita than almost two-thirds of the states.” Well, isn’t that interesting."
Oh Bernie, didn't your mother tell you that when you point your accusatory finger at someone else, three fingers point back at you? Apparently not.
The solution to the problem, if you believe that oil and gas are causing catastrophes, is to stop using oil and gas and anything made by or using oil and gas.
See how that works out.
just try to pry their iPhones from their hands!
Yes. It's really simple but for some reason very few are choosing this solution and the ones who are don't glue themselves to roads, they just move to the wilderness and I respect them for it.
Great article, thank you!
Thank you!
Irina; The land and oceans are heating up rapidly, rapidly in the context of years/decades not hundreds or thousands of years, who knows at what point the ocean currents will change dramatically. The Artic ice sheets are melting, rapidly, but maybe don’t appear to when viewed from above, they’re melting from beneath, accelerated by warmer water. Where I’ve lived for over 50 years we use to have frosts, especially air frosts regularly in winter, frosts are now rare, air frosts rarer. And snow, every year light to heavy, one, two, thee, four feet arriving several times through a winter. From 1970’s it was noticeable things weather wise were changing. For last seven years we’ve had light snow, like 6 inches max, but gone within 24 hours. This year to date we haven’t had any, if we don’t it’ll be eight years of little to no snow.
I’m not saying we should stop burning FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils (FFFF). Coal, Oil and Gas have allowed us to in my lifetime to grow a population from 2.5 billion to 8 billion and maybe higher, but our carbon footprint print means we’ve overshot the Earth sustainability by around 3 Earth Planets. We absolutely need those FFFF’s, but they’re FINITE and rapidly depleting, those in the know, know, so not investing. What government, especially a democratic government, wants to tell its citizens the bad news, so instead they’ll print money, one in particular USA, after all its the reserve currency the petrodollar hiding the real cost of FFFF’s especially Oil which Coal and Gas costs are dependent on. By 2035 it will be obvious to all what’s happening, there’s nothing we (humanity) can do. The Baby Boomers and Gen X should live their lives to the full, because the generations after will pay our hedonistic lifestyle c/o FFFF’s with their lives🤔
E&OE
Uh-huh. Sure. https://extinctionclock.org
I’m doubtful of there being a total extinction of humans, but I could believe in a situation that results in a drastic self inflicted ecological cull reducing Earth’s population down to as low as 600 million left living like 17th century serfs. We’re in a Meta and Polycrisis of: dangerous geopolitical events, ecological overshoot, resource depletion of minerals, energy minerals (Coal, Oil, Gas and Biomass), and global heating. Excluding dangers of current geopolitics, I doubt I’ll be alive anywhere near when the worst events takes effect, my grandchildren may but my great grandchildren will, and so a child born today will.
Am I a Doomer, I’m afraid so, would I tell children what their future may hold, NO! But if they asked, then yes🤔
Look at the website. It is a list of all the nutball climate predictions, like yours, that haven’t happened. Extinction is part of the joke.
Still wearing that Covid mask?
I’m sorry if you find the thought of extinction upsetting, it’s a bit like being told you’ve got terminal cancer: denial, disbelief, guilt, anger, sadness, despair, resignation but finally calm acceptance. Maybe checkout a couple of other Doomers I’m just an amateur compared to them, both are on SM: X-Orcist/Twitersphere, 73.8K and 4.1K respectively. You can place your bet with this one: Mathematician Prof Eliot Jacobson - Climate Casino- Watching the World Go Bye. And then there’s Lyle Lewis, Former endangered species biologist with the US Department of Interior; recently published his book “Racing To Extinction - Why humanity will soon vanish🤔
No need to apologize, Barry. We, or something like us have been around for 200,000 years or so. Pretty good run for a species. If it’s over, I’d rather we go out living it up in comfort rather than shivering in a mud hut. I actually feel pity for you living with your sad view of the future. I think it is a form of mental illness. There is a lot of literature that backs my view. I’m not interested in reading more doom and sadness. I’d do suggest that you seek help.
200,000 years are you serious Lee, do you really think that’s a long time, we laugh and make fun of the dinosaurs being extinguished but they lasted 165,000,000 years. Just a bit of info for you it’s now believed that it wasn’t just a meteor that took the dinosaurs out, as a massive volcanic eruption in what is now India about 250,000 years before the cataclysmic Chicxulub asteroid impact may have played a role in the extinction of dinosaurs.
Had we not discovered how to use FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils energy we might have had more of a chance of living well at least until the next natural 6th mass extinction but unfortunately humanity might just have helped it to come sooner.
Don’t worry about my mental health I’ve already come to terms with what’s in store. Maybe checkout “Watching the World Go Bye - On Being a Doomer”🤔
I used to believe it, Barry but there are way too many questions with the research that claims the above. The weather *is" changing but it's not the fault of carbon dioxide. Maybe we should look up to the Sun as some scientists have suggested? I guess that's why some have proposed that we shade it to arrest climate change. I'd rather we stick to our hedonistic lifestyles, to be honest. And don't forget that those lifestyles are only common in a small part of the world. Most people on the planet live nowhere near a hedonistic level.
Irina, I never mentioned CO2 or AWG. FREE FINITE Flammable Fossils are depleting rapidly, like, they were created over millions of years but have and they continue to be extracted and burnt 10 million times faster than they were sequestered. I did say “The Baby Boomers and Gen X should live their lives to the full” so guess you’ll be okay, but those you may have birthed or a child born today won’t be so lucky. So yes consume and party away, and if you like boozing and dancing there’s a song best sung by Peggy Lee, titled “Is That All There Is” check it out, think you might enjoy it🤔
I think you are exaggerating a bit, Barry. I don't "party away" and neither do most people, even in the wealthy countries.
In some respects I’m pleased to hear that Irina, though not partying, dancing and boozing is that by choice or circumstances. You say when it comes to most others they don’t either. We can only go by what we see and experience. When it’s recycling box day for bottles, with the exception of birthdays, anniversaries and Christmas, my box doesn’t go out because it’s empty of bottles, sometimes there’s the occasional wine box but cardboard goes in a separate bin with plastic. Walking around the village for exercise (not snooping), the village has a few thousand dwellings, most household’s boxe’s are overflowing with bottles and aluminium beer cans, maybe those households don’t dance but they’re still boozing, just hope they’re enjoying themselves, not drowning their sorrows. Some time ago visited a village friend’s family, age I’d say in their 50’s Gen X. They had slaves, yea yea I know I have slaves that come in the form of energy, but this family had slaves controlling other slaves; Alexia turn on TV, Alexa lights on, Alexa turn them down, stop. What else does Alexa do I asked, well Alexa can at our command start dishwasher and washing machine, and Rover the auto vacuum cleaner. Is that all the automation, no, from my smart phone, tablet or laptop from wherever we are the fridge can tell us what needs reordering, and then there’s the audio system, audio system! Hi-Fi music/radio player to you, we also have cameras in every room and outside, so we can monitor what’s going on, oh and the cameras act as motion detectors so adjusting the rooms aircon dependant on if the rooms occupied or not. Some people live way way way beyond any king or queen of old. Surely it must save some time for dancing, while we rape and cook Gaia🤔
The lifestyle you describe is only affordable for a tiny minority of the global population, which I take to be good news for the planet.
That’s a very broad statement Irina, a get out of jail free card. I’ll just say whilst I live in England (UK) I don’t live in Esher, Surrey, far from it, and the person/s I’d call a technophile, live in a moderate semidetached house, I’m told they’re not unique in my village apparently. I did ask if the technology (gadgets) needed additional wiring or drilling and chasing walls, was told apart from fixings for surveillance cameras everything was plug and play Bluetooth. Now China alone turns this stuff out in the billions, so I guess there must be billions of people with it. Maybe you live frugally Irina, I’d like to think I do, but I still party, given the opportunity, and I’m sure those who aspire to the Global Norths lifestyles like to as well. Just saying🤔
Well, this goes to show, the Super Majors are all in the crosshairs of every movement that roams the earth. As they all try to build out on renewable energy, spending billions of new technology for carbon capture (a dud), emissions controls, funding environmental groups - they still get nailed! As we all know, the bullies don't stop until you stand up, and for the Super Major's that is something they will never do.