This is what we must change. We, the entire world, has become dependent on fossil fuels. Oil companies love it. But it is toxic. We depend on it for our transportation, jobs, heating and cooling. Out energy strategy has always enslaved us to oil, coal, and natural gas. It is killing us and our planet.
Look at the air and look at the water.
If you live in a big city it is worse.
Is there a natural waterway near you that you would drink from?
Is this what we want to pass on to future generations?
As a friend of mine who is in the “alternative energy” business said “There is no way you can generate energy in any form cheaper than you can pump it out of the ground.” He devised a way to make diesel out of a byproduct of the corn ethanol process. But he admits that it’s only because ethanol is heavily subsidized that he can make money on the oily byproduct.
120 years ago, fully 1/3 of American agricultural production went to the feeding of horses; the main transportation “engine” of the time. In addition, manure, urine and dead horses made the cities cesspools of disease. The country was in trouble with all that, and people predicted disaster…until the internal combustion engine was developed and made the whole disaster scenario moot.
I don’t particularly doubt that human ingenuity will prove itself equal to the task of replacing fossil fuels whenever it’s most advantageous for people to do that, though “running out of fossil fuels” keeps getting pushed further and further into the future.
In the meantime, fossil fuels are the cheapest way for mankind to heat homes, cool homes, refrigerate foods, transport products and, indeed, add strength to the human arm through the employment of machinery.
Attempting to stop or reduce the use of fossil fuels while they’re abundant is, to me, akin to shooting half the horses in 1880. That would have reduced their need for fodder, and would undoubtedly have reduced the manure. But it would also have caused widespread starvation and poverty.
I have seen all the graphs and counter-graphs, all the figures and counter-figures, all the “scientists” on this side and on that. Those things have been posted ad nauseam on a number of threads here on CAF, and I don’t care to repeat them, at least not at present.
But regardless, on the one hand we have a theory that’s intriguing but far from proven, and on the other we have the choice of "shooting half the horses’ as it were, and causing widespread suffering and perhaps even death.
When it’s abundantly clear that the biggest promoters of it don’t act at all as if they believe it themselves, when they have billions invested in it, and when I, who spend a great deal of time outdoors in all weather see not the slightest corroborating manifestation of MMGW, to me, the choice is very clear which way we go with this.
