Are you enjoying the cold showers?

Are you walking to work? Are you living in a cave?

Do you not think that if global warming was the threat to our species that bbccnn tells us it is (ad nauseam) we’d actually be doing something about it?

Do you not think that the fellas who run the world would meet at Davos and hammer out an urgent plan to eliminate wasteful, climate damaging activities?

Do you not think they would ban things like:

• private jets and non-essential air travel

• yachts

• ice rinks

• sports stadiums

• Formula One and all auto racing

• resorts

• ski lifts

• Taylor Swift concerts

Nope. No plan. No bans.

Instead we are told that solar panels, windmills and EVs — which are all manufactured using enormous amounts of fossil fuels are the answer. Does anyone other than a barnyard animal actually believe these will reduce carbon emissions? If so then you get reclassified as a retarded moron and you should seek a rope and a strong branch and cure yourself of your stupidity.

Meanwhile Al Gore and Elon continue to fly on their private jets, Obama buys a sea level holiday home in Hawaii, and best of all, Leo invests in a multi million dollar concrete ‘eco- hotel’ inches above the water line in Belize. Odd given any day now sea levels are certain to rise 18 feet.

These same fellas who continue to expand their carbon footprints simultaneously urge the barnyard animals to take cold showers. If global warming was an actual emergency, don’t you think that governments would introduce laws mandating cold showers as well as banning all wasteful high-energy activities?

They can force you to wear a seatbelt. But they cannot take any real action to fend off 'the disastrous global warming’ that threatens us with extinction.

As for the barnyard animals, do any of them make changes to the way they live so as to reduce their footprints? Of course not. They prefer not to but also they cannot because of a phenomenon known as Jevon’s Paradox.

If you swap your SUV for a small car and reduce your petrol consumption from $400 per month to $200, what happens to the saved $200? You spend it on something else.

You could put it in the bank but the bank will lend it out 8x and that results in even more economic activity, more fossil fuels being burned.

You could take the money and flush it down the toilet, but the central bank would just replace it many times over so destroying cash would be an act of futility.

You could ask your employer to cut your salary in half to help you with the difficult task of trying to burn less fossil fuels. But you won’t.

Some years ago I employed a hard core greenie manager. He was mostly harmless however he had a vendetta against plastic straws. One day he informed me that he was taking a Friday off and flying long haul to meet his fellas to watch a concert - business class of course. He would be back in the office on Monday. I casually mentioned that straws are made from petroleum and wondered how many straws could be made from the petroleum he was burning on this business class flight. His response was a sheepish ‘ya well…’

The thing is, even if global warming was real there is nothing that could be done about it without collapsing civilization. Banning high energy, useless activities such as air travel and tourism, would result in massive job losses and degrowth. Degrowth would lead to more job losses and before you know it we’d be trapped in a deflationary death spiral and the global economy would collapse.

If I know this, the Ministry of Truth knows this, yet they pound us with endless global warming articles urging immediate action.

The immediate action to deal with global warming generally involves transitioning off of fossil fuels. The UK, which is experiencing a severe affordable energy crisis that will soon collapse the country, wants to triple down on their renewable energy pledge.

According to recent statements by Keir Starmer, the UK Prime Minister, the country needs to significantly increase its renewable energy production, aiming to become a "clean energy superpower" by achieving at least 95% of its electricity generation from clean sources like renewables and nuclear power by 2030; this includes plans to drastically expand offshore and onshore wind, solar power, and potentially new nuclear projects to meet this goal.

Starmer KNOWS that this is impossible. He KNOWS that solar panels and windmills are dirty tech and are by no measure renewable. He knows that there is no way to store ‘renewable’ energy other than using extremely expensive batteries manufactured by burning fossil fuels. He KNOWS that there is already an affordable energy crisis and that therefore attempting to build out storage would only drive energy costs far higher and exacerbate the problem. HE KNOWS ALL OF THIS!!!

Yet he insists that renewable energy is the solution. Because the barnyard animals demand a solution. The barnyard animals will not accept that we are running out of affordable energy and on the verge of collapse. They demand more solar panels and windmills and EVs. Because the MSM has told them to think that this is a solution.

There is no solution. There is only collapse and starvation.

The barnyard animals would quickly lose their minds if they were told this. So they are not told this - they are told that fossil fuels cause global warming - that fossil fuels are a villain - that we do not need them because we are ditching them for clean green tech (made by burning enormous amounts of fossil fuels of course).

I have tried to explain this in the simplest of terms, as one might explain to a 7 year old of average intelligence. Global Warming/Climate change is Bullshit. It is a lie.

If you cannot understand this and you still believe global warming is a thing, then sorry to inform you but you are mentally ill and just plain fucking dumb. And I am sincere when I refer to you as dumb. There is no other excuse.

Related - The Three Pillars of Bullshit

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The Oil and Gas Engineer Driving for Uber

I was speaking to an Uber driver this morning and asked him if this was his full time gig. No, he said, he has worked as a pipeline engineer in the oil and gas industry for nearly 20 years and he was driving part time for Uber because he was laid off. How long ago was that I asked. Nearly 3 years. He said he has worked for a number of major oil companies including Exxon while based in Singapore and Qatar but the problem is there have been major layoffs in the industry. For every job opening in his field there are loads of applicants, many with as much or more experience than he has. He also mentioned that many projects have been mothballed because the cost of producing the oil is too high so there are very few job openings. Connect the dots…

The Sow

While waiting in the outdoor lounge area to catch a flight from Koh Samui to Perth, I had a chance to observe a large number of barnyard animals in their artificial habitat. Many of them were gorging on crisps, sugar laden cupcakes and bad coffee at the airline courtesy table. Others were observed grazing on French fries and other processed garbage. Not a small number were loading up on large sacks of crisps and sodas for the 90 minute budget airline flight to Singapore.

I could not help but notice a particularly impressive barnyard animal. Let’s call her The Sow. The Sow would stand about 1.65 metres tall and I estimate she’d weigh in at 120kg. She wouldn’t have been more than 30 years old. The Sow was attired in sloppy sweat pants and a wife-beater singlet and not a single inch of her body, save the face, had escaped the tattoo artist’s needle.

The Sow was a train wreck, a beast, a gigantic waddling fat fuck. But she had one saving grace that no doubt was done to prop up her sagging self esteem - she had pouting duck-shaped fake lips. Yup. She must feel she has a voluptuous, sexy body but thin lips were between her and a modelling contract (no need to spend money to get stuffed with silicone as her ass and breasts were already ginormous). A bit of filler in the lips was all that was needed to complete her look. I watched enthralled and at the same time disgusted as she lurched over to the courtesy table and stuffed her maw.

Once the barnyard animals had settled in to their seats, the pre-paid snack packs were distributed. I watch as a delighted moron extracted the Pringles Chips, sugary juice drink, and pretzels and dug in (I had brought 4 hard boiled eggs and a banana for my dinner).

The plane was completely full yet when I strolled to the washroom there was The Sow sprawled out with a spare seat to accommodate her massive bulk. Did they give her the seat or did she pay for two seats?

On the next leg from Singapore to Perth, there was a midflight medical emergency. Another sow-like, older barnyard animal a few rows up from me was in serious distress and appeared to be having a heart attack. She was gasping for air and making very loud wheezing noises. The flight attendants had strapped an oxygen mask on her and were trying to comfort her.

Nothing to see here, just another Vax-Injured slob dying. I glanced at my watch to see if we had passed the half way point of the journey concerned that we might have to turn back to Singapore inconveniencing me.

I was kinda hoping she’d die just to see what they would do with the carcass. Would they cover her with a blanket and leave her there or would they drag her bloated dead body and plop her down on the free seat next to The Sow. I wondered how The Sow might react to seeing the future that awaits her.

Alas, she made it to Perth without croaking and was offloaded by the paramedics.

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Averting Collapse Is No Longer Profitable

How the past 75 years of infrastructure development has created a massive predicament for industrial nations and what comes next

From the States to Europe and Japan, bridges, pipelines, dams, and a good portion of the electric grid has become a liability. While half-a-century ago when most of these systems were built, they bought an increase in prosperity to the region they served, now their maintenance budget looks like a bottomless pit. And while spending money, energy and raw materials on them is absolutely necessary to keep them in good working condition, these expenditures will not increase the economic output of the region by an iota. Replacing an ageing water pipe under main street comes with road closures, noise and pollution, reducing the attractiveness of nearby businesses. Sure, renovations does add to GDP (at least nominally) but how is that different — economically speaking — to cleaning up a major oil spill? (ignore the garbage about global warming - see above)