{"id":377935,"date":"2025-05-11T18:56:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=377935"},"modified":"2025-05-11T18:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:56:48","slug":"national-suicide-a-rejection-or-just-a-reprieve-for-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=377935","title":{"rendered":"National suicide \u2013 a rejection or just a reprieve for the USA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Driessen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPoor Jud is dead. A candle lights his head! He\u2019s looking oh so pretty and so nice. He looks like he\u2019s asleep. It\u2019s a shame that he won\u2019t keep. But it\u2019s summer and we\u2019re running out of ice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Oklahoma!<\/em><\/a> Curly McClain almost succeeds in convincing Jud Fry to take himself (permanently) out of the competition for Laurey Williams\u2019 hand. But Jud finally catches on to Curly\u2019s clever scheme and angrily confronts the musical\u2019s leading man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offstage, in the real world, historian Arnold Toynbee cautioned, \u201cCivilizations die from suicide, not by murder.\u201d Their citizens forget, or reject, the reasons for their accomplishments, health, and living standards; replace hard work with self-absorption and a sense of entitlement; and succumb to the belief that the world would be better if they eliminated evils like borders, citizenship, religion, and fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImagine there\u2019s no countries<\/a> \u2026 Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the Left has been devilishly ingenious in its efforts to lure the United States, Europe, and the West into committing civilizational suicide \u2013 by fearmongering us that the planet\u2019s very existence is at stake and promising that future generations will praise us<\/a> if we follow \u201cprogressive\u201d demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above all, the Left assures us that replacing oil, coal, natural gas, and nuclear power with \u201cclean, renewable, sustainable\u201d wind and solar energy will ensure idyllic temperatures, a perfect climate all year<\/a>, planetary salvation \u2013 and everlasting hosannahs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those tempted by these sirens\u2019 calls should ponder my grandmother\u2019s sage adage: \u201cThe only good thing about the \u2018good old days\u2019 is that they\u2019re gone.\u201d Having grown up on a nineteenth-century farm, Grandma Anna never wanted to live again without indoor plumbing, electricity, or refrigerators that replaced ice boxes, ice houses, and the risk of \u201crunning out of ice<\/a>\u201d before the next Wisconsin winter set in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terror attacks<\/a>, judicial interference, and blue state resistance notwithstanding, Trump administration and congressional actions on these fronts suggest that the United States will at least forestall, if not reject, national suicide. Much of Europe, however, seems headed for energy and civilizational collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGrooming gangs<\/a>\u201d sexually exploiting young girls, vehicular rampages<\/a> and knife attacks<\/a>, frequent gang rapes<\/a>, enclaves of assimilation-rejecting migrants<\/a>, and native populations whose lower birthrates<\/a> make it likely that legal and illegal immigrants will soon dominate demographics, cultures, and elections \u2013 all are harbingers of slow but steady civilizational decline<\/a> across much of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prolonging these problems, from Britain<\/a> to France<\/a> to Germany<\/a>, ruling liberal\/socialist elites are shutting down conservative voices and even entire parties that question or challenge government ideologies on climate change, the energy \u201ctransition\u201d to wind and solar, open borders, and free speech. Germany\u2019s domestic intelligence service officially classified the popular, populist, anti-green-energy Alternative f\u0171r Deutschland as a \u201cproven far-right extremist\u201d organization; AfD could now be subjected to informants and secret recordings and even banned from future elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps worst of all, Europe may be entering not just a new intellectual Dark Age, but a North Korea-style darkness age \u2013 where energy is scarce and costly, factories close<\/a>, jobs disappear, lighting and heating become luxuries, and governments increasingly control lives, livelihoods, and living standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germany and Britain<\/a> already have among the highest household, business, and industrial electricity prices on Earth (nearly 3x higher than average US prices<\/a>; 3-4x higher than in 30 states). Yet they refuse to frack for natural gas to power generators or build nuclear plants for reliable, affordable electricity \u2026 while demanding electric vehicles and heating and importing more Russian gas to finance Putin\u2019s war machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(US states focused on climate and \u201cgreen\u201d energy also have outrageously high electricity prices.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reliability is equally problematic. On April 16, Spain was euphoric: wind, solar and hydro power provided 100% of its electricity<\/a>. Twelve days later, a long blackout plunged<\/a> the country into chaos. No lights, refrigerators, TVs or cell phones; no trains, subways, traffic lights or flights; cash only because credit cards didn\u2019t work; hospitals had only limited backup power; people died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunny, net-zero Spain has 32 gigawatts of installed solar photovoltaic capacity \u2013 blanketing over 315 square miles (5x Washington, DC) with solar panels<\/a>. But the panels generate power intermittently, unreliably, at only 17% of their rated capacity overall. When solar generation surges (or plummets), its aging grid cannot handle the strain<\/a> or meet power demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heavily wind-solar Spanish electrical system<\/a> lacks the \u201cinertia\u201d or \u201cspinning mass\u201d that gas and nuclear power plants provide \u2013 the innate ability to respond quickly<\/a> to changes in demand, prevent fluctuations in voltage and available power, maintain grid stability, and prevent blackouts. And Spain\u2019s few remaining gas and nuclear plants were mostly offline when needed on April 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts estimate that the EU power grid requires at least a $1-trillion upgrade<\/a> to avoid similar blackouts. The International Energy Agency says Europe must spend $600 billion a year to cover the necessary overhauls; the European Commission puts the grid-upgrade tab at over $2 trillion by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Net-zero US states risk similar electricity chaos, financial catastrophes, and economic decline. The obvious best example is California \u2013 which already imports 20-30 percent of its electricity, depending on wind and sunshine, and increasing amounts of gasoline, as regulations, fines, and costs force more refineries to close. The state is also plagued by recurring power outages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The looming closure of Valero\u2019s Benicia refinery<\/a> will not only eliminate local jobs and revenues, but it will also leave California drivers with less fuel (just as EV drivers have to cope with reduce electricity generation), compel the oil-rich former Golden State to import even more fuel from Asia (adding tanker costs and emissions to the equation), deprive Nevada and Arizona of fuels their<\/em> residents need, and leave Travis Air Force Base largely bereft of fuels for its cargo, refueling, and other aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the inescapable reality. Wind, solar, and grid-scale battery power are not<\/em> clean, green, renewable, or sustainable. These installations and transmission lines blanket scenic, cropland, and habitats. They slaughter raptors<\/a> and kill off whales and other wildlife. The batteries catch fire with dangerous regularity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their massive raw material requirements mean mining, processing, manufacturing, pollution, and further ecosystem impacts at historically unprecedented scales, to build inefficient, insufficient, but hugely expensive energy systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, to hopefully avoid recurring blackouts<\/a>, those systems must be backed up<\/em> with additional, duplicative, reliable power generation<\/em> for the hours, days, and weeks when wind and sunshine fail to do their job \u2013 adding more charges to electricity bills. And wind and solar do nothing to replace the oil and gas feedstocks needed to manufacture over 6,000 vital everyday products<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a better way. Keep producing coal, oil, and gas \u2013 and relying on coal, gas, and nuclear power plants. Scrap plans for new wind, solar, and battery systems \u2026 and junk the ones we have. Equally important, stop basing energy policy on GIGO climate models that conjure up absurd temperature, weather, and other cataclysms that are used to justify pseudo-green energy and destroy civilizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s simple energy, economic, scientific, and moral common sense. There is no reason (except stupidity and recalcitrance) for America (or any nation) to commit economic, cultural, and national suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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