Speaking as a South African I can agree with much of what you say. There are various reasons for energy poverty in Africa and the climate agenda is now another contributing factor to that.
Great article, Mental. It is to the benefits of those being abused by the Green Machine(tm) to use the rules of their enemies against them. Nothing would be more satisfying than making the climate brigade eat their own words. Thanks again!
Really great article. I never gave this stuff much thought until I read Alex Epstein’s book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. That opened my eyes to the many topics you covered in this piece.
Thanks. If AI electricity demand materializes to be half of anticipated, expect those public companies to change their priorities in a hurry, with reactions directly proportional to the importance of electricity as an input cost.
I certainly hope they take your advice and force the issue into the open. I want to see Antonio Guterres try to explain why the potential for something in 50 years' time is more critical than the lives of people living in poverty today.
May be flogging a dead horse, but depopulation is a goal of these folks. Why not tout climate change "solutions" to what used to be called the "limousine liberals". They can continue their righteous campaigns. Ugh.
We do not see anything on the horizon that’s going to reverse birth rates globally. In fact, we see the opposite - the decline speeding up rapidly after 2050-2075 or thereabouts.
But that depends on lifting 5-6 billion out of poverty which, empirically, crashes birth rates.
Speaking as a South African I can agree with much of what you say. There are various reasons for energy poverty in Africa and the climate agenda is now another contributing factor to that.
Great article, Mental. It is to the benefits of those being abused by the Green Machine(tm) to use the rules of their enemies against them. Nothing would be more satisfying than making the climate brigade eat their own words. Thanks again!
Great mental model
Well we tried to employ what we learned from Doomberg’s Pro Tier presentation and apply it in this context.
But, alas, we’re no Doomberg.
We’ll keep trying!
😉
Really great article. I never gave this stuff much thought until I read Alex Epstein’s book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. That opened my eyes to the many topics you covered in this piece.
Thanks! Alex makes a detailed case.
Great article…and public companies in the U.S. only seem to care about climate change rather than grid stability. We wrote about that here…
https://substack.com/@unbalancedsheet/note/c-156423163?r=6b192n&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Thanks. If AI electricity demand materializes to be half of anticipated, expect those public companies to change their priorities in a hurry, with reactions directly proportional to the importance of electricity as an input cost.
I certainly hope they take your advice and force the issue into the open. I want to see Antonio Guterres try to explain why the potential for something in 50 years' time is more critical than the lives of people living in poverty today.
May be flogging a dead horse, but depopulation is a goal of these folks. Why not tout climate change "solutions" to what used to be called the "limousine liberals". They can continue their righteous campaigns. Ugh.
Global depopulation is happening this century and not because of anything they've done.
In fact, one would argue it was going to occur despite their best efforts.
certainly based on current fertility rates that is the case
We do not see anything on the horizon that’s going to reverse birth rates globally. In fact, we see the opposite - the decline speeding up rapidly after 2050-2075 or thereabouts.
But that depends on lifting 5-6 billion out of poverty which, empirically, crashes birth rates.
Hmmm... Too much to go into. I'm tired of it.
Not as tired as people are of having children, apparently.
You and me both, Brother…