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Hydrocarbon fuel is "an autonomous chemical weapon belonging to earth both as a sentient entity and an event. Petroleum poisons Capital with ABSOLUTE MADNESS, a planetary PLAGUE bleeding into economies mobilized by the technological singularities of advanced civilizations. In the wake of oil as an autonomous terrestrial conspirator, capitalism is not a human symptom but rather a planetary inevitability. In other words, Capitalism was here even before human existence, waiting for a host" (Cyclonopedia by R. Negarestani)

You think we use oil. No, sirs, You are being USED.

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Gotcha. Thanks for taking the time to explain your perspective. I disagree with it, as I do with much of what you write, but I do understand it. (From my perspective, it's not so much a matter of making a name for yourselves, but of readers being able to understand the background and founding of people doing the writing.) I wish you safety from threats.

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I'm with you on number four.

But I'm still puzzling over why you decline to identify yourselves, when (just about) everyone else on SubStack does.

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1) We're not trying to be like everyone else on Substack.

2) We find most writers on Substack trying to make a name for themselves. We aren't. We've all already done so in applied work in the environmental engineering, consulting, science, risk, finance, etc. fields. 2 of the 7 of us are retired. 5 others are very close. We will go behind a paywall someday, but this publication has never been principally about income or notoriety for any of us.

3) Remaining anonymous eliminates straw man arguments, such as "you're not a ____ scientist!", and "you did projects for the _____ industry". We encourage all to dispute any figure we use, graphic we include, or point we make. But, those who do should do so on the merits, not with strawmen or deflection or "whataboutism".

4) We live in a dangerous world. We take unpopular positions. We do not need the hassle of being doxxed or threatened with violence because people get their feelings hurt.

Emphasis on #1.

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Thank you for your candid and truthful news on the environmental extremists. Such honest reporting is rare. Please know you are appreciated! Dick Storm

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Thank you! We're grateful for your comment and support!

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Absurdity addition, ala Blackmon:

Hauling Decreases Ford F-150 EV Pick-up Range By 25 %

AAA Automotive Engineers Find Best Use is Hauling Leaves and Styrofoam

https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/hauling-decreases-ford-f-150-ev-pick

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Probably our favorite tweet on the matter ever. An F-150 "Lightning" dead by the side of a road with a portable gas-powered generator in the bed running and plugged into the truck to charge it.

Can't make it up > https://twitter.com/RileyMooreWV/status/1626956027160629248

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A modern classic! I will revise my article and link to it.

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The vapid Jennifer Granholm gets the nod from me, but she also has a serious contender in Germany's shutting down the nuke plants.

Coin-flip, anyone?

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The cast of Charlaticians in Germany responsible for that decision is long and goes back to Merkel and crowd more than a decade ago.

What Granholm is suggesting won't happen in her lifetime (if ever). What Germany has already done is impacting everyone there, now. Mark Nelson's tweet earlier today sums it up nicely:

https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1666505198498398210?s=20

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Thank you for the Foul Pole !

There are so many absurdities that fly in the face of reason and sanity, it is really hard to choose. It should be expanded to the Top Twenty perhaps?

I list a few in my newsletters:

China's Coal Fired EV Battery Plants

Burning coal for EV battery production, greenhouse gases be damned!

https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/chinas-coal-fired-ev-battery-plants

Another relates to wind turbines causing local and global warming as the blades whip through the air and heat by friction and convestion:

Wind Farms Cause Local and Global Warming

Air friction and circulation can increase temperatures from 0.24 to 0.5 degrees C, and cancel the purported benefits of fossil fuel replacement

https://tucoschild.substack.com/p/wind-farms-cause-local-and-global

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Oh, don't worry! When the 2023 awards come out late January/early February next year, it'll be far more than 7!

We like some of those you mentioned, too!

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I'd like to nominate a work of fiction, fiction so ludicrous that inclusion in the 2023 enviroMENTAL awards list is perhaps warranted: the tv series "Alaska Daily" about an heroic NYT investigative journalist who, after stepping on the wrong toes in D.C., finds refuge with a small, hometown newspaper in Anchorage, Alaska. Expecting something tongue-in-cheek like "Northern Exposure", instead, these writers take themselves too seriously as they go on to expose every cop and government official in Alaska is thoroughly corrupted by mining interests, which, by the way, has killed off practically all the salmon in Alaska in an ongoing extinction event.

So, in one episode, the editor admonishes his crew that reporters should never make the news or be the news and that they only report the news that others make. Within three lines, they decide to investigate a rumor that someone may be illegally mining in an un-named national park within spitting distance of the city of Anchorage. The lead reporters charter a helicopter and discover this secret hardrock mine where they're mining, what they portray as the most deadly metals in the world... rare earths!! OMG! There was a one-liner from a sober reporter who reminded that in order to have renewable energy, we have to have REEs. No matter, the entire newsroom decides they have to put a stop to the mine to save Alaska from the certain toxic poisoning that would occur if the secret mine were to proceed (really hard to keep a big open pit mine secret, especially in a national park). Which they did, in only 45 minutes. Journalists are heroes, who know the facts about everything, but never get the recognition (and pay raises) they're so certain they deserve.

Evidently, this show is very popular, which may mean another season of silly misinformation to be inculcated into the minds of its viewership.

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Not much for watching TV but you got our interest up with this one! Thx for the heads up!

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The show is ostensibly, about missing and murdered indigenous women, a worthy and full topic, but the forays into white nationalist terrorists and mining are silly distractions. Can't recommend the show and it is unfortunately, a real step down for its lead actress, Hilary Swank.

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I saw a mem yesterday that fits your cause in this post: When Air Force One flies on electricity that’s when I will buy an electric car.

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