note 1: the US has the world's largest coal reserves with 491 billion short tons accounting for 27% of the world's total (Curious that this energy source has been demonized.)
note 2: the US is reliant on foreign imports for 100% of its needs for the following strategic resources: Arsenic, Cesium, Fluorspar, Gallium, Graphite, Indium, Manganese, Niobium, Rare Earths, Rubidium, Scandium, Tantalum, Yttrium; see Appendix H: Strategic Materials for further details https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/strategic-materials/
Here's a relevant entry from Appendix H:
Uranium (U/92)
Description: Uranium is a common metal found in rocks all over the world. Uranium (see attached image) occurs in combination with small amounts of other elements. Uranium ranks 48th among the most abundant elements found in natural crustal rocks. It is 1.67 times more dense than lead.
Uses: Uranium is the fuel most widely used by nuclear power plants for nuclear fission. In nuclear fission, energy is released when atoms are split apart to form smaller atoms. Nuclear power plants use the heat from nuclear fission to produce electricity.
World Resources: Economically recoverable uranium deposits have been discovered primarily in the western US, Australia, Canada, Central Asia, Africa, and South America. About 5.3% of the uranium delivered to US reactors in 2021 was produced in the US and ****> 94.7% came from other countries. <****
Substitutes: None
Note(s): Nuclear power plants use a certain type of uranium, U-235, as fuel because its atoms are easily split apart. Although uranium is about 100 times more common than silver, U-235 is relatively rare. After uranium is mined, the U-235 must be extracted and processed before it can be used as a fuel. Mined uranium ore typically yields 0.5 to 2 kg (1 to 4 pounds) of uranium oxide concentrate (U3O8 or yellowcake) per ton, or 0.05% to 0.20% yellowcake.
I tend to agree. Over here in Oz I sometimes hear of another environmental law suit being brought against say a coal company to prevent its expansion. Coal company has spent 10 years getting through all the red tape , only to have another spanner thrown in the works at the last minute by some “friends of the koala / gum trees / etc group” .... court cases aren’t cheap and how some of these associations get funded makes we wonder if the CCP is behind it.
This article oscillates between novel/interesting observations and dumb takes.
As the collapse of the Soviet Union ought to have demonstrated (but clearly hasn’t) the nomenklatura in the East proved just as susceptible to Western academic brain rot as the domestic audiences it was intended for (the superiority of capitalist liberal democracies, pluralistic society, post-modernism, all that crap). It wasn’t until circa 2007 that Putin realised that the Americans were still at war with Russia.
Which makes all of these suggestions of a Russian or Chinese psy-op seem really a stretch. The Chinese and Russians were almost certainly not immune from all the climate-change discourse of the 90s–2000s. Just as in the 80s Soviet officials weren’t immune from all of the Western scientists and academics confidently stating that nuclear winter would end all life on the planet.
What was different was that neither China nor Russia had the EuroDollar, and were consequently much more constrained in their ability to fritter-away capital on expensive vanity projects. To the extent they had sectors of their economy that produced real value and could obtain dollars from international trade, they couldn’t just junk those sectors. To the extent that the Chinese and Russians were adapting their economies to European and American green policies they were simply responding to price signals, doing the work that was unpopular in “the West” but still had to be done by someone.
That’s it. There’s no grand conspiracy, as much as it’s nice to have someone else to blame, the truth is that the American and European capitalists (both financial and industrial) did this to themselves.
Perhaps the ‘West’ is discovering that the Maximum Power Principle (Lotka) operates at the nation/state/economic level .. not just at the biological level.
"As the war enters its third year, we have grave concerns that the same Western leaders responsible for major environmental, energy and economic policy mistakes fail to understand the gravity of the situation in Ukraine. Macron’s comments only crystallized those concerns."
Excellent! In addition to selling us out to China and Russia, our Western "leaders" have no idea how those two countries plan to enslave us. Yes, the green new deal is not green, but is existential to our freedom. Keep up the good work spreading this message.
I have been saying for years that Net Zero is a CCP psyop, just think of millions of highly trained propagandists influencing media and social media, a generation of children being indoctrinated by the CCP via Tiktok. Meanwhile, my own Australia gets fat off supplying the raw materials to the largest ever build military build-up in China while we destroy our grid and make it wholly dependent on cheap solar panels and wind turbines from China.
One of guys should throw in your hat for EPA administrator in the next administration. No joke. The Heritage Foundation is recruiting and vetting executive branch candidates at this website: https://www.project2025.org
I also nominate Robert Bryce as Secretary of Energy. Can you imagine what could be accomplished after replacing the current crew of administration nitwits with knowledgeable, capable people?
This is a lovely analysis and one which relies on a novel and cogent theory. Very compelling and I appreciate it.
Who can't be blown away by the bamboozling of supposedly knowledgeable green "scientists" who are convinced that the road to future green utopia is paved with coal generation plants in China.
While I agree TGCW is in fact taking place, I believe Russia and China are exploiting it but did not cause it. Our zero tolerance, out-of-context, and tort laden regime has driven most productive ventures out of the regulatory reach, predictably I will add. That our political class has been concerned with vote gathering and lobbyist harvesting is a fact of life but it’s our education system that produces student protesters, screaming “stop oil” while ignorant of the 600 odd irreplaceable products that make life what it is that truly fuels this war. That we turn a blind eye to the exploitation and the environmental degradation that takes place in the nations where our manufacturing has been transferred to is another sign of the rot in our public awareness
Despite the fears of so many in the US and Europe regarding the potential re-election of Donald Trump, it seems he may be the best hope for survival if he eliminates some of that regulatory framework.
Here's some relevant factoids from the CIA Factbook regarding the United States:
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/united-states/
Natural resources
coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, rare earth elements, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber, arable land;
note 1: the US has the world's largest coal reserves with 491 billion short tons accounting for 27% of the world's total (Curious that this energy source has been demonized.)
note 2: the US is reliant on foreign imports for 100% of its needs for the following strategic resources: Arsenic, Cesium, Fluorspar, Gallium, Graphite, Indium, Manganese, Niobium, Rare Earths, Rubidium, Scandium, Tantalum, Yttrium; see Appendix H: Strategic Materials for further details https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/strategic-materials/
Here's a relevant entry from Appendix H:
Uranium (U/92)
Description: Uranium is a common metal found in rocks all over the world. Uranium (see attached image) occurs in combination with small amounts of other elements. Uranium ranks 48th among the most abundant elements found in natural crustal rocks. It is 1.67 times more dense than lead.
Uses: Uranium is the fuel most widely used by nuclear power plants for nuclear fission. In nuclear fission, energy is released when atoms are split apart to form smaller atoms. Nuclear power plants use the heat from nuclear fission to produce electricity.
US Imports: 20,077 mt (2021)
Import Sources (2021): Canada, 15.6%; Kazakhstan, 37.4%; Russia, 14.3%; Australia, 15%; Namibia, 7.3%; other, 10.3%
World Resources: Economically recoverable uranium deposits have been discovered primarily in the western US, Australia, Canada, Central Asia, Africa, and South America. About 5.3% of the uranium delivered to US reactors in 2021 was produced in the US and ****> 94.7% came from other countries. <****
Substitutes: None
Note(s): Nuclear power plants use a certain type of uranium, U-235, as fuel because its atoms are easily split apart. Although uranium is about 100 times more common than silver, U-235 is relatively rare. After uranium is mined, the U-235 must be extracted and processed before it can be used as a fuel. Mined uranium ore typically yields 0.5 to 2 kg (1 to 4 pounds) of uranium oxide concentrate (U3O8 or yellowcake) per ton, or 0.05% to 0.20% yellowcake.
what a fantastic article to read on a Friday night. You fellas have been hitting home runs lately.
you really think Zelensky is telling the truth that 31,000 troops have been killed? A gross underestimate
I tend to agree. Over here in Oz I sometimes hear of another environmental law suit being brought against say a coal company to prevent its expansion. Coal company has spent 10 years getting through all the red tape , only to have another spanner thrown in the works at the last minute by some “friends of the koala / gum trees / etc group” .... court cases aren’t cheap and how some of these associations get funded makes we wonder if the CCP is behind it.
This article oscillates between novel/interesting observations and dumb takes.
As the collapse of the Soviet Union ought to have demonstrated (but clearly hasn’t) the nomenklatura in the East proved just as susceptible to Western academic brain rot as the domestic audiences it was intended for (the superiority of capitalist liberal democracies, pluralistic society, post-modernism, all that crap). It wasn’t until circa 2007 that Putin realised that the Americans were still at war with Russia.
Which makes all of these suggestions of a Russian or Chinese psy-op seem really a stretch. The Chinese and Russians were almost certainly not immune from all the climate-change discourse of the 90s–2000s. Just as in the 80s Soviet officials weren’t immune from all of the Western scientists and academics confidently stating that nuclear winter would end all life on the planet.
What was different was that neither China nor Russia had the EuroDollar, and were consequently much more constrained in their ability to fritter-away capital on expensive vanity projects. To the extent they had sectors of their economy that produced real value and could obtain dollars from international trade, they couldn’t just junk those sectors. To the extent that the Chinese and Russians were adapting their economies to European and American green policies they were simply responding to price signals, doing the work that was unpopular in “the West” but still had to be done by someone.
That’s it. There’s no grand conspiracy, as much as it’s nice to have someone else to blame, the truth is that the American and European capitalists (both financial and industrial) did this to themselves.
Excellent piece by Environmental!
I’m not the smartest guy out there but all of this seems so easy to see. This shows how blind allegiance to ideology makes people, well….blind!
Perhaps the ‘West’ is discovering that the Maximum Power Principle (Lotka) operates at the nation/state/economic level .. not just at the biological level.
"As the war enters its third year, we have grave concerns that the same Western leaders responsible for major environmental, energy and economic policy mistakes fail to understand the gravity of the situation in Ukraine. Macron’s comments only crystallized those concerns."
Excellent! In addition to selling us out to China and Russia, our Western "leaders" have no idea how those two countries plan to enslave us. Yes, the green new deal is not green, but is existential to our freedom. Keep up the good work spreading this message.
I have been saying for years that Net Zero is a CCP psyop, just think of millions of highly trained propagandists influencing media and social media, a generation of children being indoctrinated by the CCP via Tiktok. Meanwhile, my own Australia gets fat off supplying the raw materials to the largest ever build military build-up in China while we destroy our grid and make it wholly dependent on cheap solar panels and wind turbines from China.
Thanks - great article.
One of guys should throw in your hat for EPA administrator in the next administration. No joke. The Heritage Foundation is recruiting and vetting executive branch candidates at this website: https://www.project2025.org
Their policy statement on the environment and EPA is here: https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHAPTER-13.pdf
I also nominate Robert Bryce as Secretary of Energy. Can you imagine what could be accomplished after replacing the current crew of administration nitwits with knowledgeable, capable people?
This is a lovely analysis and one which relies on a novel and cogent theory. Very compelling and I appreciate it.
Who can't be blown away by the bamboozling of supposedly knowledgeable green "scientists" who are convinced that the road to future green utopia is paved with coal generation plants in China.
While I agree TGCW is in fact taking place, I believe Russia and China are exploiting it but did not cause it. Our zero tolerance, out-of-context, and tort laden regime has driven most productive ventures out of the regulatory reach, predictably I will add. That our political class has been concerned with vote gathering and lobbyist harvesting is a fact of life but it’s our education system that produces student protesters, screaming “stop oil” while ignorant of the 600 odd irreplaceable products that make life what it is that truly fuels this war. That we turn a blind eye to the exploitation and the environmental degradation that takes place in the nations where our manufacturing has been transferred to is another sign of the rot in our public awareness
Increase exploration for Fissile Materials and get Elon Musk to hurl The Spent fuel rods out with his Tesla Roadster,Yeh ! Hah !
Despite the fears of so many in the US and Europe regarding the potential re-election of Donald Trump, it seems he may be the best hope for survival if he eliminates some of that regulatory framework.