A lot of human energy and capital is being spent on global temperature, global food production, and global manufacturing, and we haven’t seen any direct life improvements for all of it at the local level with cheap Chinese copies of what was once manufactured in your country.
Actually, we’ve seen quite the opposite with a wealth (pun intended) of third world human migration the likes we’ve never seen before. Local governments are spending themselves into bankruptcy and rising rents and costs of living rise dramatically region by region, and there doesn’t seem to be anybody in any of the national governments with their hand on the economic tiller.
How odd that nearly every country thought it would be o.k. in a very local, regional, and national sense to shutter their economies to depression era extents and think that would be something they could easily recover from simply by throwing money at the problem.
Money garnered from people with no more money to give? Some food costs are up 25%? Inflation at 40 year highs? Price of a barrel of oil at $120US, see energy costs for heat/ac and electricity? Gross mismanagement is about as nice a phrase I could use here. I have others.
We all need to focus on our own backyards, and let that mediate the histrionics of the global activism as science. We need to slow this huge transfer of humanity from their homelands. That is only further depressing the economy’s there, as it isn’t the poor on the march.
We need to get rid of the current perchance of preaching idealism as life management skills and politicizing our neighbours choices. There is no way a country can come together, if the village can not. We have to refuse to play the social victim game. Especially where it is nothing more than a first world pretension.
Well, that’s my rant for this open thread. 😁
Thurston
October 23, 2022 6:49 pm
I observe people citing this IMF study [1] to claim “Globally, fossil fuel subsidies were $5.9 trillion in 2020″. This claim of large ‘subsidies’ is based on grossly inflated externality costing of CO2 emissions. Those externality costs are based of apocalyptic predictions from ‘hot-running’, empirically disproven climate models. Can someone point to an authoritative refutation(s) of this IMF study?
Very little is known about impact on brain and nervous system disorder, but there is growing consensus that genetics and ageing do not fully account for the sharp rise in previously rare diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) – a degenerative disease more likely in army veterans and neighborhoods with heavy industry.
Saw the recent news on methane emissions detected satellite.
Seems one bug emitter was dump in Iran.
This leads to the idea: why not focus on making an emissions site and capturing the gas. Specifically, put EVERY waste that can be reduced by bacteria to methane into one big ‘pit’. This could/would include sewage (human waste), food manufacturing waste (e.g. bones), farming waste, etc. Almost everything except metal and rocks is digestible, with the right bacteria, including plastic and oil.
Love the title picture !!!
A lot of human energy and capital is being spent on global temperature, global food production, and global manufacturing, and we haven’t seen any direct life improvements for all of it at the local level with cheap Chinese copies of what was once manufactured in your country.
Actually, we’ve seen quite the opposite with a wealth (pun intended) of third world human migration the likes we’ve never seen before. Local governments are spending themselves into bankruptcy and rising rents and costs of living rise dramatically region by region, and there doesn’t seem to be anybody in any of the national governments with their hand on the economic tiller.
How odd that nearly every country thought it would be o.k. in a very local, regional, and national sense to shutter their economies to depression era extents and think that would be something they could easily recover from simply by throwing money at the problem.
Money garnered from people with no more money to give? Some food costs are up 25%? Inflation at 40 year highs? Price of a barrel of oil at $120US, see energy costs for heat/ac and electricity? Gross mismanagement is about as nice a phrase I could use here. I have others.
We all need to focus on our own backyards, and let that mediate the histrionics of the global activism as science. We need to slow this huge transfer of humanity from their homelands. That is only further depressing the economy’s there, as it isn’t the poor on the march.
We need to get rid of the current perchance of preaching idealism as life management skills and politicizing our neighbours choices. There is no way a country can come together, if the village can not. We have to refuse to play the social victim game. Especially where it is nothing more than a first world pretension.
Well, that’s my rant for this open thread. 😁
I observe people citing this IMF study [1] to claim “Globally, fossil fuel subsidies were $5.9 trillion in 2020″. This claim of large ‘subsidies’ is based on grossly inflated externality costing of CO2 emissions. Those externality costs are based of apocalyptic predictions from ‘hot-running’, empirically disproven climate models. Can someone point to an authoritative refutation(s) of this IMF study?
Ref.
[1] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Still-Not-Getting-Energy-Prices-Right-A-Global-and-Country-Update-of-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-466004, see also https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/23/environmental-toxins-neurological-disorders-parkinsons-alzheimers
The word “vaccine” isn’t even in the article.
Saw the recent news on methane emissions detected satellite.
Seems one bug emitter was dump in Iran.
This leads to the idea: why not focus on making an emissions site and capturing the gas. Specifically, put EVERY waste that can be reduced by bacteria to methane into one big ‘pit’. This could/would include sewage (human waste), food manufacturing waste (e.g. bones), farming waste, etc. Almost everything except metal and rocks is digestible, with the right bacteria, including plastic and oil.