By Robert Bradley Jr.
“The Progressive Left is being pillared to stop pushing 20 percent issues (80 percent nonsupport). Blackouts might be a 2 percent issue. The working class deserves the Democrat Party to ditch climate alarm and forced energy transformation–for all the right reasons.”
Now that solar itself got the blame for the recent European blackout, what is the argument from the Deep Ecology, anti-modernism cult?
LA-based climate campaigner Michael Mezzatesta, self-described economics and climate educator, has a new one for the climate debate: blackouts are good, bringing us together! He states:
The mainstream economic narrative in the USA would have us believe that power blackouts are always a bad thing – just think of all that lost productivity! Think of the effect on the GDP!
So I was curious to see this video about the recent blackouts in Spain rack up millions of views on Instagram 👇
I think it resonated with people because it points towards a *new* narrative for society and the economy – one where joy & connection are prioritized over economic productivity.
As the original creator, Lili Poser, said in her caption: During the blackouts, people were “disconnected but more connected than ever.” Imagine that!
Back to Nature, the Garden of Eden? Off the grid for happiness and solidarity? Small is beautiful? Less is more? Negawatts? Degrowth? “I campaign for the extinction of the human race“? Sammy Roth of the Los Angeles Times digs the pain too. “Would it be easier and less expensive to limit climate change — and its deadly combination of worsening heat, fire and drought and flood,” he asks, “if we were willing to live with the occasional blackout?”
And how about Big Brother authoritarianism to achieve all this? [1]
The Progressive Left is being pillared to stop pushing 20 percent issues (80 percent nonsupport). Blackouts might be a 2 percent issue. The working class deserves the Democrat Party to ditch climate alarm and forced energy transformation–for all the right reasons.
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[1] “Imagining a low-carbon world, then, means reevaluating our conception of freedom itself.” (– Audrea Lim, “The Ideology of Fossil Fuels.” Dissent, Spring 2018)
As soon as I saw he describes himself as a climate and economics educator, I knew I’d be hearing a combination of doomsday forecasts and/or some asinine theories or proposals of how energy shortages would actually be some sort of blessing in disguise for mankind. So an article like this deserves the short shrift it’s getting.
When you have lost the game the ridiculous seems less ridiculous. This is what losing sounds like.
About a week and bit ago, we had a 4 hour blackout, due to a tree taking out some power lines.
Was in the afternoon so it was just a bit a nuisance, I just had a snooze.
I was trying to figure out how to cook an evening meal. Was persisting down rain, and BBQ was wet, I could have used a small propane one on the back veranda, but that was getting very wet as well.
Spent some time searching out the battery driven lights from the shed.
Fortunately, power came back on before evening meal time.
The Iberian Peninsula blackout was over relatively quickly, many other grids would have taken far longer to re energise.
Even so eight I think died due to this power failure, Mr mezzatesta sees good in a power failure; exactly what sort of mentality does he have?
It is a reminder to the operators of critical services to ensure that their back up generators are regularly proved to be up to the task of a long term power failure and adequate supply of fuel is held.
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A friend was in Spain on holiday when this happened. The “joy & connection” on the street was of such a character they chose to stay indoors for safety…luckily, the outage lasted only a short period, even so the mob was furious on the streets.
So he says we should “look on the bright side”.
What would be bright in a blackout?
With so many people living hand to mouth in these trying times, just how joyous will a person be losing a day or 2 pay or more along with all the frozen and refrigerated food?