Reduced to Ultimate Idiocy

Leftoid policies find their own level, which usually is failure

Most of us have known, since the great Rush Limbaugh began to discuss it in the 1990s, that the leftoids war on energy (which at the time was encapsulated in a war on SUVs that ultimately failed) was doomed. It wasn’t just that so-called “green” energy is stupid on its face. We all intuitively knew that.

You cannot drive in any decent time from New York to Los Angeles (or, as I like to call these Third World hellholes, New Kabul to New Calcutta) in an electric vehicle. A recent jaunt by a reporter from the upper midwest to Louisiana found that recharging required more time than sleeping. A recent video from Kollyfornia showed lines of electric vehicles outside a charging station, each one consuming up to a full hour to charge.

Allow me to digress: folks, time is money. Time is life itself. You are literally wasting your life in a sense every time you have to stop for five minutes to fill up a gas tank, or, worse, spend twenty minutes recharging a Prius. The transcontinental railroad was considered a minor miracle because it slashed weeks off the journey from St. Louis to Sacramento. Obviously airplanes are faster, but if you have any load at all, or need to move your car, it’s far cheaper to drive cross country. In 2016 when I retired from the University of Dayton, I was literally on the road to Phoenix two days later. With a friend, we drove it with only one overnight stop in Tulsa and arrived Tuesday evening. We “may” have broken a few speed limits along the way.

Similarly, the promise of wind power was highly overrated. Wind is acceptable when it blows, but the power cannot be stored for when it doesn’t. As we now know, however, the costs of the blades, turbines, and most important, the backup for when they aren’t working far exceeds that of other forms of power, particularly coal. Worse, we now are seeing the phenomenal ecological costs of disposing of turbine blades, lithium batteries, and a host of other components required to “green up.” Even long-time environmental whackos are coming to this realization.

So now we come to today’s news that Germany is “modeling” wood burning for heating homes due to the natural gas and other energy shortages brought on by greenweenieism and by Germany’s support for Ukraine and its sanctions against Pootie-poot.

Wood. Get it? WOOD.

That’s what ultimately the entire greenweenie lunacy is all about—-regression to a primitive society where humans can, and most likely would, go extinct.

Wood. Just think about that. When the Europeans first came to America, the English in particular saw those giant forests and thought “masts for our ships!!” They cleared forests and built farms and factories. As Americans moved to the interior of the continent, they consumed wood at a ferocious rate. Lumber giants such as Frederick Weyerhauser stepped forward as conservationist heroes, realizing that at current rates they would be out of wood soon. Question: Are we out of wood today? No. In fact, according to the historian of fire, Stephen Pyne (yes, that’s his name), we have more trees today than when the first English colonists arrived in the 1600s.

That’s right. More lumber is available today than 400 years ago. How is that possible? It’s in the title of Pyne’s book, Fire. Nature causes fires. Nothing short of a sudden and well-directed rainstorm puts them out. But humans fight fire. Remember Smokey the Bear? (“Only you can prevent forest fires”). Until humans arrived in great numbers, forest fires on the North American continent ran rampant.

But there is another reason we have more trees: Weyerhauser and Kimgerly-Clark and other paper-producing/wood-producing companies plant five times more than they use annually. Odd? Heck no. If you know people will buy cotton or soybeans, you plant lots of cotton and soybeans. But unlike agricultural products, if you don’t use a tree immediately, it increases in value because it doesn’t rot and only gets bigger!

That’s why George Gilder—-who isn’t always right, but when he is, it’s in genius territory—-has created “Gilder’s Rule”: humans consume cheap resources in order to conserve dear resources. There’s that word again, “conserve.” And what makes a resource cheap? Abundance. What did early Americans have a lot of? Trees. What did they (and we) have a finite amount of? Time and human energy. To extend and expand human life, it is only common sense to consume anything that is cheap. If it’s cheap, it is replaceable.

How do we know we are consuming something we can’t replace? Easy. Price. As soon as prices go up, you know the supply is diminishing (either naturally or, in our present case, due to inept, diabolically satanic policies designed to eliminate humans or at the very least make their lives miserable). If the price of lumber starts going up, we may be running out of trees. But we may be running out of basic supply-chain delivery abilities due to China Virus lockdowns, international tensions, or regulatory imbecility.

That is not to say we should be consuming wood. Just the opposite. The Teutons sudden move to wood is brought about by their own incompetence and hellish commitment to an ideology that is regressive in every form, even for the planet they claim to want to preserve.

They, like all globalist goblins, cannot admit their real objective, which is massive depopulation. They cannot admit they have an anti-life agenda every step of the way, from abortions even after birth to crime policies that release the most feral flaredraggers onto city streets to open border policies that inherently involve danger and death. They “love” humanity so much they hate people.

It’s interesting in the Bible that we have no record of Jesus healing multitudes. Yes, He did feed them at least on two occasions. But His healings (and resurrections) were always individual. That’s because Jesus loved people. Humanity could not be saved from sin because “humanity” doesn’t have free will, only individual people do.

Don’t kid yourself, the Germans will not be the first so-called “civilized” nation to regress toward a new “Dark Ages” in its attempt to stamp out technical, economic, and scientific progress. As an American, I don’t care. I’m fine with Germany returning to the 1300s. But I ain’t goin with ya.

Larry Schweikart

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