One Troubling Dissimilarity Between The Covid And Climate 'Emergencies'

Some of the people who wrote great stuff on the totalitarian response to the fake Covid crisis for all to read and comment on have decided to limit their articles on the fake ‘climate crisis’ to paid subscribers only.

But we absolutely do need an open discussion about the climate industrial complex aka Big Green aka the Green Blob, the mythical ‘climate crisis’ and the increasingly bizarre, destructive and totalitarian response of our governments to it. And we also need to talk about Big Oil and have a frank, down to earth discussion about our reliance upon fossil fuels to power our economies, because there seems to be a growing consensus, emerging from both sides of the climate change fence, that Big Oil and Big Green are essentially the same beast. RFK Jr. thinks they are but a critical commenter on Eugyppius’s blog thinks they’re not:

One reader reacted with indignation to comments on Friday’s piece about the vast foreign-funded climate cabal fighting to crash the Federal Republic of Germany with no survivors:

Fascinating to read the comments and see how the fossil fuel industry - the worlds largest and most powerful - has completely co-opted you all. You rightly distrust and condemn big Pharma and then get in bed with big oil and coal without skipping a beat.

In response to my suggestion that “Big Green is also a thing, and a much bigger problem than Big Oil,” he answered:

Big green wasn’t even around until a decade or so ago, and the fossil fuel industry is the largest and most influential and most corrupt in world history. And ‘big green’ as you call it developed as a response to the environmental and Climate catastrophes caused directly by fossil fuel burning.

Eugyppius thinks they’re not the same, but he considers Big Green, not Big Oil, to be the greater threat. In my opinion, they are more dissimilar than they are similar. They are both capitalist institutions, but that’s where the comparisons end. The fossil fuel industry (or the ‘carbon industry’ as RFK Jr puts it) developed over many years, centuries in fact, to exploit entirely natural resources for the purpose of providing energy to power the industrial, transport and domestic sectors. It didn’t pretend to be ‘saving the planet’ or ‘saving humanity’, it operated commercially, often detrimentally to the environment, but indisputably it improved the lives of billions and has lifted billions of people out of poverty and it has powered the 2nd and 3rd Industrial Revolutions, which have completely transformed our lives, arguably more for the better than the worse.

Big Green is the pall-bearer of the 4th Industrial Revolution, heralding the end of the ‘fossil fuel era’ and the beginning of carbon free, ‘sustainable’ living, where we are all much poorer, a lot less free, confined to ‘15 minute towns and cities’, and a lot more miserable. This is the promise of Big Green - less wealth, not more. Less freedom to travel and to explore the world - not more. Whereas Big Oil was premised upon free market capitalism and the exploitation of abundant natural resources, Big Green essentially limits resources and rations energy, rations freedom, abolishes democracy and, in contrast to enshrining free market capitalist principles, it epitomises crony capitalism, eco-fascism, the concentration of wealth into the hands of the few whilst at the same time siphoning off wealth from the poorer working classes and the middle-income middle classes. Not to deny that oil executives haven’t get fabulously wealthy and that more than a few were or are probably corrupt, but overall, I think Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Gas, has been a force for good in the world. Big Wind is a massive festering fart in all our faces and Big Solar is just a big joke.

Big Green is Big Pharma with knobs on. I warned in 2020 on Twitter that Zero Covid was entry level Net Zero. I was pointing out the similarities between Convid and climate very early on, but few listened. Now David Thunder says:

It is tempting to view all of the policy blunders and civil rights violations associated with the Covid era as sui generis, one-off events caused by an over-reaction to a virus. It would be profoundly consoling to think that the confinement of law-abiding citizens to their homes, the harassment of citizens who declined a government-mandated medication, the arrest of peaceful protesters, and the suspension of religious freedom were just part of a temporary social and political “fever” and not a symptom of a broader, more chronic sickness in the body politic.

But that would be wishful thinking. It is sufficient to observe the striking parallels between the Covid “emergency” and the climate “emergency” to see that the assault on democracy, constitutionalism and civil rights is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. For the very same strategies that governments used to manipulate and blackmail citizens into compliance with draconian and illiberal laws during the Covid scare are already being rolled out in relation to climate change.

He’s right of course.

Which brings me to RFK Jr. He has been an environmental lawyer for much of his career, who has enthusiastically endorsed the concept of man-made climate change, arguing that Big Oil should be held accountable in law for its pollution of the planet and endangerment of the habitable climate. Now he argues that the top-down corporate solutions to the ‘climate crisis’ being rolled out by Big Green are a form of socialist crony capitalism:

They’ve given climate chaos a bad name because people now see that it’s just another crisis that’s being used to strip mine the wealth of the poor and to enrich billionaires.

I for 40 years, have had the same policy on climate and engineering. You can go check my speeches from the 1980s, and I’ve said the most important solution for environmental issues is not top-down controls, it’s free market capitalism and what we have in this country now is not free market capitalism; it’s corporate crony capitalism.

It’s capitalism cushy, kind of socialism for the rich, and a brutal, barbaric merciless capitalism for the poor.

He’s not wrong, but he seems hopelessly confused about ‘carbon’, its alleged role in climate change and the ‘bad’ carbon industry - and he’s got some quaint ideas about ‘acid rain’:

In terms of the carbon industry, all of the things that people are trying to do to promote — to end carbon, we should be doing anyway because, carbon means cutting down all the mountains in West Virginia. It means you know we polluted 2200 miles of rivers and streams in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. Every freshwater fish in America now has mercury in its flesh from coal-burning power plants. That is a theft from the public. The waterways and lakes on the Appalachian, on the high Appalachian, every one of them is now sterilized from acid rain.

We need to be reducing — whether you believe in climate change or not — carbon-based climate change — we need to be reducing our dependence on carbon. Carbon receives globally about 5.2 trillion dollars in subsidies a year. If you end those subsidies, carbon cannot compete against more efficient and cleaner energy sources, and that’s what we should be doing; we should be ending subsidies for where all for the carbon industry. And we should be using true free market capitalism and trying the most efficient sources of energy.

The War on Carbon is being waged by those opposed to the technocratic ‘climate solutions’ of Big Green and by the supporters of Big Green. This interview of David Turk by Sen. Kennedy demonstrates it. Kennedy, whilst aggressively quizzing Turk on the ridiculous cost of net zero, says ‘I’m all for carbon neutrality’ - and I genuinely think he means it. Carbon is an essential element of life. Why this obsession with eliminating it from our lived existence? Because by doing so, you can be dead certain that our lived existences will be both harsh and brief.