International Male: Western countries are leading the charge in reorganizing their economies around the problem of environment modification. They’re dedicated to an extensive program to “decarbonize” their economies by 2050.
What’s your take on this?
Doug Casey: To sum it up in one word, it’s outrageous. In two words, it’s criminally insane.
Prior To the Industrial Revolution, the extremely significant fuel source was wood. After that, we went to coal, which was a huge enhancement in density of energy and economics. Then, we went to oil, another big enhancement in energy density and economics.
These things happened not since of any federal government requireds however just since they made both economic and technological sense. If the market had been left alone, the world would undoubtedly be working on nuclear. Nuclear is absolutely the safest, cheapest, and cleanest type of mass power generation. This isn’t the time to go into the various factors that holds true. However if nuclear had been left uncontrolled, we ‘d currently be utilizing small, self-contained, fifth-generation thorium reactors, generating power practically too cheap to meter. The world would already be operating on truly tidy green electrical power.
Rather, time, capital, and mental capacity have actually been enormously diverted to so-called “environmental” power sources– generally wind and solar– strictly for ideological factors. The powers that be wish to shift the whole world to counterfeit green energy, like it or not.
I recommend green energy in concept. There’s no concern that solar and wind are rewarding and efficient for select applications– usually little, separated, unique locations where standard fuel is inconvenient or too costly. The effectiveness of solar has actually been enormously improved over the last few years, as has wind effectiveness. But neither make any sense for mass base-load power in industrial economies.
With additional technological advances, they might become more economic at some point. Perhaps individuals will eventually put large collectors in high Earth orbit and microwave the power down to the surface. There are all sort of sci-fi possibilities. But right now, “green” is simply a good word for “foolish,” “ideological,” or “government-sponsored.”
Doing things the green way takes power away from the marketplaces, which is where individuals vote with their dollars. It rather puts power in the hands of ideologues and bureaucrats.
In quick, wind and solar are being promoted at the very time, nuclear and nonrenewable fuel sources are being damned. It’s the reverse of what ought to be taking place and a really bad pattern from every point of view.
Put me down as liking the birds and the bunnies as much as anybody else, but I’m anti-green. Anyway, ecofreaks do not actually appreciate the birds and the bunnies so much. That’s just a veneer. They actually just dislike individuals and truly desire them to vanish. At a minimum, they wish to control them. And the terrific global warming/anti-fossil-fuel hysteria is an excellent method to do it.
International Male: As a part of this program, the United States, the EU, and OECD nations prepare to phase out oil, gas, and other fuels, replacing them with zero or low carbon sources of energy.
What kind of disruptions could we see as the transition is made to energy sources that might not be as dependable?
Doug Casey: Lots of interruptions, a lot of them both big and presently unanticipated. The US has 330 million individuals. Why should decisions for numerous millions be made by bureaucrats and political hacks in Washington, DC?
Why should they be the ones who choose what type of power should or should not be utilized? That’s a question that no one asks. People just presume that that’s the way it should be and mainly do as they’re told. They never ever stop and consider that federal governments have set development back immeasurably over history. The primary items of federal government are wars, pogroms, confiscations, taxes, policies, and the like.
Oil business like Shell and BP are discussing getting out of the oil organization. Oil companies and their employees and investors are looked down upon as the destroyers of the world. Nobody in respectful society wishes to admit that they’re in the oil service.
Prior to you drill an oil well anywhere in the world, it’s needed to ask authorization from one or more federal government entities. In the Western world, where the general public has been recorded by the concepts of PC and ESG, federal governments are loath to release drilling authorizations. Drillers don’t want to drill due to the fact that expenses are synthetically high, and any revenues will undergo discouraging taxes.
Expect oil production to drop in the West. Throughout the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, more oil was found than was being utilized. Reserves went up. But that’s no longer the case. It’s not because the oil isn’t there; it’s due to the fact that it’s too politically inaccurate to try to find it and exploit it.
Futhermore, scientists, engineers, and investors are staying away from anything to do with fossil fuels. You can plan on both fuel scarcities and much greater costs. Markets are being subverted and are ending up being ever more politicized.
In addition, so-called “green innovations” aren’t really green. They just appear green on the surface. Huge windmills and solar farms depend on enormous quantities of nonrenewable fuel sources and metals to be made and set up. They have restricted life-spans, and they should be dealt with. Not only can’t they supply mass amounts of power regularly, but they all show losses, even after-tax benefits camouflage them. That ruins capital. They’re not indications of development but monuments to lose and destruction. We’re going to have substantial interruptions in the energy markets in the years to come, and considering that the entire world works on energy, it’s really major.
International Guy: Broadly speaking, is the brand-new climate change “crisis” an invite for more government intervention on the planet?
Doug Casey: Yes. It resembles welcoming a vampire into your house.
For many years, kids have been indoctrinated with ideas about disadvantageous preservation and Greenism. Comics, schoolbooks, teacher’s lectures, tv– you name it– present the earth as being under attack from the forces of darkness. Mankind– particularly the researchers, engineers, and business owners– are shown exploiting and raping Mother Nature and her natural resources. They exist as evil.
Bronowski’s Ascent of Man has actually been overturned into a battle of great versus wicked, where all the worths have actually been turned upside down. The problem has actually penetrated society, and it’s even worse in the education system.
St. Ignatius Loyola, who established the Jesuits, and Vladimir Lenin, who established the USSR, both stated words to the effect of “If you can indoctrinate a kid during his early years, you have actually basically set his instructions of thinking for life.” They were right.
Government is always presented as noble, smart, and forward-thinking. It exists as the hero actioning in to stop the evil manufacturers.
It is among a variety of false and terribly destructive memes stalking the earth today like spectres. The increasing belief in government as a magic option to issues reduces the average person’s standard of living significantly and produces all type of distortions throughout society. It’s turned the research study of economics into a pseudoscience, and its incursions into science are discrediting the concept of science itself.
In fact, the 2 huge hysterias plaguing the world right now both center on the State including itself in science– or a minimum of scientism. One is COVID, a fairly trivial flu blown out of all proportion. The other is AGW, anthropogenic global warming, which was fairly just recently rechristened as climate change.
In my view, both will eventually be completely unmasked and challenged. But if you run counter to the story on either of them today, you’ll be canceled, fired, and/or ostracized.
It’s very much like what took place to Galileo when he ran counter to the prevailing wisdom of the Middle Ages. They do not really burn books anymore, however just due to the fact that books today are mainly electronic. But they do the equivalent of that on places like Google and Twitter.
There’s an exceptional possibility that these people will reject the extremely concept of science because they’ve wrapped themselves in the veil of science. Or, more specifically, what’s become referred to as “The Science.” They’re creating something much more severe than just another financial catastrophe.
International Man: This trend appears to be growing in momentum.
For instance, Google Flights now prominently shows the carbon emissions of each flight it lists.
Is that a little initial step towards charging people for the carbon they give off?
Doug Casey: I can ensure you that I pay no attention whatsoever to the quantity of carbon that I may be burning on an aircraft or anywhere else. It’s part of a psychological war the Left is waging, utilizing regret and pity as weapons. It’s another indication of the lockstep, the groupthink, that individuals go through today.
Life on this world is based on carbon. The component itself is indestructible and necessary, but it’s been transformed into a fatal enemy in the mind of the general public. However if you reject that it’s destroying the earth, then you’re committing heresy. It resembles rejecting the existence of God in the Middle Ages. Hating carbon and worshipping “The Ecology” have actually ended up being tenets of a secular religion.
A new carbon tax will be carried out. It’s definitely in the cards. Most people will stupidly roll over and state, “Yes, this is for the good of the world. It’s a tax we should all pay.”
Of course, federal governments and the powers that be always desire more resources directed towards themselves. In a time when governments are insolvent and can just create more cash for themselves by printing it, it’s an outright certainty that the next tax will have a patina of righteousness. A carbon tax on individuals, along with companies, checks all packages.
International Guy: Will carbon credits become a new government-created “commodity” that corporations and individuals will be required to buy?
Doug Casey: Without concern, it’s a creative method to turn a tax into something that appears like an asset, a financial investment.
Look, this is everything about politics and money, but disguised as a spiritual motion, which is rather smart. There’s no concern that Greenism is being promoted as a new religious beliefs.
Christianity is a dead duck in Europe, and it’s passing away in North America. But people need some kind of faith, a replacement for Christianity, to hang on to.
People will be motivated to treat their taxes as tithes to get rid of their sins versus Mother Nature– much the method they tithed the church to expunge their sins in the Middle Ages. It’s a specific analogy. They’ll buy “carbon credits” as an analog for constructing cathedrals and abbeys.
As a financial expert, as well as somebody who reads a lot of science, I believe it’s absurd and damaging. The entire anti-carbon, carbon sequestration, and Greenism thing is a political hysteria promoted by individuals who like to control other people. I’m totally opposed to carbon credits or carbon taxes from that perspective.
But when I place on my speculator’s hat, I recommend it. There are business being formed to skillfully take advantage of all this harmful rubbish. It’s still very early days, and the public will stack into the area with a mix of spiritual eagerness and fin de siècle greed. I anticipate a huge bubble in the space. I’m all for bubbles– if I can purchase in early.
A speculator is a cynic, not a benefactor– although I quicken to add that most philanthropists are hypocrites. It’s a pity that the large bulk of people have actually been completely brainwashed by Greenism, and carbon stocks are a terrific method to turn the lemon into lemonade.
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