The slow death and painful death of climate alarmism in Europe.
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
The slow death and painful death of climate alarmism in Europe.
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“On September 25th 2018, US President Donald Trump delivered his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly.
At one point he warned Germany about its plans for Nord Stream 2, which he said would make the country “totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course”.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) and Permanent UN Representative Christoph Heusgen laughed in his face.
These clowns thought they had it all figured out back then.
We would build a lot of wind turbines and install a lot of photovoltaic panels and make up the difference with Russian natural gas.
It would be cheap, it would keep the climatists happy and also too a lot of special interests could profit.
⚫ Nobody is laughing anymore.
The entire strategy has collapsed, because without Russian gas the energy transition is hopeless.
⚫ It can never succeed, it will never go anywhere and the only question is how long we will persist in destroying our economy for no reason.
The highly intelligent, extremely mature and deeply far-sighted adults of the German political establishment are facing a slow-burning economic and political emergency, and they are utterly unprepared even to acknowledge it, let alone do anything about it.
This would be why, when Trump returned last week to deliver a second speech to the UN General Assembly, nobody laughed.
With an eye towards Europe, Trump said that “Your countries are going to hell”, before deploring particularly what he called the “double-tailed monster” of mass migration and climatism.
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… Climatism always had two parts.
The first part was a hysterical narrative about how industrialisation is destroying the atmosphere via carbon emissions, how the coral reefs are dying, the polar ice caps are melting and the oceans are rising.
The second part was the energy transition – a package of ominous policies that together spell deindustrialisation for any nation that dares to implement them seriously, but that have no hope of ameliorating even the slightest bit of the panic narrative from the first part.
… If the Eurocrats continue to pursue these policies, they will have to come up with new stories about why the economic destruction they are wreaking is necessary.
Thus far, they show no interest in that kind of ideological invention. The stories they are telling right now are of an entirely different flavour.
They are about foreign threats and domestic wreckers, about the grave dangers posed by the Russians abroad and the fascists at home.
In retrospect, I think climatism was an ideology crafted for a world bereft of concrete villains – a world where industrial processes and gases were the only conceivable enemies.
⚫ We’re not in that world anymore, and that is why climatism is finished.”
