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The West's Green Energy Delusions Empowered Putin

Post by Riddick » 03-03-2022 02:45 PM

How is it possible European countries, Germany especially, allowed themselves to become so dependent on an authoritarian country over the 30 years since the end of the Cold War?

Here’s how: These countries are in the grips of a delusional ideology that makes them incapable of understanding the hard realities of energy production. Green ideology insists we don’t need nuclear and we don’t need fracking. It insists it’s just a matter of will & money to switch to all-renewables — and fast. It insists we need “degrowth” of the economy, and we face looming human “extinction.”

The West’s focus on healing the planet with “soft energy” renewables, and moving away from natural gas and nuclear, allowed Putin to gain a stranglehold over Europe’s energy supply. As the West fell into a trance, averting apocalypse & worshiping a teenager named Greta, Putin made his moves.

While he expanded nuclear energy at home so Russia could export its precious oil and gas to Europe, Western governments spent time and energy obsessing over “carbon footprints,” a term created by an advertising firm working for British Petroleum. They banned plastic straws because of a 9-year-old Canadian child’s science homework. They paid for hours of “climate anxiety” therapy.

While Putin expanded Russia’s oil production, expanded natural gas production, and then doubled nuclear energy production to allow more exports of its precious gas, Europe, led by Germany, shut down its nuclear power plants, closed gas fields, and refused to develop more through advanced methods like fracking.

The result has been the worst global energy crisis since 1973, driving prices for electricity and gasoline higher around the world. It is a crisis, fundamentally, of inadequate supply. But the scarcity is entirely manufactured.

Europeans—led by figures like Greta Thunberg and European Green Party leaders, and supported by Americans like John Kerry—believed a healthy relationship with the Earth requires making energy scarce. By turning to renewables, they would show the world how to live without harming the planet.

But this was a pipe dream. You can’t power a whole grid with solar and wind, because the sun and the wind are inconstant, and currently existing batteries aren’t even cheap enough to store large quantities of electricity overnight, much less across whole seasons.

In service to green ideology, they made the perfect the enemy of the good. Take Germany. Because of these policy choices, Vladimir Putin could turn off the gas flows to Germany, and quickly threaten Germans’ ability to cook or stay warm.

He or his successor will hold this power for every foreseeable winter barring big changes. It’s as if you knew that hackers had stolen your banking details, but you won’t change your password. This is why Germany successfully begged the Biden administration not to oppose the new Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia.

They have no other good options right now, after green activism’s attacks on nuclear & importing fracked gas from America. There’s no current plan to power Europe not involving buying from Putin. (Once Russia invaded Ukraine, Germany was finally dragged into nixing Nord Stream 2, for now.)

We should take Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a wake-up call. Standing up for Western civilization requires cheap, abundant, and reliable energy supplies produced at home or in allied nations. National security, economic growth, and sustainability requires greater reliance on nuclear and natural gas, and less on solar panels and wind turbines, which make electricity too expensive.

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