Back to the garden

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Maine voters ejected hydro-power yesterday, opting instead to return to the pre-industrial revolution days of staying put in quaint, dark, and cold huts and communicating via cave paintings. (They also voted to create a “constitutional right to food”, which is so breathtakingly stupid that the only proper response is to pack one’s bags and get as far away from this insane state as possible).

Not to be outdone, Britain is stopping the mining of coking coal, essential to the manufacture of steel. Steel was once considered a necessary material for civilization to flourish, but who wants civilization?

Windmills, electric cars? No steel for us, thank you, we’re British!

Doonbeg points out that we won’t necessarily run out of (all) steel, we’ll just pay through the nose for it to be produced in those icky, but out of sight Third World countries that are shit holes anyway :

Is the production of steel a dirty business? Absolutely! It accounts for nearly 8% of global CO2 emissions. Are there ways to reduce that impact and should they be implemented? No doubt! Is China’s steel industry measurably dirtier than mills in the United States and Europe? Unquestionably! Think they care what we do? Nope!

The world will keep mining coking coal and making steel as it always has, it’ll just be much more expensive and less environmentally friendly than it could otherwise have been, which will further impede the implementation of the renewable energy revolution. Coking coal mines in Russia and China will continue cranking out product with far fewer environmental protections than Cumbria would have implemented. Huge dry bulk cargo ships will meander around the globe, packed with coking coal from exporting countries like Canada and Australia, polluting the oceans in the process.

I read that an exit-poll of Virginia voters yesterday that showed they placed “climate change” way, way down — at the bottom — of their concerns. But that’s because the average voter doesn’t understand what the greens have in store for us. If they did, climate change, or more accurately opposition to the lunatics demanding we stop it (somehow) would be their top priority. Just as they don’t think far enough through “grow local” campaigns to realize that they’ll end up losing not only such luxuries as strawberries in January but affordable food of any kind, they don’t follow through what the elimination of fossil fuels and mining will do.

But they’re going to find out.