Brilliant essay on the collapse of civilization. Please read and share.
“Collapse of Civilization: Lessons Voters Might Take From Roman Britain”
2 November, 2022
[Conclustion] Of course electricity is only one element of what keeps our society civilized. There’s gasoline, there’s trade, there’s what used to be a widespread respect for the rule of law. Imagine no diesel fuel. Trucks wouldn’t be able to deliver food and store shelves will go bare. You probably have enough food in your kitchen for your family to last a few days or maybe a week at most. Then what? Are you going to grow wheat on your windowsill or in your backyard? Is the neighborhood stray cat going to be your family’s next meal? Do you have a cow for milk? Not to mention medicines, building materials, gasoline for your car… the list of goods delivered via diesel is endless.
One of the downsides of trade, division of labor and economies of scale is that most of us are dependent on others to provide for us those things we don’t produce for ourselves… which is to say, almost everything. Our society is based on a trade system where we get paid to do some things and we pay others to do the things we don’t. It’s a well oiled machine… until it’s not.
And that’s the point. The climate alarmists who want to do away with fossil fuels have no concept of the ramifications of that folly. The equity cultists who want to eliminate the police and “reform” the justice system don’t care about the consequences of that absurdity.
Just as the razor thin layer of atmosphere surrounding the earth sustains life on earth, our modern society thrives thanks to plentiful, inexpensive energy and a respect for the rule of law. Inexplicably, those are the two primary targets of the Democrats who are currently in charge of wide swaths of the United States. Indeed Californians regularly endure the absurd manmade disaster of rolling blackouts while Illinois is about to essentially decriminalize crime. Neither is necessary…
When Americans step into their well lit, safe and private voting booths on November 8th they’d do well to think of those 5th century Britons who were about to careen into a darkness from which it would take almost a millennia to emerge, and vote accordingly.
Thanks for posting that info.
Last year, local crops were alfalfa, corn, soybeans. Corn was the more abundant. Soybeans 2nd; Alfalfa a close 3rd.
This year, soybeans easily 1st, then corn, and not much alfalfa. That was a reaction to Biden’s domestic fossil fuel decisions - that boosted the cost of producing fertilizer from natural gas. And, in reaction to Biden’s movement against the cattle business (anti-methane nonsense).
The article that you posted, is correct:
“climate alarmists who want to do away with fossil fuels have no concept of the ramifications of that folly”
The hundreds of thousands of tons that have to be moved around, requires fossil fuel powered machinery.
There is an arrogance about the worshippers of “the [climate crisis] data, by those who write “white papers” and engage in a lot of communications.
Their convictions about their work, include - in my view - an excess of assumptions made, because their intellectualism does not have the patience to spend a few weeks in theater, on the farm, and on the by-ways and highways, in the shoes of people who produce food and do the attending work.
The natural design of gathering and using all the working parts that use the earth to grow and raise food, that system’s efficiency, that has evolved over many decades, is assumed by the “intellectual” overlords of “the [climate crisis] data,” to be replaceable and micro-manageable from their desktops at Central Planning.