The costs and environmental harms caused by ”green” energy polices over 2011-2018 - 500 billion dollars per annum for what?
A few years ago, a paper was published that quantified some of the costs surrounding the attempts to replace fossil fuel use with “renewable energy” – half a trillion bucks a year over 2011-2018
Here is a link to the paper:
Expose-news.com has covered the paper here:
There’s no such thing as clean “green energy” – The Expose (expose-news.com)
I doubt that the cult of the “green” would ever bother to read such a paper, or consider that money on research to improve existing energy technology – like, for example, recycling the exhaust from an ICE – is a far better use of scarce taxes than “tilting at windmills” or singing “the Earth dies screaming” – when it isn’t and won’t.
Within the Abstract there is this:
“Since 2010, the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) has been publishing annual Global Landscape of Climate Finance reports. According to these reports, US$3660 billion has been spent on global climate change projects over the period 2011–2018. Fifty-five percent of this expenditure has gone to wind and solar energy. According to world energy reports, the contribution of wind and solar to world energy consumption has increased from 0.5% to 3% over this period.”
US$3.66 trillion spent over 7 years with more than half spent on wind and solar, in order to increase the contribution from all renewable energy sources by 2.5%.
A straight pro-rata of the cost of this “progress” requires multiplying that US$3.66 trillion bucks by 40 to replace fossil fuels – almost US$150 trillion bucks over 280 years.
Pollution free energy is an admirable goal – no-one would deny it. No-one would deny ending world poverty, sickness and hunger either. The technology exists today to achieve the latter. It does not yet exist to achieve the former.
We have all seen the hijacking of the “Feed the World” mantra and its corruption into “The Giant Syringe”. You can’t feed people with injections of toxins or educate them or give them better sanitation and clean water or feed them.
Injecting toxins may or may not be the chosen method by which a few hundred global elites intent on world domination use to reduce the global population by 90% using some sort of “goal seek” function on an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
How much world hunger, sickness and poverty would be left had $500 billion a year (half a trillion for those eco-warriors for whom arithmetic is not a strong point) been spent on raising living standards where needed.
How many of the 50 million economic migrants over 2011 – 2018 would have stayed in their home countries rather than desert these countries and place a burden on the taxpayers of the country they migrated to? Eaxh migrant, conservatively, costs $20,000 bucks a year to health, house, educate, police, transport personally and another $10,000 a year to administer in the expensive bureaucratic systems used in the first world (salary, health and pensions). Migrants deprive their home countries of their talents and energies, so there is a cost to the countries they leave also.
$500 billion a year. “Green” policies are a misuse of scarce resources in pursuit of utopian goals for which the technology does not yet exist. “Starve the World” in order to virtue signal a currently impossible dream.
Of course it is even worse than that. Fossil fuel usage is taxed up the wazoo at every stage from production to consumption, making fossil fuels at least ten times more expensive than they would be without taxes. “Renewable Energy” is subsidized up the wazoo to make it competitive with the (ten times over taxed) fossil fuel solution.
This is the insanity of the “global green movement”.
Increase the $3.66 trillion bucks over 7 tears to 2018 to even bigger efforts since then – another 2 trillion bucks at least – then add the trillions of bucks spent globally on the scamdemic – another $10-12 trillion bucks in government spending so far over the last three years , with even more tens of trillions in health costs about to manifest from global poisoning – and you get some idea of the complete and utter lunacy of the “woke” virtue signalling morons that seem to act on instructions of megalomaniacs.
The paper also alludes to the extra release, from heating the soil, of CO2 beneath windmills and the dramatic negative impact on bio-diversity plus the leakage of toxins into water tables.
All this because some bought and paid for shills for the prostitutes calling themselves scientists in order to qualify for research grants and to “suck up” to the UN IPCC. The same people that cannot produce a computer model that replicates PAST climate conditions, let alone future ones.
Laughable. The political infrastructure now supports “Ministers of Nitrogen” as well as “chicken little” CO2 emissions ministers.
The entire edifice allows poverty, disease and hunger at the global level – injects toxins ito the vulnerable – whilst creating poverty, disease and hunger in places where it does not exist.
Evil ignorance whilst virtue signalling like someone drowning in a puddle of their own making.
I cannot leave without posting these two links that obliterate “faux science” in play by morons in the “cult of green”.
13 minute video here: My Gift To Climate Alarmists - YouTube
And this:
The People Promising Us 'Net Zero' Are Clueless About Energy Storage - Climate Change Dispatch
Green cultists should leave the room and let the smart adults evolve solutions to their psychoses, ignorance and paranoia – just as smart adults have always done.
Otherwise, the green cultists will continue to apply the logic that results in this:
Onwards!
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