Many people think solar panels are sustainable but the vast majority of them require 300-600x more land than conventional power plants, are made by Uighur Muslims incarcerated in Chinese concentration camps, and contain toxic elements (lead & chromium) that won’t be recycled.
It’s now clear that “ESG” (environmental, social, governance) investing, including solar panels, was an elaborate scam.
Governments are cracking down. German prosecutors just raided ESG @DeutscheBank & SEC is investigating ESG scams at @GoldmanSachs
Investors are fleeing.
Global elites enriched themselves through ESG scams, financed by taxpayers, while shutting down conventional power plants in their home nations, financing China’s genocide of Uighur Muslims, and paying for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
nytimes.com/2022/06/13/cli…
Western elites were in the grip of an ideology that made them incapable of understanding the hard realities of energy production.
China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin took advantage of the delusions of the decadent West, and now we are all paying the price.
bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-wests-gr…
Some in the Biden administration are "now privately expressing concern that rather than dissuading the Kremlin as intended, the penalties are instead exacerbating inflation, worsening food insecurity, and punishing ordinary Russians more than Putin."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
But Biden just approved the continued import of Chinese solar genocide panels.
nytimes.com/2022/06/06/bus…
And Biden officials are now demanding that Facebook, Twitter and Big Tech censor critics of renewables.
That makes sense because a) ESG funds contain Facebook stock, and b) because Facebook, Amazon, Google, and other Big Tech firms receive billions in subsidies from taxpayers for renewables
Somehow I doubt Facebook will censor the Chinese government’s renewable energy propaganda, which it happily promotes on its platform. Facebook needs taxpayers to believe that Chinese solar panels are good!
To recap, see if you can follow the grift:
1. Global elites (bankers, politicians, journalists) promote toxic, environment-destroying solar panels made by enslaved minorities as “sustainable.
2. Western elites shut down domestic energy sources and rely on China & Russia.
3. Western elites transfer wealth in the form of taxpayer subsidies and higher electricity prices to themselves.
4. Elites demand censorship by other elites of anyone who points out the problems with relying on unreliable weather-dependent renewables.
5. Elites fly around the world applauding each other for their virtue while simultaneously demanding that African nations be denied the reliable energy sources they need to lift themselves out of poverty.
6. Elites convince half of all humans that we are at risk of “extinction” and give our children anxiety disorders sufficient to prevent many of them from having their own children.
washingtonpost.com/magazine/2020/…
7. While ESG is definitely a scam, it’s also the suicide of the West, literally and figuratively.
/END
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SOURCES
Land use calculations
environmentalprogress.org/power-density-…
Toxic solar panel waste is being dumped on poor Africans
nytimes.com/2019/05/12/cli…
Accounting for the high cost of solar panel waste would increase the cost of solar electricity 4x
hbr.org/2021/06/the-da…
China Made Solar Cheap With Coal, Subsidies, And “Slave” Labor — Not Efficiency
michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/china-made-s…
Nuclear plants are the cleanest and safest way to make electricity but they don’t enrich global elites so they are shutting them down
Nuclear plants make renewables unnecessary and so elites who make money from the ESG grift have worked hard to shut them down.
forbes.com/sites/michaels…
My colleagues and I have been able to save over 21 nuclear reactors over the last six years and we may be able to save California’s Diablo Canyon but it has taken blackouts and my directly challenging the elites politically for them to act
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