Readers of Apocalypse Never will recall that the book pivoted around my visit to Britain in 2019, where I had the surreal experience of making the case for nuclear at 10 Downing Street, and to then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, as Extinction Rebellion activists shut down London
Why, I wondered, were the people who claimed to be most apocalyptic about climate change — eg Extinction Rebellion activists glueing themselves to train cars — also the most opposed to nuclear power?
Over the last 6 years I warned policymakers directly in the US, Canada, Japan, UK, S. Korea, Netherlands, Philippines, and indirectly through the media, that over-reliance on renewables, & under-investment in reliable energy sources, threatened their economies & security.
In response the renewable energy industry waged a non-stop campaign to defame me, Democrats slandered me, and then denied me a chance to respond, & even some pro-nuclear people labeled me inflammatory for pointing out the obvious problems with renewables
A lot of people believe that the reason for the global energy crisis, which is threatening economic recovery, is because we didn’t do enough renewables, but the opposite is the case. Nations overinvested in weather-dependent renewables & under-invested in reliable power sources
Renewables will constitute 70% the $530 billion spent globally on new electricity generation capacity in 2021
It’s been that way for years. Had that money gone to reliable energy sources, there would be no global energy supply shortage
Climate activism helped create the energy supply shortages directly through pressure on companies and indirectly through policies that subsidized unreliable renewables and disincentivized reliable power.
For over a decade, the city of San Francisco has been carrying out an experiment. What happens when thousands of drug addicts are not only permitted to use heroin, fentanyl and meth publicly, but also enabled to do so? The results are in: hundreds of them die annually.
Last year, 712 people in San Francisco died from drug overdoses or poisoning, and this year a similar number are on track to do so.
“You have heard it was said, ‘Love your neighbor & hate your enemy. But I tell you: love your enemies & pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven." Matthew 5:43
Interest in the book is high. On Monday I recorded interviews with @JordanPeterson & @RubinReport
Yesterday I recorded a three hour-long interview with @joerogan
And @nytimes has told HarperCollins that it will publish a review of it.
Pre-publication sales of San Fransicko are 4x higher than the ones for Apocalypse Never, but that is no guarantee the book will become a best-seller, so please take a moment now to pre-order a copy for yourself, and a few copies for friends and family.