Thread by @ShellenbergerMD

Shortages of natural gas are forcing steel, glass, and paper factories in Europe to close. Sensing blood in the water, anti-civilization activists are seeking to kill off private investment in the energy American allies need to survive the winter. It’s a sick game.

It’s true that Europe has done a good job increasing natural gas supplies to keep its people warm during the winter, but it won’t have enough to keep open many of its factories. De-industrialization will have a devastating impact on people’s lives.

nytimes.com/2022/09/19/bus…

The anti-civilization activists say their concern is climate change, but as a result of their successful war on natural gas, Europeans will burn more wood and diesel, which are far more carbon-intensive. Indeed, thanks to “climate activists,” 2022 will see record coal use.

Their goal is energy scarcity, not environmental progress, which depends on energy abundance. Abundant natural gas and nuclear mean we don’t need to use wood, coal, and diesel. Instead of producing more energy, the nihilists are draining our energy reserves & stifling investment.

Their goal is, and always has been, decivilization. It’s a religious crusade aimed at undermining the basis of our civilization, abundant energy. Some are honest about it, openly demanding “de-growth.” Others hide behind fear-mongering & alarmism.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/anti-energy-…

The result is that many people will die unnecessarily from lack of food, air pollution, and cold. Preventing those deaths is as simple as turning the taps back on. Instead they seek to shut them further. It’s madness.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/bidens-war-o…

Just look at their creepy war on fertilizer. We know how to reduce fertilizer pollution. Farmers from the Netherlands to China show how it can be done while increasing yields; the nihilists are only interested in reducing pollution if it reduces yields.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/un-war-on-fe…

Elites often have a financial interest in promoting scarcity, but mostly they are in the grip of a bad religion, one that draws on obviously wrong and immoral ideas espoused by dead white men engaged in language manipulation and power games.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-progress…

The key to their power is the manipulation of emotions, particularly fear. They grossly misrepresent the science and project onto the world their own alienation, anxiety, and depression.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/climate-pani…

The rising narcissism of the “me decade” gave way to the communal narcissism of the social media era. They see the apocalypse in every fire, and their redemption in ever-greater control of energy and food supplies. Our scarcity is their joy.

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/narcissism-o…

Nuclear is their greatest enemy because it provides the most abundant energy of any source. It obviates the need for renewables and indeed the entire green grift. They wage war on it because it is too powerful; it undermines their bid for social control.

forbes.com/sites/michaels…

Europe, which is significantly increasing its use of *coal,* thanks in part to its own rejection of nuclear and natural gas, is now seeking to deny poor African nations natural gas.

It’s as wrong as it looks.

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