Try living a day without a reliable power supply; then try living a life-time without it. If the doomsday cult that’s thrusting hopelessly unreliable and insanely expensive wind and solar down our throats had its way, then that’s what a future ‘civilisation’ will look like.
For those not willing to make an immediate sacrifice to get a handle on what’s coming, look no further than continental Africa and India and a range of other places where the poorest billion on our planet reside. People whose daily energy needs are met with whatever wood they can scrounge from their locality, twigs and dung.
It’s pretty easy for well-healed Westerners to pontificate about energy use, when it’s always available to them and price is not an issue.
These characters couldn’t care less about their fellow citizens; those at the bottom of the economic heap, for whom energy costs have become a crippling…
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