{"id":30987,"date":"2018-02-14T07:28:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T12:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30987"},"modified":"2018-02-14T07:28:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T12:28:31","slug":"the-strategy-of-maximal-extraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30987","title":{"rendered":"The Strategy of Maximal Extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/176384\/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_militarizing_america%27s_energy_policy\/\"><strong>The Strategy of Maximal Extraction <\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>How Donald Trump Plans to Enlist Fossil Fuels in the Struggle for Global Dominance <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new U.S. energy policy of the Trump era is, in some ways, the oldest energy policy on Earth. Every great power has sought to mobilize the energy resources at its command, whether those be slaves, wind-power, coal, or oil, to further its hegemonic ambitions. What makes the Trumpian variant &#8212; the unfettered exploitation of America\u2019s fossil-fuel reserves &#8212; unique lies only in the moment it\u2019s being applied and the likely devastation that will result, thanks not only to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/176222\/tomgram%3A_michael_klare,_donald_trump%27s_energy_nostalgia_and_the_path_to_hell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1950s-style<\/a> polluting of America\u2019s air, waters, and urban environment, but to the devastating hand it will lend to a globally warming world.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, if you listened to the chatter among elite power brokers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, you would have heard a lot of bragging about the immense progress being made in renewable energy.\u00a0 \u201cMy government has planned a major campaign,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/renewable\/pm-modi-at-davos-india-making-rapid-strides-in-renewable-energy\/62619924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the group. \u00a0\u201cBy 2022, we want to generate 175 gigawatts of renewable energy; in the last three years, we have already achieved 60 gigawatts, or around one-third of this target.\u201d\u00a0 Other world leaders also boasted of their achievements in speeding the installation of wind and solar energy.\u00a0 Even the energy minister of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Khalid Al-Falih, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/faisal-abbas\/-in-davos-saudi-energy-mi_b_14280690.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> plans for a $30 billion to $50 billion investment in solar power.\u00a0 Only one major figure defied this trend: U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.\u00a0 The United States, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/fossil-fuels-can-provide-better-quality-of-life-rick-perry-tells-davos-energy-forum\/article\/2646960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insisted<\/a>, is \u201cblessed\u201d with \u201ca substantial ability to deliver the people of the globe a better quality of life through fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A better quality of life through fossil fuels? On this, he and his Trump administration colleagues now stand essentially alone on planet Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strategy of Maximal Extraction How Donald Trump Plans to Enlist Fossil Fuels in the Struggle for Global Dominance The new U.S. energy policy of the Trump era is, in some ways, the oldest energy policy on Earth. Every great power has sought to mobilize the energy resources at its command, whether those be slaves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7844,328,11761,674,7413,18551,889],"class_list":["post-30987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-donald-trump","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-michael-t-klare","tag-renewable-energy","tag-tomdispatch","tag-us-energy-policy","tag-world-economic-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30988,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987\/revisions\/30988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}