{"id":53330,"date":"2020-05-16T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T21:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53330"},"modified":"2020-05-16T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T21:40:51","slug":"end-game-for-green-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53330","title":{"rendered":"End Game for Green Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

End Game for Green Utopia<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Wind Turbines, Tehachapi Pass. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On these two opposing types of responses to the movie \u201cPlanet Of The Humans<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRO: \u201cThe key, however, is that all these [\u2018greenish\u2019] energy policies have to be carried out after capitalism has been wiped out and under conditions where production is based strictly on use.\u201c<\/p>

CON: \u201cThis documentary is trashy fake news. It\u2019s Trumpian in its disdain for the facts\u2026, they point away from real climate action solutions (such as renewable energy infrastructure) and peddle fascist snake oil of population growth i.e. advocate ecofascist genocide\u2026Meanwhile, those of us who aren\u2019t raving ecofascist lunatics will continue to fight to change society.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Dreams of Utopias and illusions of self-importance die hard, even in the face of reality. Nature doesn\u2019t care about how we fantasize; it just keeps on with its grand cycles, which those of global heating, environmental destruction and species extinction are now overstimulated by us, homo sapiens<\/em>. The fundamental question here is: how good of an equitable world society could we energetically have, and by \u2018greening it\u2019 can we limit global warming?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PART 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best we could possibly do would be to equalize the standard of living (Human Development Index) worldwide to HDI=0.862 (the range is from 0.28 for the poorest, to 0.97 for the richest nations), with a per capita electrical energy use of u=4000 kWh\/c (kilowatt-hours-per-year\/capita). The world average by nation (in 2002, and similar now) was: HDI=0.741 at u=2465 kWh\/c. The U.S.A. had HDI=0.944 at u=13,456 kWh\/c (a rich highly developed country). Niger had HDI=0.281 at u=40kWh\/c (a poor underdeveloped country).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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End Game for Green Utopia Wind Turbines, Tehachapi Pass. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. On these two opposing types of responses to the movie \u201cPlanet Of The Humans\u201d: PRO: \u201cThe key, however, is that all these [\u2018greenish\u2019] energy policies have to be carried out after capitalism has been wiped out and under conditions where production is […]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[5493,18833,18832,27343,674,8504],"class_list":["post-53330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-counterpunch","tag-jr","tag-manuel-garcia","tag-planet-of-the-humans","tag-renewable-energy","tag-utopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53330","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=53330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53331,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53330\/revisions\/53331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}