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Believe it or not, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has every right to stand before the nations of the world and lecture them on climate change.\u00a0 Not that Johnson himself has done much to address the crisis (indeed, given that\u00a0having children<\/a>\u00a0is the single biggest cause of climate change at this point, Johnson\u2019s\u00a0inability to keep his willy in his pants<\/a>\u00a0makes him an exemplar of much that is toxic in our culture).\u00a0 But as the current political head of a country which has done more than most to pursue the bright green vision of a world without fossil fuels, he has every right to ask others to follow Britain\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t do it, of course.\u00a0 US President Biden has already\u00a0restated<\/a>\u00a0American motorists\u2019 God-given right to cheap gasoline.\u00a0 Meanwhile, President Xi Jinping may be\u00a0promising<\/a>\u00a0to cut other people\u2019s access to coal-power, but China still consumes half of the world\u2019s coal and shows no sign of curbing its own coal-fired growth.\u00a0 Germany talks a good\u00a0Energiewende<\/em>, but it still depends upon fossil fuels for\u00a0two-thirds of its electricity<\/a>, and is not pledged to end coal-fired generation\u00a0until 2038<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, Britain appears to be the only developed state to swallow the Big Green Lie at face value:\u00a0 The claim that it is entirely possible to operate a fossil fuel-based industrial economy without fossil fuels.\u00a0 Starting with the smallest, and easiest to transform, sector of the economy \u2013 electricity generation \u2013 we were promised not only that a seamless transition was possible, but that it would be cheap and easy.\u00a0 Indeed, it was precisely the promise that wind turbines and solar panels were getting cheaper which persuaded the Blair government to\u00a0sign up to<\/a>\u00a0a policy to generate 20 percent of the UK\u2019s electricity from renewable sources.<\/p>\n

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Crisis by design Believe it or not, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has every right to stand before the nations of the world and lecture them on climate change.\u00a0 Not that Johnson himself has done much to address the crisis (indeed, given that\u00a0having children\u00a0is the single biggest cause of climate change at this point, Johnson\u2019s\u00a0inability […]<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[14089,281,328,674,30640,31360,820,2080],"class_list":["post-59476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","tag-boris-johnson","tag-europe","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-renewable-energy","tag-the-consciousness-of-sheep","tag-tim-watkins","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59476","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=59476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59477,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59476\/revisions\/59477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}