{"id":66907,"date":"2024-03-04T07:14:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66907"},"modified":"2024-03-04T07:15:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:15:12","slug":"stragedy-unfolds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=66907","title":{"rendered":"Stragedy Unfolds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stragedy Unfolds<\/a><\/h3>\n

A bitter rant on Europe’s self-implosion<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The writing is on the wall, but who cares. Photo by Phil Goodwin on Unsplash<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

It is now the second time I\u2019m having afterthoughts upon publishing an article. After writing about how Europe\u2019s well intended but disastrously planned environmental initiative puts us right on track to a permanent deindustrialization, thoughts kept coming up on why is that not seen as a problem by policy wonks. Perhaps understanding the parallels with what is currently unfolding in Eastern Europe could help lift the fog.<\/em><\/p>\n

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There is a looming sense of civilizational decline in Europe, stemming from the loss of cheap condensed energy. Yet, denial and hope, together with its eternal springs, still reign supreme in the higher echelons of power. There seems to be a firm belief, that no matter how unattainable the objectives we set to ourselves are, someone, somewhere will surely come up with something. Intermittent \u201erenewables\u201d? Costly, heavy, material and energy intensive to make batteries? Oh, someone somewhere is surely working on a storage solution (or more) to come around those minor technicalities. Not enough resources to build all that stuff? Oh, someone somewhere will surely open up a new mine\u2026 After all, demand and a good deal of subsidies always begets more supply, now isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Well, no. That level of magical thinking is an insult on all practitioners of sorcery, and leaves even underpants gnomes\u2019 green with envy. There are no more cheap and easy to get resources to extract, and what\u2019s even more concerning, there are no more habitats left to destroy on this planet. Mining the seabed, and stirring up all the carbon stored in the sediment, is just one of the most disastrous ideas\u2026 Oh, and as an aside, there is no more surplus energy from oil left to do all that additional digging, smelting, transportation and manufacturing, but that\u2019s really just me nitpicking on some minor details.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n

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Stragedy Unfolds A bitter rant on Europe’s self-implosion The writing is on the wall, but who cares. Photo by Phil Goodwin on Unsplash It is now the second time I\u2019m having afterthoughts upon publishing an article. After writing about how Europe\u2019s well intended but disastrously planned environmental initiative puts us right on track to a […]<\/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":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[34146,281,1535,674,32578],"class_list":["post-66907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-deindustrialisationi","tag-europe","tag-hydrocarbons","tag-renewable-energy","tag-the-honest-sorcerer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66907","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=66907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}