Monday~State-Earth
By: John Allen
Tags: Green Energy, Environmental Issues, Environment, Lies, Ecology

“But the real point is that nature is really smart. It created those wonderful means to store and transfer energy, called, for example, “fish in the river,” and we’re destroying them.”~”The problem is that this is what capitalism does.” Derrick Jensen, et. al.~Bright Green Lies~2021 — Just Published

State of Earth Address~Short Version

Dave Hoefler~~Unsplash

Since we don’t get to hear a State of Earth address, because, it seems, that it doesn’t matter to the politicians. Earth is being murdered for profit, exploited beyond belief, driving mass extinction, as I write today. The disregard for our home’s health, Earth herself, and her children, is simply astonishing. We hear green this and green that when, in fact, there is NO technology that’s green. Repeat, there is no green technology! The greenies don’t want to save Earth, they want to save industrial civilization. They want to save the exploitative system we’ve been under for hundreds of years. Since the Renaissance revived Euorpe and ushered in a new modernity, a new ‘better’ way of living. Capitalism.

What’s actually happened since the middle of the 18th century is a monster that has grown beyond all comprehension. It’s basically out of human control and will destroy what we have. I see no alternative to this predicament. Collapse. And I believe it is imminent. Within, most likely, this decade. And I hate putting dates on future events. If wrong I’ll say I was wrong. No excuses will be given. No one can predict the future.

First I’d like to recommend that my readers view the documentary film, “Planet of the Humans.” Some of the info is a bit dated because it took years to complete the film. I didn’t see any false info as far as I can tell, anyway.

Green?

As I said there is no green technology. The newly published book, last week in fact, — 3–17–2021 — picks up where the film leaves off with even more vital info on the ‘green lies’ purported by all that think industrial civilization will be saved by ‘green technology’. It can’t. I’ll give just a few examples.

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Deforestation. Forests, which are complete ecological biomes, are being murdered, turned into wood pellets, dried with industrial scale heat producing machines, like low temperature furnaces, sold and marketed as renewable energy. “Green!!”? Fuck that shit. What about fuel for the furnaces? What about fuel for the chainsaws? What about all the devastation from the bulldozers, and the fuel they use, for making roads for the lumberjack’s equipment to be driven to the holocaust site of mass murder, for millions of trees? The forest’s millions of beautiful creatures depending on the foundation of trees. The foundation for all terrestrial life, even deserts have their on special biomic forests too. Forests for all life, that is. Burning wood pellets for electric power plants is far worse than burning coal. Pollution wise, and environmentally in general. At least coal is dead.

It’s an all out war on Earth and her non-human people, all of the millions of species per square yard, or square meter elsewhere, that die when trees are felled. Never to return in many cases. Not in human timescales anyway. Planting trees doesn’t make a forest, nature does.

See, I don’t buy into the myth that humans are special creatures. I see a thousand year tree as more important than myself. If that tree is murdered literally millions of creatures will perish that depended on that particular tree for many, many, generations for their livelihood. Now they have no where to go. They are refugees of the forest and they will perish just like the refugees from Africa or Syria that drown in the Mediterranean Sea trying to get to the EU. I see no difference, just death in both cases. And humans are the cause in both cases.

There Are No Camps For Forest Refugees~~Unsplash

We are like the yeasts in wine, or grain, vats that die from their waste, alcohol. Ours is plastic, toxic chemicals, radiation, growing meat, making things like cars and toasters, or shipping crappy things around the world in highly polluting container ships. Our waste will kill as surely as the poor yeasts making our booze.

Electric Cars

Now here’s a good whopper. Electric Cars. **They will save travel!!** No, they won’t. They just shift to a different form of energy transfer. Unlike the fishes in the quotes above in the leade. Just a few of the green lies about electric cars: 1) they still need industrial scale processes to be built. Like mining iron, copper, lithium, cobalt, electricity — usually from coal fired power plants — to run the factories, etc. 2) they still need electricity to operate. Where does this come from? Usually coal fired power plants. 3) continued products to keep the cars running. Like rubber, from petroleum, lubricating oil, new batteries, needing more lithium, when the old one can no longer hold a charge, trucks using diesel fuel to deliver the cars to market. And big trucks, by the way, really can’t be powered by batteries, they are too inefficient. The grocery market would be bare of food without the trucks dependent on diesel derived from fossil fuel.

Just because the greenies say electric cars are green doesn’t make it so. There’s still tons of GHG’s emitted from all processes of electric cars, it just doesn’t come out of its tailpipe any longer.

The batteries for electric cars needs lithium to work. Bolivia has been in the news because a US backed coup was installed so battery makers here in the US could get cheap lithium. Elon Musk is one of the capitalists that staked his business on lithium availability, no lithium, no batteries. They never, ever mention how devastating lithium mining is. After lithium extraction is finished a large swath of land is left lifeless. Nothing can grow on the toxic salt encrusted desert left in mining’s wake. Do they tell you that at a GM dealer when looking at a Chevy Volt? Or if one if more bourgeois, at a Tesla dealer? No? Didn’t think so. More Disneyland, the happiest place on Earth. Just lies and coverups, like politics but with electric, and hybrid cars instead.

I wanted a Prius until I read about lithium mines. Now I’ll go back to what I wanted in high school, a Dodge Challenger. Which I’ll never actually get. More ethical as far as I can tell, that is, if I want to drive a car, which, as of now, I don’t own. Not since 2010, when I totaled mine because I blacked out and caused a pileup in front of the first high school I attended, horror high as I called it. I then had a new high school in my junior year with no seniors. Yeah!! I digress.

Other Greens

There are many other instances of the greenies substituting one dirty industry for another one. Solar, wind; they both rely on industry to get built, get delivered, get maintained, and ultimately replaced because they have limited lifetimes. Like 20–40 years or so. Then they are trashed, moved to a landfill and made from scratch again. Not very sustainable. High reliance on fossil fuels for production for all aspects of manufacturing. They won’t save industrial civilization. It actually can’t be saved. The predicament that industrial civilization created can’t save itself.

The sooner more folks realize this the better. Accept the loss, grieve it, then adjust everything you do for a new reality. And while we’re talking about change, quit having so many babies. The future they face will be far different than the one I lived in. I Have no children by choice. I knew back then what was coming. It’s(civilization) already fraying at the edges. Yet no one wants to see it for what it really is. The end of industrial civilization. It’s happening now. It’s no longer a future event. Mitigation or hospice is what we need. Acceptance. Green won’t save this civilization.

I don’t see any way to save it at all this late in the game. Green does though, soothe the nerves for some. Not for me. It take about a gallon of vodka to soothe my nerves, to shut off my brain for a few days. I need to find another healthier way to shut my brain down when it’s overloads with modern day dystopia. And with new federal guidelines it’s hard to get benzos — (tranquilizers), even for an old man as myself. Booze is just a cab trip away, not today though,

Lies

We’ve been lied to our whole lives. Either about commies, any of the myriad wars we’ve been submitted to, out ‘way of life’, ‘democracy’, freedom, on and on, mostly lies. Just like the greeies now. Or the worthless Paris accords. So Ol’ Joe Buddy, rejoined the accords. Is he going to shut down half the military, clearly a good way to save resources and actually lessen GHG’s? Hell no, blasphemy for the imperialist, blasphemy for Earth. And us. Nothing will fundamentally change until it does. And we humans won’t like it when it happens. The fish and clams might, even the caribou up north, or the penguins down south; will rejoice when Empire falls. We won’t. We will be miserable if even that.

I try my best not to lie when writing my screeds. Sometimes I do make mistakes and will go and correct them when necessary. But lies are everywhere, particularly when it comes to the new green movement. It’s all about saving civilization and capitalism, not saving Earth and her children. The two don’t mix. You can either have civilization and destroy our home, or you can have a home without industrial civilization, never both.

End

I just wanted to point out some of the green lies pervading the corporate(MSM) media sphere. There are many. All require industrial practices to implement and keep going. Nothing is free in the Disneyland of delusional, expanding, abundance. Reductions of magnitude is all that will save our species now. Not technology. Not greenies, Not politicians with worthless policy. Just us.

Just remember to be kind in the process. Come and work together for a future with far less than we have today, including people. Keep safe from all the meanies out there, and their lies. Peace, The Ol’ Hippy