...to hear commentary on this rather pernicious cultist and his faith celebrating bourgeois myopia from his high Temple in the very upscale Snowmass, Colorado.
He calls himself a "scientist." So do "Christian Scientists."
His "work," such as it is, will probably go a long way to assuring that future generations will need to change the name of Snowmass to something else.
I am rather proud of some commentary I wrote about him just over seven years ago, just before the year before the last time anyone now living would see carbon dioxide concentrations below 400 ppm. (2015)
...Seen from this perspective, Lovins’ writings are all marked by myopic bourgeois provincialism. The huge flaw in his 1976 conceit, and his conceits forever thereafter, was that for him, people living in the United States, and maybe Western Europe, represented the only human life that mattered. Chinese and Indians, for two examples, may as well have not existed if one reads his 1976 fantasy; he blithely assumed that they would agree to remain unimaginably impoverished while Americans pursued hydrogen HYPErcars[5] in every suburban garage and solar heated molten salt tanks[6] in every suburban backyard. Apparently, from his high perch in the überrich suburb of Aspen – Snowmass, Colorado – where he lives today in a super-efficient McMansion, he continues to issue rhetoric equally oblivious to the status of the larger fraction of humanity, this while collecting “consulting fees” from companies that among other things, mine and refine oil sands[7]. Consideration of the two to three billion people defined by the IEA today as living in “energy poverty”[8] – 1.3 billion of whom lack access to electricity for any purpose, never mind for the purpose of charging up their swell Tesla electric cars, and/or the 38% percent of human beings on this planet who lack access to what the IEA calls “clean cooking facilities” – is definitely not in the purview of a person who writes books with awful titles like, um, “Winning the Oil Endgame.[9]”
Out of sight, out of mind…
Current World Energy Demand, Ethical World Energy Demand, Depleted Uranium and the Centuries to Come
But I can't hold a candle to Vaclav Smil's commentary on this deadly fool:
Rocky Mountain Visions
I will see if I can find time to check out the Podcast. I bookmarked the site. There seems to be a number of interesting talks there.
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