The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics

[hunter]

4. What will save us?

Certainly not Elon Musk...

...or wind turbines.

Personally, I don't think wringing our hands and watching billions of people die is an ethical position.

The stupidity of affluent people is that they always imagine others doing the dying, which probably won't be the case because the most fragile economic systems are those that affluent people depend upon for their survival. Often their grim fantasies of death and destruction are strongly tainted by racism. It will be those other people who will die, not us, those people we don't happen to like.

When things get ugly you can't eat a Tesla, or easily turn it into a tractor...

There are better things than offshore wind turbines or vast acreages of desert solar panels to pin our hopes on.

We can turn our cities into attractive places where car ownership is unnecessary. We can quit industrial scale meat and dairy production, which isn't good for the environment, the workers, and most certainly the animals. Cheap milk and hamburger is not a human necessity. We can quit pretending biofuels are "sustainable" or "carbon neutral."

Most of all we need to recognize that this thing we now call "economic productivity" isn't any kind of productivity at all, but a direct measure of the damage we are doing to our planets natural environment and our own human spirit.