Sunday, July 09, 2017
One claim that I've heard from
opponents of clean energy is that oil is progress and that clean
energy is stagnation. This claim is a Big Lie. Progress does not
consist of ongoing reliance on destructive, resource-intensive
technologies. It consists of moving toward better technologies;
smarter technologies; technologies that are more brain-intensive and
less resource-intensive.
Technologies that will fulfil people's
needs at present or greater levels with fewer destructive effects.
What business-affiliated people who are
against clean energy do not understand is that clean energy is good
for business. It will make more money than oil and coal. As for oil,
it will last longer and be used to produce value-added products like
styrofoams, plastics and pharmaceuticals. Which means that in the
long run it will even be good for oil companies themselves.
Then there is the claim that clean
energy is attractive to people with Marxist associations. That it
well should be. There were many people who were attracted to Marxism
for right reasons. They were not attracted to it because they wanted
freebies; they were attracted to it because they did not like to see
workers treated like dirt. Communism was a wrong solution, and I have
written a detailed deconstruction of Marxist ideology
(https://sites.google.com/site/ilyashambatthought/refuting-marxism-once-and-for-all).
However many of these people were coming from rightful
considerations. With clean energy there will be a large field in
which these people can work while remaining true to their rightful
ideals. They will be less likely to become disaffected or parasitical
and will instead become constructive, productive citizens.
We also hear the claim that global
warming is some kind of a liberal ploy for a government takeover of
the economy. This is absolutely ridiculous. Clean energy can be just
as easily put into place by business as by the government. To me the
issue of who puts it into place is incidental. I don't care whether
it's done by government or by business for as long as it is done.
These same people then claim that they
have family values or that they are Christians. They have the right
to neither such claim. A person who actually has family values will
not be leaving the world in a worse shape than he has found. A person
who actually is a Christian will not be destroying what God has
created and what he cannot re-create. And as a dedicated father and a
practicing Christian, I will do everything in my power that my
daughter does not inherit a toxic hell.
Clean energy is not only good for the
planet. It is also good for the economy, and it is good for our
children. And anyone who lays any claim on any such values does not
only have the right, but has the duty, to support and do what he can
to implement clean energy.
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