Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Are human beings entering an age of energy poverty?

The federal party leaders in Canada went to debate in French on Apr 16, in the first of two debates, one in French and another in English.

Melissa Mbarki (@MelissaMbarki) wrote on X: "Blanchet wants Canadians to wean off petroleum. He also doesn't support nuclear. What does he want to transition to?"

To paraphrase Melissa, who asks the most penetrating question, "What does Blanchet want this energy transition to be?"

I replied with the following discourse.

There is nothing to transition to. 100 million Barrels of Oil per day will not be replaced by wishful thinking.

8.1 billion people in a Petroleum Energy World enter an energy famine in 50 years, when there will be 10 billion people, and no replacement energy source.

What does that sound like to you?

Can you imagine?

It took 150 years to build the Petroleum Energy World of 2025.

With no replacement, and nothing conceived, even if we miraculously found the energy solution of 'tomorrow' this evening, tonight, and having it in hand, this miracle will do nothing to avert an energy famine impending for  humanity in less than 50 years.

Think about that. Less than 50 years from now, you won't be able to recharge your batteries.

Hone your prayer skills. That's your only hope.

Any possible way you look at it, the human race has botched energy.  Completely fucked it up with energy.  A complete idiocracy when it comes to energy.

That's why we have these fucking criminals in governments the world over.  

Because we fucked up, and we're in a hopeless fucking situation, which is where criminal minds thrive.

We're going to be governed by the lawless because we are far too stupid and insipid to be governed by decency and common sense.  We are fucked because we deserve to be fucked.

Imagine not being able to find honest people to govern you.

How fucking big a loser are you when you cannot find a decent human being to put in charge?

Anywhere in the world.

Scum at every corner, every turn, every time. SCUM SCUM SCUM of the earth to rule the earth and the stupid insipid fucking monstrous idiots on the earth.

Soon we will be forced to ask one single thing.

Are human beings ungovernable?

You can tell now. The way we are facing the inevitable failure of energy resources is the best indication of the abject stupidity and uselessness of humanity.

As a creature, stench. As a sentient being, a fucking joke.

Normally I don't feel so nihilistic. I lean heavily toward heresy. I prefer to think for myself.

But this election season in Canada, one of three energy superpowers, the governance I am seeing in Canada, the farce of international globalism, the twits in activism, whether they are climate activists, fish farm activists, energy activists, tree hugger activists, rainforest activists, indigenous activists, or all the above as in Canada's Environment Minister.

They have managed to reduce humanity to one new rule:

No Lives Matter.

I say this as I watch humans point the vehicle at the concrete wall and put the pedal to the metal. 

It's no surprise Elon Musk intends to leave Earth behind. It will become a nightmare as the reality dawns about the energy famine. It will not be livable even in sanctuaries behind gates.

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