Who are the Culprits?

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August ’25

Coal, the evil fossil fuel merchants are selling the stuff as fast as can dig it out of the ground! So obviously they are the culprits, right? But bare in mind that while they are also doing their level best to satisfy our insatiable demand for energy. We are like the poor unfortunate drug addicts that curse the dealer for getting us hooked, whilst pleading for ever more drugs. We are the culprits! Almost every last one of us. (with the possible exception of Buddhist monks and the unemployed)

There are very few people in this society who are willing to forgo any of their creature comforts in order to avoid climate catastrophe. The climate disaster we have created is not caused by burning fossil fuels. It is caused by burning too much fossil fuel. If the economy did not keep growing, we would not be in the present predicament. No matter how many wind turbines we think we can build, we will never catch up, a Uroboros, chasing its tail.

Every tower we build will generate more electricity. More electricity means more economic growth. More growth means more emissions.All we are doing is providing cheap electricity to satisfy extra demand as the economy grows. We are not even making a dint in our total emissions, and we never will while the economy grows faster than renewables, and ironically renewables will help it do just that! There is only one solution. I think we all know what it is. We have to stop earning so much money, and spending so much money. But when we do earn even a tiny bit less, the who system goes into panic mode. So we need a system that can cope with an economy that does not grow. There are of course, many societies around the globe that are not dependent on the economic growth cycle, most of them are in the Amazon jungle. But we don’t want to go down that road do we? It would mean giving up that annual trip to Europe, giving up crossing the country in our great hulking SUVs, giving up our big house and our beach house and our investment properties, and our boat, and our Winebago, and our new deck and…well just about everything really. There would be nothing left to live for, would there? So we have chosen mass suicide via over-consumption!

– Ben Boyang – Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief – Possum Stirrers Guild

Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid!
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I am a fearless reporter who has recently been sacked from News of the World due to wishy washy. namby pamby, bleeding heart, bed weting liberals banging on about Ethics, whatever they are. I try to offend as many people as possible but in the words of some great orator, "you can offend some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but youcant offend all of the people all of the time".

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