Green movement taking us backwards

Recently saw an article trying to dispel "myths" of electric vehicles (TVs), namely that they are much more palatable than we believe. Claims like the efficiency of lithium batteries increasing, but without acknowledging that the cost (of mining and securing) lithium has gone through the roof, confirm rather than reject a 'myth.'

I have long been suspicious of the idea that electric vehicles are 'clean' because they don't use gas to operate. Yet how much carbon is emitted in the productions of TVs? And where does their energy come from?

Here are some answers.

And it gets worse:

Blackouts. “Rush toward green energy has left U.S. ‘incredibly’ vulnerable to summer blackouts, expert warns,” says a Fox News headline from Monday. “I think the entire country is incredibly vulnerable, because the entire country is facing a huge energy shortage and I don’t think there is any place that is truly safe,” Daniel Turner, founder and executive director at Power the Future, told the network.

Power rationing. Things are so bleak in Great Britain due to high energy costs (always a hallmark of renewables) and the war in Ukraine, that the government might have no choice but to ration electricity “in a manner similar to Edward Heath’s three-day week in the 1970s,” reports the Daily Mail. The scenario could have been avoided, says Watts Up With That, “if Britain maintained coal capacity and developed shale gas reserves.”

Famine. A presidential ban on chemical fertilizers last year wrecked Sri Lanka’s harvest. Even though the ban was lifted “after widespread protests,” says Reuters, “only a trickle of chemical fertilizers made it to farms, which will likely lead to an annual drop of at least 30% in paddy yields nationwide.” Other media reports indicate that a “spiraling food crisis looms,” in the country. Similar environmental nincompoopery is threatening food production in the agriculturally rich Netherlands, where the government has proposed cutting nitrogen oxide and ammonia emissions by half by 2030.

In Sri Lanka, going green means going hungry.