Fighting Against Misinformation in the Renewable Energy Sector

Sometimes we think in isolation. We do this the most with our energy options.

Wind kills birds.

Hydro kills fish.

Coal pollutes the air and water.

Natural gas emits methane.

Solar has waste and cobalt/lithium mining issues.

Nuclear waste is scary and it takes a long time to build a new plant.

These lines of thinking all lead to one conclusion - we shouldn't have any electricity. This is called the Utopian Fallacy. If a solution isn't perfect, we shouldn't do it. I find permaculturists especially get a real kick out of feeling morally superior for hating on the above, using that rationale, but remain in la-la-land without any real world solutions.

If there was a perfect solution, this wouldn't even be a topic. Unfortunately for us, we live in the real world, and we need to design power systems. When power goes out, people die. It's that simple.

A temporary power outage, if sustained, can kill hundreds or thousands of people within a few days. What happens when entire society sees long term and possibly permanent energy crisis'?

What happens when countries all around the world figure out, collectively at the same time, that to phase out coal oil and gas, they need 3 to 10 times the power generation (i.e. removing coal = electrifying transportation = TONS more power needed). What happens when all countries try to hire the same labour force, try to engage the same vendors, to build the same products? "Sure, we can meet that order, you are country 79 on the list, and we should have your order completed in roughly 40 years". There is going to be a RACE for renewables. It will be the war of the future. Who gets the vendors to build them the power they need.

So lets flatten that out, and get started now.

That requires dispelling myths and misinformation.

A large part of the solution is absolutely going to be to try to reduce consumption in all ways possible. However, our current energy situation on planet earth is that 84% of our energy comes from Fossil Fuels (https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix).

To replace fossil fuels isn't a question of IF. It's a question of WHEN. They are non renewables. They emit carbon (and don't forget OTHER waste also). We are sitting at 420ppm CO2 right now. You may think that CO2 isn't bad. That plants grow faster. So what is okay then? 840ppm? 1680ppm? 16800ppm? The reality is that it's going up 2.5 to 3ppm every year, accelerating, AND THAT MEANS THAT TREES ARE NOT CAPABLE OF REMOVING WHAT WE ARE PUTTING OUT, or it would be going down. And at SOME POINT, if it keeps going up, we won't be able to breathe. It's already making us sick (see in video). So to say it's not a problem, is delusion.

We HAVE to get off them, because they are, by very definition, a non-renewable resource.

For the economists out there - ask yourself what happens to the global economy if 84% of the energy running it disappears. Even if you think CO2 emissions don't matter, we still have to replace fossil fuels before we run out, even just to save the economy and prevent the collapse of civilization as we know it.

Permaculture isn't THE solution. But it can be part of the solution. Why? We could stop injustice in the world, transition all farms to permaculture farms, and pat ourselves on our backs, but once coal, oil and gas run out, society would utterly collapse and not in a good way. Death, starvation, riots.

When people starve, they destroy the environment to feed their families.

Renewable energy is the soft landing pad that will help us pull the economy into the realm of sustainability. Then, regenerative practices like permaculture can restore our earth. This isn't the "new world order". This isn't "the grand design". This isn't "the great reset".

This is just humans reacting to inevitability.

So why is there such a big misinformation campaign to prevent building the very Noah's ark that we KNOW we need? In one word: Greed. In another: Corruption. But lets debunk some of their BS, shall we?

Or more succinctly, in 3 words: Fk Rupert Murdoch.

(All sources provided in video.)
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