How an Environmental Activist made a sharp turn to the Right

How an Environmental Activist made a sharp turn to the Right

First, my turn to the Right happened by my ability to recognize two separate but corresponding things...First, that nations are born, grow and develop primarily by the use of one thing...energy. Access to cheap, reliable energy from fossil fuels is the power house that brought forth all of the wonders of Europe and the US, Russia and China into being. The second is the recognition that green energy is not ready to replace the fossil fuels. Solar panels and windmills give some energy but it is unreliable, intermittent and there isn’t enough of it. That is the cold, hard truth. Since the stoppage of oil and gas from Russia to the Europeans some of these countries like Germany, are having a hard time of it, not to mention the frighting rise of gas prices everywhere.

Most of my experience with environmentalism has been with trying to help preserve the natural forests of British Columbia. Why do most of us want living forests to stay alive but not car if living humans die from lack of energy that has been caused by government prohibiting the use of fossil fuels? I think it is because we know in our bones that we have evolved alongside our forests and that the trees live on the carbon mixture we humans breathe out as the trees magically take the mixture and then return it to ius in the form of a sweet oxygen that humans need to stay alive. So what does the governments of both Canada and the US want to do about energy that every country needs to thrive? Why, let the dead much needed fossil fuels stay in the ground unused, and clear cut the life giving trees. For what? As most of the valuable old growth forests are gone, what are they cutting small trees on the tree farms for ? Oh, tooth picks. Bio fuels. Wooden pellets. Lots of new wooden pellet stoves on the market for cooking, heating, whatever is needed. Both the Trudeau government and the Biden government are mad, I tell you.

June 4 2023
Betty Krawczyk