Climatism
The Totalitarian Scam is Now Exposed
Tom Nelson´s recent film production Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth is an extremely cold shower for the minds of those who believe that global warming is a fever suffered by planet earth due to the infection of human consumerism and population growth. The film written and directed by Martin Durkin doesn´t deny climate change but shares with the viewer a very accurate diagnosis of the real factors that are motivating one of the most important issues of our times.
Relying on the work of several prestigious scientists who´ve kept up a very rigorous approach to grassroots inquiry and experimentation, Martin Durkin demonstrates in his movie that CO2 industrial emissions have an extremely marginal contribution to climate change. And beyond the limitations of the model computer-processing procedures which are massively employed today by climate scientists, Durkin also shows that the major inducer of climate change is primarily the sun and many other galactic dynamics that are inaccessible to human technical intervention. As the titan Prometheus naively challenging the solar strength of Zeus, if we rely on the scientific conclusions presented in the film and honestly want to succeed in reversing climate change, then we are required to fight against the astrophysical influences of the entire universe.
Tom Nelson excellently shows in his film production that the belief in anthropogenic climate change (this is, the belief that human emission of CO2 is responsible of climate change) is extremely far from being restricted to the domain of science and that it has rather consolidated as an ideology, that is to say, it has become a worldview intended to unify the political agenda of peoples all around the world regardless of their origin, culture and traditions. In regard to the latter, anybody can also easily verify that in mainstream media this Promethean `fight against climate change´ is one of the most reiterated pretexts of today´s political classes for justifying their prerogatives and influence at a global scale. Today such pretext is a considerable part of the attires that adorn political discourse, yet any kid who watches Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth might end up making use of plain common sense and start thinking: “If human activity has a very little effect on climate change… How can climate change be humanly solved?... It´s like trying to touch the invisible!!”. Similarly as occurs in the case of H.C. Andersen´s story The Emperor has no Clothes, Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth also exposes the naked truth on climate change discourse, and as this specific political problem has the favor of public opinion and mainstream media, we are then inclined to ponder what´s the true agenda of the “weavers” behind the scenes of this political problem, especially by taking into account that trillions of dollars have been already devoted to finance such claimed fight against climate change.
It can also be verified that Tom Nelson´s film shows that all those sectors who religiously keep up the faith in the power of both UN policies and the renewable energy industry to reduce global CO2 emissions are then entitled to raise to positions of influence and power -receiving all governmental funds, subsidies and corporate finance- whereas those who are skeptic about such possibility are ostracized and condemned as heretics, regardless of the excellence they demonstrate in their techno-scientific field. As Upton Sinclair once affirmed: “It´s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends on him not understanding it”, and the consensus that Martin Durkin points out in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth shall be easily demonstrated in the years ahead by verifying how the most influential and well-paid climate scientists shall not want to authenticate the solid research that Martin Durkin exposes, even by being intellectually capable of doing so.
Not only excellent scientific research is powerless to debunk such sociopolitical consensus but even basic common sense is also powerless against its purely ideological character. This is demonstrated by the fact that very few dare to point out that global CO2 industrial emissions reached a record high in 2023, even after two decades of massive financial investment in climate change research, eco-friendly production, renewable energy capturing technologies and expensive climate change discussion panels. By merely employing a logical approach to this manifest divergence between intentions and effective results, we are obliged to hypothesize that the so-called `fight against climate change´ might be serving other undeclared goals than those it explicitly intends, as for instance the claimed intention of “Saving the Planet”. This hypothesize might also suggest that CO2 emission isn´t but the chosen scapegoat of such undeclared goals, on one hand because in Tom Nelson´s film production is shown that during the earth´s past geological record high levels of CO2 are correlated to the proliferation of vegetation at a planetary scale, and on the other hand because even NASA confirms such correlation between CO2 and vegetal abundance. What´s more, the hypothesis that CO2 is being demonized as the scapegoat of undeclared political goals can be easily demonstrated by the fact that the 2001 IPCC Third Assessment Report modeled greenhouse gases as the major drivers of global temperature increase and yet, as can be seen in the graph below, water vapor produces a much higher greenhouse effect than CO2.
Solar spectrum and atmospheric absorbing gases from 240 nm to 2.5 µm wavelengths.
Credit: [CC BY-SA 3.0]
In spite of the very little contribution of CO2 to climate change, and of the fact that Tom Nelson´s film production also shows that today´s concentration of CO2 in the earth´s atmosphere is at its lowest levels in the geological record, influential Swedish scientist Johan Rockstrom developed for the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development a concept called `Planetary Boundaries´ where CO2 concentration appears as having a considerable weight in the contribution to climate change:
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
One ought to also ponder why there´s so much political concern about CO2 emissions because in terms of industrial emissions that do actually have a clear cause-effect relation on climate change, aerosols (sulphate particles emitted by industrial activity) have been demonstrated to have a very considerable short-term effect. So even by considering that CO2 is the fundamental molecule that allows vegetation to thrive through photosynthesis, such molecule receives all the sociopolitical concern and all the bad publicity, assumed to be the poison for human life on planet earth. In other words, CO2 is perceived as the hellish bad breath of the very same devil.
In this regard, it´s very important to point out that this ideology of anthropogenic climate change has gained clear Salvationist undertones; carbon footprints have become the selfsame footsteps that allow to track down and inculpate all the “sinners” who are supposedly destroying planet earth, that is to say, carbon footprints serve to track down all those supposedly criminal individuals whose only chance of redeeming and exculpating their profound guilt of destroying nature is by purchasing PV solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars, and countless other industrial products that are decorated with all the green and eco-friendly motives that symbolize nature in her most pristine state. Like in all form of organized religion, this opportunity of individual redemption is not only full of eschatological imagery of hurricanes devastating the earth and apocalyptic floods, but is also inspired by transcendent visions of paradise where the devilish combustion of filthy fossil fuels that are extracted from hellish regions of the earth´s crust is at last cleansed and purified, substituted by high-tech, green and unpolluted landscapes where humans, having reached a high state of purity, spirituality and carbon-free sanctity, can finally commune with the earth.
As Martin Durkin shows in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth, the African peoples who try to escape from poverty by leaving behind the tracks of their carbon footsteps are considered by the new religion as the most dangerous type of sinners. Why? Because they´re burdened by original sin, a sin that was already sealed during their birth, as the poor and industrially undeveloped peoples weren´t privileged of being born in a modern urban-industrial society. Only industrially developed, high-tech and hyper-consumerist societies are allowed to become `eco-friendly´ and `sustainable´; they are the countries that can afford to buy the `Green Transition´. Contrarily, the licentious desire of poor countries and rural areas to develop the bounties and beauties of their own lands defies the new religion of `Sustainable Development´, and they are only permitted to redeem from such debauched aspirations by destroying their soil, their forests, their biodiversity, by repressing their lustful desires of native food production, and all in order to then extract all the nickel, cobalt, copper and lithium that lie beneath their lands. This `offering to the Gods´ of the precious rare metals of their lands, which is required for industrially developed countries to develop the `Green Transition´, is what allows the poor countries to participate in the divine mandates of the new global religion. By trading the beautiful biodiversity of their land for the sake of global `Sustainable Development´, the new religion offers poor peoples the chance of finally being absolved from their original sin, this is, to be absolved from the sin of being born in an industrially undeveloped country.
In Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth is also exposed how the blue-collar workers who develop their activity in primary industrial sectors (farming, etc.) are considered by the new religion as subversive and criminal individuals whose economic survival risks destroying planet earth. The new religion essentially considers them as a dirty reenactment of the old proletarian classes that had acquired during the 20th century unprecedented opportunities of consumption and access to middle-class standards of life. And as there are considerable tracks of criminal carbon footprints associated to what are interpreted as the “ordinary and profane activities” of the primary industrial sectors, the proliferation of such social strata is considered by the high priests of the new religion as one of the major menaces to the planet. But how can these filthy sinners be redeemed from their guilt and be absolved by the new religion?... As occurred in other organized religions of the past, these penitents are offered the ascetic alternative of abstinence and self-flagellation, by reducing their desire to eat a normal human omnivorous diet and rather opting for a diet based on insects
One of the remarkable contributions of Tom Nelson and Martin Durkin in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth is that the scientific conclusions presented by the excellent group of scientists who appear in his film are all placed in a much wider political context, and this contextualization is precisely what can assist us in understanding why climate change policies are so much concerned by CO2, even by considering that this greenhouse gas has been demonstrated in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth to have such a minimal effect on climate change. Durkin shows that climate change is far from being restricted to a biosphere phenomenon and has also become a global sociopolitical movement that has acquired ideological and pseudo-religious undertones. Precisely, the 20th century has exposed us the power of ideologies in modern urban-industrial societies; whether it´s capitalism, communism, fascism, liberalism, the ideology of progress, etc. all ideologies are characterized by a specific narrative that serves to unify a large collective under the power of a given State. Furthermore, the 20th century is also a Historical witness of the loss of hegemony of the State-nation governments, the rise of a global technocracy and the aggrandizement of the State at a planetary scale. This modification of the structure of global power and the State can´t be technically accomplished without access to progressively higher levels of energy, and if we look at this graph on one hand we´ll verify that during the last century the main fossil-fuel sources of energy were directly linked to CO2 emissions, and on the other hand we can also verify that in 2022 still a 93% of global direct primary energy was obtained by burning fuels that emit CO2. So even though CO2 is being demonized in the Promethean “fight against climate change”, today´s global urban-industrial societies still owe a 93% of their existence to the emission of such gas into the atmosphere. Hence, the demonization of CO2 very much resembles the rather odd depiction of a man demonizing his own blood, or even demonizing the food he eats. This strange case of CO2 demonization becomes even more bizarre by taking into account that, as I shall show in the following paragraphs, the fight against CO2 emissions ultimately will not require any sociopolitical action whatsoever and that CO2 anthropogenic emissions shall inevitably become globally reduced due to the limits imposed by the earth´s geological conditions on the dynamics of modern techno-industrial growth.
In effect, the global production of conventional oil already peaked in 2006, the global production of diesel already peaked in 2018-2019 the global production of crude and condensate oils already peaked in 2018 and all these production peaks fully confirm that planet earth has material limits. Many economists believed that these physical limits were a “theory”, a mere “hypothesis”, or that the markets would find substitutes and technological miracles, yet the former peaks show such limits have already become an undeniable fact, and as CNRS economist Gael Giraud affirmed in 2014: "The real role of energy will force economists to change their dogma". Even an 8 year-old kid can understand that planet earth has physical limits. Though the peak global production of natural gas and coal are expected to occur during this decade, the energy provided by such fossil-fuels (and other non-conventional oil/non-renewable sources like fracking, biofuels, ultra-deep water oil, extra-heavy bituminous oils) hasn´t managed to compensate the decline of energy derived from conventional oil production since 2006, which according to the International Energy Agency (I.E.A) has fallen from 70 million barrels/day (2006) to 67 million barrels/day (2018), and this shows that apart from material limits planet earth also has energy limits, demonstrated by the fact that the total energy derived from all global non-renewable energy sources already peaked at 517 Exajoules in 2019 This is very likely a paramount date in the History of modern techno-industrial growth, as such peak of energy never occurred before. The implications of this peak are vast and shall be explained in the following paragraphs...
For those who are unfamiliar with the subject of natural resource peak production, it´s worth remarking that such production peaks don´t imply the exhaustion of the resources considered but rather imply their gradual depletion, that is to say, it signifies the technical unfeasibility of impeding the decline of their production rate. For instance, in spite of all technological advances in the energy primary sector it became impossible for such industrial sector to return to the maximum levels of conventional oil global production attained in 2006, and this unfeasibility is due to purely geological and thermodynamic reasons that make such extraction gradually unprofitable. And by considering that the I.E.A reported the decline of conventional oil global production since 2006 at rates of 5% to 8% per year, we can then deduce from this that the CO2 anthropogenic emissions associated to the combustion of this specific fossil fuel (conventional oil) also declined in a correlated way, not due to any climate policy or investment in the renewable energy industry but due to both the limits imposed by the earth´s geological conditions and by the laws of thermodynamics.
As can be seen in the graph below, in 2022 the I.E.A forecasted an abrupt decline in the global production of all fossil-fuels in what´s referred to as the Net Zero Emissions Scenario (NZE) which assumes that the CO2 emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels shall be supposedly offset in 2050 by the investment in the renewable energy industry:
However, as pointed out in the former paragraphs, the decline in conventional oil global production since 2006 wasn´t due to any CO2 offsetting policy but due to purely geological and thermodynamic reasons. And by applying the same logic of the past to the future declines of natural gas and coal, such logic implies that the offset of global CO2 emmisions shall not be caused in the future by any climate policies but by planetary geological constraints.
As the total energy derived from all global non-renewable energy sources already peaked at 517 Exajoules in 2019 the NZE scenario presents a forecast from now to 2050 that aspires to compensate this post-peak non-renewable energy decline with a massive investment in the renewable energy industry worldwide. At a first glance, it´s understandable that this type of energy compensation is desired by the OECD policy makers because thermodynamics shows that global primary energy and global G.D.P correlate directly to each other In other words, if the renewable energy industry is unable to compensate the inevitable energy decline occurred since 2019 from non-renewable sources, the global economy shall inevitably enter into an unprecedented and irreversible recession.
So, by taking into account all the former it can be concluded that:
a) Climate change is very marginally influenced by CO2 emissions (as rigorously exposed in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth )
b) CO2 favors vegetation proliferation, as shown by NASA.
c) Global urban-industrial societies still owe today a 93% of their economy and life standards to the emission of CO2
d) CO2 anthropogenic emissions shall be primarily offset during the decade ahead by the earth´s geological and thermodynamic constraints.
By considering these four fundamental conclusions, it´s therefore pertinent to ponder what exactly motivates the demonization of all those individuals, countries, corporations that are considered “sinful” of leaving tracks of their carbon footprints?... Let´s start with some wild guesses… As the production of energy in the primary sector is still today 93% globally linked to CO2 emissions, we could be tempted to change the expression “carbon footprint” for that of “primary energy footprint”, and we´d only have a 7% of conceptual blur by adopting such alteration... So as a corollary of all the former, if we drive a diesel-powered vehicle the new religion is implicitly blaming us of dissipating a non-renewable resource such as diesel that is going through an irreversible global production decline since 2016, and as diesel is also an indispensable fuel for mining, agriculture and transport, to drive a diesel-powered vehicle can be viewed by the new religion adepts not only as an attack to the earth´s climate but also as an usurpation of global food production and distribution. Furthermore, as GDP and primary energy are thermodynamically correlated we could go a step further and equate “primary energy footprint” to “production footprint”, so any sector involved in primary industrial production activities (i.e. agriculture, farming, etc.) is indirectly impugned by the new religion as also risking human extinction on planet earth. And as in most societies the working classes are those that are related to the production activities in the primary industrial sectors then the working sectors of society are the ones that the new religion considers as the enemies of planet earth.
Contrarily to the working strata of society, the political elites that have promoted the global consensus on climate change have apparently found an alternative for being redeemed of any sinful carbon footprints so such elites don´t be shamefully accused of being enemies of planet earth. The offsetting of their sins is accomplished by resorting to techno-industrial systems that capture the energies that are present in “heaven”, this is, techniques that channel down to the earth the forces that are linked to the sun and to the wind, so such elites no longer have to make us of the acqua infernales (oil) that is present in the telluric and devilish realms of the underground. Besides, industrial energy capturing technologies such as photovoltaic panels or massive wind turbines are also conceived by the collective imagination as “clean” and “pure” sources of “green” energy; they are perceived as the true architectures of human salvation. What´s more, by considering the abovementioned relation between global GDP and global energy production, any risk of global economic decline due to planetary geological constraints is also intended to be avoided by the salvation coming from the contribution of the renewable energy industry.
In spite of the messianic undertones of the latter political aspirations, there is some truth to them… By considering the inevitable decline in the energy production of non-renewable sources that took place in 2019, it´s obvious that the only salvation for humans on earth relies on capturing the energy that is present in sunlight, wind and other renewable sources. Yet the very specific Promethean dream of the political elites that promote the consensus on climate change is still burdened by the same constraints that affect all techno-industrial architectures; constraints linked to the availability of resources and to the 1st and 2nd thermodynamic laws. Some influential sectors, including filmmaker Oliver Stone, deposit their hopes in nuclear energy, but the fundamental limiting factor for making such hopes on nuclear power actual is that world uranium mining production also already peaked in 2016 at about 63.000 tones, demonstrating another case of the geological limits of planet earth, as in the case of all other non-renewable sources formerly mentioned. What´s more, the global contribution of nuclear sources to the total mix of primary energy is only a 4.3%
But even more important than this 4.3% nuclear contribution is to keep in mind that both the renewable energy industry and nuclear power ultimately produce electricity, and that electricity constitutes an average worldwide share of 19% of primary energy. Only countries like Sweden, Norway or Iceland go beyond 50% of share. So not only electricity generation is just a fraction of the underlying energy problem, but it´s also very important to consider the limits of the capacity of electrical grids to cope with the variable surpluses of electricity production that characterize solar and wind energy production… In effect, Germany already faced considerable blackout issues when adapting its electrical grid to the intermittent character of renewable energy production, and even if ideally humankind could accomplish the old dream of constructing nuclear fusion power plants that hypothetically provided a massive amount of electricity, the main issue in such ideal case is that the demand of electricity in the UE and OCDE countries is clearly diminishing in the 21st century, and electrical production oversupplies are so complicated to technically modulate or accumulate that even Australia is now considering the option of penalizing any risk of congestion of the electrical grid. Besides, in a country like Spain that has already installed 108GW power derived from renewable sources, deindustrialization has caused the demand for electricity to diminish and one of the fundamental reasons of such deindustrialization is that industrial production is becoming very much dampened by the fact that the chemical elements required for electrifying the economy (lithium, copper, graphite, cobalt, nickel, silver, platinum, etc.) are also constrained by geological extraction limits, by geopolitical factors –as I shall briefly explain in the following paragraphs- and consequently their increasing worldwide demand for producing electrical cars, photovoltaic panels and wind-turbines is making them all much more expensive for the industry.
In spite of the geological, technical and thermodynamic constraints that have recently impeded to keep the pace required for targeting the Net Zero Emissions Scenario the I.E.A is still expecting that, between now and 2040 the annual extraction of lithium will multiply by 42, that of graphite by 25, that of cobalt by 21, that of nickel by 19 and that of rare earths by 7. However, the I.E.A doesn´t explain in its report how this increase in extraction can be technically accomplished. But what´s probably even more bizarre is to take into account that in the Net Zero Emissions scenario projected by the I.E.A. for 2050, the share of electricity in relation to final energy consumption is expected to be 50%, which implies that somehow the world is expected to accomplish in 2050 the same final energy-electricity ratios as those that characterise today countries like Sweden, Norway or Iceland…
Even by supposing technically feasible such future 2050 Net Zero Emissions scenario of hyper-electrification, such scenario would not only imply a massive production of industrial renewable energy capturing systems, but also a massive and unprecedented development of the worldwide electrical grid. And apart from the titanic extraction of rare earths this type of renewable energy industrial production demands, the availability of copper is the most critical factor for making such electrification development feasible, and yet –as can be seen in the graph below- existing mine production of copper is expected to fall from 20 Mt (2017) to under 12Mt (2034), leading to a supply gap of more than 15Mt.
Again, expectations necessarily crash against geological and thermodynamic limits. Some might be inclined to consider that money and financial investment can overcome the limits imposed by nature, yet in this regard it´s worth recalling that after the peak of conventional oil global production took place in 2006, it was just a matter of 5 years that oil companies began to lose a lot of cash flow from 2011 to 2014, even during a period characterized by the Historically highest oil prices, and as a consequence of these losses a major disinvestment took place in the upstream oil energy industry. So the latter is a very insightful antecedent case of how geological and thermodynamic constraints ultimately have the last word in terms of natural resource extraction, even beyond economic-financial intervention, because if the extraction of an essential resource becomes too costly, the consequent risk of inflation also necessarily risks the emergence of economic recession.
Due to such constraints, not only can we expect the same extraction declines in the case of copper but also in also the case of all the rare earth minerals required for the so-called “Green Transition”, in which the production of solar photovoltaic panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles demand the extraction of chemical elements that are characterized by serious supply risks. A Spanish chemical engineer who I consider as the greatest expert in the world in the field of mineral extraction thermodynamics, Alicia Valero, created a very instructive graph below where we can observe the risks associated to each of such technologies and to the chemical elements associated to their industrial production. Very noteworthy in the graph is the high risk (in red) associated to tellurium, which is required for producing solar photovoltaic panels.
Graph from Material bottlenecks in the future development of green technologies. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 93, 178–200. Valero, A., Valero, A., Calvo, G., & Ortego, A.
Inevitably, such geological constraints have a very negative effect in the economics of the transition to renewable energy industrial production, to the point that one of the major corporations in such industry, Siemens-Gadesa accumulated last year losses of 4.5 billion € and in addition to the latter General Electric Wind Power losses were 2.2 billion $, Vestas losses were 1.6 billion € and finally Nordex losses that amount to 250 million $ It´s no wonder that the EU approved in October 2023 an aid package The European Wind Power Action Plan to rescue the wind power sector in Europe. The Wind Europe association affirms that the technical problems in the sector could mean the loss of manufacturing on the continent, risking the attainment of the EU 420 GW target (at least 42.5% renewable energy) by 2030. Besides, the association also admits that costs have skyrocketed and that large projects are hit by lack of profitability. The inevitable result is that Europe is far from building enough new wind energy to reach its energy and `Green Deal´ targets. From an energy engineering viewpoint, renewable energy capturing technologies (wind, solar, etc.) have always been very energetically weak (i.e. low energy density) and inefficient compared to fossil-fuel production, but at this moment the geological incapability to increase energy production from non-renewable sources in the primary energy sector is putting all the financial pressure in systems that technically can´t take the lead. By providing a clarifying image of the former predicament: A solar powered vehicle might take advantage of a diesel-powered truck´s slipstream but not vice versa.
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So let´s recapitulate and connect the dots… The unfounded demonization of CO2 emissions as the main cause of climate change (perfectly exposed in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth) serves perfectly well for the UN political elites as an indirect way of making the population accept the underlying and irreversible end of the hegemony of non-renewable global energy production that took place in 2019. This ideological acceptance is accomplished by making use of “Green Transition-Sustainable Development” propaganda/marketing/PR techniques that reinforce in the public the appeal towards a transition to renewable energy capturing industrial technologies (solar PV, wind-turbines, etc.). As a consequence of the creation of this ideology and climate change consensus, these industrial systems of energy production are then conceived by the public as the “carbon-free” solutions required for avoiding climate change. Due to the tight connections that exist between primary energy production and G.D.P, economic growth demands renewable energy production to compensate the decline occurred in 2019 in non-renewable global energy production, and this compensation calls for the production of industrial-type renewable energy capturing technologies (i.e. PV solar, wind) that are produced with rare earths (lithium, cobalt, tellurium, etc.). As any other natural resource, these rare earths are also finite and subject to geological and thermodynamic extraction constraints, so consequently any country or corporation that monopolizes the control of these rare earths has power upon the global economy, which implies that the control of these rare earths can easily be used as a geopolitical weapon. In this regard, China has kept up during the last years its position as the world’s leading producer of rare earths, and was responsible of about 60% of their extraction in 2019 China´s monopoly already caused international incidents in 2010, after limiting the rare earths exports to Japan due to a dispute over a Chinese fishing vessel. Also, China´s exports of rare earths decreased an 86% in 2010, causing great uncertainty in the global markets
Within the climate change consensus exposed in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth there are indeed individuals and organizations that are sincerely concerned about the risks of climate change for human survival on earth, but very unfortunately the sensitive ecological feelings that might characterize these groups has been coopted by worldwide ideological, political and economic interests. Ultimately, the ideological twisting of the climate change narrative is produced by a set of false assumptions which go as follows: the consensus assumes climate change a problem caused by CO2 emissions, and therefore the solution is assumed to be the reduction of such CO2 emissions; this solution is assumed to be techno-scientific, demanding the production of techno-industrial architectures (PV panels, wind turbines, etc.) that are assumed to be leave no carbon footprint. Yet all this set of assumptions are a very trembling house of cards because a) As pointed out in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth CO2 has an extremely little influence in climate change b) The assumed techno-industrial solutions (PV panels, wind turbines, etc.) are ultimately fossil-fuel extenders that is to say, their industrial production demands massive energy investment by fossil-fuels that emit CO2. The extension of fossil-fuels caused by these industrial architectures perfectly explains why CO2 emissions have never been reduced at an aggregate planetary level and that global CO2 industrial emissions reached a record high in 2023. As I exposed in the former paragraphs, underlying this twisted narrative is essentially a problem of the crash between economic techno-industrial development and the geological/thermodynamic limits of planet earth, and in this global chessboard of the 21st century countries like China, the U.S. and Russia are forced to position themselves in geopolitical conditions of maximum techno-industrial and military power by extracting and monopolizing the rare earths required for compensating with renewable sources of energy the decline from 517 Exajoules in 2019 of the total energy derived from all global non-renewable energy sources.
As an unfortunate consequence of the former, the good intentions and ecological consciousness that very likely are present in many sectors involved in the climate change alarmism-consensus is ultimately coopted, then serving an industrial/military concentration by the major blocks of worldwide power. To put the latter with brutal honesty: while in Europe we might feel comforted and happy by purchasing electric cars, electric scooters and eco-friendly `carbon-free´ products for “Saving the Planet”, countries like China that control the key to exports of rare minerals are grabbing by the by the balls the future of the European economy.
Unfortunately, this underlying concentration of worldwide techno-industrial/military power explains very well the proliferation, influence and wealth of political and academic sectors at a global scale that fortify in the minds of the public the climate change consensus-alarmism, ultimately serving as a propagandistic tactic that catalyzes such global concentration of power. It´s not even necessary to point out in this regard the infantile grumbles of UN manufactured public agitators like Greta Thunberg, but even highly intelligent and expert minds like Johan Rockström have also fell under the spell of the religion of climatism, to the point that even the Swedish influential scientific figure affirmed “if we want to have any chance of keeping global warming to 1.5C, we need to cut emissions by half over the next nine years”… Is Rockström aware that “we”, as humans, shall not cut emissions by half in such period but that the geological/thermodynamic limits of planet earth shall do such work for us, as already happened with global conventional oil production?... Whether a smart mind like Johan Rockström is aware or not of such inevitable fact, the case is that other sectors and political pawns are being employed by the “weavers behind the scenes” as the old useful idiots that were already influenced during the Cold War by the combination of communist propaganda and psychological manipulation techniques. In this sense, it´s not difficult to disagree with British ex-Stateswoman, Margaret Thatcher, when she wrote “Clearly no plan to alter climate could be considered on anything but a global scale, it provides a marvelous excuse for worldwide, supra-national socialism” (Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, Harper Collins, 2002).
The purely Promethean character of the climate change consensus is perfectly expressed in the fact that the leaders who embrace such ideological façade justify their political influence and prerogatives by convincing the population that they aim to “solve the climate change problem”, when in truth not only geological/thermodynamic constraints reduce the degrees of freedom in terms of political action in this field but also (as exposed in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth) climate change is a phenomenon that is highly determined by astrophysical influences at a galactic level. In this regard, one of the excellent scientists who appear in Tom Nelson´s film production, Willie Soon shows the undeniable correlations between solar activity and climate change which explains the Promethean absurdity of all those political leaders and climate scientists who justify their prerogatives by aspiring to solve climate change. And yet the climate change consensus is so extremely powerful in the public mind that the public shall be inclined to attribute the responsibility of the inevitable decline of CO2 emissions in the years ahead to the political actions of such leaders, a decline that -as formerly outlined- is primarily due to geological/thermodynamic constraints.
However, as in the case of all ideology, the facts have the last word. Because of this it’s also much more useful in the case of the new ideology of climatism to deal with reality before reality deals with us. For instance, the ideology of communism was overthrown by the poor understanding of the relations between work and human freedom that are implicit in Historical materialism, and capitalism is being intensively overthrown today by the much greater power of global technocracy and the centralized systems of information control. From a strict political perspective, it doesn´t matter if the utopian vision promoted of a global `Green Transition´ is technically hampered by geological and thermodynamic constraints, but what matters from such perspective is that those who are part of the climate change consensus believe it. This is how all totalitarian narratives work in the collective mind; it temporarily worked with communism or fascism, and the fact that this new cult of climatism is probably the most cool and trendy Historical expression of the rise of a new type of human values to positions of political influence and social control doesn´t impede such movement to not be characterized by the same traits that define any totalitarianism.
As I pointed out earlier in the case of companies like Siemens-Gadesa a massive financial bubble is pumping up in this “Green” economic sector, highly risking to put Europe in an unprecedented recession during this same decade. Contrarily, as already exposed in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth, China is stuffing all the coal into its economic ship But let´s not consider that China is the economic model to follow by Europe and many other regions of the world… As well shown in the case of the Soviet Union during the last century, gigantism is no guarantee of success, and in future scenarios characterized by the inevitable energy production declines formerly pointed out, China can easily implode due to economic incapacity of other regions of the world to purchase their massive industrial production.
Conclusion
All organized religions are prone to transpose into very simple narratives what originally constitutes a spiritual understanding of the relations that exist between human life and the cosmos; it´s like the difference between knowing how to play a game and being a passive spectator of it. Such original type of knowledge also goes associated to a set of disciplines, habits and community rituals that allow providing meaning to human existence amid the conditions that characterize a given time. And in the case of environmentalism and the ecological movements that proliferated in urban-industrial societies in the 20th century, the religion of climatism formerly addressed isn´t but an extremely poor reflection of an archaic human sensitivity about mother earth that in our times serves the machines of war and global totalitarianism. This archaic human sensitivity about mother earth is even primordial to the many ecological and environmental movements (Greenpeace, etc.) that popped up in the 20th century.
Even if CO2 has very poor influence in climate change and is a major driver of vegetation thriving (as exposed in Climate the Movie: The Cold Truth) this doesn´t mean that mother earth isn´t extremely sick and polluted due to the wastes of industrial overproduction. Before prolonging the inevitable agony for all forms of diverse life on earth, it´s now time to focus on the cultural causes of the earth unbalances which are underlying all the smoke and mirrors of climatism.
At the root of today´s global ecological crisis and the planetary addiction to “smoking” there´s a profound trauma, a civilizational trauma that has been largely undiagnosed and that occurred during the infancy stages of techno-industrial development in the West, during the 17th century, now affecting all worldwide societies… Urban-industrial societies that proliferated in the West after the advent of modern science, materialism and individualism became societies “orphan” of something as simple as an answer, this is, an answer to the following questions: What´s the goal of the exploitation of nature by techno-science?... What´s the meaning of material wealth and economic growth?... Economists would very likely answer that economic growth is one of the fundamental dynamics of the modern financial systems, that growth is unquestionable, and they´d also very probably claim that nobody wants to risk the financial consequences of a declining G.D.P. This economic optics on material growth is technically correct, yet it would also be insightful to consider the existence of a cosmological vision on material growth; this cosmological vision prevailed in pre-industrial times, and it´s deeply embedded in traditional, operative and sacred forms of architecture (i.e. Gothic) in which material production is qualitatively developed towards a creation that artistically encompasses a religious meaning to human life in the cosmos. Surprisingly enough, today is still lacking a cosmological vision on material growth, at a planetary scale, mostly due to the crevice opened by modern science during the 17th century between the cosmological and the materialistic visions of nature, as excellently exposed by Iranian philosopher and theologian, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, who wrote: “Cosmology is a science dealing with all orders of formal reality, of which the material order is but one aspect” (Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Man and Nature. The Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1990.p. 22). Nasr mostly deals with Eastern contexts in his work, yet in the West the rupture between both domains is well exemplified in the novel `New Atlantis´, in which English philosopher and statesman, Francis Bacon (1561-1626) reduces the cosmos to sociopolitical organization and presents a utopian meaning to the power gained by techno-science upon nature; a vision of the future where humanity materially benefits from such power and is ruled by a technocratic secret society called “The House of Salomon’s Temple”. Bacon´s `New Atlantis´ was the key inspiration for the foundation of the Royal Society of London in 1660, and the socio-political ideal of future humanity it presents is defined by the scientific paradigms of his French contemporary Renè Descartes (1596-1650), who dismissed all divine, cosmological and religious power upon nature and provided a method of inquiry –the scientific method- that would allow humanity be “the masters and possessors of nature”. In a nutshell, both Bacon´s as Descartes´ understanding of scientific knowledge resembles that of a zoologist who believes he can gain power and knowledge of a tiger by restricting the wild animal´s degrees of freedom and having it in the closed conditions of a zoo for experimental trials. And yet this understanding of nature that characterises modern science presents a very decisive nuance that has passed very much overlooked until our days, even in the field of epistemology… If we place the caged tiger in a given experiment we shall exclusively observe the reactions of the animal to the specific assumptions implicit in the design of the experiment, and yet the conditions imposed by experiments aren’t the same as those imposed by the congenial territory of the tiger amid wilderness. Or by putting it plainly: Who knows more about a tiger´s behaviour, a scientist in the lab or a hunter of tigers in the wild?... Also, in the case of Francis Bacon´s “human zoo” in `New Atlantis´, it wouldn´t be precise to affirm that we can fully know the personality of the human beings who live in such utopian society, but only know those aspects of their personality and character that respond to the specific stimulus present in such sociopolitical experiment. In a similar way, in the advent of urban-industrial societies in England during the 18th century, an exodus of human beings took place towards cities like London where stimulus of all kinds were radically different than in rural and agrarian zones, and therefore personal development and self-knowledge were highly constricted in such populations to the specific range of such stimulus.
In terms of diagnosing the cultural causes of the ecological crisis, it´s worth taking into account that myth and legend can excellently come here to the rescue and grant considerable insight... The term “myth” is often employed today as a synonym of “lie” or “hoax”, yet as American scholar Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) constantly reiterated in his work, a myth has the potential to raise our imagination towards integral visions that highly transcend the limits imposed by the sociocultural values that govern a given time. In this regard, it´s not too outlandish to affirm that myths can serve as “time-machines” that facilitate the access of our minds to the original causes of the events taking place today, by firstly taking into account –from a historiographical viewpoint- that countless critical events have occurred in the past of humanity which haven´t been written down in any Historical documentation nor have left behind any archaeological evidence. And the fact that modern urban-industrial societies release a massive amount of pollution to the biosphere that cannot be recycled by the natural processes of mother earth is because such type of societies produce a massive surplus of waste, or strictly speaking, such societies are essentially wastelands… In Celtic and pre-Christian myth there are many accounts of wastelands, and the common theme in these accounts is that the unbalances that emerge between humans and the land (which induce desolation, famines, sterility, scarcity of water, plagues, etc.) are all the result of a curse that follows the subversion of a regal-sacred organization of human society upon the land. For instance, in Irish mythology it´s the revolt of the Firbolgs against the divine dynasty of the Tuatha Dé Danann; in the Eastern Alexander saga it´s caused by the revolt of the hordes of Gog and Magog; in the French Grail literature it´s caused by the wound suffered by the Fisher King, a ´dolorous stroke´ motivated by his unworthiness as a king, impeding the land regenerate until the restoring Grail hero lifts the curse. These wasteland myths commonly suggest that illegitimate modes of human organization are followed by a radical withdrawal of the land´s waste-recycling capacity. So by taking into account the insights provided by the former myths, it´s worth hypothesizing that the ecological crisis of our times is the effect of a subversion of values operating in urban-industrial societies, and that very likely the solution to this crisis will not rely primordially on any technological fix but on a radical renewal of societal organization that again lauds courage and wisdom, as the fundamental virtues that guide human action.
This is the essential problem. At the end of the day, Zeus always defeats the titan Prometheus.
