VIRTUE SIGNALLING

ONE. VIRTUE SIGNALLING FROM NATIONS INVOLVED IN DE-INDUSTRIALISATION

I will be doing a whole series, probably in the area of 30 or so, of articles on the “Green Environment” from a scientific perspective.

Many western countries and their political leaders have jumped on the wagon, a roller coaster ride intent on saving the planet at all costs,without any broad scientific understanding, It is either ignorance or intentional manipulation of society as a whole. That is the subject of another article.

Countries have effectively involved themselves with DE-INDUSTRIALISATION as one process to reduce their countries carbon production. What this fundamentally boils down to is countries will impose prohibitive regulatory control over numerous (maybe all) industries. Firstly requirements will be put in place in terms of requiring any manufacturing process to limit carbon production, accomplished by the addition of expensive secondary processes designed to capture the carbon. Then a country will then impose a carbon tax on corporations that produce any carbon and effectively penalize them for doing so. Just look at two industries like the coal and gasoline industry which have have been decapitated in North America. So ultimately an industry stops investing locally and switches to off shore manufacturing, where there is limited regulations and is much cheaper to produce items. It still ends up being cheaper although there is greatly increased shipping costs. Countries then have less and less manufacturing going on. So now there is less carbon production. Politicians can go to these lavish environmental summits and proclaim to the world, “Look, we have reduced our carbon production, see, we are saving the planet”. This is so myopic, arrogant and condescending.

So this is what politicians have done. They have destroyed industries, lost huge numbers of well payed manufacturing and engineering jobs, changed a country into a consumer based society, reduced the standard of living, and made itself totally dependant on an external supplier which exclusively appears to be China influencing it's domain over the West. So if the carbon reduction was true would it still be worth it? But it's not true, is it. This approach would only work if we actually stopped consuming, and we haven't. So now we have pushed industry out of our countries and instead manufacturing is being done in China and a few other countries instead. China gets a huge amount of its power, what you need for industry, from coal plants. China has over 1,100 coal power plants presently and is planning to build another 50 just next year. Also they dont care too much about carbon production in any part of their society. So instead of having manufacturing going on in our own more controlled environment we are complicit in moving it to locations where regulations are minimal. The cargo ship transportation industry has grown considerably to service this, consuming huge amounts of diesel fuel and producing even more carbon. So thats the end result. We can proudly say that we did our bit for the planet. Australia for example, wants to receive praise for closing down a few coal power plants but then is sending vast amounts of coal to fed China's demand.

Two points to finish on.

Unless you have absolutely every nation on-board with an approach, the approach is doomed to failure while causing huge fracturing of Western nations societies and economies.

The somewhat trivial reductions that the West makes are totally swamped by the increases that certain countries and third world locations are causing by the simple math of POPULATION increase.