Running out of resources on planet Earth?

The odd thing about all this climate change nonsense is that the Guardianista always dribble on about 'Fuel Poverty' but seem to forget that not being able to afford to heat your home has quite a lot to do with the cost of the fuel including electric.

Pushing up the cost of it by 50% to subsidise windmills and nuclear and then bleating about how people can't aford to heat their homes and demanding even more benefits so people can aford to pay their fuel bill is just the sort of circular logic of insanity that the political left are famous for.

However as Claig rightly points out, the irony is that there are plenty of 'men in suits' on the right who are sat there rubbing their hands with glee at the huge slosh of guaranteed public money this climate change agenda brings with it.

Corporations love socialism - it means less competition and guaranteed profits negotiated directly with stupid politicians who havent got a clue and love spending other people's money. Big corporations thrive under socialism and small ones and private individuals are locked out of the market place.

This system is called 'Corporatism' and is pretty close to 'Communism' and a long way fron Capitalism. Ordinary people dont do well under either Corparatism or Communism where a powerful elite of business and political interests (often the same people) get svery rich indeed.

To whom is taxpayer money paid to subsidise windmills on rich landowners' land? Is it the public with their badges, banners and slogans and their ever increasing fuel and water bills, or is it the landed aristocracy and rich elite?

Who sets the climate legislation and targets? Who runs the target culture? It is the EU in their suits, not the eager, youthful, naive climate campaigners with their badges and banners displayed on the public's TV screens.

Who benefits from the target culture? Is it the public or the men in suits?

'The green lobby are ruining this country'

But who are the green lobby in reality? It's not those loveable well-meaning hand-wringing Guardianistas in woolly jumpers and sandals with their placards on the 'biosphere' and 'saving the planet'. They are only the dupes and puppets used to try to convince the public. The real green lobby is the men in suits who pull the strings and keep the show on the road.

We are NOT running out of resources!

I am sat here practically chewing my hand of with rage this morning at the insanity of what the UK is about to do with regard to nuclear power.

The UK is about to commit itself to a 35 year long term contract to buy electricty at a guaranteed price from a new fleet of nuclear power stations built by EDF (Electricite de France) but get this!

We are about to guarantee them a price of likely to be £96 - 97 per megawatt hour.

The current 1 Year Forward price to buy electric on the wholesale market in the UK is £60/MWh.

So we the residential customer will be paying at least 50% more for electric just to meet our stupid climate change targets. Believe me, industry/commercial users will refuse to pay it and will get special deals and we the residential customer will pay for the whole lot. The green lobby are ruining this country and the Coalition Govt have just signed up to a deal which will make us all a lot worse off.

Natural gas is ubiquitous on the planet. Constantly being renewed by rotting vegetation, we could even produce it from digestion of sewage. We have fantastic combined cylce gas turbine technology to generate electric cleanly from natural gas which is almost 60% thermal efficient and proven technology that has no danger of accidents like nuclear. Natural gas is incredibly cheap and yet we go and agree to build stupidly expensive nuclear power stations (and wind turbines).

Utter, utter madness.

Helium? Non-flammable inert gas best known for its properties at extremely low temperatures?

I think you've just summarised your understanding of the scientific issues rather neatly there claig.

Forgive me, am I right in thinking that there is more than enough helium generated by one single Guardian editorial to keep the lights and fires burning throughout the land for a whole year?

I have faith in the human race. Resource depletion is not a bad thing. I am sure we will find other ways or other resources to meet our needs. As long as its not exploitative, I am all for finding or making new resources. Solar energy, case in point.

And there was another article in the Guardian a few Sundays ago, on how a farmer in India, increased his rice yields dramatically, using just traditional methods of farming. Its not all doom and gloom.

Which resources are we supposed to be running out of? The only one I can think of is helium. All the others are accessible but at higher cost.

They talk of 'tipping points' and 'saving the planet', they say they want to end the 'burden on the biosphere', the spinners spend days and days thinking up big words to stoke up fear. Cataclysmic, catastrophic, depletion - there is no end to their alarmist threats of danger to the biosphere.

They erect windmills on unspoilt greenbelt land and then charge the public to subsidise these ivory towers as they charge at them, screaming "save the biosphere", like Don Quixote of yesteryear, But the public, long in tooth and aware of the truth, is like Roadrunner to their Don Quixote, always a step ahead of Wile E. Coyote.

'which promise to change our way of life out of recognition'

That is the aim of the scare stories that the planners propagate.

Don't read articles by a well-meaning but duped Loz in that magazine, read instead Christopher Booker in the Daily Telegraph.

Of course, the spinners, the think tanks, the elites and their puppets will deride him, but one day he will be hailed as a hero when their house of cards comes crumbling down and the public is told the truth.

This is from today's Sunday Telegraph online

' One reason why it is so vital for us to understand this, of course, has been all those devastating political responses to this fear, which promise to change our way of life out of recognition.'

'Yet it was on that modest rise in the 1980s and 1990s that the whole of the greatest and most expensive scare in history was launched on its way, with all the terrifying political and economic consequences we see around us today.'

www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/9919121/Look-at-the-graph-to-see-the-evidence-of-global-warming.html

As actor Ray Winstone said the other day, they are shutting hospitals and fire stations saying there is no money while they spent billions on the Olympics. They are imposing austerity here while spending billions on foreign aid abroad, and even some Tory MPs are starting to ask why.

80 years ago the fog in London was so thick due to poor air quality that people couldn't see inches ahead of them. Thoise days are gone. Don't believe their tales of doom and gloom and depletion as they increase charges and costs and cut wages and benefits. As Thin Lizzy sang long ago - don't believe a word.

We had record rainfall last year with the wettest year for about 100 years. Today there is flooding in certain areas of the country and more snow. There is no drought here as teh global warmers sometimes cry. Lots of the water is wasted through leaking pipes.

They will increase and increase water charges and energy charges while crying shortage, but there is no shortage of water. With investment they can store and allocate and transport water. But abundance of water will lower the price and charges to the customer.

Remember the words of that Thin Lizzy song - Don't Believe a word, cos words can tell lies ...

You've been spun for political purposes by elite think tanks and planners who have a plan for you and your standard of living. It looks like the author of the article, Loz, has fallen for the trap.

www.pop.org/content/myth-of-world-food-shortages-1539

www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/29/the-myth-of-peak-oil/

resource depletion myth

er.... I think the answer to your questions is:
yes
nothing
no

It's a bloody sad situation but as one individual I don't have any viable answers. I think it will take a crisis or a whole set of them to change things and by then it might be too late.