I’m a Brit and over here its kind of funny to see American’s who Prep. Prep for alien invasion, prep for zombie outbreak, prep for Government oppression. It always seems to be slightly mad people who react this way, but just recently… maybe the last few years… I’ve followed the climate crisis in the news and tried to pick it apart.
It seems to me the fossil fuel/energy companies are gaslighting people, astroturfing just as the tobacco companies did in the past. We’ve had all this time (decades in fact) to transition. To adapt. Now we get this watered down deal that will see nothing really change.
So for me its time to store dry foods, toiletries, rainwater. Whatever I can afford. I will be secretly supplementing my electric with a small solar array I have bought with my overtime. Nothing massive, just 640w (two renogy panels as they have good reviews), and a small g99 inverter. The panels are hidden out back in a garden with the cable connected to grid via a long cable and into a switched inlet. I also have two friends who are doing the same as we’ve saved 5% of the cost buying together.
Things are already hard here. The last thing we need is for another load of panics but long term. People are already making their way here from other countries as their own are too dangerous, or their crops are failing. Imagine what it will be like when things get worse. We need to do our own thing now.
The people here think China is building 40 coal plants a week due to the media. Thats their excuse to “stop trying to fix the problems” but in reality it just means we should do more. In fact people have written articles about how we could export energy quite cheaply and undercut the oil and gas, and the French nuclear.
America could have had a green industrial revolution and been the world leader in manufacturing renewable energy equipment from hydro generators to wind turbines to solar panels.
But half our country thinks it isn’t real so we willingly let China start doing laps around us which will put them at the top of the global economy for the next 100 years.
Energy and fossil firms had evidence for climate change back in the 70s. Documents have been leaked for years but they’ve gaslit people for so long it didnt have any effect.
The scientific community has been screaming about it the whole time. The fossil fuel industry has a hell of a propoganda arm but idk if I’d call it gaslighting, it’s pretty easy to sell people on the message of “everythings fine and you deffinitly should not feel bad or even think about your consumption”
It’s not like people are unaware of the concept half the country just decided it wasn’t real because that would be inconvenient and another giant chunk acknowledges it but gets mad if anybody suggests they do anything about it.
Meanwhile in germany…
Yep https://www.power-technology.com/news/germany-to-keep-coal-as-power-source-this-winter/ That or Russian gas. Both pretty bad. They need more nuclear.