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Blog #14 Choo Choo Peanut Butter!!!
Advanced Release Jan 29, 2023.
Choo Choo Peanut Butter!!!
Around the world, after hurricanes, flooding, fires and devastating droughts, communities come together with abundant Heart & Soul like you would never have thought possible. Many of these events are directly connected to our changing climate. There are few climate change deniers left, but also few people in positions of power who are willing to enact the changes necessary to make a difference!
Most politicians everywhere remain committed to economic growth at all cost. The Climate Change Emergency has morphed into an Energy Security issue .. that’s the direction …secure the fossil fuel energy to keep the economy going long enough for new technology to bend the GHG emissions curve downward. Even our Canadian PM has mused that the rebates given by the Canadian Federal Government to install electric heat pumps will allow Canada to produce more oil and still meet the 2030 Net Zero GHG emissions target.
There isn’t an ounce of evidence to support this. Carbon Capture technology is unproven and the internet is consuming more energy each year with 5G now here and 6G and 7G on the way; and Artificial Intelligence certain to displace millions of jobs everywhere and make obsolete our antiquated education system of bricks and mortar, while using much more energy not less. US President Joe Biden’s upcoming State of the Union speech to the US Congress can be drafted by AI within 98% accuracy even with the pauses for applause from the Democrats and the boos from the Republicans. …it’s no joke as President Biden would say!
There is no point in trying to deny the technological future that is ahead, any more than lying down on the tracks in front of the First Industrial Revolution steam engine driven by coal…my beautiful father, a barber, regularly sang the Choo Choo Peanut Butter song to me and his customers and taught me that lesson years ago. Use some more energy and look it up on the internet to get it exactly right… but my father’s version went like this …Little peanut sitting on a railroad track, heart all a flutter.., along came a Choo Choo Train…. Choo Choo peanut butter!!!
So the technological future often referred to as the Third Industrial Revolution or the Internet of Things (IoT ) is approaching at lightning speed with no idea on how to source the rising amount of energy required to drive it…Choo Choo Peanut Butter to the millions of jobs to be replaced by AI.
The Climate Crisis has always been an energy transition problem and the world’s population is no longer only divided by ethnicity and where you were born, but more importantly your access to cheap energy. And in the 21st century, we are running out of fossil fuels exactly at the time when all of the new technology we wish to embrace requires much more.
There may not be time in this century to bridge our civilization to a new energy regime before Gaia changes its steady state and makes our oasis much less inhabitable for humans.
Fred Irwin
NOW IS THE TIME !
www.fredirwinauthor.com