“I don’t know if it’s just age, or adrenal fatigue, or what, but I just don’t care about any of the stuff I’m supposed to be panicked about. It’s just relentless, every damn day, and I give up.”
My old pal Jim Treacher is experiencing “outrage fatigue.” I’ve had bouts of the condition myself from time to time. It’s an occupational hazard when writing about politics.
But Jim is referring to the constant drumbeat from climate alarmists that we have to de-industrialize in order to survive. Of course, they don’t say that out loud. Any candidate who said that would get clobbered in any election.
But it’s their goal. Take us back to the Stone Age where we can live in caves and barter mouse meat for luxuries like ballpoint pens and knitting needles. Then we can save the planet.
Stan Cox of The Land Institute tries to make a case for swearing off air conditioning in the New York Times. Cox claims that AC is making our summers hotter because of all that hot air that’s blowing out onto city streets. He says it raises the temperature three or four degrees. And, of course, the greenhouse gases, blah blah blah.
But Cox takes a truly novel approach to saving…
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