“Net-Zero Tyranny”

The war in Iran has sent oil markets — and thus gas and diesel prices — out of control.

The Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes, is effectively closed to shipping. Even if ships were inclined to make a run for it, their insurance companies have already cancelled their war coverage policies, making crossing impossible in more ways than one.

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The world has spent $16 trillion fighting climate change with little to show for it

The premier defector from, and debunker of, the “Green Terror,” which holds that climate change is an existential challenge to the continuation of life on earth, is probably Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and former director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute. He has been a prominent climate change skeptic for years, and has roiled the waters by pointing out the mistaken warnings of climate alarmists. Many of them predicted the onset of unlivable circumstances in much of the world long before now, as a result of unrestrained carbon use.

Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.

And for what?

Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.

Across the West, working people are pushing back against the End Times environmentalism of the ruling class.

When the history of our times comes to be written, it’s possible the date of 17 November 2018 will feature prominently. For two extraordinary events rocked Europe that Saturday. Two of our most populous cities – London and Paris – were shaken by vast gatherings of citizens making noisy demands of their ruling classes. And the demands could not have been more different. One side wanted nothing less than to drag society back into the benighted hell of pre-modern, pre-industrial existence. The other demanded the right to drive and work and live well, free from the onerous eco-rules of the elites. This cross-Channel clash of moral visions may well have been the first battle in the war of the vibe shift.