An example of how in this Pontificate the real problems besetting the Church are ignored, while completely made up menaces, like the “climate crisis”, absorb the time and energies of the Vatican. CS Lewis put it well:
The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under.
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
I will say it again: if the Pope and his clerics really believed in anthropogenic global warming that they now call climate change, then they would advocate for full scale conversion of our energy infrastructure to using nuclear to (1) generate electricity for the grid, (2) propel merchant and passenger ships across the ocean (if the US Navy can do it, then so can commercial shipping), (3) produce hydrogen to displace petrochemicals in fueling cars, trucks, and jets, and (4) electrify the railroads with nuclear-generated power for locomotives instead of using diesel fuel.
Now I don’t believe in the fiction of anthropogenic global warming. But fossil fuel combustion does pollute and nuclear doesn’t. In fact, nuclear has the lowest mortality rate of any form of energy:
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/10/new-nuclear-power-is-preventing-at-least-50000-deaths-per-year-from-more-coal-plants.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/06/update-of-death-per-terawatt-hour-by.html
Furthermore, replacing fossil fuels with so-called renewables won’t work because of the abysmally poor capacity factor of renewables (no sunlight at night and on cloudy days, no wind on windless days, etc.), not to mention the environmental devastation of taking up vast amounts of aerable land area for installation of solar arrays and wind turbines.
So my solution is simple: (1) No government funding for any source of energy. (2) Level the regulatory playing field –> no one gets to dump his pollution willy-nilly into the environment, whether nuclear or fossil. (3) Stop the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s strangulation of nuclear – streamline new nuclear licensing (in other words, get rid of the anti-nuclear activitist in the Commission and appoint REAL nuclear engineers, not lawyers – sorry, Donald) (4) Let the free market work. I predict that nuclear would win hands down.
Another thing: no Pope has ANY authority or charism to comment on environmental and energy policy. The Pope’s job is the salvation of souls, period, NOT social justice, NOT environmental regulations, NOT energy programs. And he demonstrably is NOT doing his job. And he doesn’t give one iota about human life because if he did, then he would support the form of energy that has the LOWEST mortality rate. Let’s put that in perspective:
No electricity kills.
Coal kills, but less than no electricity.
Oil kills, but less than coal.
Gas kills, but less than oil.
Solar and wind kill, but less than gas.
Nuclear kills, but less than solar and wind.
I am sure I preaching to the choir.
LQC,
Don’t try to use logic. Those that advocate for the current climate thing don’t know what a woman is.
Like most of our oppressors, they project.
Conversion to JV energy sources on false ideology is catering to greenie special interest and the resulting lack of power and the retooling costs cause price increases of *everything* that harm the weakest.
Boy, one gets tired of the unscientific science and the expertocracy!
*SIGH*
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