When the fossil fuel industry shills lost the debates on temperatures and storms, they countered with fantasies about "molecules and physics." They quickly lost that debate, too. So, now they mumble their own ideology about "globalism and sovereignty."
The climate debate is no longer just CO₂ molecules and physics, it's an ideological struggle between globalism and sovereignty. With trust eroding and no clear change ahead, surely its time to dump the dogma. Net zero increasingly looks less like planetary salvation and more like a globalists Utopia.
The cost of transition from reliable to unreliable energy is staggering; net zero will cost $275 trillion, or $9.2 trillion a year, according to global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company (Net Zero report in 2022). This annual cost estimate has already risen by $3.2 trillion a year. Now the world has reached a new flashpoint, amid US pullbacks from Paris, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and all related commitments. Critics rightly question why the UN mandated wind and solar - which doesn't deliver baseload power. This disastrous oversight just made everything worse. Now without a crisis in sight, the focus is turning to a colossal spending spree driven by evangelists. Nor is there a clear outcome from net zero. Maybe it will be nothing. Is this really a hallmark of globalism, as Donald Trump believes.
However, 82% of the world's primary energy still comes from so-called 'fossil fuels'. But even this terminology is already obsolete in a world where there is nothing clearly able to replace them with. If we need to transition from coal, oil and gas, what happened to small modular reactors? Only in China, apparently.