As a result of western governments’ taking collective action under the auspices of a ‘climate change’ agenda, we are on the cusp of something happening with ramifications that no one has ever seen before.
Western governments’, specifically western Europe, North America (U.S-Canada) and Australia/New Zealand, are intentionally trying to lower economic activity to meet the intentional drop in energy production.
This is the core consequence of the Build Back Better agenda as promoted by the World Economic Forum.
Anyone who says there is a reference point to determine both the short-term and long-term consequences is lying. There is no precedent for nations’ collectively and intentionally trying to reduce economic activity.
Hiding behind the false justification that current inflation is driven by too much demand, central banks in Europe, the Bank of England, Bank of Canada and U.S. federal reserve are raising interest rates. The outcome we are currently feeling is an intentional economic contraction and global recession.
The Build Back Better monetary policy is successfully shrinking western economic activity; however, the impacted nations that produce goods for markets in North America and Europe, specifically southeast Asia, Japan and China, are not raising interest rates in an effort to try and offset the drop in demand. China has announced they are dropping their central bank rates in a desperate effort to lower costs and keep their export dependent economy working.
Underneath all of this, is a drop in energy production in the same nations trying to lower economic activity. The political policymakers are attempting to manage this process without informing the citizens of the unspoken goal. Shortages of oil, coal and natural gas are self-inflicted problems, all part of the BBB agenda.
Beyond the massive increases in energy costs, which is the true source of inflation and a direct/intentional outcome of the BBB effort, Europe is now facing a looming winter without the energy resources to heat homes and sustain people. Things are going to be very uncomfortable in Europe this winter as roaming brownouts are now predicted.
As the collective west attempts to, using their words, “manage the transition,” they do not have mechanisms to control an outcome of this magnitude. It is simply too big a situation to manage. Where the rubber meets the road, the think-tanks and high-minded climate change ideologues do not have the ability to manage a transition and still meet the needs of people. Beyond the esoteric thinking, there are real consequences from these actions.
Many people have discussed the potential for longer-term food shortages and recently, shorter-term winter heating. However, beyond that, the downstream geopolitical consequences are seemingly being ignored. Instead, what we see is an effort to keep pretending the climate change ends will justify the means (disruption of energy production).
In this connected world, when the western nations stop buying things, we find ourselves domestically with economic trouble. Businesses fail, unemployment rises, financial stress ripples throughout the economy, dependency on government subsidy increases and real pain is felt. However, beyond the domestic issues the supplier nations run into even bigger problems.
Unemployment in Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and even China, creates an entirely different set of regional stability issues on a geopolitical level.
There is no precedent for this. Never before in the history of industrialized nations has any government intentionally tried to lower its economic activity. It has never been done with intent before because within the contraction nations get more poor, people suffer.
Not only has no single nation ever tried to intentionally shrink its wealth, but there is no precedent whatsoever for an alliance of nations to join together with the same purpose. While this might seem like an academic economic modeling exercise, unfortunately it is very real. What I am describing is happening right now, and we had better start talking about it before the unforeseen consequences start to become a crisis.
In North America (U.S-Canada), Europe and Australia, there will continue to be massive increases in food prices as a result of the collapse in energy production. Beyond the western nations there will be food shortages as a result of lowered harvest yields and less industrial food production. This is not controversial.
It is also not controversial that regions with harsh winter climates are going to be paying much more for scarce heating resources.
That being accepted, what happens geopolitically, even militarily, when the entire global economy starts to feel the impacts from western nation economic contraction on a scale -created by collective action- that has never been seen before.
I have no idea what that big picture consequence looks like, but whatever “that” is, will be happening at the same time as people everywhere will be more desperate as an outcome of their economic position. I don’t have the answers, but I sure as hell can see the problem coming.
Political leadership in the aforementioned western nations are seemingly, perhaps intentionally, keeping people distracted with domestic shiny things to occupy time. However, someone needs to start talking about, and seriously challenging, the big picture consequence of this Build Back Better future, before it’s too late.
The Netherlands shooting at their own farmers should have been a real wake-up call. Unfortunately it was not.
You will own nothing and be happy.WEF. Destroy the ability to purchase real and personal property, ie, food, clothing shelter. What is left? A supreme power offering to care for you (so long as you stay within the ESQ digital currency central bank parameters).
Force the people into a position where this new outlook becomes more palatable, while obscuring they are the cause of the issues. How many people in europe would be hoodwinked by it?
Apathy.
The real leaders of the left (their real literature) is to destroy humanity with destruction of all that is (destroy all that came before -bbb). Then Utopia will appear. Every Marxist Socialist and Marist Socialist adjacent governance has the same plan. There is no plan – none that explains how they get from complete destruction to Utopia. Utopia means “nowhere” (they love their messaging in plan sight). Read any of their literature from Marx to Marcuse. But you need to read one layer deeper than those morons. Once you do that, they give their real agenda away in very complicated prose. Their goal is the eliminate man completely to save mother GIA. Most commies, freeloaders, Lefties and useful idiots don’t know this. In fact I doubt 99.5% of the population does. This is their leadership’s real plan; not just to get down to 500,000 people. They know there is no green energy solution, climate change is a con, there is no transhumanism, no AI – it is not A nor I (that has been know since 1930s), there is no gene theory because the body (specifically immune system kills Frankenstein genes 100% of the time going back to the 1990s), and everything you have been told is a lie (William Casey CIA Director under Reagan).
Do this one simple mind game, what does a green energy solution look like? You can’t because it is a ludicrous notion and to think the people who can’t make it in the real world (those in government and oligarchs and money changers) are going to accomplish the impossible, and you really have cognitive dissonance.
Hello,
Quite an article. I thought you may like to know that there is a very simple answer to this grave issue. Tyranny is in a very precarious state, but few know it.
There are good ideas out there to resolve the great problems plaguing the world. All one need do is go back and re-examine the old assumptions and conventions, discarding the chaff.
There are two great costs in Taxation, government waste and its deterrent effect, which disappear with full Public Borrowing. More people are beginning to pay attention to what I have been arguing the last 25 years. With the great crash presently in operation, I expect interest in the idea to grow, especially among those nations fighting for their financial lives.
All it takes is one beleaguered nation, state, province, or city to start the ‘Great Reset, and the dominoes shall fall.
A pot of gold rests at the end of the rainbow now congested with aged, obsolete, conventions.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/case-government-borrower-limit-tyranny
The title should have been ‘An End of Tyranny’, but editors.
Regards,
Gary Marshall
Like adults don’t know what’s going on. It’s the indoctrinated minions who are too ignorant to see the truth.
Robert Nelson anticipated this coming apocalypse in his insightful book, “The Holy Wars”, 2011, which recognizes and analyses the basic philosphy of the environmentalists. He shows how it is rooted in the Old Testament of the Bible and a heart-felt desire to return to the days before humanity when the earth was romaticized as a “Garden of Eden”, although conditions were actually not nearly so genteel. They earnestly wish to return much of the earth to “pristine wilderness”. They do include visions of floods and other ecological disasters as if there were an angry God somewhere. What is missing from their religion is any belief in Love, or any sense of purpose at all for humanity.
Clearly they are hoping that they themselves will survive, while the masses of humanity will all die off.
However, it just may not play out quite that way. Some of the rest of us have alternative goals in mind……and the elitist, book-educated, hive-minded liberals are the last ones to prepare for what is clearly coming down the road, so they will NOT be the ones to survive…..
Can’t wait to see the first large-scale disaster traffic jam (e.g., before a hurricane or in a blizzard) involving high % of EVs.
An EV can keep operating in a traffic jam a lot longer than a gasoline vehicle can idle burning fuel. In a blizzard, an EV would keep its occupants warm for over 24 hours with heat from heated seats and moderate electric heating, without producing carbon monoxide. (For example, an EV caught in a blizzard at half-charge of a 60 KWhr battery pack, drawing an average of 1KW, could run for 30 hours.)
Good thing for fossil fuels, the source of the vast majority of EV energy! Wonder what the landfills will be like in 10 years when tens of thousands of 1 ton old EV batteries are deposited, to leak their toxic contents into the soil. Ahhhh! The beauty, harmony and REALITY of EVs! Yay!
Your ignorant comment implies EVs are “clean” and not “burning fuel” while idling like a “gasoline vehicle”.
Please enlighten us on how the pixies make EVs go without any “fuel,” whatsoever, Douglas!
It’s MAGIC!
I am finding many, these days, spouting off the same nonsense that Douglas Hartley is putting forth.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul only works for a brief while before the reality must dawn upon us all, not just a segment of the world’s population.
The aspects of humanity that are dependent upon falsehoods for their survival are in for a shock, though I am certainly not gloating about such impending catastrophe(s).
This is the beginning of the end of much, and our willingness (and ability) to accept lies as truth will surely be dried up.
For those of us that value the Sacred, it will be a welcome change, and one that is made easier by embracing the truth, whenever and wherever it may present itself.
That’s nonsense. We already saw what happened in Virginia this last winter. Plus, people in northern states with lots of snow who bought one of these turkeys are now turning them in.
I grew up on stories of the Great Depression from my parents and grandparents. Plan to help one another. Abandon public and woke schools. Start canning. Use a ham radio. Plan for clean water. Share resources.
And be prepared to barter for needs
Hopefully we can create a parallel economy with schools, medical clinics and every other need. We now know how a government that has become too large uses targetted elimination and re-definition to destroy industries we rely on. We must learn from these last several years. Seeds, efficient irrigation, simple to maintain defenses – the skills of our forebears. This didn’t need to happen, but it has and here we are.
This plan aka Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset is what Trump interrupted. Do you remember HRC’s Russian reset button? The plan was to get Putin to join? He didn’t buy in. Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe.
All talk about Biden, Democrats and their policies is little more than blowing into the wind. Right-thinking people need to ontinue to hold their collective breath and want ’til they are out of office … which – starting with the 2222 election will be soon.
Okay, so … what to do?
First, political action. There are several million people who are ‘commonsense conservatives’ but who are not registered to vote. Between now and November, we ought to be trying to find these people, and get them registered to vote. See: https://Vote.gov
Second, ‘Prepare’, so that you and your family, at a minimum, can stay at home for several weeks, even if the electricity, gas and water are cut off. The goal is not to be forced to go out hunting for necessities in shops that may be empty, or looted, on streets that may be dangerous, breathing air that may be filled with pathogens or radioactive fallout. A few hours and a few hundred dollars can accomplish this. Don’t let the best be the enemy of the good here — something is better than nothing.
Third, Organize: a group of like-minded neighbors that have rehearsed responding to disasters, which can bring together people with different skills, which are in communication with each other (BaoFengs, $20 each), are a hundred times as strong as the same number of isolated individuals. Some former Oathkeepers in Arizona have a lot of free resources available for this, and seem to know what they’re doing (YCPT.org).
No one knows the future, but there is no reason to be surprised by it.