London Blackout, Climate Hungerstike, Biden Gaffes

London Blackout

The formerly British city of London, as well as much of Southeast England. suffered a significant power outage, caused by a shortage of generation on the national network. The incident struck during the evening rush hour, leaving commuters stranded all over the city as the electric trains sat inoperable.

London and New York, the two major cities of the western world, have both suffered recent power shortages. I'd expect the next two major metro areas - Paris and Los Angeles - to make similar news within the next couple years. Both are located in political districts with vowed devotion to green energy.

Will the response to the London outage be to build even more windmills? Interestingly, Michael Moore has come out with a new documentary highlighting the failures of green energy initiatives to achieve objectives. He's noticed a small sliver of our more general observation that liberal policies always have the effect of worsening whatever problem they're trying to solve. Often that works out in our favor - whenever the objectives are wrong as well. Increasing carbon dioxide leads to a greener planet more capable of supporting life, with negligible greenhouse effect. Thus, green movements to reduce carbon outputs actually increase carbon outputs, which is good. Hopefully Moore's movie doesn't gain too much traction. With the left, it's often better to have them fully deranged rather than half-deranged, so they cancel themselves out.

Carbon Hungerstrike

In a similar vein, a 19-year-old college student from UCSD has ended his 10-day hunger strike against climate change in the imperial capital. While I appreciate his exercise in impulse control - a rare trait these days for his age & ideological bracket, I have to question his level of commitment to saving the planet from impending doom. To really show support for saving Mother Earth requires a hunger strike of at least 30 days. 😉

It's nice to see a leftist actually doing their part to contribute to a change they want to see. All of the carbon we humans exhale comes from food. Large carbon molecules are broken up by our metabolism, and the leftover carbon joins the oxygen molecules we inhale to be exhaled as carbon dioxide. Thus, by strictly reducing his food intake, he was actually reducing his own carbon footprint. Good for him. Of course, those carbon savings were completely swamped by what was generated by his cross-continental trip from San Diego to Washington to engage in the political action. Still, there is clearly a potential benefit to be had here. All global warming activists should be put on strict diets and travel restrictions to reduce their personal carbon footprints. Any environmentalist consuming more than 1200 calories per day should be shunned by the more dedicated activists. We could even set up some camps where they could be monitored 24/7, to prove their loyalty to the cause of saving planet Earth from certain doom.

Biden Gaffes

Joe Biden is now spewing gaffes faster than anyone can even keep up with them. One juicy example was utterly racist, equating white kids as rich, and nonwhite kids as poor. He also said he supports "truth over facts." Actually, we can't tell if that one was a gaffe or an intentional statement, as it does sum up his party platform pretty well. When asked who his favorite non-President American historical figure was, he responded with Jefferson and JFK. Has Biden always been this stupid, or is age catching up with him? What's clear is that if Trump was exhibiting such racism and ignorance, the national media would be dedicating 24-hour coverage to it. Biden, of course, gets protected. Their protection of Hillary Clinton didn't pan out. It'll be interesting to see how much pull the mainstream media actually has, at this point.