PhD Thesis On Berg’s Seventh Law
By Mitch Berg
Remember during the oil boom in North Dakota?
When the Strib and every prog pundit with a blog was patronizingly intoning how dangerous all that unseemly oil money was going to be for all the hayseeds out on the prairie? When our cultural elites prowled the prairie looking for the evil that lies at the intersection of rural, Christian and suddenly prosperous?
The boom has moved on.
Progressives have not. Whenever they see new energy, and new money, they are there to whiz in the cereal.
But someone, gloriously, pushed back. This is Ibraham Ali, President of Guyana (via Powerline). And he is not amused by a BBC hack’s by-the-woke-numbers first-world nattering:
I saw this mere moments after I read this piece below – Musa Al Garbi’s observations about the endemic racism of upper-middle-class honkies in Manhattan.
It’s not just Manhattan, and it’s not just race.
April 1st, 2024 at 11:31 am
Per what the PM of Guyana noted, I’d love to see an estimate of how much carbon would be sequestered if we ended maize subsidies. Plowing releases a tremendous amount of carbon into the air as the oxygen causes organic matter to decompose, and broadleafs like alfalfa and timothy have root systems that go not six inches into the ground, but thirty feet. Friend of mine went to “low till” and quickly noticed that his land was absorbing a lot more water than his neighbor’s, along the same lines.
April 1st, 2024 at 12:06 pm
He did a fine job rebutting the Climate Change argument using their own terms. I think that’s a mistake. It allows them to set the playing ground and the rules
I wish he had taken a different approach: deny the premise. “Guyana has oil to sell and we need the money. You want Guyana to decline to sell our oil because you believe the buyer will burn the oil to make electricity which releases carbon into the atmosphere and contributes to global warming which will kill the planet. I do not belong to your religion. Yes, I said religion. You believe in global warming despite the shenanigans with temperature readings and the complete failure of computer models to match existing conditions. Your faith is no less than any Islamic fundamentalist jihadi wanting to force behavior on others but I cannot make public policy based on your religion. I must do what’s best for the people of Guyana and we need the money that selling oil will bring. I will offer you a compromise. If you don’t want us to sell to people who will burn the oil, you buy it and don’t burn it. We get the money, you save the planet, it’s a win-win. What do you say?”
April 1st, 2024 at 2:49 pm
^ I agree, big guy. I had the same notion.
PS it’s interesting nowadays how religious-extremist nutcases like that BBC “journalist” can appear so civilized and rational before they start talking.
April 2nd, 2024 at 12:38 am
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April 2nd, 2024 at 11:59 am
See also the book ‘Troubled’ by Rob Henderson. I was talking about luxury beliefs before Rob!!!!! But glad to see its getting more attention now with this book.