Revolution Watch----How is it Going?

Every now and then it is time to take stock on how the sustainable revolution is going. It is a chance to see how various tree huggers, eco-terrorists, bed-wetting liberals  and efficiency gurus are doing. While there are many folks interested in getting "real" with the way we live our lives, knowing we have to down-size, scale back and live within our environmental means, I'm not sure how it is going. Really, the "The Concerned" are all very well meaning and they are, of course, entirely correct in their position---in truth many of them are too soft, to interested in maintaining business as usual just in an falsely imagined sustainable way.

It is now obvious  the world is indeed warming. By all accounts this is not good. Yes, some 95% of all competent scientist have confirmed that---as well as the fact that it is anthropogenic. Yup, we are the ones doing it. This information has been known for many years really and even G.W. Bushster said it was getting warmer and he didn't "do" science.

So with all the talk of the enviros like McKibben, just how is it going-----this high priority? Here are a few graphs from competent sources and they point to a rather dismal success rate---Oh, ya, there is no success. If it was a football game the score would be 200 to nothing with the concerned citizens slapped about and the corporate/government team happy as vultures on a fresh gut pile. Looks like we need to pay for some better players, some really big mean mothers. Is there a salary cap on the enviro team?Oh shit, they don't have any money. Maybe helicopter Ben could send them some fresh notes, maybe part of the 85 billion he is printing every month.

The above graph shows that the USA is reducing coal consumption. Looks real nice and we are definitely all puffed up like a toad under a street light thinking we are making a difference. Unfortunately, it is seldom mentioned that all of the industry that produces "stuff" for us is now being done in China. So we have simply moved our coal burning off to the west---probably forgetting all that CO2 from them will affect our lives. We just farmed out the pollution. Truth is, many other developing countries are also burning more coal as well. Damn, just can't seem to gain on that one. Has something to do with globalization, me thinks.

Well, maybe we are using less oil. Same picture. That graph is going up. The only good possibility here is that geologically, or maybe financially, this line will flatten soon and have to go down because of depletion. But then, that will give us more opportunity to burn coal---and natural gas. The alternative sources hardly make a mark on the graph for some reason.

So how is the CO2 emissions going. Jesus, look at the upward slope. This revolution is not doing real well. Must be that the folks with the vision are not in power, or there are too few of them, or both, or nobody really gives a damn, or there are really a lot of stupid people---there are really a lot of people, like 80 million more every year.

It is really tough to have a revolution now days. Are we spending too much time looking at screens? Are those things opiates? I was looking for more progress in this quarter. I guess it is time to buy some more natural gas stocks and settle for money because a quality sustainable life seems of no value.