{"id":1696685,"date":"2022-10-16T06:30:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T10:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696685"},"modified":"2022-10-16T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T20:35:44","slug":"don-ritter-the-real-existential-threat-to-people-and-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-ritter-the-real-existential-threat-to-people-and-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Ritter: The Real \u201cExistential Threat\u201d to People and Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdon-ritter-the-real-existential-threat-to-people-and-planet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696685&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s ironic. The very Biden Administration and European Government policies that are supposed to address the \u201cexistential threat\u201d of climate change are themselves the true existential threat to modern civilization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As someone trained in science and engineering, a lifelong hiker, gardener and lover of nature in the extreme, I want a healthy, sustainable planet as much as anyone promoting the climate change agenda. \u00a0It\u2019s not that \u201cgreen\u201d energy is bad. It\u2019s that the rate of \u201cgoing green,\u201d and the enormous investments required, are wildly disproportionate to society\u2019s energy needs, now and for the foreseeable future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Elon Musk gets it, but most government leadership do not \u2013 or choose to remain silent. \u201cRealistically, <em>civilization will crumble<\/em> if we don\u2019t continue to use oil and gas in the short run,\u201d Musk has said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Civilization crumbling is clearly an \u201cexistential threat.\u201d And this guy sells electric cars! He also recommended \u201ccontinued drilling and exploration for oil and gas,\u201d because he understands that producing and fueling electric vehicles will require substantial fossil fuel electricity generation, for years to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cExistential\u201d issues like war, peace, economic vitality, jobs and living standards all have the same critical driving force: energy \u2013 <em>all forms of energy<\/em>. Energy to transport people and goods, to run farms and provide food, to heat and cool homes, to power manufacturing, and to fuel ships, planes and vehicles for our military. Natural gas is essential for fertilizers to feed a hungry world. Oil and natural gas are the building blocks for plastics, pharmaceuticals, synthetic fibers, paint and thousands of other products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Today, these vital, taken-for-granted benefits come almost entirely from oil, gas and coal. Those who have it will be powerful, those who don\u2019t will not. China and Russia know this well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Europe made a deal with the devil by handing its energy supply to Vladimir Putin and energy-rich Russia \u2013 while crippling its own energy future with anti-fossil-fuel climate change policies. Europe closed its coal, gas and nuclear power plants, while building expensive, less-reliable and weather-dependent solar and wind facilities. Putin\u2019s war on Ukraine couldn\u2019t have happened without his dominance over gas, oil and coal supplies to Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And where is the United States government on energy reality? It\u2019s copying Europe, with vast green energy subsidies and an unrelenting \u201cwhole of government\u201d regulatory war on fossil fuels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">America should be telling an energy-insecure world, \u201cWe will do everything in our power to increase the supply of energy,\u201d in an-all-of-the-above approach: not only fossil fuels and renewables, but nuclear, and hydroelectric power when feasible. Instead, we beg hostile dictatorships \u2013 that pay no attention to human rights or ecological values \u2013 to increase<em>\u00a0their <\/em>production, because we refuse to increase <em>ours. <\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Isn\u2019t that just a little embarrassing? We could be the \u201cgas station for democracy\u201d for the Free World. But our government\u2019s climate change policies stand in the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Simple arithmetic tells the story. Fossil fuels still provide some 80% of the world\u2019s and America\u2019s energy consumption. The rest comes from hydro, nuclear, solar, wind and biomass. In the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s ironic. 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