Has anybody picked up on podcasts capitalizing on the energy crisis?
The funnel seems to start with nuclear energy/anti-renewable to pick up the usual chronically online contrarian and before you know there is varying degrees of climate denial from "Bjørn Lomborg environmentalism" to total denial with the grubby "Net Zero Watch" as regular guests.
The funniest I have heard was some substack dipshit "doomberg" talk about how Liz Truss is the only European leader who "gets it" in the middle of the summer to the pretentious host of "Decouple" Chris Kiefer. Kiefer who can't goes five minutes without a rant about "Rube Goldberg Machines" of renewable heavy grids, "Putins illegal invasion" or Chinese forced labour camps in Xinjiang.
Most entertaining and most worrying frequent guest of Decouple, Nuclear Barbarians or the Power Hungry hour might be Mark Nelson who is an charismatic advocate for nuclear energy. There is something very satisfying listening to him shit on the UK and Germany but also spits out alt-right nonsense like "hard times hard men soft times soft men hard times".
It is notoriously hard to fact check podcasts and most listeners won't bother. Profiteering and economic warfare are harem as significant causes of the problems we face and like many other podcasts I have heard there is this lib/con daydream about some sort of a clean break from China and Russia in a new cold war.
Somewhere between this and "half-earth socialism" utopian-ism, I sure most on this site acknowledge there are basic material realities like that nuclear fission is still the best out of a collection of bad options when it comes to use land use and rare metal consumption. That strong global supply chains are essential and that the last thing we should be thinking of is war.
I have probably just come about a weird neolib hold out.
Reducing consumption is key but it has to be done really carefully to stop Eco-fascism or Eco-colonisalism from being palatable for the treats.
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