Environment & Energy

"Conservation" works well if you're rich - Amory lives in a swell aerie just outside of Aspen in Snowmass (which you can tour for a fee) - not so well when you're poor, since you have little to conserve.

I'm an old school Democrat. Poverty means something to me. Raising the price of energy can do two things; lead to further deprivation of those who can least afford it, and/or place higher burdens of exposure on those who suffer to provide things like coal, and in the so called "renewable energy" space, metals.

Relevant to the second case:

Elements of Power, A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

My son spent a summer in China two years ago. It's battery heaven, which is why the Chinese presence in Katanga is so prominent. The miners in Katanga are not living it up; their suffering is epic.

This is a rather glib posting; the operative point is restarting coal plants, which is what Germany did and is doing after their 20 year history of funding Putin backfired.

War is not a good thing for inspiring people toward "conservation" and embracing popular fantasies about what is and what is not "green." War is a tragedy in which people are murdered for manufactured and dishonest reasons.