The miserable misanthropes and neo-Marxists reckon that fossil fuels are an evil to be driven back to the depths from whence they came. Except, of course, when it comes to their own selfish energy needs.

Spend a week gathering dung and twigs to cook meals over a smoky fire in an unlit hut, and you’ll soon be screaming for fossil fuels.

A propane-burning stove soon eliminates the smoke, soot and particulates that cause lung disease and more.

Cheap and reliable electricity is better still. For development economists, it’s seen as the catalyst for modernity, paving the way for the mechanization and industrialisation that allows the impoverished to escape the daily drudgery and misery of a life without reliable energy.

As Alex Epstein explains below, human existence would be all the poorer without the benefits of fossil fuels.

Earth Day truth: Fossil fuels make Earth BETTER
Substack
Alex Epstein
23 April…

By Jarrett Stepman ~

The Biden administration didn’t create a Ministry of Truth. We don’t have governmental ministries here in the United States. That’s a British thing. We have departments and boards.

The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it’s putting a “pause” on its new Disinformation Governance Board. The new agency, announced in April, was to operate under the Department of Homeland Security and would be tasked with “countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia.”

President Joe Biden arrives at the White House on Wednesday. The Biden administration has announced a “pause” on its widely ridiculed Disinformation Governance Board. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The administration was unclear about what the role and scope of the disinformation board would be. Would, for example, having the “wrong” opinion soon be considered a national security threat worthy of censorship?

Who knows?

The one thing that’s clear…

Incapable of delivering power as and when we need it, wind and solar are utterly pointless as power sources. But, as a source of insatiable demand for the Planet’s (purportedly) dwindling resources they are first rate.

Wind turbines and solar panels devour scarce resources and provide nothing much in return. Their insatiable mineral demand (and not just the rare stuff) is just another matter that the wind and sun cult couldn’t care less about.

Eric Worrall considers how rapacious renewables are literally stripping the planet of our precious resources.

ABC: Miners Ripping up the Wilderness to Feed the Green Energy Revolution
Watts Up With That?
Eric Worrall
9 May 2022

“Everything is now an emergency” – How can governments which declare climate emergencies refuse applications to extract Lithium and other vital minerals from sensitive wilderness areas?

The rush to renewable energy means a new mining boom. But first, Australia needs…

By Daren Bakst and Rachael Wolpert~

As too many American families know from firsthand experience, there’s a baby formula shortage in the United States.

While some politicians will surely view the situation as “not letting a crisis go to waste,” this is a time for immediate and thoughtful solutions that address the actual problems.

Nine-month-old Olivia Wetzel savors a bottle of formula May 16 in Victor, Idaho. Olivia’s mother, Mollie Wetzel, sourced some baby formula on a community Facebook page, where a mother with extra formula was offering what she no longer needed to anyone in need due to the current shortage. (Photo: Natalie Behring/Getty Images)

There isn’t a magic bullet to address the shortage, but if government at all levels (federal, state, and local) remove harmful government intervention that’s exacerbating the problem, that would go a long way toward solving the problem.

It certainly doesn’t take long to…

By Duggan Flanakin ~

Anticipating the end to Title 42, tens of thousands of cartel coyote customers await their opportunity to fan into the United States from south Texas to California. Many of these will join the estimated 400,000 “getaways” in fiscal 2021 who were not even processed by federal officials to enable them to receive taxpayer funding.

Regardless of one’s opinion of foreigners preferring America to their homeland, the fact is that these “getaways” in particular do major damage to land and water in the Southwest. Ranchers and other landowners, long hard pressed by trespassers invading their private property, now face the twin terrors of higher taxes (to fund the government’s massive migrant support programs) and environmental devastation to their property and to millions of acres of nearby public lands.

In recent months, according to Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe (a 31-year Border Patrol veteran), border crossers have…