Post #4325484
2026-08-02 08:10 UTC
#climateDiary
☝️“When Carter told Americans the energy shortage was a crisis, the admission was honest and politically fatal. His political successors drew the obvious conclusion, and thus the abundance illusion was born: never admit to scarcity.
Fear may drive policy, but greed is what gets votes. So the template became:
- reassure markets with words and hundreds of millions of barrels from strategic reserves
- and hope that talking down prices would bridge the gap until supply returned”
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@urlyman@mastodon.social 2026-08-02 08:14
#climateDiary “50 years after Carter’s speech, China has executed on what he asked of the West — without ever making environmentalism the justification. While Washington and Brussels argued about green and brown, Beijing simply built both. Whatever the climate benefits, China did not build 1.2 TW of solar capacity primarily for them. It built that capacity because it understood the MEOW lesson better than Carter’s own successors — security first, with decarbonization as a welcome dividend.”