Darrell Castle talks about how the pillars that make modern civilization possible are under attack from those who say they want to save the planet from climate change.

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ATTACKING THE PILLARS OF CIVILIZATION

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 15th day of December in the year of our Lord 2023. I will be talking about how the pillars that make modern civilization possible are under attack from those who say they want to save the planet from climate change. To save the earth they tell us we must dismantle the very building blocks of civilization.

Before I start, I remind you that next Friday and the one after that are the Fridays before Christmas and New Years Day so I will be in a festive and hectic holiday mindset as I suspect will you so I will talk to you again, God willing on Friday, January 5th, 2024.

This is December, the holiday season for most Americans and the festive atmosphere is well underway. We get ready for Christmas with our families, especially our children as we love to enjoy the excitement of Christmas with them. Family gatherings, office parties, shopping for presents, and attending holiday festivities occupy our time and make December, a time of vacation for many, one of the busiest and most hectic months of the year for many others.

At the same time, another group of people on the other side of the world, many of them Americans, have been meeting to discuss how they can continue the destruction of the very things that make civilization possible. The ideas and policies being espoused by the thousands of global leaders in attendance at COP 28, if enacted, will cause irreparable harm to billions of people, and will literally dismantle modern civilization.

For example, at the beginning of the conference, the secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, told the attendees and the people of the world that, “we must ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels.” He didn’t say we should reduce or slow down, he said we must stop burning fossil fuels. When a climate change official says we, then he of course means you. The billionaire class is not bothered by any climate change goals or directives, because only the rest of us in the peasant class will feel their effects.

Fossil fuels including coal, oil, and natural gas, have been powering economies of the world for well over 150 years.  They currently supply about 80% of the world’s energy and cheap energy is the lifeblood of modern civilization. It is the literal lubricant that allowed peasants to escape feudal life and enter what was once the middle class here in America. In the absence of cheap energy supplied by fossil fuels the machinery of economic progress grinds to a halt.

I compare those who seek to destroy fossil fuels and deprive the people of the world of their use to the actions of an enemy nation in a war for survival. They represent the enemy and they seek control of oil supplies to deprive us, as their enemy, of their use. In other words, protecting humanity’s access to and use of fossil fuels is a matter of survival. Cheap energy powers our homes and allows us to live in relative comfort. We can live in the Arizona desert or the north of Alaska because of access to cheap energy. Without it, life in much of the country would quickly become untenable.

Economic growth and technological advances are so dependent on cheap energy that its use directly correlates with the quality of life for the people who reside in America. The leaders of this nation apparently do not have the best interests of the nation’s people at heart. They follow the wishes of the billionaire class and shun cheap energy use for us, but not for them. Cheap political points, but not cheap energy seems to be their concern as they seek favor from the ruling class rather than from us. We should act to correct their thinking while we still have at least some capacity to do so.