When I was living in Colorado Springs my house was a few blocks from the South Gate of the Air Force Academy, and I would drive by it every day going to work. Then about three years before I moved away, I noticed they were bulldozing an area next to the gate. They had stripped away the scrub brush and saplings from about the size of a football field. Solar panels were then installed. And I wondered if that was really an improvement. If the goal was to reduce carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, wouldn’t it be better to leave the plant life that was there and maybe plant more? I had always been cynical of the “Green” movement, but on that day, I went from cynical to hyper cynical to the point of being an opponent.

Scott Tinker gave an excellent talk at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship titled An Honest and Sensible Conversation About Global Energy. During it he showed photos of lithium mines and leaching pits. These places are environmental disasters, but no one cares because they’re in China and South America. And he showed pictures of windmill blades being buried because there is no way to recycle them. Again no one cares because that’s happening in scantily populated areas in West Texas and Wyoming. Never mind they are unreliable, as the freak winter storm in Texas in April of 2022 showed. Also, during this talk Scott Tinker made an interesting point. He said, “There is no such thing as a renewable energy source.” To harness it, we have to take something from the ground that cannot be reused and whose waste is problematic.

Worse still, while the “Green Movement” pushes these alternate energy methods they ignore proven technologies that give zero carbon emissions. Of course, I’m referring to nuclear fission. The Green’s biggest complaint is the “problem” of nuclear waste, but they’re not giving the full picture. They rightfully point out that most of the reactors in the United States today leave a nuclear ash that radioactive for tens of thousands of years and we are forced to store them. However, Cleo Abram in her podcast titled The Big Lie about Nuclear Waste pointed out, we have the technology to recycle the waste and use it again in nuclear reactors, and we’ve had this technology since the 1960s. Doing this would reduce the nuclear half life from tens or even hundreds of thousands of years to only a couple of hundred years, something far more manageable. Moreover, there’s enough nuclear waste in America right now to meet our energy needs for the next one hundred to one hundred and fifty years. True it is more expensive than just using fresh uranium, but no one has done a cost analysis of moving government subsidies from alternate energy to this.

But back to my main point. I can’t support a movement that ignores the proven science to chase unicorns rainbows when it comes to energy. They come off as a bunch of nitwits more interested in feeling morally justified from their protest than from solving the problem. Either that or they anti-human and want to kill us off. Either way, I say no!