The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

[PaulP]

Reprehensible and irresponsible comments. Your final sentence, Pauly... spot on. Just appalling comments in the face of suffering citizens.

That country is beyond the point of no return. Ercot received warnings that their system would not cope with high demand in winter, they did f@ck all to rectify the situation because it would eat into profits.

Chris Hedges lives in Princeton NJ, one of the wealthier places in the US, and has this to say :

I live in Princeton, N.J., which is an enclave of the one per cent, and when it rains, the power goes out, and not only that, but the phone lines go down. It’s all falling apart.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/09...ris-hedges

And let's not forget Enron and the 2000-01 California Electricity Crisis :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000–01_Ca...ity_crisis