The majority of people do not like pain or forced changes in their life. But both of these tend to happen anyway. For example, the public is feeling the pain of inflation and life changes caused by policy decisions surrounding the global energy economy right now.
Transition hurts
In childbirth there is a short, but difficult stage called ‘transition’. When the woman is ‘in transition’ the level of pain becomes more intense and there are few breaks between contractions. The woman must rely on all her mental strength, breathing techniques, and physical endurance to get her through this stage before she gets to the next stage where she can begin active pushing.
You can’t really do anything but endure while you are in transition. You can’t push yet because the cervix is not fully dilated, but you will have the urge to push. So your nurse may be telling you ‘don’t push!” although you want to. And the examinations during this stage are particularly irritating.
The best way to handle the transition stage is NOT TO FIGHT IT. Tensing up just causes more pain and could even delay the process. The Pushing stage is still painful, but it’s better because once you start pushing, you have a little bit more control and you know the end of the pain is coming soon. And you’ll be holding that little bundle in your arms that makes you forget all the pain.
The 70 year pregnancy
I feel like the world economy has been in labor for awhile now. The first contractions started with the end of the Cold War. We could say active labor began with the pandemic. This is when the globalists revealed that they had decided that the world needed a ‘great reset’ and how Covid was helping provide that. But the global ‘fetus’ of economic change has been growing since the 70s with the end of the gold standard and the beginning of the Petrodollar. The US has been attempting to transition away from oil dependence since the “gas shortage.”
The so-called energy transition is happening because fossil fuels are no longer as popular with investors for many reasons that I won’t go into in this article. Investors are the lifeforce of the US and global economy. Businesses can’t survive without money. But investors want a good ROI. They look for ventures that have a good chance of success.
Renewable energy and all it’s related businesses are looking good to investors thanks to the trillions of dollars being invested by global governments. Solar farms, wind farms, hydropower, EVs, smart grids and all the rest are the golden baby that is waiting to be born.
Get comfortable. This is going to take awhile .
But while the slow labor of building all this is being done, the public must endure the pain of energy price inflation, changes in what products you can buy (such as gas stoves), the phasing out of internal combustion engine vehicle manufacturing, job losses and the accompanying necessary ‘reskilling’ of workers, and unreliable electric grids.
The pain is going to be real and it will build up and get really bad over the next 10 years as people try to figure out how to deal with this new economy. The actual reduction in fossil-fuel use is forecast to be pretty minimal, but the hope is that decarbonization will help. The promise is that once the transition is over and the final push is accomplished, a robust and healthy economy will be the reward of all the pain.
It doesn’t matter what you or I think about fossil fuels or climate change. We have no power over international affairs. Governments need to slow down, however, and stop trying to push before we have the infrastructure ready or they are going to cause serious damage to the public . In the meantime, we should all learn some breathing techniques because transition hurts.
Blue Skies and Green Pastures 
It does make a difference what you or I think about fossil fuels or climate change. If enough people think the people wrecking our economy don’t know what they are doing, we can throw them out of office.
Is global warming manmade? Not likely. The earth doesn’t seem to have a constant temperature. There was a little ice age as recently as the time of the American Revolution. Since then the temperature has risen, of course.
Satellite systems have not shown much change in the global temperature in recent years. Thermometers on the ground (which are also recent invention in historical terms), have shown an increase. When we surround the area where a thermometer is located with massive amounts of concrete and asphalt, we get something called the heat island effect. Ever been in a large parking lot on a sunny day?
So, why are the powers that be promoting “climate change” (renamed from global warming because the globe is not warming)? Why did the powers that be promote the COVID-19 scare even after it became readily apparent the virus was not all that dangerous to anyone except the elderly?
If climate change is not a fraud, why would our glorious leaders ignore the fact that Communist China is bringing two coal-fired power plants online every week? Meanwhile, we have not commissioned a new coal-fired power plant in years, and we are making ourselves dependent upon China for more expensive energy sources. That makes no sense. What problem are we solving?
How awful is this fraud? Electric cars, windmills, and solar panels are not clean energy sources. That is especially true because we don’t have plans to recycle the materials CHINA uses to make these things. Calling electric cars zero emission vehicles is just a cruel joke. So, electric cars don’t emit carbon dioxide. We exhale carbon dioxide. Are you an intolerable source of pollution? What about the rest of your family?
You do realize that the people promoting climate change also want limit population growth? What do you want to bet that their idea doesn’t include an agenda for eugenics?
Consider the problem of emery storage. Electric cars don’t work without batteries (https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/where-do-ev-batteries-come-from). We will also need to store power from windmills and solar panels. If we let our leaders force these so-called clean energy technologies upon us, they will destroy us before they can make them work. As it as, they are already impoverishing us.
This is a time to fight not a time to roll over and play dead. If we don’t fight this scam, those who survive among our children and grandchildren will be enslaved by a totalitarian state.
I’m not disagreeing with you, but how do you propose we fight these people?
Patiently.
Liberal Democrats have been destroying our education system for decades. If the people who are wrecking our country can persevere for decades, why can’t we do it?
We have to wrest control of our schools from the government, and that includes our universities. If parents won’t fight for their children, we cannot win.
Note that government funding is seriously biasing scientific research. So, we must devise ways to shift R&D funding from government to private.
Are any of the things we must do going to be easy? No. Without God’s help, it probably won’t even be possible. But I think we are supposed to try.
The problem is that too many people believe them. The rest of us need to vote with our dollar.
They are rigging the system to encourage us to buy from China. We have to stop
“They” are corporations and the government that supports them. Left and right both work to keep themselves rich. This is a good thing as long as they don’t keep the rest of us out of the market. But regulations are doing exactly that, limiting competition. Free markets are the key to freedom.
We need to separate our economy from China’s economy. Totalitarian states don’t have free markets; they pervert free markets.
We get cheap goods from china . Americans won’t like the price of locally made goods.
There is no excuse for using slave labor.
If we bring down taxes, prices will go down. There are also other countries besides China where manual labor is inexpensive, but it is slave labor.
True, but it will mean Americans will have to adapt . Our economy is based on cheap imports. But a lot of stuff we don’t really need. We can get by with American made stuff.