Switzerland imports most of its energy from European neighbors. If you’ve been paying attention, the “neighbors” are preparing for shortages and blackouts, so there’s little or nothing left for Switzerland to buy. So, what to do? The Swiss have a plan—COVID-like lockdowns without the internet or television.
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Keep in mind that this was always the end game. Their math never added up, even if there was a climate crisis which, of course, there is not. You were always going to end up here; by you, I mean not them, just you.
The Federal Council of Switzerland has therefore published draft legislation, which outlines four tiers of escalating measures to conserve electricity and avert potential blackouts. The first prescribes a lot of temperature restrictions for things like refrigerators and washing machines. The second includes more unusual rules, such as the demand that heating in clubs and discotheques “be set to the lowest level or switched off completely,” and that “streaming services … limit resolution of their content to standard definition.” The third foresees cutting business hours, banning the use of Blue Ray players and gaming computers, and also limiting the use of electric cars, which should be driven only when absolutely necessary. A fourth and final tier mandates closure of ski facilities, casinos, cinemas, theatre and the opera.
If they get to the fourth tier, the Swiss will have very little to do but think about how they ended up cold and in the dark.
The answer is the lie that eugyppius explains here.
Electric vehicles, which politicians have heavily subsidised as one of their primary policy responses to climate change, are just now crashing against that other great arm of the green agenda, namely renewable energy. You can’t drive everyone into ever greater dependence upon the electrical grid, while also orchestrating an energy transition to wind (which hardly blows in Germany, except in the north) and solar (which generates no meaningful power in the depths of the Central European winter).
The radical energy extremism of the Climate Cultists is incompatible with even subsistence living, and I find it difficult to believe that they do not know this. Sure, the rank-and-file facemask-alone-in-the-car advocating Karens who couldn’t wait to get stuck with the experimental vaccine are so far down the rabbit hole they can’t accept how badly they allowed themselves to be misled. I get that. But up top, you’ve got politicians printing money who know better or crony capitalists who will do whatever it takes to tap that funding.
This was not a side effect. It was the goal.
When the peasants appear on the verge of revolt, they’ll approach this like the mRNA injections. They didn’t know how poorly the vaccines worked or how unsafe they were. They’ll say it was an honest mistake, except for all the people like us who nailed it early on and repeatedly after that but were labeled science or vaccine deniers or peddlers of misinformation.
Electric vehicles were a pile of over-subsidized lies long before they told you not to charge them. Wind and solar are a lie, as are many of the green unicorns that even the odd progressive (Michale Moore, BBC, Harvard, Greenpeace, Sierra Club) has had to admit are failures or worse. It hasn’t changed anything.
None of these individuals or groups has the reach or influence to stop this runaway train they have been riding for too long, mainly because they still think some parts have merit. But that’s the same degree of denial that’s keeping the facemask-alone-in-the-car advocating Karens warm.
And if you think people dying in the dark or the cold will move the needle, don’t hold your breath. People dying alone during COVID didn’t rise to the necessary level for change. Other fears were piled up to silence that distress. The Green agenda is no different. It was the depopulation cult before they came out and just said it. We need some of you to die, and by you, them mean you, not them.
Everything else is just rearranging deck chairs.
