Drill Baby Drill

A part of the reason why so many elitists support efforts to replace fossil fuels with solar and wind (mostly), is because it would eliminate a lot of their problems. How so? Because of poor people doing poor-people things that interfere with their personal elitist agendas. "We are only trying to make the world a better place for our children and their children", they claim, and that might be true. But, poor people care nothing about green energy-because it's expensive and unreliable. The poor care absolutely nothing for ideas like "diversity", "inclusion", and the rights of transsexuals. No, the poor are concerned with other more important issues, like making the rent, fending off starvation or malnutrition, somehow buying their children clothes and toys, avoiding being robbed on the street, not freezing to death in the winter, etc. 

By the way, an abundant supply of cheap but effective energy (i.e., coal, oil and other fossil fuels) would go along way to lifting people out of poverty, as others have noted. Then, the ex-poor would be able to devote more of their time to keeping the things around them and their community clean, instead of mere survival. Yet even so, I wonder at the true motives of the Elitists (the most powerful and wealthy amongst us who suffer from severe malignant narcissism). It would be possible to lift millions of people out of abject poverty and into a spot where they could have a good chance of further self-improvement-by producing more fossil fuels. Cheap and abundant energy sources? Do the elitists promote this, at all? No, rather you see and hear them making speeches about windmills and solar panels, about breaking up "Big Oil". They prattle endlessly and mindlessly about "global warming" with a bizarre and stupid passionate intensity that is horrible to witness. No, elitists want a population decline, so they can enjoy the planet without getting stuck in traffic. Or having to see the effects of their green policies. The many problems with solar and wind, unreliability and cost the main one, mean nothing to the Elitists. They have the money to shield themselves against the rising cost of energy, and now in Europe and elsewhere, with food. Farmers in the UK and the Netherlands are being forced to sell their land, so wind and solar farms can be installed in the countryside. Who then will produce even the most basic of food staples, if the farmers disappear? "No problem", say the Elitists, "we'll be able to buy as much of the now expensive food as we want". And as for the rest of the population? Well, it sure would be a shame if all those people were to starve or freeze to death, but hey, the Earth is over-populated anyway!