“In plain language: fossil fuels were becoming too difficult and expensive to produce – until AI came along to make them profitable again. That isn’t ‘innovation’ – it’s acceleration toward climate collapse.” – Holly Alpine, climate activist (below)
And so the litany and narrative goes on. Oil was supposed to run out a half-century ago. Then horizontal drilling and fractionation came along (bad luck!). Now AI has come to the rescue to, again, postpone the inevitable–more bad luck! (Never mind that thing called resourceship, explaining how the improvement process is open-ended.)
What is good is bad to the nature-is-optimal-and-fragile Deep Ecologists. More people. Growing resource usage. Higher living standards. All bad. Remember these quotation by Paul and Anne Ehrlich and two-term Obama science advisor John Holdren?
…A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States.
“Low-quality carbon offsets are undermining global decarbonisation efforts. Around 40% of existing carbon pricing schemes allow the use of offsets, most with no effective limits on quality or quantity. Recent analysis shows that fewer than 16% of more than 2,300 offset projects actually delivered the emission reductions they promised.” – Johan Rockström, (Potsdam Institute)
“Don’t get tangled up in your own underwear,” an old saying goes. Such applies to the carbon management schemes created by governmental anti-CO2 policy.
You reap what you sow. If you politicize an issue by introducing government intervention into voluntary market transactions, then expect suboptimal outcomes. Call it government failure in the attempt to address alleged market failure.
Shame that Big Green does not see itself as the problem rather than “wrong” public policies. And here we are: the Progressive Left complaining about bad climate policy decades after they themselves went political.…
“The federal bank regulatory agencies today announced the withdrawal of interagency Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions.” (- Federal Reserve Board, October 16, 2025) [1]
“The private sector can fend for itself versus global government and the pretense of climate knowledge. The United Nations should not have indirect regulatory authority over the United States. The United States comes first.” (below)
Climate activist Laurie Schoeman, “working at crossroads of climate risk, housing, and capital markets,” posted on social media:
…The Federal Reserve Board has announced that U.S. federal finance agencies who regulate our banking and financial sector [Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Federal Reserve Board; Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] are withdrawing from the Interagency Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management — a framework designed to help large financial institutions manage exposure to climate risk.