Our planet's on fire!!! Or not...

No doubt you’ve heard the news by now that 2023 had the highest average daily global temperatures ever in recorded history! It’s a very scary story! Mankind is doomed! And just in case you’re inclined to gloat over a doomed “mankind.” bear in mind that the womankind and otherkinds are doomed alongside them. The Climate Catastrophe doesn’t care if you’re non-binary. These scary stories, and they’re everywhere today, tend to leave out some relevant context. For one thing, what exactly is “recorded history?” It’s the last 150 years or so, whereas the unrecorded history spans roughly 7 billion years. We’re making policy around stats gleaned from perhaps .0000001 % of the actual historical record. For another thing, they never mention the previous record was set in 2016. That means it took eight years to top the previous apex of climate hysteria. That gives me cause to hope the global temperature rise will cool off for the next few years. Another thing that’s cooling off fast is the enthusiasm of the big car companies for EVs. The big boys are cancelling EV production left and right, mainly because there’s not enough demand to justify the investment. Ford supposedly lost $30k on every F-150 electric truck. They probably make that on a regular truck. The only place that has a boner for EVs these days is Canada. We’ve been promising subsidies galore to foreign conglomerates to establish EV battery production here. Without those multi-billion $ inducements, those multinationals would go somewhere that makes sense, like Indonesia. They actually allow mining in Indonesia. We lure them in not only with extravagant subsidies, but with the promise of our abundant resources. Ha! We’ve got the resources alright, but the odds of ever getting them out of the ground don’t look good. Between the environmental studies and the social impact studies and the negotiations with the various First Nations involved, it’ll be at least 50 years before a new mine opens in Canada. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.