2024-05-06
Have we reached "peak insanity" yet? Part of me believes that we reached it long ago, but that other irritating yet maddeningly always correct part of me avers that if that were true, things would by now be getting better, rather than worse.
So I must concede - no, we have not reached peak insanity just yet.
How long will it take?
Oh please - I gave up making such predictions long ago. You will just have to make up your own answers on this one.
But before you do, I recommend recalibrating your expectations by reading the latest report in the Daily Sceptic about the current eye-wateringly expensive completely madcap stupidity that is certain (yes, I can confidently predict this one!) to make many more well-connected people extremely rich before it bankrupts the rest of us and fails laughably on its own terms ... and how many trees will have to be cut down in order to build and power it?
I can also predict a question that will certainly not be answered prior to authorisation of development and build, supremely relevant though it is to the purposes of the envisioned project:
"How many of the 400 parts per million of CO2 currently at large in our atmosphere will be removed by this project, how much CO2 will be created in order to build and power it, and what loss of agricultural production will ensue as a result?"
I'll keep a place for you in the loony-bin ... it may shortly be the only place on earth wherein the sane may still be found.
