EU will 'flatten the curve' on energy.

"But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see where they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate."

“It is dark here. The flame of the candle stands still in the air. Nothing moves in this tunnel save our hand on the paper.”

In her novella Anthem, Ayn Rand describes a post-industrial, collectivist, egalitarian society, following the ‘Great Rebirth’. The State dictates every aspect of life, from cradle to grave, and decides what everyone’s role is, forcing equality of outcome onto all its citizens. There are no books, no individual rights— even the word “I” is replaced by “we”—, and no light.

The protagonist’s curiosity leads him to wander upon a hidden man-made tunnel left from the ‘Unmentionable Times’, where he discovers a ‘new power’. 

“I have learned that the power of the sky was known to men long ago; they called it Electricity. It was the power that moved their greatest inventions.”

Europe and other Western nations are facing a very real energy crisis right now. Sanctions have prompted Russia to stop supplying natural gas to Europe, exacerbating the self-inflicted energy crisis beginning with sweeping Net Zero energy regulations. Germany has been closing down its nuclear facilities for years, of their own volition, in order to ‘go green’. The Netherlands are no longer tapping into their vast natural gas reserves, under strict regulations and laws to stop using natural gas completely to meet net zero targets.

All of the OECD countries are on the same path, including the U.S. On his very first day in office, Biden shut down the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that could have increased national energy security and potentially have driven down fuel costs. The Biden Administration likewise recently passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a bill aimed at fighting the alleged climate crisis and moving away from fossil fuels. 

California is at the forefront, and they’re already experiencing rolling blackouts and electricity shortages. They are certainly far from the only ones. 

Energy costs for households in the UK are expected to increase by 80% this fall, which will inevitably lead to incommensurate amounts of people unable to pay their bills, and some possibly having their power shut off entirely this winter. 

If energy security was the priority, our leaders would change course from an ideological green-at-all-costs stance to one that eases regulation and allows freer markets to find solutions. Instead, they are doubling down, tightening regulations, and suggesting we flatten the curve on electricity. 

C.S. Lewis reminds us that “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive… those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” 

Ursula von der Leyen

Those who want to ‘flatten the curve’ on energy as a purported solution to the self-induced energy crises seem to be okay with turning civilization’s lights out if it means they can maintain, in the words of Gavin Newsom, ‘Climate Control’.  

In his book, The Green Reich, Belgian philosopher Drieu Godefridi explores the Malthusian roots of the Green ideology plaguing the Western world. Godefridi’s thesis is that “if human CO2 is the problem, then Man is the problem” therefore “Man must be restricted, constrained, and governed in all of his activities.”

The climate czars appear willing to sacrifice whatever and whoever— except of course, themselves— in order to achieve their ends.

Ayn Rand writes,

“At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled. But then he gave up all he had won, and fell lower than his savage beginning. What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We." 

“When men accepted that worship, the structure of centuries collapsed about them, the structure whose every beam had come from the thought of some one man, each in his day down the ages, from the depth of some one spirit, such as spirit existed but for its own sake. Those men who survived, those eager to obey, eager to live for one another, since they had nothing else to vindicate them, those men could neither carry on, nor preserve what they had received. Thus did all thought, all science, all wisdom perish on earth. Thus did men, men with nothing to offer save their great numbers, lose the steel towers, the flying ships, the power wires, all the things they had not created and could never keep.”

Perhaps the fictional ‘Great Rebirth’ in Anthem did not begin with the goal of creating a post-industrial society without electricity. The goal was for all mankind to be equal, for all to be the same, for there to be no ‘I’, and only ‘we’. Equitable, inclusive, sustainable, for the greater good.

Rand writes,

“But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see where they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they had lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.”