Guest Post by Eric Peters
When your business is solving problems, it’s necessary to find new ones – even if they aren’t really problems.
Else you might find yourself out of business.
You won’t find the above credo carved into the granite above the entrances to government regulatory temples such as the Environmental Protection Agency, but that there is truth in it is undeniable.
The EPA was Shazam!’d into existence – by executive order of Richard Milhous Nixon – in early 1970, a time when smoggy skies were indeed a problem. EPA’s brief – among others – was to clear them. When this was done – which was about 20 years later, so about 30 years ago from our current vantage point – EPA did not declare the problem solved. It redefined the problem – a very clever way of finding a new one that wasn’t, really – but could be framed as one using etymological-psychological tactics worthy of the Great Master Edward Bernays himself.
Bernays’ genius was to deliberately use shifting and shifty definitions to manipulate thought and thereby, action. Propaganda, essentially. Bernays is credited with being one of the first to engineer consent – as the practitioners of the art themselves sometimes candidly put it.
EPA didn’t need to resort to such tactics at first as there really was a problem. Everyone could see – and smell – it. But can anyone see – or smell – the problem now? They can’t – because there isn’t.
Yet many people are certain there is an even more serious problem besetting us. Hasn’t the EPA said so?
Mark that difference.
Back in 1970, no one needed the EPA (or Nixon) to tell them there was an air-pollution problem. Today, the EPA insists there is a carbon dioxide problem with an urgency – a hysteria – that is inversely proportional to what we cannot see or smell or otherwise divine even exists. This isn’t surprising given the fact that carbon dioxide constitutes all of 0.04 percent of the air we breathe and the share of that our machines “emit” is literally a fraction of that fraction.
If the fact – just the 0.04 one – were generally known and understood, the “problem” of carbon dioxide “emissions” from our machines would shortly become a problem – for the EPA – in terms of losing its puissance as a justification for “electrification,” among other things.
Which brings up another problem – for “electrification.”
If the current hysteria-fomenting over the 0.04 percent of the earth’s atmosphere that is C02 being increased by 0.01 percent (or whatever the fraction of the fraction actually is) succeeds in forcing almost all of the machines off the road in favor of devices (i.e., battery-powered cars) then won’t that have solved the problem of these dread “emissions”?
And what then – for the EPA?
Well, it will be the same as it was about 30 years ago, when it was realized within the EPA that a new problem was needed as the old one had been solved. Part of the solution to that problem, so to speak, was to recycle the problem – or rather, the terms used to describe it. “Pollution” and “emissions” were used to characterize carbon dioxide – that fearful 0.04 percent that many people believe is more in the neighborhood of four or even 40 percent, as the EPA wants them to believe.
Having succeeded to an alarming degree in getting many people to believe just that, EPA assured those people would not question the necessary solutions offered up by EPA, including the elimination (via regulation) of everything that isn’t “electrified.”
And not just cars.
What comes next is what will be interesting. 
Unless EPA does what no government agency has ever done – by saying there’s nothing left for it to do – it will inevitably claim there is more for it to do. More than 16,000 paychecks and hundred of millions in funding are on the line, after all. It is why there is always more to do. No matter how much has been done.
It’s what will be done that may finally teach the unteachable, if such a thing is possible.
“Electrification” – of everything – will be found to cause emissions and pollution, too. What was innocuous will be redefined as offensive – and dangerous. Just as carbon dioxide once was – and now is.
One can already discern the beginning of the shift, as in the shifting of the verbiage used to describe EVs as tailpipe emissions-free rather than zero emissions, as they had been described for almost the past 15 years, until just the past six months or so. It is no accidental/coincidental thing. Such things never are. The apparat picks and chooses the words it uses – and the definitions it uses (and changes) with calculated precision.
You have been told what’s next. All you need do is listen.
It is as predictable as Pravda during the latter Brezhnev years that the EPA will find problems in need of solutions being “emitted” from places other-than-tailpipes.
In other words, EVs – and “electrification” – will not solve the problem . . . of the EPA. And that will be our problem, again.
Because – to recall the words of the vicious Union cavalry commander in The Outlaw Josey Wales, doin’ right ain’t got no end.
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Getting more like the movie ‘ Brazil ‘ all the time.
At .038% of the atmosphere , CO2 is now relatively low during the expanse of time that life has existed on the planet. At .02% plants would not be too healthy and start to keel over. There have been periods with much higher levels. Vegetation thrived and laid down the deposits of coal, oil and gas which we now burn with abandon. CO2 is plant food. Ain’t life grand.
They mean to starve us. Kill them first.
We are the carbon Davos wants to reduce. The comments are helpful, too.
Doin’ Right ain’t gonna happen until the Dollar loses its Reserve Currency Status. Then them bastards will go the way they do every time an empire collapses. Them days are a coming. They’ll go mad dog killin’ mean and will lash out at everyone who criticizes them.
As I often say, and write about, ‘they’ are the purveyors of the invisible boogeyman. Viruses, sea level, ozone, atmospheric nuances like C02. They will peddle coronal mass ejections and the magnetosphere…why?…because they are invisible. Anything you cannot verify with your own senses is fair game for the Imaginarium. Recently wrote about ‘zombie’ viruses coming back from hibernation via global warming — same type of fear porn. A.I., crypto, nano-everything. Easier to spin the lies when you can’t verify any of it for yourself.
There was a time when I’d take on a temporary role as one of several delivery people for a local florist at busy times like Valentines Day and Mother’s Day. One year I had a delivery of roses to a lady who worked at the regional EPA office. That place was fortified like it were Ft. Knox-never saw anything like it in all my years. Went back and told the lady who owns the shop to never again accept an order for that place-or for any other federal installation-as it takes far too much time to get through all the layers of security. And, most such government locations refuse to accept a floral arrangement for later pickup by an employee-if the intended recipient is not available to come get their gift then no delivery is allowed. Only in America.
Yup. I’d get repair requests for an army base. It took so long to get approved to enter (they would do mini background checks) that it was not worth it. I would tell customers that my hourly charge would start at the gate and continue ’til I left. Never had a customer accept.
Ground level ozone . . . lots of that caused by, guess what, high voltage electric transmission lines !!!
A very potent “greenhouse gas” is another compound essential to life, H2O in the vapor form !!!
Just wait till the EPA discovers the two preceding facts.
What happens to the total percentage of CO2 if nitrogen or oxygen rise or fall by 0.1%?
How come only CO2 rises and falls?
Does it rise and fall linearly to all other atmospheric gases?