Why California’s Renewables Agenda Is Impossible
Commentary
California’s regnant political class sees almost every policy in terms of inspiring the world to adopt policies similar to ours on global warming or climate change. A recently published book will disabuse anyone who reads it of that notion, because it shows our reliance on the traditional industrial-age fuels, coal, and petrochemicals inevitably will get greater, not smaller.
The 2022 book is “The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization,” by Peter Zeihan. I have objections to some of his analyses, such as his Keynesian view of monetary theory. But no matter. It’s the right kind of the book of this type, providing a great amount of data the reader can analyze and use to come to his own conclusions….