Big Green's energy façade
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In a pre-modern era, energy came from four sources: primitive wind and water power, animal abuse, and slavery (the last of which was not, although I'm sure leftists will deny it, a uniquely American phenomenon. In the modern era, fossil fuel has allowed humans to break free from these limited and abusive energy systems. Farms produce a surplus, water is cleaned, medical care is readily available, homes are warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and so much more. Rather than listing everything that undergirds our world thanks to fossil fuel, I challenge you to list a single thing in your life that does not rely on fossil fuel for its functionality, manufacture, or transport.
Also in pre-modern times, if the energy supplies failed (the wind stopped blowing, the water stopped flowing, and the slaves and/or animals died from disease), there were two inevitable results: famine and then, once the people were sufficiently weakened, deadly epidemic disease, not on a COVID scale (~1% of the total population), but on a cataclysmic scale, whether it was a single nation seeing tens of thousands dying from smallpox or typhus, or one third to one half of the world's entire population dying from the plague.
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Tucker Carlson understands all this. He understands all nation's needs for energy, he understands that solar and wind power cannot serve a modern nation's needs, and he understands that the leftists are lying and cheating to circumvent the constitutional limitations on despotism. I often say that something Tucker did is a "must-see" because it so perfectly (and often amusingly) encapsulates an issue. This time, I'm telling you that Carlson's latest monologue is a must-see because it's a warning bell. If we ignore it, frankly, we're doomed. I want him to be a prophet with honor in his own country, rather than a Cassandra, futilely warning a doomed nation about its elites' disastrous policies.