‘Imagine 2200’: Grist Climate Fiction

“I’ll take my chances with energy freedom. I fear the energy dystopia of Climate Big Brother.”

Grist, “an independent nonprofit newsroom that’s spent 25 years telling the truth about our planet,” is now in the climate fiction business. Imagine 2200 is premised on “a core belief: The world we need has to be imagined before it can be built.” Grist’s Image 2200 Creative Manages Tory Stephens continues:

We are living through a moment where the stories being told about the future are shrinking, and the space to imagine something different is being crowded out by fear and despair. Imagine 2200 is an antidote: a global climate-fiction initiative in which writers from more than 90 countries have imagined new futures, shaped by justice and resilience, and informed by the real-world solutions already in motion.

“Energy is Prosperity” (Claire Coutinho speaks to the UK people)

Ed. Note: This manifesto by Claire Coutinho from last year is reprinted in light of the raging UK debate over “Net Zero” policies pursuant to the Climate Change Act of 2008. A former Cabinet member as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, and currently an elected member of the Conservative Pary, she has changed views to trenchantly oppose Net Zero.

“I can promise you this. When it comes to energy policy, our priority won’t be ideology, it won’t be vested interests, it won’t be fake promises we can’t deliver. It will be cheap, reliable, abundant energy.”

In the last few decades, we’ve lost sight of a simple truth. Energy is a good thing.

Conservatives know that great eras of British growth and prosperity happen when we have an abundance of cheap, reliable energy.…

John ‘Halloween’ Holdren Remembered (exaggeration, failed prognostications should not be forgotten)

Ed. Note: John Holdren is a fading name in the climate/energy debate. But he was Paul Ehrlich’s protégé and coauthor in the 1970s, and he had a two-term (eight year) appointment (2009–2017) as President Obama’s top science advisor. Holdren infamously politicized the third U.S. National Climate Assessment (2014), the sixth assessment of which promises to be more balanced under new authorship. Holdren dismissed Robert L. Bradley Jr. in a 2003 email exchange as “lacking both discernible qualifications in the real world and the ability to tell a good argument from a bad one,” perhaps an example of expert failure.

 “Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the [twentieth] century.”

– John Holdren and Paul Ehrlich[1]

Doom and gloom—and subsequent real-world falsification—hallmark the long career of John P.…

Climate Anxiety? Just Teach Both Sides (a cure in waiting)

‘Green’ Energy Tradeoffs

Washington Post on Natural Gas: No Plan = Best Plan (channeling F. A. Hayek)

Greenhushing (climate loses its message)

‘The Future of CCS Can No Longer Be Assumed’ (a supporter rethinks …)

U.S. EPA’s Energy Exceptionalism (CO2 freedom)

Free Market Electricity: BYOP Update