Anything that’s too big to do in our own backyards is OK for them. So we have hydrocarbons and atomic energy, and we have huge hydroelectric projects and increasingly large windmills. All of those are under the control of big finance and aren’t accessible to ourselves. We buy … they sell … in perpetuity.

The mix of their chosen technologies is both highly polluting (oil, coal) and highly dangerous (uranium). Those that aren’t either polluting or dangerous are made so large that they fit into a “mix” of monopolized energy that we have no chance of changing.

So what to do?

miniaturize and adapt – do it ourselves – strive to become energy independent – provide technology that is adaptable to single household size and to small community size – organize for distributed energy production.

For sure, the monopoly will not give up easily, but we can demand that polluting technologies are phased out from their “mix”. Abandon atomic energy, severely limit hydrocarbon based fuels.

Let’s just take solar. It is a safe, non-polluting technology and it can be used in all settings, from the industrial to the single household. Concentrating solar thermal technology can supply the high power electricity needed for industrial applications. It can be scaled down to community size and even to farm and household applications, where space is not an issue. Solar panels can be on everyone’s roof. But the conversion needs to be driven forward. Not because the climate is changing but because it’s good economics, it’s good environmental stewardship, and it makes sense.

Who wants to live in a world where you can’t breathe the air because it’s full of soot and you can’t eat the food because it has a radioactive glow to it?

Let’s do it. Let’s give out grandchildren a world that isn’t toxic.

False conspiracy: Climate change is a hoax manufactured to justify a vast geoengineering and genetic engineering scheme to increase government power and confiscate private property.

Real conspiracy: Climate change is a real problem that will be cynically exploited to justify a vast geoengineering and genetic engineering scheme to increase corporate power and wealth.