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If you have read the latest research on the Gulf Stream published by Science Advances and are naive enough to believe it, you may have been relieved to learn that the world is getting on with decarbonisation quite nicely. The report warns that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is closer to a tipping point than feared due to Greenland ice melt, which dilutes seawater salinity and weakens the gyres.
The collapse could come at any time, it could be nonlinear and sudden, and it could lower average temperatures in North European cities by 5 to 15 degrees – turning Britain into southern Alaska. It would set off a global chain reaction and destabilise rainforests.
Well that's what it says, what may actually be happening is a different matter and as we know, to date every climate change prediction made by members of the environmental sciences academe has been wrong, hopelessly wrong.
We should not, however, be too worried about this latest climate change scare, not only does it contradict the usual narrative that a climatic version of thermal runaway is going to boil us all by tomorrow lunchtime, but it is merely a recycled version of a scare story that comes around every two or three years. I have been reading about the imminent slowing of the Gulf Stream for about 25 years and nothing has happened yet.
If only the scientists had some idea of what they are actually trying to do when they build the mathematical models from which they obtain the data on which these predictions are based, they might have some chance of at least being partly right.
But they don't, instead they imagine themselves the high priests of some crackpot religion who have a mystical direct line of communication with their god, whose name is 'The Science.' Thus they imagine themselves infallible and in their arrogance they have led civilisation towards its own destruction, enthusiastically followed by politicians. Now, with the world on the brink of war and the economies of the liberal democracies in ruins because our leaders have focused on fighting imaginary monsters like climate change and systemic racism rather than dealing with real problems, our nations have arrived for a gunfight armed with a water pistol.
None of this happened by accident of course, thanks to the great liberalisation of European societies in the 18th and 19th centuries, which had actually begun somewhat earlier when the minds of people were released from the shackles of religion and the natural sciences, mathematics, philosophy and the arts began to flourish, spawning the technological and social advances that led to the industrial revolution, a new social class was born. This bourgeois social layer were increasingly well educated, more so in many cases than their former masters, the nobility and landed gentry. The awareness that came from education led them to demand the right to exert some influence over the direction of the nations they lived in. Gradually voting rights were extended sufficiently for this new middle class to challenge the status quo in which since the earliest civilisations had vested power in a small elite.
By the late 20th century this emancipation had spread to the working class, but while the old aristocracy graciously relinquished their social superiority another small group, those who had served the elite, as lawyers, bankers, administrators, managers, teachers and record keepers did not. Taking a very broad view of history, this class seemed to resent the fact that people who worked in trades were now their equals (and often earned more money.) With their ranks swelled by professional engineers, accountants, civil and municipal servants and other bureaucrats the bourgeois became the technocratic class, aka experts, and set about securing their position as high social status individuals.
Unfortunately the influence of this class had a suffocating effect on the forces that had driven progress for over two centuries. They replaced religious dogma with their own doctrines of equality, diversity and inclusion and when the creed of this new system was challenged, though they could not fling offenders into an oubliette as the old aristocracy had, they ostracised those who questioned their rules to the extent that careers were ruined and livelihoods lost.
The outcome was loss of trust for the ruling classes and the organisations and institutions they controlled by the wage earning class, still numerically the largest social group. Productivity dropped, loyalty was extinguished, the bonds that held communities together were destroyed and self interest became the dominant moral value in western nations. The experts who had replaced the old upper class were not as expert as they thought, over - specialisation had left them lacking in life - experience, they were big on theory but knew nothing of how things worked in the real world.
Thirty years ago the West was triumphant and liberal democracy had won the day, The Soviet Union had disintegrated, China was liberalising and the first Gulf War had put militant Islam firmly in its place. The Berlin Wall had fallen and a uni-polar world was born. The USA was the world's sole remaining superpower, China was an industrial and financial backwater and Russia was engaged in the process of detente with the west begun under Mikhail Gorbachev.
Ten years later Russia had become a major player in the supply of oil, gas and other essential commodities, China had come from nowhere to challenge for the 5th and 6th places occupied by UK and France in the world economic league table. Fast forward another ten years and China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second largest economy behind only the USA, and Russia is creeping into the bottom of the top ten (source).
How had China done so well in an open, globalised world? The truth is all the cards were stacked in China’s favour in the business environment, which the Americans created with the Washington Consensus. While virtue signalling leaders had hamstrung their nations' industry over 'green' concerns, China, with a government that made the right noises at climate summits but did not give a damn about climate change scaremongering, was happy to welcome the dirty industries being forced out of the west because of costs and restrictions imposed by The Science for the purpose of 'saving the environment'.
Maximising profit and securing growth in any business from a corner shop to a national economy is all about reducing costs, increasing productivity and getting the right products into the market at the right price.
In the west the green lobby had declared war on 'fossil fuels' had imposed punitive taxes on fuel in order to fund massive subsidies for generators of 'green energy' from unreliable sources' and imposed restrictive laws on energy users. China had coal fired power stations to provide cheap energy. China had lax regulations reducing environmental and health and safety costs. China had low taxes and a minimal welfare state.
China had a low cost of living so employers could pay low wages. China had all the advantages in an open globalised world.And
Western companies, wanting to earn kudos with the Green Inquisition were eager, even desperate to off-shore production to low cost
China, where costs were so low it was possible to ship goods halfway round the world and still undercut locally made goods in western markets. Thumbs up from Greta Thunberg does not keep the profit and loss account out of the red.
Western businesses could not cut costs sufficiently to compete, and were forced to off-shore more and more production, not just to China but other emerging economies, India, Indoneasia, Brazil, Nigeria etc. in order to sell profitably. They gave away decades of Western superiority in design, technological development, management and business know - how.
The developing nations offered a new, nimble, fast growing economy compared to the lumbering bureaucracy which had suffocated enterprise and initiative in the economies of Western nations. Investors would be able to achieve better returns in the fast growing far east economies and this is where the money headed. US hedge funds love China and know it’s the best place to make real money.
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The problem in the 1990 was that the rules of the game had changed and nobody told our political leaders. Thus we never understood that we we not playing the game we invented to a new set of rules but were in a new game. Politically correct thinking in the west had blinded us to the fact that the emergence of China, India and the rest as economic powers had not just moved the goalposts of the global economy but had relocated the entire stadium.
Now we do understand the rules you can see why we have done so badly.
The cards were stacked against us.
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