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• UN Chief Says We Have Two Years To Save the World

• Biden Plans Alaska Drilling Ban

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UN Chief Says We Have Two Years To Save the World

We’ve all heard the UN secretary general’s “Highway to Hell” and “global boiling” gems.

But now he has a contender for the top spot in climate alarmism.

The UN’s Climate Change Executive Secretary just warned us all we have two years to save the world.

More of the same but louder

In a recent speech, Simon Stiell said that unless we speed up the transition, the Paris Agreement targets will never be hit.

And the speeding up needs to happen really, really fast—by 2026.

Fail that, and it’s the end of human civilization. Or something.

Success, then, is vital. And it will also create jobs and fuel economic growth.

According to Stiell.

Funny that European transition advocates are talking about “degrowth” in the meantime.

Of course, the key message in the speech was about money.

The transition is moving slowly because there’s not enough cash.

And the prospects of getting some from the private sector are dimming.

Hence, the “melodramatic” message, as Stiell called it himself.

Building the foundations of new totalitarianism

With so much drama in every word, it’s easy to miss the subtext.

But that subtext is crucial.

It describes the next step in a push for totalitarian control—at least in the West.

If that’s not the irony of the century.

Basically, the idea is to prioritize climate change above literally everything else.

And impose this prioritization on everyone.

How? Through the World Bank and the IMF.

And through national governments, of course.

Here’s hoping it will remain a fantasy in the minds of unwell people.

Biden Plans Alaska Drilling Ban

Alaska’s North Slope has been one of the longest-producing oil regions in America.

Now, the Biden admin plans to put an end to that.

Willow may be the last megaproject in the North

The plan, set to be finalized within days, would shrink the acreage available for drilling by half.

It will not affect ConocoPhillips’ Willow project.

But it would make more projects like this impossible.

What’s worse, it could affect existing drilling leases in Alaska.

All this to get the green votes at the November election.

After losing some of them with the decision to greenlight Willow.

That’s not what anyone would call a consistent energy policy.

Especially since new development in the area could secure energy supply for decades to come.

Industry has had enough

The oil industry has grown reluctant to fight climate initiatives recently.

Yet now, it is fighting back.

Because the new plan threatens their existing contracts.

One company, Armstrong Oil & Gas, even said it would amount to nationalization.

This is not a word you’d expect to hear in the context of U.S. policies, yet there we are.

The federal government is effectively seeking to nationalize half the National Petroleum Reserve.

And that will only be the start.

The plan sees expanding the “protected areas” once every five years.

The planners are also trying to make the changes irreversible.

Nothing’s good enough when it comes to protecting fragile ecosystems.

Except when we’re building land-heating solar and bird-killing wind, that is.

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