Join Marty as he sits down with John Constable to discuss the economics of renewable energy.

John's Quillette article: https://quillette.com/2022/08/24/the-energy-of-nations Global Warming Policy Foundation: https://www.thegwpf.org

0:00 - Intro 3:22 - John's Quillette article 6:25 - Proximity of information 8:12 - Understanding of energy 13:44 - Perceptions will shift with shortages 17:20 - Entropy 21:55 - Energy instability implies geopolitical instability 24:18 - Western energy consumption falling 30:21 - Maintainance costs means "renewable" energy is economically worse 34:25 - Land use conflicts 38:34 - You'd be a slave to the Green Economy 41:00 - Energy is essential 44:24 - Is John blackpilled? 47:16 - Decline in intellectual sophistication in energy 48:58 - Supply chain doesn't allow for more oil drills 50:18 - Nuclear should be the climate narrative's only practical solution 53:06 - No organism takes metabolic energy from wind 55:29 - Is it hubris to pursue renewables? 57:07 - Fossil and nuclear shouldn't fight 1:00:44 - We're living on Asian energy consumption 1:04:07 - Decline of the US empire 1:07:33 - Europe is much farther gone than US 1:09:02 - States starting to ignore the federal govt 1:13:26 - Governing from a thousand miles away 1:15:15 - Comparing climate policy and insurance 1:17:15 - Closing riff