Of Hydrogen, SMRs, and Renewables to combat the Climate Emergency — the lethal “cathedrals” fallacy

Presently there is not a single instance of any strategy, policy, plan, “Green New Deal”, ESG investment, by whatever name, that can effectively and successfully address the Climate Emergency and other ecological, social and financial threats. This essay uses the recently announced France 2030 Investment Plan to demonstrate why and outlines what alternative possibly could succeed.

On 12 October 2021, French President Macron presented his France 2030 €30 Billion Investment Plan in a two-hour, one-man stand-up, grand show. The aim: to ensure that France becomes “a great innovative nation”, again. We have heard this kind of thing somewhere else in recent years; to disastrous effect. This event is turning out as archetypal of the state of decision-making worldwide — a state characterised by a profound ignorance on the part of hierarchical elites in government and business alike about the actual threats our world faces, about what can’t possibly work to meet those challenges, and about what it would take to successfully meet them.

President Macron’s revealing “non-renewables” Freudian slips

Nearly 50% of the funds announced by the President are to be directed to “decarbonising” the country…