I intend to review a range of ideas and answers to the question of why we haven’t “bent the curve” or reduced global emissions. In fact, as the papers I cited yesterday both note, as we discover new forms of energy, the world continues to increase energy use from all sources, despite many international agreements and protocols. As an example, we use more biomass energy today than ever before in history, while we also use more oil, coal, renewables, and nuclear.
According to one common conspiratorial view, a secretive elite, a hyper-controlling “they” intentionally suppress hidden knowledge of “free energy,” which can be produced from the zero point field, a.k.a. the structure of the vacuum. If “they” would release their hold on free energy, this would end all limits on energy supply and consumption, while also producing infinite power with no greenhouse gas emissions or other drawbacks (such as spent nuclear fuel rods). As envisioned, “free energy” would therefore render the elite control system obsolete. Everyone on Earth could have their own personal power station with no need of fossil fuel, ever again.
Often, the free energy conspiracy theory is combined with the perspective that global warming or anthropogenic climate change is a hoax perpetrated by that same hyper-controlling “they,” an elite cabal which uses agents like the Rothschilds, Soros, Kissinger, the English Royal Family, and the like as its puppet-proxies. There is often a familiar anti-Semitic tinge to these theories (As a Jew myself, I intend to explore the question of the Jews and their disproportionate power and influence more directly at some point). The World Economic Forum with its Great Reset agenda are part of a well-developed masterplan. “They” intend to use this engineered, phony ecological emergency to force the populations of the world to accept new levels of social controls, perhaps culminating in intentionally orchestrated mass depopulation (Georgia Guidestones, etcetera).
Personally, I find the evidence that our large-scale industrial processes have unleashed climate change, mass extinction, and so on, to be so overwhelming that I am stunned so many people — including people I know and like — still find it questionable or a hoax. I am not going to review the evidence here. If necessary, I can do so again, at another point. Those convinced that climate change is a hoax must believe, by extension, that the huge preponderance of mainstream journalists and established scientists (all those who see climate change as a massive threat) are either in on the conspiracy or dupes. Generally, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to argue someone out of such an irrational viewpoint.
My theory is that well-meaning people convinced that anthropogenic climate change is a hoax have fallen prey to very intricate, well-funded efforts to spread disinformation, which amplify their inherent, unconscious biases. These efforts are orchestrated by the various tendrils of the energy companies, with their offshoots extending through intelligence services, academic departments, think tanks, and the like. The military industrial complex, intelligence services, and fossil fuel corporations often work together and collude. As this Guardian article reveals, oil alone produces revenue of over $3 billion per day. The vast revenue from fossil fuels creates a huge incentive for companies to downplay their ruinous consequences. One way to do this is to spread counter-narratives that distract and “hook” susceptible subsets of the populace.
But let’s separate out these two conspiracy strands for the time being and return to the free energy question: It is possible that free energy exists, that some small coterie knows about it and is perhaps already making use of it, but actively suppresses its mass deployment? I have come back to this question many times, following my own processes of thinking and reasoning. Among the books I have read which explore aspects of this question, I recommend Nick Cook’s The Hunt for Zero Point, Graham Hancock’s The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant, Tom Valone’s Zero Point Energy: The Fuel of the Future, and Christopher Dunn’s Giza Power Plant. I also watched Foster Gamble’s Thrive and Nassim Haramein’s Crossing the Event Horizon (a six-hour deep-dive), the Bob Lazar documentary on Netflix, and much else over the years. I have also looked into the speculative efforts of fanciful researchers such as David Wilcock, Richard Hoagland, and so on.
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