Commentary By Samuel Strait – July 15, 2022 Some of us have heard about the woes of Sri Lanka, a country that does not have the wealth of many Western Nations, yet has tried to emulate the Cult of the Western World's obsession with "Climate Change". By no means is it a given that the world experiencing the modest effects of cyclical climate variation is in any danger of self destruction from the unexceptional rise of CO2, Methane, or even Nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere. Yet the Climate hysterics would have you believing in their particular religion that our demise is a mere year and a half away. At least that is the latest and closest climate cliff we have yet to plunge over for the full effect of our end of times. In the mean time in Sri Lanka, governing policies in an effort to conform to Climate Change has had an even more immediate and devastating effect on the Country well before any Climate deadline is set to appear. The Country has literally collapsed in the face of prolonged Climate Change policies that have wrecked its economy causing massive energy shortages and the destruction of the ability to feed its population. Fortunately for Western Countries who have chosen similar paths, their relative wealth has sheltered them from the full force of the Climate Change policies on their economies, at least those that adhered to them until recently. Germany, the Netherlands, France, and the UK have all been forced to back track on their respective "Climate" goals in the face of the reduced ability to have "green energy" pick up the slack created by the loss of fossil fuel resources. As the cost of replacing fossil fuels with costly and intermittent "green energy", coupled with shortages appearing in efforts to revert back to fossil fuels, massive inflation has reared its ugly head. It is not as if this is a "new" experience that the world is having, as it has occurred a number of times before. In this particular case, here in the United States, the cause for all this misery can be directly placed in the hands of the current Biden Administration. When energy costs go up, so does inflation. As the current Democratic policies in Washington fail to learn this fundamental lesson, and they clearly haven't, there is a price to be had. "Clean Energy" is most certainly a worth while objective, yet the constraints of technology have a debilitating effect on the merits of "green energy" until those constraints can be overcome. When the Progressive Left treat "green energy" as some sort of religious experience, waving away the obvious pitfalls of that experience, rising energy prices, inflation, and all manner of negative outcomes ensue. At that point the political fall out will become apocalyptic, and Democrats are likely to feel the wrath of the population in this Country in November. The rich in this Country will be able to shield themselves from the worst of the coming disaster, not so the less fortunate. Just as in Sri Lanka the current government felt the weight of popular outrage not only from the poor, but all levels of their society. One hopes that the current Administration changes course before that time comes, but that course correction does not appear to be in the offing. This irrational adherence to the radical policies of Climate Change without a reliable alternative form of energy is asking for trouble. There is no "magic" path to utopia from changing to solar panels and wind power from fossil fuels, and the intransigent behavior by the progressive Left gives one little hope that an alternative clean energy source will see the light of day before the current efforts towards clean energy continue to founder on the rocks of technology not in existence.