The Energy Absurdity of the Week: What it Means When Your Progressive Mayor Signs Your City up to the WEF Partner C40 City Program

Following the news last week that the former mayor of Austin, Steve Adler, and current Mayor of Houston Sylvester Turner have made their cities participants in the WEF partner C40 City program, several readers in those cities have reached out to me trying to find out what it all means. So, I decided to do a little research to figure it all out.

The photo accompanying this piece is a screen snip of the title page of this group’s “Headline Report” published in 2019 and re-emphasized this year. That re-emphasis is what led to the recent media stories about the program. And boy, what a program it is.

Regular readers and subscribers to my work here will know that I’ve written several times during 2023 about the very noticeable shift in the overarching narrative related to the energy transition that has taken place since January. That obviously intentional shift, well-coordinated with ever-cooperative legacy media platforms, has essentially ended the original narrative and replaced it with a new, less rosy one.

The previous narrative was the rank fantasy claiming that we can just do away with all high-energy-density fossil fuels and gas-powered cars and replace them with low-energy-density wind, solar and EVs, and do it all without you even noticing a difference in your daily lives as we create a beautiful, clean world filled with sweetness, light, rainbows and presumably Unicorns.

The narrative we’ve seen rising and now being pushed by our propaganda media this year was necessitated by the rising public dissatisfaction with the always-socialist public policies that are bankrupting the developed nations of the west while simultaneously causing massive increases in the cost of all forms of energy. This new narrative now tacitly admits the chosen alternatives won’t work as promised, but tells us we must accept them to “save the planet,” while also accepting we will have to live smaller, less mobil lives with far lower standards of living and endure not just the higher costs for energy but all manner of additional deprivations as well.