Energy efficiency is an ethos. It is applied to every decision that is made for the masses. The foods we eat, transportation, working conditions, education, the built environment, materials for everything from bean bag chairs to toothpaste tubes, and yes, the building codes.
Rightly so as they say. Buildings are a huge opportunity to save energy. Thing is, you aren’t saving anything any more than you save at Walmart. You spent money so how did you save money…. you now have less of it. When it comes to energy we reach out to the scientific community for guidance. Unfortunately, grant whores have a loud voice.
“To scientists, conservation of energy does not mean saving energy. Instead, the law of conservation of energy says that energy is neither created nor destroyed. When people use energy, it doesn't disappear. Energy changes from one form of energy into another form of energy.”
Here I want to tell you about a friend of mine. His name is Abram. Abram emigrated to the USA from Syria. And as you naturally assumed, Abram owns a liquor store. I asked Abram what he did in Syria. He said that in the mornings he protested and in the afternoons he was an accountant. I asked what he protested in the mornings to which he replied, “The cause of the day. Anything and everything.”
Does that bring a Greta to mind. For sure you have witnessed the scowl on a young face, felt the condemnation and scorn from a disenfranchised protester. Where’s the science in that? Well it is masked, hidden behind a loud chant. The truth is not the problem… it’s morning.
The planet Earth is not so large that local happenings can’t have an effect over the globe. Take for example the supposed asteroid destruction that wiped out the dinosaurs. Lucky thing that, for we got oil as reparations. If it hadn’t been for Dino the Dinosaur we wouldn’t have Diner’s Club cards or the great Pacific plastic gyre.
Argument aside, humans are destructive. We are animals in the basic connotation of the word. What we do to the environment can have profound consequences. Damming rivers for example. Dam must have come from the first time a person saw a beaver’s handiwork.
Smog. Smog is an ugly word. Heat islands, now some are painting the roads white. Ocean pollution…. when it rains we are told to stay out of the surf for a few days…. the hormone estrogen is a constant. Mercury in tuna. We used to play with the stuff and now we are eating it. There’s lead in toddlers and not enough of it in criminals…
….and then we were on a road trip going north on the 5 freeway. Wendy was the first to notice…she’s always first and sometimes I never get a whiff… This I noticed. So strong it must have been making her sick. Cows! For as far as I could see. Pens with shoulder to ass cows. The leaders of the cows were standing atop mounds of the byproduct of too many cows.
Humans did that to other humans. Your nose burns…eyes water. There is certain to be a military application. Could be that Greta was here and never got over it. There needs to be a code section for “Crowds of Cows”. A picture of that place could serve as the definition.
Isn’t that a more immediate environmental concern? Go there once and for life you will know that it is not a healthy place to be. Where’s the protest over this? Can I get some Syrians here?
California has a grizzly bear on the state seal. The people killed all of the grizzly bears. A few other things that you can’t find in California: a new house without a solar array, a shower head that lets water come out, toilets that flush the first time. Soon there will be no natural gas allowed in a dwelling, fossil fuel powered cars will be fossils.
Is there room for the cult of climate alarm in the building codes? On the face of it, sure, why not. …. But they got carried away with it. Once you have a proper perspective of the relative amount of chemical impact that petroleum has on the environment, killing the industry is draconian. The Green Code is akin to swatting flies with a shotgun. It works until it doesn’t.
There is no room for dissent. Question the premise and be labeled a climate denier. Called crazy, equated with terrorism. MAGA. When the last GTO sputters to empty they will come after cement…. That as they strip the earth for the elements to make batteries that exist forever, unless they catch fire…then they just flame for a long time.
