The hypocrisy of the EU
I have written in the previous article that I consider the behaviour and thinking of the EU and its leaders arrogant. While I was thinking about that, it came to my mind that there is something more behind the EU plans, mostly in the environmental area. Hypocrisy.
There is an idea, materialized into a plan of some degree to lower the environmental damage, pollution and the greenhouse gas production in the EU. While the idea itself is reasonable, the means to achieve this are not. The EU wants to ban petrol cars and replace them with electric vehicles. There are plans to reduce emission by tightening the rules for selling the EU Allowances and widening the range of industry that will need to obtain them. There are also plans to have regular citizens buy the EU Allowances in order to maintain devices labeled as harmful for the environment.
This plan to further reduce the emission will damage the industry in the EU beyond repair. Majority of the cheaper products is already being imported from outside of the EU, very often from Asia. And the transport itself is not helping to lower the emission at all. Moreover, the automotive industry is one of the most important industries in the EU. Be it the VW group, Fiat, Peugeot and Citroen or Renault. Imposing a ban on petrol cars in the EU will be a blow to the automotive industry in the EU as there will be no point in producing car that are not sellable in the EU. Of course, the plan is to replace them with electric vehicles. But there is one big question. Will the efficiency of electric cars and the infrastructure for them be on par with petrol cars by 2035? While the green fanatics claim so, there is no certainty in this.
And then there is another thing. Manufacturing electric cars will also produce emission and if the EU Allowances are going to be reduced in the future in order to protect the environment, even electric cars production might not save the EU automotive industry as buying these Allowances will become too expensive. This is however still not the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that the EU is limiting the harmful industries on its soil but there will always be demand for the products of these industries. The only difference is that the products manufactured by means harmful to the environment will be exported from another part of the world, where the governments have not yet gone crazy. That is the hypocrisy of EU. EU wants to emerge as a leader in environmental protection resulting in ending a lot of industries within the EU, but on the other hand will import all the life necessities from abroad which will further damage the world environment, because beside the pollution caused by the manufacturing of the goods itself, the environment will be further polluted by the transport of these goods to the EU.
So the results of the EU environmental activities will be in fact the opposite. It might help to lower the emission within the EU, but for the price of economically damaging the member states and also for the price of increase in pollution outside the EU, because the rest of the world will be producing more of the goods that will not be produced in the EU, but will be imported there.
Then there is one more important point. What is actually still being produced in the EU. I have mentioned cars, but what about the rest? Electronics, clothing, home utilities, majority of all these products are being already imported. So how will the attempts to lower the pollution in the EU even affect this? EU is producing very few things and by its policies it will eventually make the owners of these few manufactures to relocate their production outside the EU and only import the completed products, further increasing the pollution by the means of transport.
There is, however, one big industry which is still strong within the EU and which is now being more and more targeted by the regulation. Agriculture and food production. It is questionable if EU is still able to be independent on import in terms of food supply, but there is no doubt that agriculture and food producing are still strong industries within the EU. However, as we could see in the last month, there is an increasing pressure to regulate farming by banning the use of certain fertilizers and also by trying to limit the animal growing under the pretext that animals produce more greenhouse gasses. The attempts to regulate farming are one of the most dangerous ones. While the cars we already have, the clothing, the electronic devices will last for some time even after its EU producers go bankrupt, the farming products last only for a season. Then you have to plant them and let them grow again. And once we kill the farming industry, it will take time again to revive it and during that time the EU would be fully dependent on import. Can you imagine the danger of being fully or from a big part dependent on imported food? In case of any conflict in the world, and as we have seen recently with the Russian invasion and as we are seeing China increasing the threats against Taiwan, the big imperialistic conflicts are not a thing from the past, we must be able to secure our own independent means of production. And as I am mentioning, clothing, electronics or cars will, with a bit of luck, last for a while until we reopen the closed factories. However, we would face unimaginable issues in case the farmers and food producers in the EU go bankrupt. Because it takes at least one season to start a farm again, and even more in case the soil is not fertile enough to be used for farming from the beginning.
So, what should the EU do exactly? The opposite of their current plans. EU must stop thinking of itself as a world messiah, the leader to whom the world will eventually look up and start thinking about itself as an entity in need of industrial and agricultural independence. EU must start supporting local manufacturing, local production, so that eventually the member states will become as independent on the rest of the world as possible. Only this is the way to actually improve the worldwide environment as by having as many products produced in the EU we will be able to stop the unnecessary transport of goods from all over the world to the EU.
The other way is, of course, more regulation. The same way EU wants to ban selling new petrol cars in the future, it might try to ban unnecessary goods, luxurious clothing or new clothing in general, they might try to reduce the number of mobile phones and computer owned by one person, etc. Think about it. Given the lack of understanding how the society and world economy works manifested by the current EU leaders, I would not be surprised if such kind of regulation did not already came to their minds. Then it is only about us, the citizens of the EU member states to ask ourselves, if we really want to live in such dictatorship or if we want to maintain the freedom of choice.
Why would the EU leaders do this you might ask? Don't they see how hypocritical it is, trying to reduce the industry in the EU only to have the necessary products imported from countries outside the EU? Arrogance, as described in the previous article, but also combined with complete lack of understanding of the world. Maybe the only bit logical explanation is, that the EU leaders think the citizens will become so poor after most of the industries go bankrupt that they will no longer be able to afford such thing and therefore the pollution from transport will decrease. But by then the EU will be overtaken by its enemies, be it Russia, China, or Africans. And while this plan seems like a good conspiracy theory, I am afraid the current EU leaders are not capable of such complex thinking and we have to go with the fact, that they are just a hypocrites unable to see further than outside their beloved EU.
There is an idea, materialized into a plan of some degree to lower the environmental damage, pollution and the greenhouse gas production in the EU. While the idea itself is reasonable, the means to achieve this are not. The EU wants to ban petrol cars and replace them with electric vehicles. There are plans to reduce emission by tightening the rules for selling the EU Allowances and widening the range of industry that will need to obtain them. There are also plans to have regular citizens buy the EU Allowances in order to maintain devices labeled as harmful for the environment.
This plan to further reduce the emission will damage the industry in the EU beyond repair. Majority of the cheaper products is already being imported from outside of the EU, very often from Asia. And the transport itself is not helping to lower the emission at all. Moreover, the automotive industry is one of the most important industries in the EU. Be it the VW group, Fiat, Peugeot and Citroen or Renault. Imposing a ban on petrol cars in the EU will be a blow to the automotive industry in the EU as there will be no point in producing car that are not sellable in the EU. Of course, the plan is to replace them with electric vehicles. But there is one big question. Will the efficiency of electric cars and the infrastructure for them be on par with petrol cars by 2035? While the green fanatics claim so, there is no certainty in this.
And then there is another thing. Manufacturing electric cars will also produce emission and if the EU Allowances are going to be reduced in the future in order to protect the environment, even electric cars production might not save the EU automotive industry as buying these Allowances will become too expensive. This is however still not the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that the EU is limiting the harmful industries on its soil but there will always be demand for the products of these industries. The only difference is that the products manufactured by means harmful to the environment will be exported from another part of the world, where the governments have not yet gone crazy. That is the hypocrisy of EU. EU wants to emerge as a leader in environmental protection resulting in ending a lot of industries within the EU, but on the other hand will import all the life necessities from abroad which will further damage the world environment, because beside the pollution caused by the manufacturing of the goods itself, the environment will be further polluted by the transport of these goods to the EU.
So the results of the EU environmental activities will be in fact the opposite. It might help to lower the emission within the EU, but for the price of economically damaging the member states and also for the price of increase in pollution outside the EU, because the rest of the world will be producing more of the goods that will not be produced in the EU, but will be imported there.
Then there is one more important point. What is actually still being produced in the EU. I have mentioned cars, but what about the rest? Electronics, clothing, home utilities, majority of all these products are being already imported. So how will the attempts to lower the pollution in the EU even affect this? EU is producing very few things and by its policies it will eventually make the owners of these few manufactures to relocate their production outside the EU and only import the completed products, further increasing the pollution by the means of transport.
There is, however, one big industry which is still strong within the EU and which is now being more and more targeted by the regulation. Agriculture and food production. It is questionable if EU is still able to be independent on import in terms of food supply, but there is no doubt that agriculture and food producing are still strong industries within the EU. However, as we could see in the last month, there is an increasing pressure to regulate farming by banning the use of certain fertilizers and also by trying to limit the animal growing under the pretext that animals produce more greenhouse gasses. The attempts to regulate farming are one of the most dangerous ones. While the cars we already have, the clothing, the electronic devices will last for some time even after its EU producers go bankrupt, the farming products last only for a season. Then you have to plant them and let them grow again. And once we kill the farming industry, it will take time again to revive it and during that time the EU would be fully dependent on import. Can you imagine the danger of being fully or from a big part dependent on imported food? In case of any conflict in the world, and as we have seen recently with the Russian invasion and as we are seeing China increasing the threats against Taiwan, the big imperialistic conflicts are not a thing from the past, we must be able to secure our own independent means of production. And as I am mentioning, clothing, electronics or cars will, with a bit of luck, last for a while until we reopen the closed factories. However, we would face unimaginable issues in case the farmers and food producers in the EU go bankrupt. Because it takes at least one season to start a farm again, and even more in case the soil is not fertile enough to be used for farming from the beginning.
So, what should the EU do exactly? The opposite of their current plans. EU must stop thinking of itself as a world messiah, the leader to whom the world will eventually look up and start thinking about itself as an entity in need of industrial and agricultural independence. EU must start supporting local manufacturing, local production, so that eventually the member states will become as independent on the rest of the world as possible. Only this is the way to actually improve the worldwide environment as by having as many products produced in the EU we will be able to stop the unnecessary transport of goods from all over the world to the EU.
The other way is, of course, more regulation. The same way EU wants to ban selling new petrol cars in the future, it might try to ban unnecessary goods, luxurious clothing or new clothing in general, they might try to reduce the number of mobile phones and computer owned by one person, etc. Think about it. Given the lack of understanding how the society and world economy works manifested by the current EU leaders, I would not be surprised if such kind of regulation did not already came to their minds. Then it is only about us, the citizens of the EU member states to ask ourselves, if we really want to live in such dictatorship or if we want to maintain the freedom of choice.
Why would the EU leaders do this you might ask? Don't they see how hypocritical it is, trying to reduce the industry in the EU only to have the necessary products imported from countries outside the EU? Arrogance, as described in the previous article, but also combined with complete lack of understanding of the world. Maybe the only bit logical explanation is, that the EU leaders think the citizens will become so poor after most of the industries go bankrupt that they will no longer be able to afford such thing and therefore the pollution from transport will decrease. But by then the EU will be overtaken by its enemies, be it Russia, China, or Africans. And while this plan seems like a good conspiracy theory, I am afraid the current EU leaders are not capable of such complex thinking and we have to go with the fact, that they are just a hypocrites unable to see further than outside their beloved EU.
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