{"id":252605,"date":"2022-04-23T06:42:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T06:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252605"},"modified":"2022-04-25T08:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T08:04:45","slug":"operation-thermostat-energy-rationing-the-pivot-from-ukraine-to-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252605","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOperation Thermostat\u201d: Energy rationing & the pivot from Ukraine to climate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian April 22, 202022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Italy is officially becoming the first country to start rationing energy after cutting their supply of Russian gas and oil.<\/p>\n

From next month, until at least March 2023, public buildings across the nation will be banned from running air conditioning at lower than 25 degrees, or heating higher than 19 degrees.<\/p>\n

The plan, termed \u201cOperation Thermostat\u201d in the press, is being sold as a way for ordinary people to show \u201csolidarity\u201d with the people of Ukraine, with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi saying:<\/p>\n

Do we want to have peace or do we want to have the air conditioning on?\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not exactly sure how adjusting your thermostat is going to achieve \u2018peace\u2019, but hey we\u2019re living in the age of sentimental manipulation over reason, so \u2013 just believe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For example, the Guardian is illustrating the story<\/a> with pro-peace artwork allegedly done by Italian schoolchildren (in English, for some reason).<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no talk yet of this kind of energy-rationing rule extending to private businesses or homes, but a marker has been set down. Expect other nations to follow suit.<\/p>\n

After that of course will come the opinion pieces asking questions like \u201cwe rationed gas to fight Putin, why not climate change?\u201d<\/em>, and headlines saying that \u201cEurope-wide gas rationing was good for the planet\u201d<\/em> or something similar.<\/p>\n

\u2026Oh wait, it\u2019s already happening<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Honestly, when I originally wrote the above paragraph I had no idea the Wall Street Journal had published this opinion piece for Earth Day<\/a>, headlined:<\/p>\n

This Earth Day, We Could Be Helping the Environment\u2014and Ukraine\u201d<\/p>\n

It argues that rationing energy to fight Putin is just like digging for victory to fight Hitler, and \u2013 just as I predicted \u2013 would also be good for the planet:<\/p>\n

During the Second World War, victory demanded more oil [\u2026] In the wars dominating the globe today \u2014 Putin\u2019s land grab in Ukraine, and the global land grab caused by rising sea levels and spreading deserts \u2014 victory demands getting off fossil fuels as fast as we possibly can.<\/p>\n

It even hints at a quasi-lockdown \u2013 this time for the sake of beating Putin and combating climate change:<\/p>\n

Everyone who can work from home could continue to do so<\/strong>, at least on, say, Mondays, knocking a day off the national commute. Carpools could be organized, taking special advantage of the fact that there are now two million electric cars on the road. More bike paths could be made available, and, when air-conditioning season begins, Americans could turn their thermostats up a degree.<\/p>\n

The agenda was pretty obvious right from the start.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting that \u201coperation thermostat\u201d should be announced on April 22nd \u2013 Earth Day \u2013 despite having zero to do with climate change. It\u2019s also noteworthy that climate protests groups have piggy-backed on the idea to call for an EU-wide boycott of Russia\u2019s fossil fuels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We already know they planned a \u201cpivot from covid to climate\u201d,<\/a> and moves like this mean they can easily \u201cpivot from Ukraine to climate\u201d too.<\/p>\n

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In early Spring it may not mean much but ‘Operation Thermostat’ could mean a very cold, dark winter in 2022\/23 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252610,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252605\/revisions\/252610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}