An optimistic note
Let's hope
egregious satanic mutant Strahan is right!Greece is going to default, one way or another, that much is clear. The bigger question is whether it will also leave the euro and what that would mean. What is so far underappreciated is that a Greek exit would have appalling consequences for the climate.
Consummation devoutly to be wished!
The climate always takes a back seat when economies turn sour, but the impact of a euro break-up would be profound. ... A euro break-up is likely to shatter the EU, and with it the hard won architecture of climate policy.
For a start, the Emissions Trading System would be unlikely to survive. True, the ETS has been widely criticised as ineffectual, but the system at least imposes an international framework which could be strengthened and expanded. That would all be swept away, along with any obligation for countries to deliver their 2020 targets on emissions, renewables and energy efficiency.
Yay!
Of course when Strahan says "the climate", he actually means "infinite money, power and glory for mass-murdering pseudoscientists and all-consuming Wall Street speculators."
Besides breaking up the climate Mafia, the fall of the monstrous EU would be a heaven-sent wonder in every possible way.
The EU has been Axis Headquarters for the
Three Horsepersons of the Modern Apocalypse: "Global Warming" pseudoscience, Diversity, and Free Trade. All three are poisonous and deadly in various ways. All three give infinite power and riches to the elites who are already rich and powerful. All three steal power, money, work, dignity and life from the poor and working class in every miserable country infected by their evil.
If EU blows up, the world will have a significantly better chance of recovering from these terminal diseases. Without the single intellectual center of evil, the elites in each Euro country will find it easier to behave rationally, easier to give more consideration to the unique desires of their own people for a goddamn normal life.
It will only have an indirect effect on US and Australia, but our evil elites will at least be deprived of their external support. When they decide to kill more poor people, at least they won't be able to say "Everybody's doin it, doin it, doin it."