Moppy Heads & Girls Going Ga Ga

Simple question. If emitting carbon dioxide into the air is, in fact, the cause of climate change. And if the goal remains to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius by 2050… wouldn’t you want the biggest producers of oil, natural gas, coal and methane at the table to discuss? Shouldn’t the question of cheap energy and civilization as we know it be part of the conversation? ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ December 8, 2023  |  [View Online](  |  [Sign Up]( Moppy Heads & Girls Going Ga Ga  “If you want a solution, you need a problem, because you’re going to go solve the problem. Climate change is the perfect problem. It’s a global challenge and requires a global solution.” — Jim Rickards, during a [Wiggin Sessions interview]( , John Lennon was shot and killed on this day in 1980. Lennon, if you’re aware, was a Beatle. And party to the writing duo of Lennon and McCartney. They formed a band in Liverpool, England while still in high school, and cut their teeth in Hamburg, Germany where there was a fad-driven American roots night club music scene. They became popular in the US as The Beatles in 1964 when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show, toured the U.S. and made a movie out of it called “A Hard Day’s Night”. It was only one year before when the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. CONTINUED BELOW... 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Seriously, trying to not be skeptical. I can’t help myself, I am skeptical. I just am. The phenomenon of the Beatles actually helps me to understand why climate change is such a feature of pop culture. When the Beatles came to town with their moppy heads, girls all over the U.S. went ga ga. Most of them had no clue they were listening to roots music. American roots music was popular among a small group of music industry aficionados and fans before 1964. Last July, for example, I was at Freedom Fest held in Memphis, Tennessee, home to Sun Music Studios who made a business of popularizing Elvis Presley, among others. The Rolling Stones deserve mention, too, because they were on the same wavelength as the Beatles… they were interested in and played old anthems of the South. Good stuff. Made wildly popular. Even if the good folks who were listening didn’t recognize that the soul and sound of the Brits emanated from the conflux of immigrants and cultures that made up the good ol’ US of A. In interviews, both McCartney and Mick Jagger give enormous credit to soul singers like Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson… all bards of the open road in early American music. The Beatles and the Stones went on to be super stars that we all know. They influenced three generations of thinkers, creators, artists… doers. An interesting, and misunderstood, fact about the Beatles: they only toured globally from 1964 to 1966. In 1966, they recorded the psychedelic expo Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. And so on. They became wildly successful enough commercially. John Lennon famously said they were more influential than “Jesus.” And like Jesus, Lennon was killed early in life. Both remain a popular sensation. Greta Thunberg also became famous at a young age. Whether it’s true or not she purportedly claimed over Twitter in 2018 that the world would end by 2023 because of our consumption of fossil fuels. She got angry and famous and inspired a generation of girls, not unlike the happy bee-boppers that followed the Beatles for two years back in the day. This group however is intent on admonishing the rest of the free world on our energy consumption habits. Did Al Gore recently claim that we were “boiling the oceans”? Yes, he did. On January 18, 2023. Both of them, Thunberg and Gore are pop stars of global warming alarmism. Their ideas even have some roots in science. Twisted roots. Gore proposed at COP28 this year, going on right now, that instead of the 100,000 attendees meeting in Dubai, they should only allow a select number of people—those who already agree that the goal of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 is necessary—to have voting rights at the event. For her part, Thunberg said she thought COP28 being held in Dubai hosted by the head of the UAE’s largest oil company, was “completely ridiculous.” Simple question. If emitting carbon dioxide into the air is, in fact, the cause of climate change. And if the goal remains to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius by 2050… wouldn’t you want the biggest producers of oil, natural gas, coal and methane at the table to discuss? Shouldn’t the question of cheap energy and civilization as we know it be part of the conversation? If climate change is a problem, it’s not a political one. Just because Thunberg and Gore surpassed their own mental health issues by glomming on to this issue doesn’t mean the rest of us have to lose our sensibilities about the bright blue ball, spinning free, we live on. Who doesn’t want clean air, safe drinking water, vibrant and teaming oceans? John Lennon also penned the popular tune “Imagine” which invites us all to imagine a world with no conflict. No wars. No religion, too. If climate change is a real problem, which many people believe it is, then it’s going to require real solutions, not angry, grunting, children or old white guys with political ambition. We already know there’s a mechanism for finding real solutions. Mises was best on this issue… price discovery through the market. What’s it worth for humanity to save the planet as we know it? We’ve been following Ray Dalio for a few months now. His book on Principles for Dealing with A Changing World Order is a helpful read. Dalio gave an important speech in Dubai at COP28 on Wednesday. Addressing the $130 trillion commitment to climate change technologies that were derived from COP26 in Glasgow, Dalio said, basically and we paraphrase: “Yes, climate change is a problem. It’s a global problem. But if you want private equity—from banks, family offices, hedge and pension funds—you’re going to have to show a profit.” CONTINUED BELOW... POWERED BY REPUBLICAN METAL COMPANY The Hidden Anchor Investment of the Elite Revealed There's ONE investment that's discreetly held by over 97.6% of the ultra wealthy. We're talking about Gold…But what the wealthy elite won't readily disclose, is the tax-free loophole they're leveraging to invest in gold without deploying their own capital. To follow the trail of the smart money whales… [Click here to claim your free copy of the Gold Investment Guide.]( CONTINUED... Since a trip I took to Greenland to look at the melting glaciers I have been a bit obsessed with the topic. On that trip, I befriended Bret Stephens who writes about, among other things, climate change for the New York Times. Bret wrote a brilliant piece for the New York Times magazine following our trip, essentially making the point, “if it’s real, then climate change is going to require a free market response.” Again, I’m paraphrasing for efficiency. You can read Bret’s article [here]( Pop culture might reflect frustration over a difficult issue. But it does very little to provide solutions. It’s also really easy and cheap to make fun of Greta and Al. So let’s just not do that… Follow you're own bliss, Addison Wiggin The Daily Missive P.S. I could go on a tirade about the nonsensical push towards Electric Vehicles, too. One of the folks we met on our trip to Greenland runs a research and exploration company who’ve recently partnered up with Cobalt, a company founded by Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and a few of their billionaire buddies. The firm is looking for deposits of the raw materials needed to build batteries and parts for electric cars. It’s enormously expensive and potentially catastrophic for the environment – the very thing electric cars are supposed to be designed to save.  Fads are what they are, right? Real problems require market solutions. Not policy. P.P.S. While we’re on the subject of pop sensations… Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour made over a billion dollars in 2023. Her private jets also emitted the equivalent of 550 years of the average American’s carbon output annually. Like I said, this is me trying my hardest not to be cynical. 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