Burnt Cortés Ships and 'Net Zero' Romance
By Bill Ponton.
In 1519, Hernán Cortés and his fellow conquistadors arrived on the shores of a new exotic world. They soon learned that it was an outpost of a powerful, warlike empire on a large plateau in the interior. It was then that Cortés decided to march on the Aztec capital and conquer it. To dispel any notion among his crew that they would flee, he destroyed his ships, leaving them only victory or death as their way forward.
Cortés is an example of the classic romantic figure of history. Someone who is willing to gamble everything for gold and glory and is willing to lead his countrymen to ruin if his venture fails.
Today, we have leadership in the Western world with Cortés' romantic vision of marching us forward into the Net Zero highlands and not allowing anyone to turn back and embrace the comfort of their past, fossil fuel-fueled. Both figuratively and literally, these leaders have embarked on a plan of wanton destruction of the assets that have propelled our civilizational progress since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
https://www.climategate.nl/2023/12/schepen-van-cortes-en-net-zero-romantiek/
