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The push to get poor people to use a different kind of fuel, one more palatable to the rich, is not new. Just as Joe Biden and wealthy Western nations have endeavored to get poorer nations in Africa, Southeast Asia, and in the South Pacific to move away from coal power and switch to solar, wind, or other sustainable energies, aristocrats and upper classes of the past sought to get the poor to give up energy sources that actually work.
But what we’re seeing now is so much more than that. It’s the elitist push to eradicate all coal plants in the US, the demands that developing nations abandon the same fuel sources that made America and other rich nations so powerful and prosperous, and the dictates within the US that all Americans switch to electric vehicles and abandon fossil fuel energy. This is just the latest in a long line of efforts to force the poor and working class to adopt habits more palatable to their “betters.”
In Anton Chekov’s play Uncle Vanya, the country doctor Astrov gives one of the earliest literary diatribes on what he sees as the ecological problems facing Russia. Long before claims of climate change urged people to alter their lifestyles, nations to reimagine their economies, Astrov condemns the peasants for their use of lumber as a fuel source. Instead, he wants them to use something that is, in his view, more sustainable, but that creates more work for the peasants who need to gather the fuel source peat.
“You can burn peat in your stoves and build your barns of stone,” Astrov says, decrying the cutting down of the forests to serve needs of the people. “Oh, I don’t object, of course, to cutting wood when you have to, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the ax. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and the birds have been laid desolate; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever.
“And why?” He continues, before blaming the peasants. “Because men are too lazy and short-sighted to stoop and pick their fuel from the ground. Am I not right? Who but a senseless barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy what he cannot create himself? Man has reason and creative energy so that he may increase his possessions. Until now, though, he has not created but destroyed. The forests are disappearing, the rivers are drying up, the game is being exterminated, the climate is spoiled and the earth becomes poorer and uglier every day.”
Just like Biden, Trudeau, the World Economic Forum, and all the rest, Astrov’s concern is not for the people but for his own desires, which he then assumes are the noblest desires, the fulfillment of which will lead to the betterment of all mankind. It won’t, however, lead to better outcomes for the peasants, who instead of burning efficient, sustainable fuel will be forced to labor harder for the fuel that their “betters” claim is better for everyone.