The California city that was home to 1960’s radicals and known for excessively liberal politics declared a “climate emergency” on Tuesday evening, backing policies to “humanely stabilize” the human population.
The Berkeley City Council unanimously voted to mobilize other California governments “to initiate a just local, state, national, and global climate emergency mobilization to restore a safe climate.”
The council’s resolution, introduced by Council Member Cheryl Davila, warned that man-made global warming was “driving a global freshwater scarcity crisis and the sixth mass extinction of species, which could devastate much of life on earth for the next 10 million years.” The resolution calls for a World War II-level mobilization effort to fight global warming.
Davila’s resolution claims, “The community of Berkeley and surrounding counties, despite well-meaning efforts, have disproportionately contributed to dangerous greenhouse gas emissions and thus must substantially curtail use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions on behalf of the larger planetary community to enable a rapid, just transition to a stable climate.”
“Reversing global warming and restoring a safe and stable climate requires an emergency mobilization to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors at wartime speed, to rapidly and safely drawdown or remove all the excess carbon from the atmosphere, and to implement safe measures to protect all people and species from the consequences of abrupt warming in the near-term,” the resolution claims.
To accomplish this, “requires an effort to preserve and restore half of Earth’s biodiversity in interconnected wildlife corridors and to humanely stabilize population,” the resolution claims.
Davila’s resolution also calls for “a shift toward a climate-resilient society and culture that prioritize conservation, community, and mutual aid over consumerism and narcissism.”
The resolution’s main goal is to become a “carbon sink” by 2030, meaning Berkeley would emit net negative greenhouse gas emissions by that time.
Environmental activists were thrilled with Berkeley’s decision to declare a “climate emergency.” Writer Eric Holthaus tweeted it “sets the new standard for what those of us with means should be striving for at this critical moment in Earth history.”
Berkeley is not the only city to have global warming targets. Many U.S. mayors signed onto a pledge spearheaded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to honor the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Bloomberg promised $200 million in 2017 to help cities tackle global warming. Indeed, Berkeley signed onto the “We Are Still In” pledge along with 264 other cities and counties across the country.
But is Berkeley’s pledge actually achievable? Evidence from other cities suggests ambitious climate plans often fail.
More than 1,000 U.S. mayors signed onto a pledge in 2007 to meet the emissions reductions cuts required by the Kyoto Protocol — the legally binding predecessor to the Paris accord the U.S. Senate never ratified.
Washington Policy Center director Todd Myers wrote that “virtually all these cities had failed to live up to the pledge their mayors had made, missing the Kyoto targets badly.”
“The results are instructive,” Myers wrote in National Review in June. Most interestingly, New York City only met Bloomberg’s Kyoto goal after being ravaged by the “great recession,” Myers noted.
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After thinking about it I have concluded that there is indeed a climate change emergency. The IPCC models are failing. There are fewer hurricanes and those that we have had are not significantly stronger. The polar bears are thriving. Diseases like Malaria have not extended their range. It is very obvious that our civilization can not be powered by renewable energy. Attempts to do have resulted high energy bills, wasted tax money, tens of thousands of early deaths because eldery couldn’t afford to heat their homes, and hundreds of thousands of home having their power cut off because they couldn’t pay the inflated power bills.
This is a real crisis for those who want to use the climate change movement to force de-industrialization, implement socialism, expand the power of government especially the UN, and transfer the wealth of the industrial nations to the third world nations. Immediate emergency political action is necessary for these goals to be achieved.
I have followed the climate change fraud almost since the beginning. There was a serious suggestion by one author for war time mobilization to fight what was then global warming. However, there is a big difference between climate change and World War II. During that war bombs were falling on the UK. Today, it is obvious that nothing out of the ordinary is happening with the climate. It is obvious what the Berkeley City Council is doing is nothing more than a political stunt. This gives me a little more respect for the UK author who was serious in his proposal.
I wonder if it is a coincidence that my cuckoo clock announced the time just as I started to read this article.
Berkley is stuck in a time warp . They must be circulating the 1968 book by Herr Ehrlich
The Population Bomb . Suggestions for the humane elimination of people .
The global warming con-game is over but it only masked the goals of communists(now politely referred to as globalists ) and the goals of mass genocide by arrogant A holes .
I find it funny that these anti-Semitic council members in Berkley are demanding that borders be opened to folks of a demographic that have more children than the average American family while, at the same time, being alarmist about rising populations.
The Malthusian concept is alive and well it seems. But here’s the one that gets me; ‘remove excess carbon.’ It’s actually possible to get Anthropogenic carbon DIOXIDE emissions to ZERO which would acheive their population objective as billions of people would die in the process.
But also, what is the ‘safe’ level???? What happens if AGW goes to zero and temps keep rising?? Just exactly how are you going to sequester CO2 out of the ATMOSPHERE or how are you going to stop the natural exuding of CO2???
What scares me is that she truly believes her ideas are mechanically possible. She actually thinks that people will turn off their air conditioners, furnaces and walk miles to work.
Spot on. Exactly how much “carbon” [CO2] is okay and how much is “excess?” Who gets to draw that line? None of these loons has the faintest idea how much energy is required to “draw down” CO2 from air at 400 ppm. Where is all of this energy going to come from? Malthus is grinning like a madman now.
Berkeley a bottomless hole of Leftists,Bolshveks,Commies,Watermelons(Green Outside,Red Inside) and radical extremists if there was just another reason to avoid stink holes like Berkeley here is one
Quote: “Reversing global warming and restoring a safe and stable climate requires an emergency mobilization to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors at wartime speed, to rapidly and safely drawdown or remove all the excess carbon from the atmosphere, and to implement safe measures to protect all people and species from the consequences of abrupt warming in the near-term,” the resolution claims.” Where do these people continue to come up with these weird ideas. They can’t possibly believe all this stuff. Let me state the truth: If you remove all the CO2 (which they mistakenly call carbon) you will kill every living thing on this planet. Period!!!
Never mind we never had a “safe and stable” climate. Or weather.