Nothing reveals the disparities between the “haves” and the “have-nots” like a climate conference.
As I drove from Jerry Brown’s San Francisco global warming summit to view CFACT’s billboard campaign revealing the folly of California’s new 100% renewable/zero-CO2 energy law, I saw something shocking.
From the elevated highway above Oakland, I saw that I was passing over one of the Bay Area’s many homeless camps.
I got off the highway to say hello. There I met Gerry Damiano, an extraordinary man, and a clearer thinker than Governor Jerry in my rear view.
Watch the video of our conversation here.
“I think he’s (Brown’s) living in the past,” he said. “Los Angeles has over 60,000 on the streets… They’re killing our jobs… I think he needs to change priorities. We pay for it in extra taxes on our fuel, we pay for it on the price we pay for the power of any kind, and we get no benefit.”
At CFACT, we’ve seen this time and again.
At UN COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico, CFACT bussed delegates from their air-conditioned luxury hotels and meeting rooms to the nearby neighborhood of La Libertad where people live without electricity.
At UN Rio+20, CFACT allied with activists from the “favelas,” (squatter villages) that line the mountains surrounding Rio de Janeiro‘s luxurious Copacabana and Ipanema beaches where the VIPs were staying to reveal the nightmarishly expensive energy means for the poor.
The climate elite shuttle about in private jets and limousines, like 18th-century French nobles in gilded carriages, ignoring the high costs and low (if any) benefits of their “solutions.”
They are self-absorbed and blissfully disconnected from the realities impacting real people’s lives.
Here are some realities facing California:
- Population 39.8 million
- World’s fifth largest economy recently edging out the U.K.
- 25% of America’s homeless population
- One million plus energy poor
- Nearly $1 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities
- Over 108,000 GWh of electricity on the chopping block
- 2018 electric rate hikes as high as 80%
- #1 in net U-Hauls leaving the state
When electricity prices drive manufacturers out of state, will California’s ruling class take it in stride, or demand the rest of us share their self-inflicted pain?
Left-wing climate policy strangles economies and hits the poor hardest.
California is leading the way. Backward.
Read more at CFACT
Maybe Dope Francis, the last
can turn Cherry Brown around
Like from being a failed Jesuit into
a real Jesuit like himself
Pluck your magic twanger, Franny !
You can’t be canonized without miracles.
It is impressive that California has become the world’s fifth largest economy. Governor Brown is obviously on the right path to correct that situation. When the effort on climate change in Europe made energy artificially more expensive, many companies and their associated jobs left for places like China. As far as companies in California, they can escapee the rising cost of energy without even leaving the country.
Moonbeam Brown is a delusional lunatic chasing imaginary monsters
California homelessness is the eco-anarchists vision . Hollow out the middle class
and jack energy prices so the poorest can be depopulated first . Over 100 million Americans with zero retirement savings and moonbeam policies to steal what is left .
Mexafornia North .
Socialist Toronto city council has been accused for years of attracting the homeless into the downtown. Make the rich bastards step over them to get to their corporate towers. It’s deliberate.
Shame on capitalism.
Shame on us all!!!!!
Shame! Shame! Shame!