Climate change is one of those issues that the Bien-Pensants around the world all agree upon. We must act.
If we do not act people will lose their beach houses. Plants will wither and die. Birds will fall from the sky. Just last week, whole communities in the Caribbean have been swept away.
There are, however, problems with eliminating or ameliorating climate change. For one thing, modern technology cannot seem to keep up with peoples’ ability to dream. Daydreams outpace technology every time.
Dream up a problem such as climate change, and I will guarantee you that it will be years before climate change is solved by technology. Though when I ponder some of the solutions now being offered for climate change, it might be worth the wait.
Consider Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She has dreamed up a vast scheme. She calls it the “Green New Deal.” It envisages all our homes and office buildings and even factories being revised and rebuilt according to her green code.
Others are more moderate. They would only wipe out the commercial airline industry, though the automobile industry could be next. Already there is an ambitious plan afoot in our country to end the life of the plastic straw.
Oh, yes, there is another problem with climate change. It is not a winning issue with the electorate. Any government that attempts this sort of Green Adventure almost immediately falls.
I cannot think of a country on Earth whose majority supports climate change legislation. Possibly, in the Vatican, there is a majority that supports climate change legislation. We know the pope favors it. Yet, I would say that the Vatican is not a conventional democracy.
Australia is a conventional democracy, and climate change legislation has not done very well in Australia. There have been seven governments in recent years that came to power in Australia, and all in one way or another came a cropper because of climate change.
The most famous example of a climate changer being defeated by a climate change denier in Australia was in 2013.
In that election, Kevin Rudd, who ran on a platform of carbon taxes, was demolished by Tony Abbott, who once referred to climate change activism as crap. He sounds downright Trumpian to me.
Last Wednesday, we saw the Democrats’ lonely crowd of candidates traipse across a stage for a ghostly pageant hosted by CNN.
The network finished dead last that night in the ratings with the other two cable news channels elbowing CNN aside. The network’s average audience during the seven-hour event was a measly 1.1 million viewers.
The topic for the seven-hour spectacular (yes, seven hours) was climate change. Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, apparently thought it was the major issue with the Democratic hopefuls, and obviously, they agreed.
Gaffable Joe Biden, Pocahontas, Comrade Bernie Sanders and all the rest arrived on stage Wednesday night to talk about climate change all night long if need be.
They compared it to World War II. They compared it to cancer. They blamed it for wars already in progress and wars in the future.
One ludicrous comparison was between climate change and overpopulation. The wretched of Africa could be saved by Planned Parenthood’s arrival in the Dark Continent, all wearing pith helmets and garb from L.L. Bean.
Frankly, the Democrats’ obsession with climate change is more than odd. It is delusional.
As The American Spectator’s Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn wrote in commenting on the Wednesday night revels, not climate change but healthcare “matters to voters in a real, tangible way, and not in an abstract sense like climate change.”
Healthcare consumes 18 percent of the American budget, trending upward toward 20 percent by mid-decade. Americans now spend $3.5 trillion or so on healthcare with the federal, state, and local government footing 45 percent of the bill.
How will we pay for it in 2025? The subject was not even discussed last Wednesday by the leading Democratic contenders.
Messrs. Lawrence and Flynn are putting their money on healthcare not climate change as an issue in 2020.
Read more at Washington Times
In one way comparing the radical green agenda to World War II has some validity. In order to implement such a radical agenda the country would have to be fully mobilized. Every family, company, local government, as well as state and federal would have to fully committed. The result would be enough poverty for everyone in order to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
The Dem’s are throwing the 2020 election but grooming future generations of voters. The MSM , Google and academia are complicit.
We all know the old saying in business .” The customer is always right ” .
When you have a socialist party the party is always right .
The Democrats have jumped the shark and gone full on socialist which is a transition to communist (Enter Bernie ) . We know that because they enter the never ending current election cycle trying to shove their belief system and priorities down voters throats .
When asked, voters don’t have the earths fever even in the top 5 priorities yet the socialists tell them it is the number 1 priority , an existential threat , a crisis bigger than the second world war , the entire energy sector must be nationalized , fossil fuels banned and all related jobs terminated .
The Democrats went full on nut job during the CNN beauty contest where we learned straws would be banned and natural gas fracking stopped on day one
of Democrat rule .
Can we dispense the notion this group of socialist is democratic .
The Democrat party exists in name only . Calling them the Greenocrat
Socialist Party represents what they have actually morphed into.
CNN did the country a huge favor in showcasing what has happened to the Democrat Party . Not one of those people represents the values that made the USA the most successful nation on earth despite massive room for improvement .
Thank you CNN mission accomplished .
I wish that CNN’s ratings had been much higher so that more of the American voters could hear straight from the mouths of these nincompoops what they want to do to our country to solve something that doesn’t need nor can it be solved. Some reporter needs to ask them how our society will function without fossil fuels, depending only on whatever “green energy” can produce? But that won’t happen.
If anyone even bothers to listen to these Liberal Democrats Screwballs we would think the world was going to go Boom AOC is a loose nut falling from the Green Nut Tree Just another Liberal Democrat and a Globalists
They should compare Climate Change to AOC’s crotch and Bernie’s mouth – All three stink.