Left-wing lawmakers in Britain have launched a ‘Green New Deal’ bill which they claim would “decarbonize the economy” and “eradicate inequality” by dramatically slashing UK greenhouse gas emissions at an accelerated pace.
The Decarbonisation and Economic Strategy Bill was tabled by Green Party MP Caroline Lucas and Labour’s Clive Lewis, who presented their “purposefully radical” plan in Parliament on Tuesday, where it passed for a second reading to be heard April 5.
“Our climate and our society are in crisis – but our government is failing to act. It is now clear that we need a bold and radical plan to fight the climate crisis at the scale that scientists say is necessary,” said Lucas.
“To do that we need to transform our economy and society at the speed necessary to prevent climate breakdown. We need to do what is required of us – not simply what is seen as politically possible.”
The deep-green, far-left ideas driving the bill have been “recently invigorated in the U.S.” by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, noted Lucas, referring to the Democratic Socialist Rep. for New York whose own ambitious Green New Deal Resolution was voted down 0-57 in the Senate this week.
This is purposefully radical territory
Faced with climate breakdown & spiralling inequality, we must push the boundaries of what’s seen as politically possible
We need a #GreenNewDeal to transform our economy in 10 years
Today @labourlewis & I tabled a Bill to make it happen pic.twitter.com/GR3oACGc7i
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) March 26, 2019
Writing in The Guardian Wednesday, the Brighton Pavilion MP said the launch of the bill “could scarcely be more urgent”, asserting that “the UN’s top scientists have warned we have just 11 years to halve global emissions and avoid climate catastrophe”.
Lucas’s alarmist claims echoed similarly dramatic language from Lewis the previous day when the shadow minister presented the bill in Parliament alleging that the UK “must reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent within a decade to avoid climate meltdown”.
The bill orders the government to plow huge sums of taxpayers’ money into a ten-year “investment strategy” to “decarbonize the United Kingdom economy and … eradicate inequality” with an “employee-led transition from high-carbon to low and zero-carbon industry”, as well as demanding stricter environmental regulations.
Delingpole: Loony Greens Demand Meat Tax https://t.co/6sMy58yVNA
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 8, 2019
While Lucas claims the world faces “catastrophe” without industrialised countries slashing carbon emissions, enacting punishing ‘green’ taxes on citizens, and restricting their freedoms, the open borders migration policies she and her party calls for would result in a massive increase to global CO2 output.
“Richer regions and communities do not have the right to use migration controls to protect their privileges from others,” according to ‘principles’ listed on the Green Party’s migration policy page.
But polls show up to two-thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s 1.1 billion population — which is projected to more than double to 2. 5 billion by 2050 — want to move to EU nations or the U.S.
These transfers of populations from low-emissions countries in the Global South to rich nations with much higher carbon output per person resulting from the open borders policies advocated by pro-mass migration campaigners such as Lucas would ironically have the impact of significantly boosting greenhouse gas emissions.
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Poke around the internet and you can find fables like “The little red hen” rewritten for socialist education, or Bill Ayers definition of meritocracy.
Such a radical agenda may be more plausible than many think. The easiest way to transform an economy is to destroy it.
I take issue with “Richer regions and communities do not have the right to use migration controls to protect their privileges from others.” These privileges she is talking about where hard earned. Though farming and the lumber industry, my family built this nation, along with others. There was a lot of sacrifice to do so. My great grandfather was killed when the steam engine he was driving exploded. My family fought in World War I and II. As a fighter pilot my father was shot down and was the only one in his squadron to survive. For three generations my family has helped make this country’s high tech industry what it is. Immigrants coming to this county have done nothing to make it what it is, and we are just suppose to hand it over to them?
Well said, David. However, the socialists aren’t listening.
By promoting unvetted, mass immigration, they are using our ancestors creation as bait. Why? Immigrants vote for the people who opened the door and let them in.
In addition, allowing mass immigration is very consistent with the socialist philosophy. That is to take away from those who have earned what they have in order to give to those who haven’t earned it.
Before you sign the contract its always a good idea to read the fine print
The danger is that the UK MP’s have shown themselves up as such a bunch of total idiots with Brexit that they could vote for such a stupid Bill. Remember we are saddled with the ridiculous Climate Change Act which MP’s almost unanimously voted for and it has not been rescinded yet and won’t be because Greenpeace, WWF and Friends of the Earth etc are dictating our Government’s energy policy.
I miss Screaming Lord Such, a sensible man by comparison.
While the plan is certainly purposely radical but mostly it is purposely stupid, just like the GND. All both of them would do is ro destroy both economies and send the world into the biggest depression since the Great Depression or likely even bigger.
These people are just Marxists in drag. And what is this hysteria about a “climate breakdown”? That exists only in the imaginations of a bunch of whackos. Unfortunately doom-saying has been an excellent business for thousands of years and has done untold harm. See: https://acting-man.com/?p=30013 (The End is Nigh!) for some details on the historical record.