The co-founder of environmental activist group Greenpeace tore apart New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal on Twitter Monday.
Patrick Moore began his online feud with Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday, and since then, his tweets have attracted the attention of both opponents and proponents of the Green New Deal that aims to rid the United States of greenhouse gasses within a decade.
After calling the freshman congresswoman a “pompous little twit” for insisting America listen to her ideas or perish, Moore called her Green New Deal “completely crazy.”
“If fossil fuels were banned, every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating,” Moore wrote to Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday. “You would bring about mass death.” He also suggested it is ludicrous to compare climate change to World War II.
After founding Greenpeace in the 1970s, Moore headed Greenpeace Canada but parted ways with the group when he says it was hijacked by the extreme Left.
Following the publishing of the book “Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist,” Greenpeace routinely dismisses Moore.
Moore reminded Ocasio-Cortez that she hasn’t explained how she plans to “grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get food into the cities.”
He called Ocasio-Cortez a “garden variety hypocrite,” after the New York Post dissed her having a huge carbon footprint while telling other people to eschew cars and airplanes.
“You’re just a garden-variety hypocrite like the others. And you have ZERO expertise at any of the things you pretend to know,” Moore said.
Ocasio-Cortez responded to criticism of her Green New Deal on Sunday, tweeting, “Living in the world as it is isn’t an argument against working towards a better future. The Green New Deal is about putting a LOT of people to work in developing new technologies, building new infrastructure, and getting us to 100-percent renewable energy.”
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I think Patrick Moore is being unfair to pompous people and little twits by calling Occasionally-Conscious a pompous little twit. She is far worse than that.
AOC knows that to get any Uncle Tom money gross exaggeration is required as the Demo candidates audition for the big prize . !2 years to go tick tock .
Moore left Greenpeace when they became way too radical and wanted to ban Chlorine used to make drinking water safer Greenpeace has been fined for once spilling Fuel into a Alaska River they left toxic waste in the port of San Pedro California they have been arrested for boarding oil rigs and have blocked coal shipments and made total pests of themselves
She’s a LOT of things.
Oblivious to the FACT that green energy kills jobs. Or she knows and she’s a liar.
She’s working toward a better future? Yikes! I cringe any time the weather threatens our electricity. In her ” better future”, rolling black outs would be a daily routine.
Enemy of the State?
So how soon with her and Al Gore going to start living as Hermits far far away from the rest of us in the deep back woods?
Well don’t they already live in Fantasy land?
AOC reminds me of those WWF actors that stick with their WWF routine when they leave the gym . I think she has a go big earlier strategy and then a very quick exit for a book tour . The Republicans can only hope she sticks around .
One of my older brothers used to work for the Raytheon Company in Mountain View California and those Greenpeace idiots were always protesting outside becuase they make Missile Parts for the Defense Dept they also make Amman Microwave Ovens and then they would go around door to door to get some suckers to donate to them like they do with their junk mail just so they can fuel their big ship launch their zodiacs and their Hot Air Balloons and make total pests of themselves
THE only good news about brain dead AOC is that her policies are so rediculously dangerous that they will make the election of democrats almost unthinkable to even democtats. Her policies don’t deserve comsideration in any serious discussion on the issues of energy and future clmate.Climate change is settled we are headinto a long term serious cooling imminently preceded by another little iceage and agrand solar minimum. Fiddling whilst the northern world freezes best describes our situation.