The eco-focused website Grist was thrilled that socialist candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat out a 10-term Democratic congressman in New York. Because of climate change.
Her extreme environmental goals made meteorologist and climate alarmist Eric Holthaus positively twitterpated.
“The shocking result virtually assures that the U.S. Congress will welcome its youngest female member ever next year,” he wrote. He added that the 28-year-old socialist, who won a Democratic primary in New York’s 14th congressional district has “already been referred to as the future of the Democratic party.”
Holthaus’s main reason for celebrating Ocasio-Cortez’ victory was her views on the danger of climate change and “ambitious” desire to see a carbon-free or better U.S. by 2035. He wrote that she’ll bring to Congress the “boldest climate platform of any representative in history.”
“Among her many progressive bona fides [which CNN reported include the ‘abolition of ICE,’ universal health care and a ‘federal jobs guarantee’], it’s really her plan for tackling climate change that deserves the most attention,” he proclaimed.
So what is that “plan” exactly?
Her campaign website stated that she “supports transitioning the United States to a carbon-free, 100% renewable energy system and fully modernized electrical grid by 2035.”
To get there she wants renewable fuels, electric vehicles, “sustainable home heating,” rooftop solar and the “conversion of the power grid to zero-emissions technology.”
That’s not a plan, those are ideals and goals — ones, Holthaus, and other climate alarmists love to talk about attaining, but with little to no explanation of how on earth renewables can be ramped up to completely replace coal, oil and natural gas.
Ocasio-Cortez’ only indication of how it should be accomplished was in her call for a “Green New Deal” which she defined as “a transformation that implements structural changes to our political and financial systems in order to alter the trajectory of the environment.” She then railed against the “big corporations” that control the economy.
Socialism has led to misery and poverty around the world, not industrial or human progress. Yet Grist promoted Ocasio-Cortez’ socialist vision to solve climate change. He credits her with being “one of the first American politicians” with a plan to “keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.”
Holthaus reported estimates that a 1.5-degree limit can only be attained by reducing emissions “75 to 125 percent or more — actually drawing carbon dioxide out of the air.” He also cited her remark to Huffington Post that it would require “the complete mobilization of the American workforce to combat climate change.”
What would that look like? With unemployment below 4 percent, there isn’t a ton of leeway in the current labor market.
Even if technology rapidly advances, it seems delusional to think that total carbon reduction could happen in less than 20 years. In 2017, renewables made up just 11 percent of the energy mix of the United States, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Of course, there was also no concern or mention of what it would cost (or who would pay), what unintended consequences could result or whether such a goal is necessary in the first place.
Read more at NewsBusters
When you remove all the people who work in fossil fuel production, refining and distribution, you’ll have lots of people who can create the nirvana she dreams.
Plus, once all plastic and most of the electricity are removed from the economy, we’ll all have to work in the fields to create the food necessary for life. Without fossil fuel energy, we’ll all become vegans that will weaken our bodies limiting the amount of work we can do, so more people will have to be hired to assist in that work.
A lot like Pol Pot achieved in Cambodia. They called them the ‘Killing Fields’.
Incidentally, she is described as a socialist. A socialist is somebody that doesn’t have their gun yet. Once she has her gun, she can force you to do anything she wants. Just like Pol Pot did.
Listen up, boys and girls. You vote for Socialists and their free pie – in – the – sky stuff, they’ll stuff a sh!t pie in your faces. The quality of the free stuff is unpalatable and you’ll wish you had some money to buy the good stuff.
I’ve been wandering with an idea for a post and Miss Scientist threw a fun idea to my eclectic mind. SIMPLE; We create a giant atmospheric CO2 SUCKER machine. The Climatistas are such zealots and regard CO2 as a pollutant they will turn the switch and suck all of the pollutant out of the sky.
Love to see their faces turning blue. They are fanatics.
Because of her ultra radical stand on renewable energy, Ocasio-Cortez victory has made a lot of noise within the climate change issue. However, we can be certain that is not why she won the primary. All polls show that climate change is very low among the issues that voters are worried about. In some polls it is the second from the bottom, in others it is so low it doesn’t even appear. New York might be different but they couldn’t be that different.
Her victory is probably due to her socialism and voters expecting to get something for nothing. The article made a good point on how socialism has not worked around the world, but of course liberals can not learn from the mistakes of others.
My family has an excellent example on how well socialism works. My grandmother’s sister married a Norwegian who came to this country at the age of 20. He was always talking about how wonderful socialism was and he and my grandfather had many augments on the subject. After he was finished working he and my great aunt moved to Norway with the intent of making it their permanent retirement home. After two years they returned to the United States. The socialism in Norway drove them out. After that, my great uncle was telling everyone how terrible socialism is.
As an engineer I was contemplating how could we reach 100% renewables by 2035. It is possible if we change what is normal. One thing that would be normal is power wouldn’t be available to anyone when the wind wasn’t blowing and the sun wasn’t shinning. At other times power would have to be rationed. One way would be having rolling blackout, or perhaps more accurately, rolling periods of time when power was on. Do we really need to have power more than 6 hours a day? The situation would be helped by a much lower demand for power. Many companies would have gone out of business and many homes would have been disconnected because they couldn’t pay the bills. Even homes with power would be limited due to cost or rationing. One claim of the alarmist is that children would know what snow was. Under Ocasio-Cortez plan children wouldn’t know what it was like to live in a home that was heated or had air conditioning. They also wouldn’t know what an operational refrigerator was.
Unemployment would exceed the levels or the Great Depression so there would be plenty of labor to support her “Green New Deal”.
So, even the wildest of goals are possible.
Agree 100%. The consequences of following the CAGW cabal’s policies would result in an unbelievable number of deaths from cold, food poisoning and poverty.
so the cute socialist wants to return us all to the stone age. well, perhaps she should attempt to live totally off grid in the heart of New England during winter, trying to survive a super nor-easter without any sunshine or working windmills for power. then come back and tell us how 100% renewable works out.
A Communist wins
a preliminary low turnout election
ERGO
The smelly democrats declare her to be
Presidential material !!?????
‘Ambitious’ Climate Goals
Substitute ‘Crazy Climate Catastrophism’.
She may be the future of the Democrat party… in California and New York.
Fly over country not so much . The Deplorables love clean water and air
but the global warming con game has run its course .
Can a Tom Steyer cash donation and a cameo with big Al be far behind ? It worked wonders for Hillary .
Most voters put climate change way down their list of concerns. What they should be concerned about is climate change activism and carbon taxes. Kathleen Wynne and Justin Trudeau kept their plans quiet, and the media didn’t do their job. Once elected, they quickly got to work bleeding our economy.