Entrepreneur and Democrat presidential hopeful Andrew Yang released a massive plan on his website that lays out his ideas for saving the planet, which Yang says might require “emergency options” including “space mirrors” and moving Americans to higher ground.
Yang entitled the blog, “It’s Worse than You Think — Lower Emissions, Higher Ground” and includes a timeline and the cost of his climate change plan: $4.87 trillion.
“Our planet is a mess,” Yang wrote and went on to paint a grim picture of the United States plagued by wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and salmon dying in Alaska.
Unlike some Democrat candidates who have said that time is running out to fix the climate change problem, Yang said its too late. He wrote:
The right time to deal with this crisis was decades ago. We’ve waited too long, so we need to act fast and recognize that all options need to be on the table in order to adapt to the changed world we live in while mitigating behaviors that make it worse and reversing the damage we’ve already done.
To that end, Yang doubled down on his call to move people to higher ground as part of his ‘“five-pronged approach” to fighting climate change.
“Move our people to higher ground,” Yang wrote. “Natural disasters and other effects of climate change are already causing damage and death. We need to adapt our country to this new reality.”
Aside from the standard Democrat talking points — get rid of fossil fuels and replace them with “renewable energy,” fining big corporations for polluting, stopping all oil and gas leases on public land, and a carbon tax — Yang also includes some unique ideas under the “Emergency Options” section that is meant to offer ways to “prepare for the worst.”
“Space mirrors would involve launching giant foldable mirrors into space that would deploy and reflect much of the sun’s light,” Yang wrote. “This method would be extremely expensive, which is why it should be investigated as a last resort. However, since we would be able to “undo” the mirror after deployment if needed, it’s less permanent.”
“Stratosphere aerosol scattering, on the other, would be a drastic response to the climate crisis,” Yang wrote.
Some other highlights of Yang’s plan:
- Aside from space mirrors, other geoengineering proposals include “ocean seeding to increase the population of carbon-absorbing plankton and stratospheric aerosol scattering to reflect sunlight away.”
- “$90 billion to establish and fund the Climate Adaptation Institution over 20 years”
- “Fully green economy by 2049″
- “Refuse to hire anyone who formerly worked as a lobbyist for oil, gas, or coal company, or served in an executive capacity at one of those companies”
- “Create a $200 billion grant program to states to convert their public transportation systems (trains, buses, school buses) to electric vehicles”
- “Government investment of $300 billion over 15 years into research for alternative aircraft fuel”
- “Use the EXIM Bank, or create a new, Green EXIM Bank, to aggressively export US green technology throughout the rest of the world”
- “Direct the Pentagon to proactively identify areas that are becoming destabilized by climate change and offer military assistance in stabilizing and rebuilding the region, improving its ability to withstand climate change”
- “Increase foreign aid to developing nations to help cover the cost of any project that is environmentally friendly”
Yang also praised Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for introducing the Green New Deal, which – while he does not endorse the plan – he said that it already accomplished its goal of starting the conversation on climate change as an existential threat.
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We’re entering what looks to be a particularly weak solar minimum, and the cooling effect of that is already being seen around the world this year with record cold temperatures, not that you’ll see it reported by the media. You have to wonder if some of these people want to tip us into a full-blown ice age.
That thought has occurred to me, too. It fits the Malthusian ambitions of some “environmentalists”.
It would certainly go a long way on the road towards the UN’s goal of reducing the human population by 85%.
I struggle to understand how supposedly intelligent people like Yang proposes things which would utterly destroy our economy with their proposals. Does he really believe this tripe he is proposing? The average American is no where near on board with destroying their livelihoods and standards of living. Nor do we see doom and gloom happening around us to justify destroying the economy.
Exactly Steve, the likes of the IPCC and the media tell us the devastating effects of climate change are happening all round us, whereas in reality they’re just not there. If proposals like this were allowed to go ahead, economies would be destroyed, electricity would soon become a thing of the past, and living standards would revert to those of the 1700s.
Yang is selling science fiction. There will be no space mirrors, no alternate jet fuel , etc and he knows it. He’s having his way with the gullible.
That seems to me the way it is with the whole climate alarmist movement; keep telling more and more alarming scare stories, and the gullible who don’t bother to do any kind of research, accept it as gospel truth.
Unbelievable, what a pillock he is!
Spare no expense, save the glaciers!
and sacrifice the night sky, because mirrors such as he envisages will be chipped away by meteoroids until the heavens are full of twinkling things that are not stars!