“Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.”
– Takeda Kunihiko in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change
One of Joe Biden’s key campaign planks is his Green New Deal, a proposed 2 trillion-dollar spending spree over 4 years. Biden promises net-zero greenhouse gases by 2050, by eliminating all coal and natural gas even though 81 percent of energy in the United States originates from fossil fuels. Biden also vows millions of union jobs by ending right-to-work laws in the nearly 30 states where they presently exist, replacing infrastructure on millions of buildings, and implementing a massive expansion of public transportation. Fortunately, Biden’s plan arrives just in the nick of time, after claims that we have only 9 years left until the sand runs through the hourglass.
It is no accident that Biden has named his key plan, Environmental Justice. The green movement, which started as global warming, has further morphed from climate change to climate justice. Concern for the environment has been replaced with a different facade that looks eerily similar to progressive party politics. As a result, greenhouse gases are no longer our chief foe, capitalism is. The expanded Democrat Party Green New Deal includes free college, healthy food, affordable housing, universal income, and a bevy of new social programs, promising to drastically upend the entire economy. How these progressive goodies will lower the world’s temperature by 2 degrees is anyone’s guess. Today’s environmental movement has little to do with the environment. Instead, it looks to control our liberty and our lives through a centralized, bureaucratic, and global authority.
In 1988, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was created to address the scourge of global warming. It has from the start been a partisan scientific-lite and activist-heavy body of the United Nations. Four short years later, in 1992, Al Gore proclaimed that the science was settled, while climate advocates covertly dropped actual data and replaced it with their own models. By 2010, the IPCC’s mask had completely slipped, when official, Ottmar Edenhofer, exposing their real motive declared, “One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy”. These global overlords have proposed using “fairness” taxes to pay climate reparations from the wealthy nations to the poor. They further encourage climate policies through subsidies, mandates, and restrictions. All with the consent of the US, which has increasingly ceded its autonomy to global organizations, like the UN.
And while America relinquishes its control, developing countries struggle to get a hand up. A new kind of eco-colonialism is making a return to Africa and other developing countries. Global planners are telling the impoverished to forget their economic ambitions and accept their diminished standard of living. With nearly a billion people having little or no access to electricity, the Western world is denying cheap energy in the name of climate change. Instead, like most good authoritarians, they attempt to appease poor nations into dependency through the redistribution of wealth. Talk about a knee to the neck. All the while, these cheap energy deniers live in energy-guzzling mansions and float on yachts, fueled by the very energy they deny the rest.
In Marc Morano’s 2017 book, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change”, Morano thoroughly debunks just about everything you have ever heard about climate change and its supposed threat to society. Morano exposes the “97 percent of all scientists agree” falsehood and provides details of the little-known 2009 Climategate email scandal where so-called climate scientists were caught manipulating data to create a false consensus. Morano also discloses the progressive agenda behind the pretense of the environmental movement, that advances world governance through command-and-control tactics.
Today, based on data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), 81 percent of global energy supplies come from fossil fuels while less than 14 percent is supplied by renewables. It is indisputable that our society cannot survive without fossil fuels, nor will they in the distant future. Presently, life expectancy is skyrocketing, the world is greening, climate deaths are down, natural resources abound, and carbon emissions are declining. Human prosperity is up, and, on the rise, while poverty is in a downward spiral.
Yet, the Marxist utopian dreams persist. The very thing that created prosperity is deemed the culprit of all things unequal. Human rights to a laundry list of progressive demands are used to justify the fight for climate justice, while a billion dollars a day is spent to slay this imaginary demon.
Capitalism became the twinkle in the eye of the Industrial Revolution as it created wealth and prosperity the world had never known. Wealth creation provides the capital that spawns innovation and solutions to everyday problems, large and small. Let’s use the next 9 years investing in our potential, rather than tearing it down.
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