by Robert M. Traxler
The Green New Deal is back in the forefront of our thoughts as the media will not stop the wall-to-wall coverage.
This column did a series on the Green New Deal that were the least-read columns in the years the Army Bob column has existed. Many of the people who support what Wikipedia calls a plan to socialize the nation and save the planet have never read the plan.
Let’s talk over the end-of-the-world aspects of the Green New Deal. According to the United Nations Council on the Environment, Saint AOC (Alexandria Occasio-Cotez), Senator Bernie Sanders and all the media, the end is near. One thing I find curious: If the end-of-the-world date is a certain date, a date you must believe in, why has it changed over the years? From 9 to 10 currently to 11 years? We are told we must believe in the end of the world by, pick a date, or we are deniers, we deny science.
We must believe in climate change; the question is “Do you believe in climate change?” It reminds me of a man I met shortly after moving to Dorr who asked me if I believed in Jesus Christ as my savior. Climate change has become a religion. For the majority of world history, the climate and nature was the main religion for centuries before monotheism; our ancestors worshiped mountains, rivers, trees the sun, moon and oceans. If folks want to worship nature, it is fine with me.
So let’s take the UN and Representative Occasio-Cortez at their word and accept that the end of the world occurs in 9 to 11 years unless we cut current world wide carbon emissions by 25%. The United States and Western Europe may cut carbon by 25%, world saved, right?
Not so fast, the world population is growing at a rate of 1.15% per year, 11.5% in the next 10 years, mostly in China and India. Pollution and carbon emissions are growing there more rapidly than the west is cutting; the overall total will increase, not be reduced, in the next 9 to11 years — just a cold cruel fact.
India and China are bringing a coal-fired power plant (burning soft dirty high carbon bituminous coal) online at a rate of one per month continuing well into the next decade. China and India have more cars than we do, and the number is growing at an explosive rate. They use untreated gasoline, with extremely limited pollution controls.
The unvarnished truth is that the carbon emissions in the world will not be reduced, and according to AOC, the UN and Mr. Sanders, we will all die off in a few years. Please remember, we must believe them unquestioningly.
In a column covering the same subject years ago, the belief totally in man-made climate change as preached in the Green New Deal, comments were made that all I was doing was giving up, I prescribed doing nothing. None, not one of them, even tried to argue the facts.
The fact is that if you believe in climate change as preached today, the end is not going to be changed by the actions of the United States, North America nor Western Europe. If you feel China or India are going to stop their explosive growth to make the American left happy or to fight climate change you are wrong; they may give lip service to climate change, but they will not stop their economic growth. The people in India and China want electricity, refrigeration, TV, computers, central heat/AC, a family vehicle, all the things we take for granted.
Questioning the religion of climate change is not allowed, stating the cold facts is not allowed, climate change is settled science, end of debate! Well if it is then it is all over, believe the science as preached is unquestionable and factual, then it is all over.
Please refute the facts and do not attack the messenger; please tell us just how the predictions of the Green New Deal will not come to fruition. Perhaps the climate change rhetoric is over the top?
Ignorant crap from the king of crap. Climate Change is science, factual science, stupid people question science. The king of crap is not smart enough to question the experts. Stupid is as stupid does. It is all this crap of a nations fault, mostly Trumpy.
Mr. Jones,
Thank you for the comment.
If you believe the science and see what China and India along with Africa and Eastern Europe are doing then tell us how the world will not end in nine years, and just how is it President Trump’s fault?
Yeah Army Bob, Mr. Jones, the genius that he is, has you pegged.
Climate Change is science don’t you know. And science can never be wrong, you big dope!
OH !!! Army Bob
Once again you have upset the climate change community.
Most rational people will agree there is climate change. They also know unless the whole world plays by the same rules slowing the change will never happen.
Alas, President Trump once again has the honor of being the cause of this situation. Guess there was no climate change before 2016….
With respect to everyone who has an opinion about climate change, let’s stop acting as if this is something to which we pay only argumentative lip service.
Climate change is real.
The United States is not solely responsible for it.
Neither Donald Trump nor Barack Obama is responsible for it.
The United States cannot, alone, stop the damage.
Sustainable sources of energy are expensive.
Fossil fuels are dirty and to continue to depend on them means being dependent on corrupt corporations and politicians.
The United States and its president used to be models for the rest of the world. Together they used to represent progress, human rights, and the front line for the health of all the world’s people.
But we have been duped into thinking that that is no longer an ideal to aspire to.
Let’s quit the bickering like old biddy hens. There really is a middle ground here, one that we can all agree to if we forget the pissing contests.
My two cents, but they are bright, shiny pennies.
Ms Mandaville
Just where is the middle ground you speak of ? What is the middle ground consist of ?
How much of our amenities are we suppose to sacrifice to let other countries destroy the world with their pollution?
Should we go to war and enforce pollution laws and regulations?
Climate change sadly is a politically handled problem thru out the world. No country wants to step back in time or undo their progress. Which they have made thru their contribution to increasing the climate change problem.
Just so ideas on where your middle ground is would be helpful .
My opinion is we ( the United States) still do more than most in limiting pollution. We still have to have a successful economy and feed our population all which does contribute to pollution .