“Are you kidding me? This is the moment to debate new regulations that have nothing to do with this crisis? … Democrats won’t let us fund hospitals or save small businesses unless they get to dust off the Green New Deal?”
“I’ll tell you what will really lower our carbon footprint — if the entire economy continues to crumble….”
– U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) March 23, 2020)
Whatever your take on the federal stimulus bill, the Malthusian Left, hitching their wagon to the climate ‘crisis’ and the Green New Deal, is determined to fight until the end. And their anti-modernism crusade has hit a new low point in the current Senate debate over the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has had enough and spoke to the nation about where the radical wing of the Democratic Party wants to go in a time of emergency.…
“[We] are drilling all over the place — right now. That’s not the challenge . . . we don’t have enough pipeline capacity to transport all of it to where it needs to go — both to refineries, and then, eventually, all across the country and around the world.”
” [My] strategy … will … further reduce our dependence on foreign oil, put more people back to work, and ultimately help to curb the spike in gas[oline] prices that we’re seeing year after year after year.”
– President Obama. Cushing, Oklahoma (March 22, 2012)
Eight years ago, with oil prices high and the body politic restless, President Obama gave a speech in the oil boondocks, specifically in Cushing, Oklahoma. At the central hub for American crude oil pipelines, he pitched his Administration’s record on oil and gas as if he was a friend, not a conniving foe.…
” … for me, one frustration of the coronavirus pandemic is that it’s temporarily interrupting the movement-building that is necessary to beat the fossil-fuel industry.” (McKibben, below)
Some of us went to jail, in January, to launch the campaign, which was going to crest [this Earth Day] with a wave of acts of nonviolent civil disobedience…. But now we can’t … as the potential for community spread of COVID-19 became clear…. (McKibben, below)
In his weekly commentary for the New Yorker (see yesterday’s post), Bill McKibben speaks to “The Coronavirus an the Climate” (March 18, 2020). His 500-word analysis about climate and the current pandemic speaks a book.
Here it is:
My daughter… asked me the other day, “Do you think we’re going to go on having crises like this my whole life?”…