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Statement by President Trump on the Paris Climate Accord (two-year anniversary Saturday)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 30, 2019

“Thus, as of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris Accord and the draconian financial and economic burdens the agreement imposes on our country. This includes ending the implementation of the nationally determined contribution and, very importantly, the Green Climate Fund which is costing the United States a vast fortune.”

“The United States, under the Trump administration, will continue to be the cleanest and most environmentally friendly country on Earth…. We will be environmentally friendly, but we’re not going to put our businesses out of work and we’re not going to lose our jobs.”

On June 1, 2017, President Trump provided what is arguably the greatest political victory for anti-Malthusian, pro-market environmentalism with his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.

Saturday marks the second anniversary of this historic decision.…

Memorial Day Weekend: Hit the Open Road, America!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 23, 2019

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here.

– Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road

The American Automobile Association predicts that 37.6 million Americans will hit the open road this Memorial Day weekend, a 3.5 percent increase from last year. Overall, counting travelers on airplanes (3.25 million) and trains, buses, and ships (1.9 million), the total increase is 1.5 million.

A strong economy and attractive pricing of car rentals and vacation lodging are part of the anticipated strong start of the summer driving season.

Get happy. Summer beckons. Not only bike and hike but also drive, bus, train, and fly to a better environment–your self-selected environment.

The automobile is environmentalism-on-wheels. The open road is freedom to escape the concrete for the great beyond.…

Rejecting Wind and Solar: Deep Green Resistance (Part II)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 22, 2019

Solar panels and wind turbines aren’t made out of nothing. They are made out of metals, plastics, and chemicals. These products have been mined out of the ground, transported, processed, manufactured. Each stage leaves behind a trail of devastation: habitat destruction, water contamination, colonization, toxic waste, slave labor, greenhouse gas emissions, wars, and corporate profits. (DGR, below)

Yesterday’s post shared with readers the scary premises and means of the Deep Green Resistance, now the Progressive/Left option to the Green New Deal.

Today’s post shares the DGR’s views on renewables, which this group correctly sees as invasive to the natural world. One wishes that mainstream, Washington, DC-centric environmentalists would wake up to the fact that wind power and solar panels are very invasive to the natural world relative to dense, mineral energies.…

“Deep Green Resistance” (one spinoff from the Green New Deal)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 21, 2019

Trump on Avian Mortality (remembering NRDC’s silence at Altamont Pass)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 20, 2019

Trump vs. the Green New Deal

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 16, 2019

Energy/Climate Statism for Fun and Profit

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 9, 2019

The Left’s Climate Policy Darling: Buyer Beware

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 8, 2019

Twinges of Climate Realism at the New York Times (Stephens, Douthat vs. the rest of the paper)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 7, 2019

“Beto Is Putting Climate First” ($5 trillion for what?)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 6, 2019