Gore calls our consumption habits an “addiction.” Civilization is termed clinically “dysfunctional.” His opponents are in psychological “denial.” The politically ambivalent electorate has grown psychologically numb in order to “anesthetize their conscience.” Businessmen and politicians are called “enablers.” In sum, society is sick, and only a therapist in chief can cure it. Stuart Smalley, meet the Unabomber. (Jerry Taylor, below)
Back in April 2000, Jerry Taylor, director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute, penned a short piece, “Gore’s Earth Day Message.” With Joe Biden and particularly president-in-waiting Kamala Harris all-in with the Green New Deal’s societal transformation in the name of climate change, Taylor’s warnings are timely. Only the politician’s name has changed.
GORE’S EARTH DAY MESSAGE
Thirty years ago, Earth Day transformed environmental radicalism into a mainstream phenomenon.…
Continue Reading“We are the voice of energy workers pushing back on radical green groups and the ideologues who fund them.”
In February 2018, the 501c4 advocacy group Power the Future joined the energy-policy fray on the side of consumer-chosen, taxpayer-neutral energies. Think oil and gas in particular. Coal too.
By way of introduction, I have copied material from their website for interested readers.
“What We Believe“
Four pillars:
The Means
… Continue ReadingWe carry out these beliefs by disseminating research, sharing facts and truths, engaging at the local level and interacting with the media.
Shell also supports the UK Government’s ambition to increase the uptake of electric vehicles and believes the phase out date for sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles could be brought forward to 2030…. However, this could only be delivered through a robust government plan to make the transition fair and deliverable. (Shell, “Electric Mobility“)
In “Why We need a Plan to Achieve the Ban,” UK Country Chair Sinead Lynch of Shell stated:
… Continue ReadingI recently participated in a discussion hosted by Climate Action on ‘Rising to the Net-Zero Challenge’. My fellow panellists were John Sauven, Executive Director Greenpeace UK and Shaun Spiers, Executive Director Green Alliance.
Greening the recovery was, of course, a key topic of conversation and led us to discuss the government’s plans to bring the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars forward to 2035.