To Save Planet They Are Destroying It
Riots, Famines, Poverty -- Green New Deal Spreads Instability, Not Renewability
They say they want to save the planet. We all do. But leaders of the Green New Deal seem to think the way to do that is to destroy our way of life first.
Several years ago, globalists at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the European Union in Brussels and the UN in New York huddled over their laptops to figure out how to destroy the fossil-fueled economy that has brought much stability and prosperity to the world. Renewables are not yet tenable alternatives — solar does not work when clouds appear, wind turbines are killing birds who venture too close, and as for electric cars, their expired lithium batteries cannot be environmentally recycled, making them the land-fill problem of our coming century. As I wrote in an earlier post, renewable energy remains a goal, not a current reality.
Still, they persisted. Now, amid rolling blackouts in California, a return to coal in Germany and a spike in oil prices that is forcing consumers worldwide to choose between gas and groceries, globalists shrug, acknowledge the discomfort but insist, as President Biden does, that we are collatoral damage for a Great Reset.
Nonsense, says the Wall Street Journal, which slammed the policy as “the West’s utopian dream” and called on political leaders to ditch green policies that have been “a manifest debacle.” The reason? “Short of a technological breakthrough, the world will need an ample supply of carbon fuel for decades to remain prosperous and free.”
But the greens are running our governments, and ever since, the world has gone mad. Riots, famines, poverty — it’s as if a plague of locusts has attacked the globe.
Consider:
—In the Netherlands, a convoy of Dutch farmers on trucks is blockading food warehouses and supermarkets in protest of new policies that will force them to cull their herds and cut production — all in the name of eco-extremism, part of the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme requiring reductions by as much as 95% in some sectors. To comply, the Netherlands is imposing greenhouse gas emissions standards that could require the mass slaughter of livestock and shut down almost a third of the country’s farms — just at a time when many are predicting an inflationary global famine.
Dutch commentator Eva Vlaadingerbroek noted that the UN’s 2030 Agenda declares that the Netherlands’ nitrogen and ammonia emissions are too high, threatening the climate [and] local nature, and that they need to be cut down.” She added, “For some reason, they’re not coming after the airlines. They’re not coming after any other industry that actually is a contributor in these emissions, apart from the Dutch farmers.” Control our food, control our land, control us.
—In Sri Lanka, masses of protestors drove President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from office a few weeks ago. His crime? He signed on to the World Economic Forum’s campaign for Sri Lanka to become the new poster child for organic farming. Backed by woke US companies like Google, Disney and J.P. Morgan, the Sri Lankan government banned the chemical fertilizers and pesticides used by 90% of the country’s farmers.
The results have been predictable, and horrifying. Rice production, a staple, fell by 43%. Food prices have risen by 80%, gas is up 24% and diesel 38%. As the nation’s bankruptcy became evident, even to green elites who care little about the consequences of their misguided enviro experiments, the UN reported that more than three-fourths of Sri Lanka’s 22 million population has reduced their food consumption due to shortages. Protestors are vowing to fight on, but Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe calls them fascists and threatens a crackdown.
—In the United States, Bill Gates — father of Microsoft, pandemics and global governance — is now buying up farmland all over the United States. Some say, thanks to a recent purchase in North Dakota, he now owns 270,000 acres of farmland. The Chinese are also in on the American land grab, said to be holding 100 million acres. Gates is also buying up news outfits and journalism schools — ensuring that nothing will be written in mainstream media circles about his land chokehold.
—Even in China, where a brutal Communist regime brooks no unrest, citizens of the Henen and Anhui provinces gathered outside their banks recently, trying to withdraw funds. No doubt they too are hungry. Amid China’s economic downtown, the regime had frozen assets worth some $1.5 billion, leaving people without money. Police broke up the protests, by some accounts brutally. There was great anger when China used its Covid-19 tracking app, to spot citizens going to the bank and designated them as public health risks. According to the Associated Press, a friend to the regime, within days Beijing had agreed to release deposits of 50,000 yuan (about $7,400), saying those with larger accounts would get their money at some later date.
This follows protests in Shanghai in April over food shortages among those forced to quarantine under China’s Zero tolerance COVID policy. To get the regime’s attention, they banged pots on their balconies. How long before famine becomes the weapon of choice for regimes from the Amsterdam to Beijing?
—Combating global warning on the backs of the working classes will only inflame anger stewing beneath the surface of those still upset over being locked down for a virus that may turn out to be less deadly than the vaccines meant to cure it. Adding a worldwide famine could be the fuse that lights the world on fire. Ghana is perhaps the best example. Persuaded by the World Bank to become a prototype for renewable energy, this fast-growing economy in West Africa agreed to limit its carbon emissions. Now, Ghana is virtually in the dark — without electricity — many without food as inflation soars toward 50%. The result is #AriseGhana, protests, and hunger.
John Kerry, the Biden administration’s green new deal czar, and also its reigning climate hypocrite, likes to say that he has no choice but to use his gas-guzzling private jet to attend global conferences. Kerry’s Gulfstream GIV-SP made 48 trips lasting more than 60 hours and used an estimated 715,886 pounds — or 325 metric tons — of carbon dioxide since the start of the Biden administration, Fox News reported, citing data its obtained through flight-tracker FlightAware. Last year, a reporter from Iceland, Jóhann Bjarni Kolbeinsson, asked Kerry if he thought flying in a private jet to Reykjavik in 2019 to pick up the Arctic Circle Award for Climate Leadership was environmentally responsible. Bristling, Kerry said flying was “the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.”
Sometimes it seems like the only thing John Kerry and his globalist colleagues want to win is the battle for power — over our food production, our medicines, our borders, our bank accounts, our way of life. Recently a Biden administration official admitted that they want us to endure economic pain for the sake of their eco-madness. Said National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, “This is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand firm.” There it is, the quiet part out loud!
As British commentator Brendan O’Neill put it, the policy of Green Planet Now amounts to “self-imposed hunger, to appease the gods of environmentalism.” This is great for virtue signaling, hardly a humane policy for either the planet or its people.
The marxist cabal of Biden, Obama and Soros that run this country is moving quickly to reduce our prestige in the world and to destroy our Capitalist economy. All of this madness of: inflation, CRT, lawlessness; Black Lives Matter; a double standard for justice and an open Southern border is INTENTIONAL! Of course there is plenty of incompetence to go around in the Biden regime (KJP is a great example) but the over all policies are intended to destroy this country. Our only hope is to vote them out using a tried and true Marxist ploy--overwhelm the voting system this November with so many votes for conservative candidates that the progressives can't cheat! God Bless America!