Posted on 04/26/2019 5:44:30 PM PDT by samtheman
Destroying the economy and the standard of living that modern technology brings has always been the goal of the intelligent left. They latched on to "environmentalism" as a way to effect their neo-ludditism. The less intelligent left (i.e. the followers) actually believe they are helping the environment but have no clue.
FYI, the title construction "because reasons" is common usage these days. It means that there is no logical rationale for the action.
Graham is dangerous.
26 Apr: The Hill: Graham jokes: If you said ‘Mueller thinks climate change is a hoax,’ then Trump would believe in it
By Rebecca Beitsch
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told those gathered at a Dallas-based sustainability conference that President Trump has a long way to go in acknowledging the science behind climate change.
“Climate change is real, the science is sound and the solutions are available,” Graham said, adding jokingly, “If I told Trump that [special counsel Robert] Mueller thinks climate change is a hoax, we’d be well on our way.”...
Graham was speaking on a panel at the EarthX2019 conference with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I) and Energy Secretary Rick Perry
For his part, Perry mirrored some of Trump’s vocal skepticism about renewable energy sources, according to reporting from the Dallas Business Journal.
“Some people just want to rely on them solely,” he said. “Our air might be cleaner, but the energy supply isn’t nearly as reliable. Imagine what a single natural disaster or cybersecurity attack would do to us when the sun doesn’t come out, or the wind doesn’t blow. The cost to our economy would be huge.”...
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/440822-graham-jokes-if-you-said-Mueller-thinks-climate-change
26 Apr: Daily Caller: The Green New Deal would cause ‘significant environmental damage’, report finds
•The Green New Deal would cause “significant environmental damage” and require “massive land use,” according to a new report.
by Michael Bastasch
The report, by American Enterprise Institute scholar Benjamin Zycher, claims the Green New Deal championed by many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates would come with its own set of environmental issues from rapidly expanding renewable energy.
“There is the heavy-metal pollution created by the production process for wind turbines,” Zycher wrote in his report, which was released Wednesday.
“There are the noise and flicker effects of wind turbines. There are the large problems of solar panel waste and toxic metals. There is the wildlife destruction caused by the production of renewable power,” Zycher wrote.
Zycher’s conservative estimate of the Green New Deal’s total cost is about $9 trillion a year. The conservative American Action Forum reported in February the Green New Deal could cost $93 trillion over 10 years...
But a price can be put on the straightforward Green New Deal goals, like massively ramping up renewable energy.
“A highly conservative estimate of the aggregate cost of that set of policies would be $490.5 billion per year, permanently, or $3,845 per year per household,” Zycher wrote.
“This would be accompanied by significant environmental damage — there is nothing clean about ‘clean’ electricity — and massive land use,” Zycher wrote...
However, drastically expanding renewable energy, which would largely come from wind and solar, presents its own environmental challenges.
For example, wind turbines currently kill 1 million migratory birds every year, according to the American Bird Conservancy. Rotating blades threaten rare hawks and eagles, as do massive solar arrays that are beginning to dot the desert southwest.
Transmission lines needed to get wind and solar power from windswept plans on sizzling deserts to population centers would kill even more birds, experts warn. Solar farms need to clear large swaths of land of trees and wildlife.
Zycher also highlighted the massive amounts of land that would be needed to power the U.S. with renewable electricity, largely from wind and solar. Zycher estimated 115.2 million acres, or 180,000 square miles would be needed to meet U.S. energy needs.
“[T]hat is over 15 percent greater than the land area of California,” Zycher wrote. “This does not include transmission lines or other attendant infrastructure.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/26/green-new-deal-environmental-damage/
Destroying the economy and the standard of living that modern technology brings has always been the goal of the intelligent left. They latched on to “environmentalism” as a way to effect their neo-ludditism. The less intelligent left (i.e. the followers) actually believe they are helping the environment but have no clue.
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Absolutely.
I did not know about the “because reasons”. Thanks for that.
That’s a great song.
Yuk. I remember.
There is no problem here.
Leave them glued together.
From the perspective of a citizen of the Great White North, leaving them outside during the winter, is too cruel. The idea of vinegar rubbed into their scratched up flesh to disinfect, sounds painful but much less cruel.
It’s not winter.
but I guess the vinegar treatment would work.
Glue their butt cheeks closed together.
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hahaha!
They are already so full of sh*t they shouldn’t even notice!
I agree.... Let nature take it’s course. In other words, stupid should hurt. Leave them stuck together and maybe next time they won’t be as big of an idiot. Maybe some other knuckle head will also learn something.
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