Posted on 06/14/2019 4:32:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
You often hear climate change described as a global conflict with existential consequences. As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once put it, "This is our World War II." It would be interesting to know what survivors of, say, Guadalcanal or the Bataan Death March think of that comparison. But never mind. Let's take the hyperbole seriously. If global warming is a war, who is our enemy? Who are we fighting? First on the list would have to be double agents. These are the people who pretend to be on the side of righteousness but in fact are doing the work of dark forces. During the last world war, people like this were called quislings, after the Norwegian collaborationist leader. They were dealt with harshly. Who are our quislings today?
If you were compiling a list, you'd start with former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, both one of the world's richest men and one of the most visible climate activists. In a recent C-SPAN interview, Bloomberg was asked if he lives a "climate change lifestyle." Bloomberg dodged the question, which is tantamount to answering it. This is a man who travels by private jet and helicopter, between the at least 10 luxury properties he owns all over the world. It's hard to imagine a life of more profound carbon emissions. Bloomberg has personally caused more global warming than entire African states. Yet from listening to him talk, you'd think the real problem was poor people in West Virginia and Kentucky. Bloomberg routinely attacks the coal industry as a driver of climate change. He'd like to close every mine in America, further impoverishing the country's most beleaguered communities. The fight against global warming demands no less, Bloomberg claims. What he doesn't mention is his own lifestyle, which is baffling.
If Bloomberg really thought the future of mankind hung in the balance, wouldn't he be working to reduce his own emissions? Each one of Bloomberg's private flights emits about twice as much carbon as the average American household does in an entire year. We aren't really asking for extreme sacrifice here. How about fly first-class?
Bloomberg's not the only one. Leonardo DiCaprio, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and many other top climate activists exhibit the same behavior. Fortune 500 companies are equally to blame. They have fleets of private planes that ferry around not just the CEOs but all the top managers. The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to 31 of the top corporate, celebrity and nonprofit backers of urgent action on climate change to ask if they would forgo private air travel. Crickets.
If Bloomberg and the other billionaires ranting about global warming were really worried about climate change destroying our planet, it would seem reasonable that they would be willing to put up with at least some minor inconveniences to their high-flying lifestyles, even if only to drive home their seriousness.
Climate activists who are funded and supported by these billionaires, celebrities and corporations are conspicuously quiet about their benefactors' truly massive carbon emissions. If they really cared about these issues wouldn't they speak up? If the earth really hangs in the balance it seems reasonable to expect that they would.
The policies advocated by these leading climate change luminaries read like a left-wing wish list: more regulation, higher taxes, more government and less fossil fuel production. All those things come with costs to regular people. It's hard to convince people to sacrifice, but it's impossible when those asking are totally unwilling to join in. The result: BS detectors going off big time.
n 12, 20 or 50 years, if the oceans really do rise to wipe out entire islands, if the glaciers melt away, if severe storms ravage the planet regularly and entire communities are upended and mankind as we know it is put in danger, the biggest villains won't be Donald Trump and Dick Cheney. They will be remembered as the thickheaded dopes who couldn't get their heads around the seriousness of the problem. The true villains will be those who knew better but were totally unwilling to make even the tiniest sacrifice to lead others by example. Just behind them will be the entire climate activist community that stood by silently while their biggest supporters sent the world a message that climate change is important enough to talk about incessantly but not important enough to require even the tiniest sacrifice.
“It would be interesting to know what survivors of, say, Guadalcanal or the Bataan Death March think of that comparison.”
I can tell him that my family would be angry with modern Deocrat whove sold out to the same Imperialist Socialism and Naziism that they fought against. Democrats are a disgrace to the flag in every way, its want they want.
Democrats are like the weather. Everyone talks about it but no one does anything.
The climate changes. From winter to summer and vice versa. deal with it.
NASA Declares Carbon Dioxide Is Greening The Earth
5/2/2019, 8:38:28 AM · by Enlightened1 · 62 replies
Infowars ^ | 04/26/19 | Mike Adams
In direct contradiction to the scare stories about carbon dioxide being relentlessly pushed by the climate change alarmists, a scientific study published in Nature Climate Change and highlighted by NASA reveals that rising carbon dioxide levels are having a tremendously positive impact on the re-greening of planet Earth over the last three decades, with some regions experiencing over a 50% increase in plant life.The study, entitled, “Greening of the Earth and its drivers,†used satellite data to track and map the expansion of green plant growth across the globe from 1982 – 2015. Published in 2016, this study found that rising atmospheric carbon...
What a thoroughly unattractive group of creeps in that photo. Zero surprise.
Its amazing how you can easily program the 16 plus year olds who Pelosi wants to have voting. Just look at their faces and you can tell there is nothing of any substance between those ears. AOC the pied piper is not so cunning and diabolical as many may think she is also a product of the radical lefts propaganda machine who found herself as a leader of the mindless which she is also. The puppet masters have succeeded
But they care, isn’t that enough?
If these kids really believe in climate control they would be working as volunteers in China and India. They would be trying to change the worst polluters instead of turning the screws on us.
There’s no doubt Bloomberg is energy wasteful, especially from funding envy driven leftist causes, but the truth is most billionaires are CO2 negative. That is because they invest the vast majority of their money, indirectly driving new technologies that seek ways to use less energy or use it more efficiently so their businesses can underprice their competition. The result is less CO2 output, and it is permanent. Most billionaires are far more green than third worlders living on $2 per day.
I am reminded of a former governor of Virginia who got thrown out because of a WATCH. He got booted not because that was corrupt but because he wasn’t CORRUPT ENOUGH!
Shut off the commie bastards AC and let them do their part in fighting Gorebull Warming.
” Most billionaires are far more green than third worlders living on $2 per day.”
Yup, just like Owl Gore with his $25K month elec bills!
Unlike most rich people Gore is definitely in the subset that are net CO2 positive. None of his corrupt “investments” have resulted in less net CO2 emissions. Government anything is usually the most energy inefficient use of money possible.
Someone should ask these “climate warriors” if they’re willing to immediately ban by law any kilowatt of power brought into their homes that was generated by coal or natural gas.
Just lay the question out there. If they’re an elected official at any level ask them if they’re willing to do it to their entire jurisdiction.
NYC doesn’t want power made using fossil fuels? Fine. Shut it off. Today. Not 11.38 years from now. Today. After all the fate of all human life on Earth hangs in the balance. Right?
Ask AOC if she’s willing to completely eliminate fossil fuel generated power and transportation from her life completely today. It’s her WWII, after all.
Then sit back and wait for the answers. And don’t let them weasel out. They claim to be in the vanguard of saving the planet so let them lead the way personally.
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Yep, mostly young white social justice warrior wymyns. Ugly inside and out.
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