Posted on 09/30/2015 11:21:28 AM PDT by george76
Progressive pundits increasingly envision the 2016 presidential election as a “last chance,” as one activist phrased it, to stop “climate change catastrophe.” As this agenda gets ever more radical, the prominence of climate change in the election will grow ever more obvious.
The key here is that the green left increasingly does not want to limit or change the mix of fossil fuels, but eliminate them entirely, the faster the better.
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Climate activists such as hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer increasingly couch their policies on theological grounds, one reason why the pope’s intervention was so timely. Stark self-interest is also at work. Many of the Silicon Valley and Wall Street supporters of green policies have been among those most anxious to capitalize on big oil’s demise.
This includes cash-rich firms such as Apple, as well as many high-tech financiers and venture capitalists. Some of the biggest new fortunes, notably that of Elon Musk, are largely the creatures of subsidies. Neither SolarCity nor Tesla would be so attractive—and might even not exist—without generous handouts from taxpayers...
tech figures, including top executives at Google, have benefited from government-subsidized renewable energy schemes, including a remarkably inefficient and expensive solar project that has obliterated a huge part of the Mojave Desert.
No surprise, then, that the crony capitalists of Silicon Valley and their Wall Street financiers have emerged as primary funders of the green left. Much like the oil firms that help finance Republicans, particularly those who are climate change skeptics, the new oligarchs have solid business reasons to embrace the pontiff’s environmental dogma, though they seem unlikely to follow his admonitions to eschew corporate greed.
Ironically, the new militancy among greens is likely to hurt most the poor and working class with whom Pope Francis takes pains to identify
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I wonder if they are more concerned about the predictions from a few years ago to be proven false. Wasn’t last and this year when the end of the world was supposed to happen?
Wait another couple of years, and people will stop believing because the doom and gloom predictions are not coming true.
They want a gesture.
Unilateral concessions by us.
Chasing fairy dust, to feel better.
Greenies have no idea what the poor want or need. When asked, people in developing countries prioritize such things as education, health care, job opportunities and better food; climate change ranked 16th—dead last on the list
Isn’t it great to watch Tom Steyer’s money go down the toilet?
Reportedly he p*ssed away $100 mil in the 2014 midterms.
As it should be. Life is tough and especially tough for most people around the world. Last thing they want is additional hardship.
Likewise, for us here in the US. We as a country and citizenry have come a long way and life is very good here.
However, many elites want to take this great life away from us and all in the name of a theory that is full of holes.
If I am going to sacrifice my lifestyle for something a lot less, then it had better be based on indisputable fact (or close to it).
The only "catastrophe" they're really worried about is conservatives stemming the flood of Federal money.
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