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How the political elites exploited Greta’s moral immaturity to impose their punishing eco-agenda.This week Greta Thunberg turned 21. Yes, the diminutive doom-monger is a full-on grown-up now. The pint-sized predictor of End Times has passed the final threshold of adulthood. Once the world’s best-known petulant teen, never knowingly appearing in public without wearing the scowl of the self-righteous youth, Ms Thunberg has reached the full age of majority. She’s so old she could legally get pissed in America if she wants. Though that seems unlikely, given she once said she ‘would never go out drinking’: ‘I would never do anything…...

Teachers heading back to the classroom will be adding renewable energy to the curriculum to mold future “energy leaders to save the planet,” thanks to a summer training program run by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Smithsonian Science Education Academies for Teachers. “By teaching the teacher, events like this one make a powerful impact on public understanding of America’s energy needs,” states a back-to-school announcement [1]posted on the DOE website earlier this month. “This year’s academy has just graduated a pool of motivated teachers, ready to arm the next generation of energy leaders to save the planet!” said...

Laudato Si, with its stable of hand-picked radical eco-activists, is really a Trojan Horse ready to attack and dismantle capitalism and replace it with one world order socialism. This week Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council of Peace and Justice, invited a radical non-scientific expert to address the press with other activists about Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical, Laudato Si. The self- described “secular Jewish feminist” Naomi Klein is the author of a number of books including, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate.” Based on the title of her book, you would think Klein is qualified to pose...

BY TIMOTHY O'HARA Citizen Staff A nonprofit wildlife advocacy group will sue the federal government for not providing adequate protection for two species of coral found off the Florida Keys that recently were placed on the endangered species list. The Center for Biological Diversity successfully lobbied the National Marine Fisheries Service to put staghorn and elkhorn coral on the list. That occurred in May 2006, engaging an Endangered Species Act requirement that the agency designate critical habitat for protected species within a year of the status going into effect. Fisheries biologists have not done that yet, said Jennifer Moore, a...

Private land not county's sphere:(purportedly) by Martin McClellan, Port St. John, Florida. The County Commission and the Natural Resources Management Office are considering a proposal called the Consolidated Environmental Ordinance and the Critical Habitat Ordinance, which were formerly called the Significant Environmental Areas Ordinance. The (sic) say it is not a taking of land, because the land remains in private hands. But the dictionary defines to "own" as: "a. to have or hold as property: possess, b. to have power over: control" If these ordinances pass, they will require the owners of the preserved land to follow certain protection procedures...