Fine. Let's start with your New York 34 acres estate.
You will own nothing and you will eat the bugs.
They always invent and promote a “crisis” to justify their violation of the Constitution.
Plank #1 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of private property in land and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
https://laissez-fairerepublic.com/TenPlanks.html
Fine. Let's start with your New York 34 acres estate.
A quick scan of the article & they don’t seem to mention the BIGGEST one currently on the left’s agenda: Natural Asset Company. They’re trying to create a fund that can buy up land (public & private) & hold it for carbon sequester credits. The land will be removed from use permanently. We have until January 2nd when the SEC will rule on this to get it stopped.
https://www.sec.gov/files/rules/sro/nyse/2023/34-98665.pdf
I'd bet that's what they really meant.
Oh goody goody ... the first land they will probably seize is Bill Gate’s thousands of acres of land and all the land the Chinese own ... oh wait ... I’ve warped into the wrong universe again.
That’s been the goal forever.
Biden ultimate goal, stated, is made at least half of the US out of reach of commoners.
Make half of the US as protected wilderness, or similarly protected land.
That’s what he stated, I would thing, if he reaches his goal, what would prevent them to go to 70% or 90% or ... ?
Pipelines and powerlines are not the same thing as windfarms and industrial scale solar installations. They should not be conflated.
Carbon collection pipelines have become an issue because the environmentalists think that they might solve the CO2 panic and permit the large scale use of coal into the future. They oppose anything that might make carbon sequestration work for the same reason that they oppose a nuclear waste repository.
The carbon collection pipelines from ethanol plants are a special case because the CO2 being emitted from those plants is a pure waste stream that is currently being vented into the atmosphere. CO2 emissions from coal plants are contaminated with myriad other chemical compounds from the coal. Carbon capture requires separation, and that is where most of the expense is incurred. This problem does not exist in ethanol plants.
The backers of the ethanol-based carbon capture pipelines think they can use the carbon as a feedstock for commercially valuable products. I’ll leave it to the chemical engineers to sort out the possibilities, but for the moment, think of dry ice and fire extinguishers as commonplace Harry Homeowner examples of CO2 based consumer products that you can buy off the shelf. The idea is to monetize a waste stream, which rational people usually think is a good thing.
The CO2 being vented from ethanol plants has one other major difference from CO2 from coal combustion. The carbon being released in ethanol production was taken up by the corn plant during the growing season. When an ethanol plant vents it, it is simply returning to the atmosphere the same CO2 that was there a few months earlier. When we burn coal, we are releasing geologically stored carbon. This is what the fuss is about; we are returning to the atmosphere carbon that has been geologically sequestered for millions of years. This is irrelevant to the carbon cycle over the short growing cycle of this year’s crop of corn.
Rational environmentalists should support carbon capture from ethanol plants. So should conservatives who usually think monetizing a waste stream is a good thing. But environmentalists hate modern production agriculture. They hate ethanol because it is a fuel extender for internal combustion engines, and the enviros’ goal is to eliminate the ICE. And environmentalists don’t want farm ground covered in crops; they want farm ground covered with wind and solar farms, or returned to buffalo ranges.
[[that most of the land in America is still privately owned]]
Millions upon millions of acres of state and federal parks, all off limits to mankind, and off limits to windmills and solar farms, so what do they do? Yep, they go after private lands to build their worthless projects on.
I keep getting these offers in the mail about them wanting to “lease” my land for a solar farm. Makes me wonder when they’ll try to come and take it. Locked and loaded here in central Kansas.
Shouldn’t these rich piggies be paying to clean up the planet instead of flying around the world in their jets to eat, gab and rub elbows with all the other rich people? They made all the big bucks. It sure as hell wasn’t all of us little people. None of us are rich enough to own airplanes so we can fly off to the summits and represent the little people who are taking it in the shorts with their envirobooschidt. While they’re at it, they need to clean up that ecodisaster on the Messican border made by their incoming new employees from the La Raza Xeno Workers Cartel. The endangered moths are having trouble flying over the garbage and feces because it’s piled so high.
Eighty five percent of Nevada is controlled (taken) by the feds as is half of eleven western states. One would think that might be enough but it’s all about (more) control.
Colorado is 10th at about 37%.
Communists are very good at solving imaginary problems which always have catastrophic results.