Posted on 02/26/2022 4:33:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Commentary
It’s tempting to laugh at Biden’s climate czar and devoted private jet customer John Kerry who complained to BBC Arabic that the Ukraine War could “distract the world from the climate change crisis and produce ‘massive emissions’ that will negatively impact the globe.”
Only it’s actually tragic—and not for the environment.
The truth is that people like Kerry and many of his colleagues and predecessors who have been obsessed with the same supposedly imminent ecological disaster literally for decades now, are to blame as much as anyone—with the exception of Vladimir Putin, of course—for the carnage in Ukraine.
This environmental obsession obviously swept up our current president to such a degree that from the minute he was inaugurated he worked to reverse the American energy independence achieved under the Trump administration.
He succeeded and then some in less than a year.
Result: The United States imports oil to the tune of millions of dollars a day, including from Russia (even as it invades Ukraine). As Bloomberg reported last year, Russia provides more oil to the United States than any other country, except Canada. Around 20 million barrels per month.
This makes the so-called sanctions a pathetic sideshow—laughable, really.
As for most environmentalists, they are mostly moral narcissists signaling their own virtue. Few actually do much for their sainted environment other than buy a Tesla if they can afford one.
Nevertheless, as Bjorn Lomborg wrote in the Financial Post: “If the whole world follows through and gets to 140 million electric cars by 2030, the IEA [International Energy Agency] estimates that will reduce emissions by just 190 million tonnes of CO₂—a mere 0.4 percent of global emissions. In the words of Fatih Birol, head of IEA, ‘If you think you can save the climate with electric cars, you’re completely wrong.’”
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Neo-marxists in DC are tearing-ass around the world, making the world safe for green-energy, LGBTQ, abortion, critical race theory and a host of other of other social ills.
“In the words of Fatih Birol, head of IEA, ‘If you think you can save the climate with electric cars, you’re completely wrong.’”
Pretty much what SOME HERE say, when tell us that we need to ‘get with it’ as we cannot sustain ‘dirty cars’ forever, while pushing their EV agenda.
Russia would get a higher approval rating from liberals for invading Ukraine if they had claimed they did it to stop Ukraine from its excessive industrial polluting that is accelerating climate change.
The United States still imports 770,000 barrels of oil from Russia every day. What a joke. We’re helping fund their military machine in Ukraine.
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If they ever try to get Putin as a war criminal, Biden & Kerry need to be up there right along with him.
That’s right. And Obama and Hillary, among many others.
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