Posted on 10/17/2025 11:35:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The economy and the environment hang in the maritime balance.
A big, beautiful brouhaha went down between the Trump administration and a globalist initiative by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to impose a tax on the world’s shipping industry. Amid growing doubt about the scientific legitimacy of alarmist claims of human-caused climate change, the same international bodies that have led the charge against carbon dioxide for decades now seek to launch a complex new scheme that will impose huge costs on maritime shipping. Within these machinations were the usual seeds of inflation, control, and a vision for a one-world domination by wealthy elites determined to rescue humanity from itself.
Taxing Cargo Ships for Carbon
On Friday, the IMO voted to postpone its proposed “Net-Zero Framework” (NZF), which would require all oceangoing ships exceeding 5,000 gross tonnage to track and trace their emissions using a Greenhouse Gas Fuel Intensity (GFI) metric. But make no mistake: Postponing it for a year isn’t the same as sinking it. As with most such bureaucratic takeovers, smaller vessels (over 400 GT) would be included later. Oversight would be monitored by the Sustainable Fuel Certification Scheme administered by the IMO’s chief environmental body, the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). Additionally, “A new digital IMO GFI Registry will be established to track each ship’s compliance status….”
Many more Orwellian acronyms abound, as the self-monikered “scheme” would charge operators who exceed established limits in a two-tiered structure. The limits will tighten when the magic date of 2030 approaches (by which time Greta Thunberg says the world will have ended, but no matter.)
The Trump administration has forcefully and formally objected to the NZF. A Joint Statement by Secretary of State Rubio, Secretary of Energy Wright, and Secretary of Transportation Duffy issued on October 10 declares:
The Trump administration has forcefully and formally...
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Net-Zero is a scam
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