"You’ve no doubt heard of the Green New Deal, the far left’s favorite piece of legislation.
But do you know where it originated?
... Or that many of its provisions have nothing to do with climate change?
Marc Morano, publisher of ClimateDepot.com, has a new book out Tuesday that answers these questions and more. “Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think” ..
Rob Bluey:
... One of the things that I wanted to begin with, because I think it’s so important is to explain to our listeners, why we should be worried about this Green New Deal.
Morano:
Well, in a very short answer, this is not about climate energy or the environment.
The Green New Deal is about a takeover of our economy using a climate scare to achieve their ends and the architects of this Green New Deal are very open about that.
This is a, basically, a backdoor way of central planning, socialism, progressivism in America using a climate emergency, climate crisis as their way.
So the reason you should be scared is they’re not being honest or straight with you about the science and about the so-called solution, even if we did face a climate crisis.
Bluey:
... there’s a lot in this Green New Deal that has nothing to do with the issue of climate change. ...
Morano:
Yeah. In fact, one of the architect’s famous quote was, “It’s a change-the-whole-economy thing.”
So we have everything in here from affecting everything we eat, to we drive, to our homes, to public transportation, to tearing down buildings and rebuilding them green, to going after everything we’ve become used to in America.
Everything even from plastics on down, they’re trying to literally strip away and it also includes environmental justice, health care, racism.
I have a whole chapter about the identity politics invading the climate debate.
So, the entire premise is just a gigantic, left-wing, progressive wish list, but it’s all thrown into a Green New Deal and they’re trying to scare, particularly children, into acting because we need all of this radical, progressive agenda in order to solve the climate crisis.
In other words, they actually say in the book, “Capitalism is incompatible with a livable planet.
Capitalism is incompatible with a climate, a healthy climate.”
So it's straight after the system.
... in the book, I go back and I show you the 1970s Club of Rome.
The whole anti-growth agenda is really a key origin, but the real origin of this, the direct descendant, if you will, is the United Nations’
… Agenda 21, Sustainable Development Agenda, that came out of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
... the U.N. Agenda 21, which is basically the U.N.’s idea that every aspect of modern society has to be regulated and controlled by bureaucrats in order to save the planet and to make most efficient use of resources.
That’s the origin of the Green New Deal and it’s laid out very compelling[ly].
If you go back to around 2007, ’10, people like Michael Shellenberger, before he converted to an apocalyptic climate skeptic, he was actually all in on the original Green New Deal of the late 2000s, and a couple other people claim authorship of it as well.
... Biden is probably the furthest left of any president we’ve ever had, or any Democratic nominee, on climate, even though he himself has never really made it a big priority.
But the point is he has now surrounded himself with people who would make President [Barack] Obama’s climate agenda seem rather timid at this point.
... They were truly embarrassed by the original Green New Deal release, the one mentioning farting cows and other phrases and “People don’t need to work if they don’t have to work,” and all sorts of things that they put in there that was just bonkers.
... We’re not the control knob of the climate.
Yes, carbon dioxide can warm the climate, but you can’t distinguish its effect from other factors.
There’s hundreds of factors that influence climate.
... I actually quote geologists who’ve talked about the geologic history of the earth, billions of years.
We are in the 10% coldest period of Earth’s history and we’re in the 10% lowest CO2 in Earth’s history.
We’ve had ice ages with many higher times CO2 levels.
... The only way they can scare people about climate is to say, “It’s worse than we thought.”
You say, “How? Sea level’s not accelerating.
There’s more polar bears than we’ve ever had.
Tornadoes are at or near record lows.
Hurricanes were much worse 50, 60 years ago, and they’re cyclical.”
They say, “Well, our predictions of the future are much worse.”
... When current reality fails to alarm, make scarier and scarier predictions.
... Many of these climate models and the people who claim that they’d been correct on climate, they come up with dozens, hundreds of different scenarios.
One of them is going to be correct.
... So every event becomes “weaponized,” in the words of meteorologist Joe Bastardi, of “weaponizing” the weather.
“Climate ambulance chasing” is another phrase.
And this is how they do it and it’s very deadly effective.
... The reason it’s called “Green Fraud” is because A, they’re hyping a nonexistent climate emergency, which is their new phrase.
And B, they’re telling us the facts are, even if we faced a climate crisis emergency, nothing they proposed would have any impact on the climate and be able to save us.
... There seems to be no issue of more importance to many on the left than climate change.
It became a religion for many of them.
In fact, they’re talking about ending the filibuster to pass things like the Green New Deal.
... John Kerry actually said he’s so important that he has to fly private jets.
But they don’t see any irony in the fact that they themselves don’t follow the rules that they’re claiming everyone needs to follow.
... President Obama has a house at sea level in Martha’s Vineyard after spending years warning of the climate change disaster
... At some point, you would not be living at a home at sea level if you actually thought it was going to be swallowed up by sea levels in short order.
... Luckily, we don’t face the climate emergency, but if we did and we relied on the U.N. or the Green New Deal, we would all be doomed."
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