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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

"New Deal Light: Beware of the ‘American Conservation Coalition’ "

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” … it is our moral responsibility to play a leading role in the response to the threats posed by climate change.

Both inaction and unrealistic proposals are insufficient responses.


The United States should prioritize actionable policy solutions … for all Americans impacted by climate change and for the betterment of future generations.”
 – American Conservation Coalition

 Beware of the American Conservative Coalition ...

With an endless supply of money, the Progressive Left have been creating nonprofits to fracture and weaken the resistance to climate alarmism and forced energy transformation.

Many “conservative” or “Republican” or “bipartisan” front groups are doing the incrementalism that tip-toe on the road to serfdom.

The “youth-led” American Conservation Coalition (ACC) promotes itself as anti-Green New Deal, against a carbon tax, and dissatisfied with the Paris Climate Accord.

But are they against other forms of pricing emissions of the green greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

Would they support pulling out of the Paris accord?

... their “EcoRight” approach is really EcoStatism given their embrace of climate alarmism and rejection of do-no-harm climate policy of free-market adaptation, not government mitigation.

Here are ACC’s code words for government activism, one step at a time, all down the road to serfdom.

“We” is used a lot, but government is always right there.

Here are twenty disconcerting buzz phrases:

“developing innovative energy technologies,”

“promoting diverse sources of energy to ensure energy independence,”

"expanding public-private partnerships,”

“facilitating collaboration among federal agencies and the private sector”

 “recalibrate the investment of government funding,”

“prioritize the advancement of affordable and exportable clean energy technologies,”

“modernize its infrastructure to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,”

“smart grids”

“integrate low and zero-emissions technology"

“clean energy,”

“reduce embodied carbon,”

"targeted investment and regulatory streamlining”

“store carbon,”

“expand carbon sinks,”

"incentivized … land management and conservation strategies,”

“conservation efforts”

“engage with partner nations to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions,”

“be a leader and an example to the rest of the world”

 “policies … global net-zero carbon emissions by 2050”

A strategy of the American Conservation Coalition is to gain entry in conservative or libertarian venues by extolling the areas of agreement–and staying quiet on climate statism.

Here is a recent example. Christopher Barnard, National Policy Director at ACC, for example, wrote an entirely sensible piece this month for the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), “Stop Greenwashing Socialism.”

Rejecting “ecosocialism,” and “perpetuated myth of more government control meaning more environmental protection” as “not only misguided, but dangerous,” Barnard would seem to reject climate planning by steps.

But he doesn’t go there.

This is the half-truth strategy: get the reader’s confidence by telling half of your story.

On the premise of climate alarmism, no doubt the key to ACC’s funding and mission,

Barnard will use other venue to critically embraces a speculative, unsolvable global market failure connected to dense, reliable, affordable mineral energies.

In another AIER post, Barnard quite sensibly wrote:

 "We locked down entire economies to reduce our carbon emissions by as little as 6.4%, which is proof that economic degrowth, as some eco-activists have called for, is a ridiculous proposition …

The 2020 reduction in emissions was the result not of a strategic climate response, but of global pain and suffering.”

Beware of the American Conservative Coalition is hiding something very big from the classical liberal/free market community.

Christopher Barnard should be challenged to engage in open debate to demonstrate why the climate is in crisis and why rationing consumer-chosen energy is a workable policy.

Why bigger government at every turn?

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Appendix: ACC’s “About’ Section
The ACC was founded in 2017, based on the belief that economic and environmental success go hand-in-hand.  ...

Appendix: ACC‘s ‘American Climate Contract
‘Climate change is among the most significant challenges facing the United States—and the world — in the 21st century.

From rising sea-levels to increased extreme weather events, our health, well-being, and security will be impacted without significant decreases in global greenhouse gas emissions.

... it is our moral responsibility to play a leading role in the response to the threats posed by climate change. ...


WHY DO WE NEED A NEW APPROACH TO CLIMATE CHANGE?
Proposals like the Paris Accord and the Green New Deal have failed thus far ...


HOW IS THE AMERICAN CLIMATE CONTRACT DIFFERENT FROM THE GREEN NEW DEAL?
The Green New Deal inspired millions of young people to call for action on climate change.  ... the Green New Deal is a wish list of progressive policies, not a real climate plan. "