Robert Reich has long been a leading proponent of Big Government, so, it’s not surprising as to what solutions he has up his “green” sleeve
Robert Reich: The Solutions To The Climate Crisis No One Is Talking About – OpEd
In light of the latest IPCC report on climate change, it’s crucial we remember these four steps to avoiding a climate catastrophe.
First, create green jobs. Investing in renewable energy could create millions of family sustaining, union jobs and build the infrastructure we need for marginalized communities to access clean water and air.
If these jobs were so much in demand the private sector would creating them. What he’s talking about are government jobs, overpaid ones, that are unionized to create an incestuous relationship between the unions and Government
Second, stop dirty energy. A massive investment in renewable energy jobs isn’t enough to combat the climate crisis. If we are going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we must tackle the problem at its source: Stop digging up and burning more oil, gas, and coal.
Third, kick fossil fuel companies out of our politics. For decades, companies like Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and BP have been polluting our democracy by pouring billions of dollars into our politics and bankrolling elected officials to enact policies that protect their profits. The oil and gas industry spent over $103 million on the 2016 federal elections alone.
In other words, to hell with the Constitution, to hell with the principles this country was founded on, just straight up go for authoritarianism. Weird that Warmists like Reich won’t voluntarily give up their own use of “dirty energy”, eh?
Fourth, require the fossil fuel companies that have profited from environmental injustice to compensate the communities they’ve harmed. As if buying off our democracy wasn’t enough, these corporations have also deliberately misled the public for years on the amount of damage their products have been causing. If these solutions sound drastic to you, it’s because they are. They have to be if we have any hope of keeping our planet habitable. The climate crisis is not a far-off apocalyptic nightmare — it is our present day.
If you banned the fossil fuels companies, how do you get money from defunct businesses? Also, how do these big shot Warmists move around without limos and jets? This is straight up government theft of legally earned money. Nobody should be surprised by any of this, the Cult of Climstrology is not about science, but, politics
Silly Season at the UN: 1989 vs. 2021 Climate Doomsday (it’s all politics now)
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UN 2021: 6th Climate Assessment
It’s all bad. it’s only going to get worse. It is civilization’s last chance. Red Alert for humankind….
But a massive energy transformation can avert the worst part. “The innovations in this report, and advances in climate science that it reflects,â€Â said IPCC chair Hoesung Lee, “provide an invaluable input into climate negotiations and decision-making.â€
That’s about all you need to know about the latest from the IPCC.
Going back
Reality Check: UN 1989
History matters. And in the climate debate, mankind’s long concern about climate and recent angst about global warming are worth revisiting for both perspective and optimism.
Reprinted below is an AP report from 1989 on the consensus of United Nations on climate change. I report; you decide ….
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
How’d that work out? they’ve been pushing this Doom since 1989. Lots more at the link.
Teach our country has always changed,bigly and always moved to the left
Abolishing slavery, giving women the vote, ending military draft, ensuring voting rights for all these were big changes pushed through by liberals and opposed by conservatives of both parties and championed by liberals of both parties
We’re not talking liberals & conservatives here, Hairy. We’re talking Free Market Constitutionalists and property grabbing, Freedom stealing fascists and communists.
BTW, slavery was a Democrat institution as was Jim Crow, the KKK, lynching, Separate but Equal, segregation, poll taxes and welfare. You own it so don’t try and pass it off on conservatives. Also what we know as liberals and conservatives did not exist in the same manner and incarnation years ago as they do today. In fact the liberals and conservatives of today are basically one entity allied against the leftists, i.e. fascists, communists, anarchists, nazi’s, BLM and other assorted and sundry anti Freedom movements.
Thanks for the history lesson, John-abolishing slavery and voting rights for all were pushed by Republicans, opposed by Democrats
jl: Thanks for the history lesson, John – abolishing slavery and (securing) voting rights for all were pushed by liberal Republicans, opposed by conservative Democrats.
Fixed!
Hypocrite Elwood: The fact that you still comment here after your Masters’ lies you blindly repeat have all been exposed shows me you have no shame. Same as your Masters.
Instead of being a lying hypocrite, why not do your own research? Try to be Right for a change.
You can call them liberals (the Founding Fathers were and so am I) or you can call them conservatives the point is the Democrats OWN slavery and all it’s history, evil, and permutations. You demofascists tried to control other people then and you still do it now. There is nothing you won’t do to make others bend to your will. From chains, to whipping, to imprisoning them illegally, to telling them they can’t work or buy food unless they do what you want. Nazi!
Why do you hate Americans so?
As J desperately goes to great lengths to re-write history …
Never heed the advice of a liberal especially one who buys his clothes in the boys department. –Buddha
Bwaha! Lolgf
Teach: If these jobs were so much in demand the private sector would (be) creating them. What he’s talking about are government jobs, overpaid ones, that are unionized to create an incestuous relationship between the unions and Government.
Not likely. The current jobs in renewable energy are not gov’t jobs. Gov’t regulations create opportunities for capitalists. We understand that regulations to a conservative is like a cross to a vampire, but if we had added the true costs of fossil fuels to the market price decades ago the non-CO2 emitting energy industries would have been competitive earlier. Requiring that new construction be energy efficient does not add gov’t jobs.
Reality Check: UN 1989
That’s why it’s not a “settled science” – one of the primary attributes of a scientific theory is that it makes predictions. If the predictions appear, the theory thus far is accepted.
Warmists keep making predictions that DO NOT COME TRUE.
Therefore, the warmists are wrong, and it’s been obvious for decades. All else is religious belief.
It’s not settled science because it’s a scientific theory.
A theory ties observations to a mechanism. It’s an effort to answer the why.
The prediction was that the Earth’s surface would warm as the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increased.