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It was also the first to feel California’s rolling outages caused by the state’s messy infrastructure of solar panels and wind turbines, faulty and erratic, tied together by ‘virtual power plants’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real color of ‘green energy’ is black.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bay Area and surrounding areas are ground zero for the massive graft and grift of ‘green energy’ businesses with companies selling, reselling, manufacturing, consulting, certifying and investing in the bubble crowded in skyscrapers and office parks next to each other. And some of those ‘green’ businesses went dark when a wind farm failed and the power outages rolled out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real victims of the evening outages in northern California were senior citizens tethered to breathing machines who sat in the dark, watching the remaining battery power and hoping they would survive, families taking the elevator down only to be trapped inside, restaurants, already battered by lockdowns and riots, losing power and watching food go bad and customers leave.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-m3yvLeYhkFY\/X0gg56WsUfI\/AAAAAAAASX8\/zTZuyuK7oGQ-YTS-lKwUSAwRAgptaUBmACNcBGAsYHQ\/s384\/california%2Bblackout.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"216\" data-original-width=\"384\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-m3yvLeYhkFY\/X0gg56WsUfI\/AAAAAAAASX8\/zTZuyuK7oGQ-YTS-lKwUSAwRAgptaUBmACNcBGAsYHQ\/w600-h338\/california%2Bblackout.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy is a region associated with the tech industry suffering from third world problems?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe California Independent System Operator, a state-controlled non-profit that defines the flow of power to most of the state, blamed, among other problems, a wind farm going dark.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ‘renewables’ around which Democrat ‘green energy’ is based aren’t so renewable after all.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EISO board members, appointed by Governor Newsom, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2020\/08\/17\/california-blackouts-expose-problems-in-states-transition-to-clean-energy\/\"\u003Ehad warned\u003C\/a\u003E that moving to 33% renewable power had left the state's power supply in a precarious position. The logjam was the solar grid. And during a weekday heat wave, power demands rise as people come home and the sun begins to set. That's why the outages had happened in the evening. No sun, no power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant gets shut down and gas plants are closed to meet renewable targets, there will be no power to supplement the overloaded ‘green’ power grid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreen advocates insist that their ‘virtual power plants’ can still handle everything, routing power from the solar panels on Bob’s roof in Marin to compensate for a wind farm going offline. This power shell game looks very futuristic in presentations, but the energy grid isn’t data. Power can’t just be treated like file sharing no matter how much energy consultants insist that it can.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats and their media allies who caused this mess are pretending to be baffled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Newsom promised another investigation which this time really will \"get to the bottom of it.” The inept Democrat fumed that, “people should have been told sooner and that is exactly the purpose of this investigation.” Which people? His own appointees had been warning him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn investigation delving into who knew what and when is a face-saving exercise meant to divert attention from the role of the corrupt and cultish Democrat obsession with ‘green energy’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Rolling Blackouts in California Have Power Experts Stumped,\" the New York Times wondered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s nothing to be stumped by and the view to the bottom is as clear as it is at Lake Tahoe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia, along with other states, is playing musical chairs across a vast grid that ties together a diminishing number of reliable power generating systems and an increasing number of unreliable power systems. There’s still enough reliable ‘brown energy’, as green grifters call it, to offset the unreliable ‘green energy’ most of the time and most times of the day. And the game of musical chairs moves enough of it around that there isn’t a problem, until there’s a problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike the Titanic, it looks great on the press releases and seems to work until it hits an iceberg.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe metaphorical iceberg sinking California’s energy grid is its heat waves. The ‘virtual power plants’ with their scalable vision of making the power supply of entire cities dependent on ephemeral natural phenomena, like the wind, water and sunlight, not to mention the solar panels awkwardly poking out over Bob’s garage, sound like the future until all the lights go out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then there isn’t enough wind speed, enough sunlight, or enough water in the dams.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVirtual power plants, like so much of Democrat governance, are a scam in which ideological boondoggles are credited for the hard work being done by a diminishing productive population. The scam only falls apart when the productive element is overshadowed by the unproductive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal justice reform wasn’t actually compatible with low crime rates. The overworked police forces were keeping crime rates low. Once Black Lives Matter and its police defunding riots took off, policing collapsed and crime rates went through the roof.  Social justice policies weren’t compatible with higher property values. They just looked like they were until the homeless and the thugs overwhelmed neighborhoods and the bubble of the upper middle class began to burst.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe power outages are a taste of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/05\/socialism-leaves-south-africa-dark-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ESouth African blackouts\u003C\/a\u003E that are coming to California.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Newsom admitted that moving away from fossil fuels had made the energy grid unreliable, even as he insisted that the state would go on \"moving away from fossil fuels toward solar and wind.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that means that it will go on having power shortages.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThese are the reasons why our distant ancestors switched from ‘green energy’ to gathering and burning fuel to keep their tribe warm, cook their food, and light the night. Embracing green energy barbarism under the banner of Big Tech buzzwords inevitably leads to Burning Man.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENewsom called the outages, \"unbefitting of the nation’s largest and most innovative state.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's the problem.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInnovation means moving from less advanced to more advanced, and to more reliable from less reliable, technologies. Putting up windmills and swapping out nuclear for solar isn't innovation, it's like replacing your car with a horse and calling it a renewable smart car powered by nature..\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore advanced and innovative technology does more. When it does less, it’s backward.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E‘Green energy’ produces less power, less reliably, and more expensively. That makes it backward. Renewables are as innovative as the green ethos of moving to a 19th century Vermont farmhouse and buying fruit at a market stand while pretending to live like farmers. It’s a charming way for a small upper class population to live, but it’s not, as greens say, sustainable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real cost of renewables is not having a reliable power supply.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the green lobby had any integrity, it would admit that switching to wind and solar means living in a world in which your power can and will fail at any time. And that’s the price of environmentalism. Instead, like the criminal justice reformers, who failed to tell the public until last month that the price of their policies would mean the end of public safety, they’re lying.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGovernor Newsom falsely claims that California won’t sacrifice reliability for green energy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EToo late.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia now has more people and less power generating capacity. As the state gets closer to the mythical 100% renewables target, it will have more people and even less capacity. A 100% renewable energy grid is a 100% unreliable grid that will be going down on a regular basis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of that will be fixed. Instead there will be slogans to make the blackouts seem progressive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPG\u0026amp;E is already describing its outages as \"sharing the challenge.\" That sounds progressive and empowering. Especially for seniors on breathing machines or children trapped in elevators.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter some noise about investigations, California Democrats will ask the public to recognize that power is finite and go about the job of deciding who deserves to have power and who doesn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe troubling interconnectedness between power and government allowed Mayor Garcetti to cut off water and power to Los Angeles businesses that wanted to remain open during the lockdown and then more recently to homes hosting parties. Companies can treat customers abusively, but a government water empire can cut off power and water for political reasons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ‘green energy’ regime will “share the challenge” by creating affirmative action for blackouts, determining which areas lose power and for how long based on racial and economic criteria. The wealthy will buy their own power, while anyone on the grid will be subject to the whims of Democrat political appointees dividing the spoils of a dying energy grid in a collapsing state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe resource shortages of the green energy dark age will turn its practitioners into barbarians.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornia will finally reach its 100% renewables target when its population has learned to cook in wood stoves, read by candlelight, and live in the darkness of ‘green energy’.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then every day in this bright new dark age can be Earth Day.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2684663107518623910\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/08\/californias-green-energy-dark-age.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2684663107518623910"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2684663107518623910"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/08\/californias-green-energy-dark-age.html","title":"California’s Green Energy Dark Age"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3609813089653110921"},"published":{"$t":"2020-01-18T21:54:00.004-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-30T09:33:44.350-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"California"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"environmentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"homeless"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"California’s Environmentalist Democrats Force Children to Swim in Diluted Sewage"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"California’s gold rush began when gold was discovered on a fork of the American River. Its end can also be found on the American River which no longer contains gold, but instead high levels of E. coli bacteria. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cause of the contamination is only a mystery to the political establishment in the nearby capital. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"A grocery sack containing what appeared to be human feces hung from a branch over the American River,\" a recent Sacramento Bee story began. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-r9h-y_M9tC8\/XqrTnMLcwDI\/AAAAAAAAR-k\/ZY2J6j3a65sZbZfIKKNhwa9WvHUvrGVcwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/newsom.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"529\" data-original-width=\"725\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-r9h-y_M9tC8\/XqrTnMLcwDI\/AAAAAAAAR-k\/ZY2J6j3a65sZbZfIKKNhwa9WvHUvrGVcwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/newsom.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe American River had been named by John Sutter. The Swiss immigrant went bankrupt when his land was overrun by gold prospectors. The new invaders aren’t trying to get rich. They already are. The benevolence of the state’s government in Sacramento means that they get everything for free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESutter’s son had founded Sacramento. And Sacramento’s Democrat majority is ‘unfounding’ California. Now the filth of its social welfare policies is fouling the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers, where explorers once marveled at an expansive landscape, vagrants have set up tent cities. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EE. coli levels at beaches are supposed to be at 88 or below, and anything over 1,000 is supposed to lead to a beach closure. At 500, there’s a 10% chance of gastroenteritis and a 4% risk of febrile respiratory disease. But at Discovery Park, the numbers went as high as 2419.6 in December 2019. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe E.coli levels had climbed so high that labs could no longer even properly measure them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDiscovery Park is a convenient getaway for Sacramentans. More recently however, visitors describe mountains of trash, waste, and needles. “Don't walk, wade or swim without shoes, used needles have been strewn throughout the park,” one Californian wrote. “I found crack heads, hookers, and crazy people screaming obscenities and throwing punches at anyone who came too close,” another described. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have been threatened by homeless trying to hit me, bitten by a homeless person’s dog,\" one intrepid visitor reported. \"I have seen cleanup crews load as many as 4 bins the size of railroad cars with trash and it still isn't enough.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESacramento County has put up signs warning people to wash their hands after touching the water and not to drink the water or even swim if they have open cuts, while blaming the E. coli contamination on bacteria from the “intestines of mammals – from wildlife to humans”. While that’s scientifically true, it isn’t the bears or the beavers that turned the river into a foul stew of bacteria. It’s the people. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECalifornians are swimming and tubing in water that Democrat politicians have made hazardous. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe environmental movement was built on claims of pollution, real or false, before leaving behind the field of actual health risks to people for science fiction fantasies about planetary destruction, ice ages and global warming. Meanwhile at Tiscornia Beach, at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the EPA’s threshold, a level of contamination that would make 32 out of 1,000 people sick, had been repeatedly exceeded. A professor referred to samples of the river water as “diluted sewage”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a problem considering that the American River is used to provide drinking water to Sacramento. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut officials will spend the next three to four years gathering samples to understand the problem. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat can happen to the swimmers, campers, and boaters while the officials spend years gathering samples and shifting blame for the problem? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis summer, a Shigella outbreak infected multiple people on the Santa Ana River. Shigella is potentially fatal. The Downey Park area was shut down for a week over the summer. After a week, the authorities insisted that there was probably nothing wrong with the river, but warned everyone to wash their hands after touching the river. Just not in the river which has homeless encampments nearby. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne obvious concern is that the Santa Ana River is used for drinking water across Orange County. While that water supply in Orange County is unlikely to be affected by the water pollution near Downey Park, the contamination is a warning that the homeless problem is not just a threat to campers and swimmers. Rivers like these are vast and have natural cleansing mechanisms, but everything has a limit. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Sacramento River provides 31 percent of California’s water supply. The American River is a crucial elements of Sacramento’s water supply. The Santa Ana River is vital to Orange County’s water resources. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo part of any body of water from which drinking water is drawn should consist of “diluted sewage”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe San Diego River is the largest local source of drinking water for San Diego County. Homeless encampments began to pop up alongside the San Diego River leading to piles of garbage and waste. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier this year, the San Diego Water Board asked local agencies to, in the words of the local FOX affiliate, “curtail the flow of human fecal matter into the San Diego River.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It was surprising to find out there was actually a lot of human waste present in the San Diego River water shed,\" David Gibson, the Executive Officer of the Water Board, said. \"There are organisms like noroviruses that cause massive illnesses on cruise ships that we're finding in our own water.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETracking the spread of infections caused by homeless waste is difficult. Most people don’t even associate bouts of stomach problems with a recent weekend swimming or boating on the water. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr surfing. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn one study of 654 surfers, researchers noted a 3-fold increase in ear infections and a 5-fold increase in infected open wounds. Exposure to seawater had come to mean exposure to human fecal matter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESurfing, the quintessential Californian sport, has been endangered by the state’s homeless policies. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe California lifestyle of beaches, swimming and surfing, hiking and camping, increasingly means risky contact with human waste. And the illnesses, from the merely gastrointestinal, to even more serious disease outbreaks, reflect the transformation of a prosperous state into a Third World country. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnvironmentalists once obsessed over Love Canal. Today they ignore the contamination of California and the environmental hazards for families, especially children, because it’s politically incorrect. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile movies like Dark Waters depict corporate villains who cover up environmental catastrophes that harm families, in California, it’s the party of the environmentalists that has overseen an unprecedented environmental catastrophe that has affected some of the state’s major rivers and drinking supply. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s the Democrats and their leftist organizations who have been covering up the threat. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo state is more obsessed with environmental virtue signaling than California. From windmills to solar panels, from plastic bag bans to straw bans, from a refusal to construct dams to putting fish ahead of farmers, Sacramento has imposed an environmentalist dystopia on its progressive populace. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile Democrat social policies have left local children swimming in water that is diluted sewage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. And\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/DgreenfieldWriting\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eclick here to support my work with a donation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3609813089653110921\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/01\/californias-environmentalist-democrats.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3609813089653110921"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3609813089653110921"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/01\/californias-environmentalist-democrats.html","title":"California’s Environmentalist Democrats Force Children to Swim in Diluted Sewage"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-r9h-y_M9tC8\/XqrTnMLcwDI\/AAAAAAAAR-k\/ZY2J6j3a65sZbZfIKKNhwa9WvHUvrGVcwCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/newsom.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-559434016080766156"},"published":{"$t":"2020-01-13T08:46:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-30T09:34:17.474-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Bernie Sanders"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"environmentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"socialism"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Environmentalists Want To Take Your Food, Your Home, And Your Children"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"At CNN's Climate Town Hall, which set out to save the world by having ten of the 2020 Democrat presidential candidates, their staffers, drug dealers, and mistresses fly out to appear in the fake news network's facilities, Senator Bernie Sanders proposed saving the planet by killing the children. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2IokVA7u30c\/XhvML0QfzwI\/AAAAAAAARs4\/TtSvHaFVaIQN64wv7Ynw_AtUi3hBynSEQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/1984.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"720\" data-original-width=\"1280\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-2IokVA7u30c\/XhvML0QfzwI\/AAAAAAAARs4\/TtSvHaFVaIQN64wv7Ynw_AtUi3hBynSEQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/1984.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EA concerned questioner at a forum being held in a green mega complex built on the site of a former slaughterhouse, appropriately enough, urged Sanders to discuss the importance of \"educating everyone on the need to curb population growth.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe?” the anti-kids schoolmarm demanded \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOnce upon a time, environmental activists claimed that they wanted to save the planet for the children. Now they want to save the planet from the children. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The answer's yes,\" said the socialist politician who has a poor relationship with his only son. Then he suggested that this brand of environmental eugenics really ought to be applied to \"poor countries around the world.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPoor countries being any country in which the socialist millionaire doesn't own three homes. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESaving the planet from the children is a popular environmental cause. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency letter published in the Bioscience journal boasted the signatures of 11,000 scientists lending the full weight of their useless degrees to order that \"the world population must be stabilized—and, ideally, gradually reduced—within a framework that ensures social integrity.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReducing populations for social integrity was the specialty of such innovative environmental activists as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mohammed. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“There’s scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez announced on an Instagram video. That's where most scientific consensus debut. “And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: Is it okay to still have children?” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow many resources do children consume versus the resources consumed by streaming video via Instagram's massive array of Facebook server farms in places like Alabama, Singapore, or near the Arctic Circle, to millions of people around the country? But if AOC were forced to choose between having 2.5 kids and being a celebrity living in a luxury building with an infinity pool, a rooftop dog park, massage rooms and a wood-fired pizza oven, which is especially good for the environment, it's an easy choice. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHello infinity pool, goodbye kids. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the competitive 2020 race to ruin everyone's life for the environment is just getting started. While Bernie and AOC want to get rid of other people's kids, Senator Cory Booker wants to get rid of meat. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis radical position allowed him to stay in the race while Senator Kamala Harris, who just wanted to ban straws, had to drop out. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We’ve seen this massive increase in consumption of meat produced by the industrial animal agriculture industry,\" Booker, who claims to be a vegan whose \"spirit\" won't allow him to have an omelet, insisted. \"The tragic reality is this planet simply can’t sustain billions of people consuming industrially produced animal agriculture.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere are too many kids and burgers for the planet. And if you take a kid out for a burger, you might as well be running over polar bears in a Hummer or holding a Climate Town Hall in Manhattan. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd just think about what that will do to Cory Booker's spirit animal chickens. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo plan to make the planet miserable to save it from having fun can go without being endorsed by a few hundred grant grifters who had spent six figures of taxpayer money to buy themselves a PhD in busybodying. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so a letter in Lancet Planetary Health by assorted scientists, grad students, people who claim to be scientists, and people who once watched an episode of Cosmos, demanded that meat consumption drop by 2030. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot that it matters.  Rep. Alexandria Cortez had claimed,\"The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf we're all going to be gone by 2031, the final year of the fall of man, why not go out with a burger and a glass of wine? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpeaking of wine, that's also on the list. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr, as the New York Times recently inquired, \"How Does Your Love of Wine Contribute to Climate Change?” . The Times never gets around to asking its readers how their love of lies printed on the skin of dead trees is killing the planet. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECoffee? Forget about it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA large cappuccino, the kind that pays Starbucks to indoctrinate staffers on their white privilege for asking crazed vagrants to stop shooting up heroin in the non-gendered bathrooms, has a carbon footprint of 235g. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's the equivalent of driving from Cleveland to Toronto. And if you get a large latte, that's like a car trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI didn't make that up. Environmentalists did. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWill those ecos at least let you have some bread and water? Even the living standard of medieval prisoners is too much for our green barons. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ecos have been waging a long bitter war on bottled water. \"A million bottles a minute: world’s plastic binge ‘as dangerous as climate change,\" a typically non-hysterical Guardian headline bleats. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the ecos also tell us that climate change is worse than WW2, you can understand why Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, a bunch of shrieking grad students who spray red paint on things to spread awareness of what a bunch of wankers environmentalists are, dismissed the Holocaust as no big deal. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho can be expected to care about gas chambers when the bottled water catastrophe is upon us? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYour daily bread? Forget about it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne loaf of bread puts out 1.7 pounds of carbon dioxide. That's like tying a whale to a jet liner, basting it in gasoline, and having it along with some bottled water through a plastic straw. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn estimated half a percent of the UK's imaginary carbon emissions are caused by bread. The obvious answer is a bread ban. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt least Marie Antoinette would have let the people eat cake. Her latter day successors in the UK won't even let you have a loaf of bread, a bottle of water, coffee, wine, or anything except soy and more soy. Or Soylent Green. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EForget about eating or kids. What about being left alone to live in your house? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHah. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If we want to keep cities safe in the face of climate change, we need to seriously question the ideal of private homeownership,\" The Nation clamors \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We need another kind of escape route—away from our ideologies of ownership and property, and toward more collective, healthy, and just cities,' the socialist rag argues. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you're keeping track, you can't have kids, a house, a glass of wine, a burger, or anything. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real question is what in your life will environmentalists allow you to keep? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe answer is nothing. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe environmentalists claim that if they're not allowed to have their way, the planet will be destroyed. And if they are allowed to have their way, they will take everything from us that makes life worth living.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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Then she gushes about having a party with 150 people in the house. “We could have had another 50,” she brags. Then there’s her pool. “It’s so beautiful at night when it’s lit up.”  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFonda didn’t sell her mansion because she suddenly realized that two people living on a 36,000 square foot estate was bad for the environment. Even if the pool was solar heated. She had just broken up with her record producer boyfriend and was looking to scale down by getting something for the single life. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd so, the environmentalist activist went all the way down from a 7,102 square foot mansion to a 6,679 square foot luxury townhouse. The $5.8 million three-story home has 4 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, and a semi-subterranean three car garage which no doubt only stock Teslas. The master suite has its own fireplace, two walk-in closets, a marble bathroom, and its own balcony. There are staff quarters for the servants. And an elevator for a convenient way to get around the three-story condo. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe complex also offers indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and a tennis court. For the environment. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery so often, Fonda leaves her Century City luxury condo to fly 2,311 miles to Washington D.C. to protest for the environment. Each of these trips by Fonda generates more CO2 than an average person in Madagascar produces in one year. At these ‘Fire Drill Fridays’, she arranges to get herself arrested (with all the CO2 emissions that entails) along with other California celebrities to demand that everyone save the planet by submitting to the poverty, misery, and destruction of the Green New Deal.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFonda urged protesters to “take the next step beyond individual actions to reduce our carbon footprint”. She could have reduced her carbon footprint by getting rid of 6 of her 7 bathrooms. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that wouldn’t have gotten the haggard leftist has-been another 15 minutes of fame. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“These are life-and-death decisions,” she falsely claimed before a silent meditation, three “hi-yahs”, and the vanity arrests in a city already overburdened by crime that largely affects its poor population. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso arrested was Ted Danson, who last year bought a second compound next to his first compound in Santa Monica with a walk-in wine cellar (don’t call it a cave), he already owns a cottage in Nashville, a ten-acre place in California, and a six-acre multi-residence spread on Martha’s Vineyard. The Cheers star and blackface impresario is naturally concerned about the environment. He owns so much of it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBrooklyn Decker, the Sports Illustrated model, also came to D.C. to fight for the environment. Decker and her husband have two homes, a 7,300 square foot mansion in West Austin, Texason 15 acres of land with an infinity pool, and the other, a 4-acre spread with 7 bedrooms in North Carolina.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoining them in the Legion of Environmentalist Mansion Crusaders was Rosanna Arquette, an actress who lives in aPacific Palisades 1.36 acre ocean-view walled and gated estate with 7.5 bathrooms, floor-to-ceiling glass walls, and a 10,000-bottle wine cellar with its own tasting room. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"As Greta Thunberg said, 'Our House Is On Fire', and we need to act like it,\" Fonda wrote. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr our 10,000-bottle wine cellar anyway. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You see this coat? I needed something red and I went out and found this coat on sale. This is the last article of clothing that I will ever buy,\" she boasted at a Capitol Hill rally while showing off a $500 luxurious red coat. The red coat is appropriate for the nation’s most famous celebrity traitor who flew to show solidarity with the Viet Cong who were murdering Americans with nary a carbon offset in sight. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“‘We don’t need more stuff,’ then I have to walk the walk too. So I’m not buying any more clothes.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd to prove it, Fonda wore the same black sequin suit to the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in New York City and then to the GCAAP Empower Party in Atlanta three days later. How did she get from New York to Atlanta in three days? Probably teleportation. And buying new clothes in Atlanta would have had less environmental impact than dragging her sequin suit on a flight from New York to Atlanta. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s not about actually making a difference. It’s about pretending to. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can have your indoor elevators, wine cellars, and massive estates, and look good by getting briefly arrested to show how much you care about the environment, even while heating, cooling, and powering houses and lands that consume more energy and emit more carbon than millions of third worlders. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Proud of @Janefonda’s commitment to save our planet,” an environmentalist site tweeted. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn actual commitment would have meant moving to a 1,500 square foot apartment. Instead of commuting between California and Washington D.C. (not to mention Atlanta and New York City) while also having a place in D.C. While the media has widely reported on her temporary sojourn in D.C., none have bothered to ask or report on what sort of environmentally sustainable quarters she’s occupying. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I made personal changes,” Fonda said. “Electric car, get rid of single-use plastic, less meat — cut it out altogether — recycle, all those kinds of things.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut keep the 6,679 square foot luxury home. And have your luxury coats shipped over from China. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I decided that the last article of clothing that I will ever buy is a red coat. Sure enough, I found one at Neiman Marcus on sale for $500. And that's the coat,\" she had insisted. \"I'm speaking out against consumerism and so I have to walk the talk. And so that's the last thing I'll buy.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy Fonda’s standards, paying only $500 for a coat is a protest against consumerism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s nothing like protesting consumerism by buying a $500 coat “on sale” at Neiman Marcus when you live in California.The coat, worn exclusively by Meghan Markle and working-class comrades of the Viet Cong, normally sells for $750, is virgin wool with lambskin trim and imported from China. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s nothing like buying a discounted $500 slave labor coat that had to be shipped all the way over from China to protest consumerism and fight for the environment. This is Fonda’s single greatest moral statement since she sat on a Viet Cong anti-aircraft gun while hanging out with America’s enemies. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina has been known to get its lambskin by skinning lambs alive. And its leather often comes from dogs and cats boiled alive. But it’s not as if Fonda cares about the planet, animals or anyone except herself. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFonda’s only doing these protests until her Netflix series, Grace and Frankie, starts shooting again. At a protest that came too close to the resumption of shooting on her TV series, she avoided being arrested. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I have to be careful not to get to a point where they're going to keep me for 90 days, because I have to begin preparing for Grace and Frankie in January,” the heroic activist explained, after previously saying, “Everybody's gotta get used to this new normal, getting beyond our comfort zone.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s one thing to get headlines for being arrested. Just so as long as it doesn’t interfere with your closeup and the millions of dollars that allow you to afford the good things in life that you want to take away from the rest of the country. Fonda wants her 7 bathrooms and tiny hovels for the rest of us. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter Fonda returned from collaborating with the enemy in Vietnam, she slandered American POWs as “hypocrites and liars”. But she’s always been the real liar and hypocrite. The pampered celebrity posing with Communist killers and cheering on the murder and torture of American soldiers because it was good for her career. And now championing the Green New Deal while commuting to her massive home, and getting visibly arrested, so long as it doesn’t interfere with her Netflix shooting schedule. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFonda spoke glowingly of the Communists of Vietnam in propaganda broadcasts. The Green New Deal promises a brutal revolution, with cold and hunger, the breakdown of industry and life, that appeals so much to leftists who believe that people deserve to suffer for social justice. And Jane Fonda hopes to enjoy it from the balcony of her master suite and its fireplace if it gets too cold in Los Angeles County. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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It’s real simple.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI never got around to asking him why he didn’t use the perpetual motion bicycle chain to power his car. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut now, Senator Bernie Sanders has announced his own perpetual motion energy plan. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Bernie’s new Green New Deal, 20 million new jobs will be created to fight, what the elderly socialist claims is, a “climate crisis”. These jobs will be \"good paying, union jobs\" in \"energy efficiency retrofitting, coding and server farms, and renewable power plants\", not to mention the eternal New Deal fantasy of government work camps under a \"a reimagined and expanded Civilian Conservation Corp\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd this perpetual motion plan will pay for itself by, among other things, \"collecting new income tax revenue from the 20 million new jobs created by the plan.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bicycle chain slides down. And then gets pulled up. And creates 20 million jobs. It’s real simple. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBernie’s plan calls for spending a mere $16.3 trillion (also known as most our national debt) and that will create 20 million union jobs in such booming sectors as sealing windows and coding (when the coders have been unionized, all our software will work as well as all other union sectors), and then the income tax from those 20 million jobs will help cover that $16.3 trillion. Presumably with some tax hikes. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it’s okay. We’ll just pay the workers more so they can afford to pay the higher taxes. It’s real simple. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch like my Uber driver’s perpetual motion machine, the energy will be free. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst, Bernie will “ban the imports and exports of fossil fuels”. There will also be bans on fracking, coal mining and offshore drilling. And he’ll also “ensure fossil fuels stay in the ground by stopping the permitting and building of new fossil fuel extraction, transportation, and refining infrastructure.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou wouldn’t want those fossil fuels escaping the ground and sustaining human civilization. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen, President Bernie will use the SEC to force \"financial institutions, universities, insurance corporations\" to divest from oil and gas and buy \"clean energy bonds\". Those “clean energy bonds” will be subsidizing the failed “renewables” strategy that doesn’t work, but will now have been mandated. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFederal pension funds will also be forced to throw away the futures of their workers in the same way. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy 2030, the entire country’s electricity and transportation grid will be powered by “100 percent renewable energy.” Which is to say you’ll spend a lot of time sitting around in the dark. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the whole thing will pay for itself “through litigation, fees, and taxes” on the fossil fuel industry. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFirst Bernie will bankrupt the energy industry and then pay for everything by taxing the industry he bankrupted. The bicycle chain goes up and then it goes down. Which part of that don’t you understand? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt least the energy will be free. Or virtually free. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBernie’s Green New Deal proposal claims that, “after 2035 electricity will be virtually free, aside from operations and maintenance costs.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOperators are standing by to take your call. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBernie promises to “end greed in our own energy system”. Goodbye Edison, vamoose Tesla. There’ll be no more profiteering from the infinite free energy generated by the Green New Deal. Forget energy greed. And the energy grid. There’ll be neither greed nor grid in the Green New Deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow will this free energy work? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESimple. \"The renewable energy generated by the Green New Deal\" will be sold to \"cooperatively-owned\" utilities that \" demonstrate a commitment to the public interest\". Ban oil, coal and gas, then force all the financial institutions to subsidize “clean energy” which will be sold to lefty cooperatives. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd they say Communism doesn’t work. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere will be no more “energy greed” because the Green New Deal, whose key pieces of energy infrastructure, windmills and solar panels, are the least reliable ways to produce energy, and only work intermittently when there’s sunlight and wind, will resell its energy to politically correct utilities. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEverything will be subsidized and pay for itself by taxing the oil industry that no longer exists. And forcing everyone to invest their savings and pensions in a boondoggle worthy of Venezuela. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bicycle chain goes up. The bicycle chain goes down. And you’re really gonna need those bicycles. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Bernie puts it, \"We will move beyond oil toward an electric car.\" There'll be $2 trillion in grants to buy electric cars. And $681 billion for electric car trade-ins. Then $407 billion to replace all buses with electric buses. And $216 billion to replace trucks with electric trucks. Plus, another $100 billion to “decrease the cost of a new electric vehicle to at most $18,000.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(It's only money. Taxpayers have lots of it.) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EActual cars will be eliminated through the, \"regulation\" and \"enforcement\" of personal vehicles. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut don't worry about the cost of charging your new electric car, built by unionized \"indigenous peoples\" and \"communities of color\", because with charging stations everywhere, \"drivers will no longer need to worry about where to charge their car or if they can pay for it.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe electricity is \"virtually free\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe entire country, including all its vehicles, and long-haul trucks and school buses, and your car, will be dependent on an energy grid run by political apparatchiks who worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign and whose power supply varies depending on the weather, and are managed in defiance of economics. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat could possibly go wrong? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBetter hang on to your bicycle. You’re going to need it once the blackouts, brownouts and restrictions on power usage kick in. After a while that $2 trillion worth of electric cars will be banned through “regulation and enforcement”, while everyone except seniors will be told to ride bicycles. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bicycles will be powered by that unique form of renewable energy known as human muscle. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHuman ingenuity and folly are the only true sources of renewable energy. Both are infinite. And sometimes it can be hard to tell one from the other. That is why socialism continues to endure. Not because it works, but because there will always be people who want to believe that the bicycle chain can go up and down, and that your trillion-dollar spending plans will be paid for by your fantasies. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAny intelligent adult would see Bernie’s Green New Deal as raving lunacy. Take the plan to subsidize 20 million jobs with income taxes from those 20 million jobs. Or the claim that the Green New Deal can be paid for with taxes on the energy industries it proposes to wipe out. Or a call to spend $150 billion to “decarbonize” shipping and aviation “as soon as possible”. (Just put windmills on the planes.) \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPortions of the Green New Deal read like socialist gibberish poorly translated from the original Russian. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We will establish a ‘take back’ program to require large corporations that produce goods with the materials needed for this clean energy transition to pay to take those goods back from consumers who no longer want them to establish a nation-wide materials recycling program so we can use as many recycled materials as possible to build the renewable energy equipment needed to transform our energy system,” one particular breathless sentence insists. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no room for periods or commas in this excited vision of a world in which consumers eagerly rush to turn over the goods they no longer want so they can be used to construct windmills for free energy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the Bernie revolution, the people will have been educated to realize that they no longer need material goods. (Bernie however will have upgraded from three houses to four.) And they’ll rush to turn over all their iPhones and convertibles, while the evil corporations which convinced them that they needed those things will atone by beating their lawnmowers into solar panels and windmills. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t a political vision. It’s environmentalist messianism. It doesn’t work. But it isn’t really meant to. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMy driver didn’t try powering his car with the perpetual motion bicycle chain. The idea of it was what mattered. Once upon a time, American socialists were cranks confined to lecturing students or random people about their magical economics with no real risk of having to put their delusions into practice. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe truly vital thing was the pseudo-religious vision of a remaking the world into a magical place. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe all like believing that wonder can transcend material reality. For religious people, God is the source of wonder. Others, like my driver, find validation in imagining the technological miracles of ancient Egypt. And millions of lefties believe that given total power they could reshape reality to create their vision of a magical world unbounded by the materialism of economics and energy. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the real world, the only way the bicycle chain keeps going is if your feet are working the pedals. And lefties invariably realize that the only “free energy” doesn’t come from wind or solar. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe only “free energy” with which lefties build their utopias is slave labor. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAncient Egypt wasn’t powered by magical batteries or lost ancient technologies. It worked because of slave labor. Communist dictatorships got things done not because they had good ideas, but because they enslaved millions of people. Bernie proposes bringing back the Civilian Conservation Corps. Perhaps he forgot that Norman Thomas, America’s leading socialist, had called CCC a “system of forced labor”. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr maybe Bernie remembers all too well. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe bicycle chain rattles. Keep pedaling. It’s the only way to generate power in the Green New Deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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