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energy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Red China Tried To Go Green, Now It’s Going Dark"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Last year, President Xi Jinping announced that Communist China was going to go carbon neutral by 2060. Like every Communist 5-year-plan, it began with lies and ended in disaster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 14th Renewable Energy Development Five Year Plan would have China dominate the green energy industry and increase its share of non-fossil fuel energy from 15% to 20%.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was last year. This year, China is importing American coal to keep the lights on in its cities. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IGfE_WJ4nF4\/YWXP2hBJ1wI\/AAAAAAAATgQ\/YGeRs29YRsQ3fSoTojaZr5Da0TvTSayhQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s2048\/xi%2Bframe.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1152\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IGfE_WJ4nF4\/YWXP2hBJ1wI\/AAAAAAAATgQ\/YGeRs29YRsQ3fSoTojaZr5Da0TvTSayhQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/xi%2Bframe.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EChina's desperate buying spree has\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/10\/while-dems-war-coal-china-desperately-buying-us-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E sent the price\u003C\/a\u003E of lignite coal, the dirtiest coal, up from $20 to $120. While Democrats are trying to destroy coal in America, our shipments of coal \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/10\/while-dems-war-coal-china-desperately-buying-us-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ehave increased\u003C\/a\u003E 30 times making China our second biggest coal market.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd we have the “green energy” of the reds to thank for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERed China made no grand commitments to green energy, but even its 5% shift may have proven disastrous. So-called renewables are dangerously unreliable because they shift with the natural cycles of wind, sunshine, and tide. The same phenomenon leading to power outages in California has brought China, which has a much bigger population and industry, to its knees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGoing green in China is less likely to mean wind and solar than hydroelectric. That’s a wise decision because hydroelectric power is more reliable and efficient than wind and solar, but as a water empire, the Communist regime should have reckoned with China’s history of droughts. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina’s green strategy depended on hydropower and the droughts have left it powerless. And its hydropower is anything but environmentally friendly. Mao used dams to revive the water empire strategy of the ancient emperors allowing the Communist regime to starve entire regions of the country and to undermine neighbors like India. The massive number of dams in China, a totalitarian program to enable mass murder, were environmentally devastating before being revamped as “green energy” hydropower. Green energy, as usual, has its roots in genocide.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the vast majority of China’s hydropower plants are so useless that the regime has been shutting down tens of thousands of them. The environmental damage from Mao’s dam program destroyed enough bodies of water that there’s no more hydropower to be gained from them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is the real face of China’s “green energy”: a genocidal environmentalist boondoggle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike their Soviet Communist counterparts who reported 96% successful wheat harvests even while the peasants starved, Chinese Communist officials were pressured to fake numbers for the hydropower projects to prop up Xi’s international green energy commitments. As the droughts devastated hydropower capacity, Communist officials responded with drastic power cuts that are harming Chinese industry, its exports, and even killing people with rationing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the hot summer surged, China desperately began searching for coal overseas to prepare for the coming winter. The Communist regime scrambled to conduct industrial triage, banning bitcoin miners and cracking down on online gaming, officially for social welfare, but really as a desperate effort to reduce power usage in a country with a booming internet culture.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina, like California, is desperately rationing energy. Some places are only allocated a few days of power a week. Part of the supply chain disaster wreaking havoc on American consumers is actually originating at the source with some Chinese factories only being given power for a day or two leaving them unable to manufacture products or fulfill orders.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven while Chinese propaganda touts new skyscrapers and bizarre bridges, its cities are going dark and the residents are buying candles. It’s not unusual for Chinese drivers to navigate evening roads with no lights and for Communist officials to urge people to open their windows instead of turning on air conditioners and to use “natural light” instead of electricity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorsening the green energy disaster is China’s Communist hostility to a market economy which made it impossible for utilities to use price signals and cope with the demands and shortages. China’s electric rates are capped leading to the same results as in South Africa’s socialist power grid in which the utilities would go bankrupt providing more power when coal is too expensive. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut China’s Communists, like Soviet Communists, can’t escape market economics. The power shortages are leading to price hikes for products, decreasing exports, and a lower growth rate. It’s also causing Xi’s regime to aggressively threaten Taiwan after consolidating control over Hong Kong as the Communist dictatorship tries to project strength and plots to seize the wealth of other nations, like Taiwan, to compensate for the domestic failures of the corrupt regime.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Kerry, Biden’s climate czar, headed off to China to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/communist-china-sustainably-humiliates-john-kerry-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eplead with the regime \u003C\/a\u003Eto cut back on its use of coal, the Communists humiliated Kerry and read off a list of demands, including an end to sanctions on its slave labor solar panels. Kerry dutifully returned once more from Asia spouting the Communist propaganda of his hosts and once again he was taken for a ride by his captors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EXi couldn’t cut the use of coal even if the world were ending because it would end his regime. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina survived the counter-Communist revolutionists that toppled the USSR and its satellites because it was able to offer the benefits of consumerism, from smartphones to sodas, to a people who were a generation away from planned government famines. The Communists traded enough of their ideology to survive. They won’t doom themselves for environmentalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EXi’s crackdown on Chinese big industries, the threats to big internet companies, its entertainment industry, and its tycoons is not a show of strength, but a sign of weakness. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Communist regime is anticipating trouble and is going to the mattresses, consolidating control over companies and the culture to be able to ride out a crisis that it expects will be much bigger than the pandemic. As Xi’s regime panics, green energy may end up on the kill list.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChina’s dam obsession wrecked its rivers and as the past year has shown, it cannot expect to service the demands of a growing population and booming industry with the bodies of water that it has spent generations destroying. Green energy isn’t China’s future, but the past, and its emperors were far wiser stewards of its rivers than the Maoists and the Communist regime. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Communist regime can fill Taiwan’s skies with warplanes and threaten India and Australia, hold Canadians hostage and browbeat American diplomats, but it’s powerless when its economic pyramid scheme fails to heat and light the homes of the Chinese people.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERed China tried to go green. Instead it’s going dark. \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\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\u003E\u003Cp\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.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5395979730732880243\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/red-china-tried-to-go-green-now-its.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5395979730732880243"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5395979730732880243"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/10\/red-china-tried-to-go-green-now-its.html","title":"Red China Tried To Go Green, Now It’s Going Dark"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IGfE_WJ4nF4\/YWXP2hBJ1wI\/AAAAAAAATgQ\/YGeRs29YRsQ3fSoTojaZr5Da0TvTSayhQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/xi%2Bframe.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4611052536617941098"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-28T12:46:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-28T12:46:16.011-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"global warming"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Texas"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"“This Warm Winter, Austinites Can Look Out Their Windows And See Climate Change\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"“This Warm Winter, Austinites Can Look Out Their Windows And See Climate Change,” a headline from Austin’s NPR station \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/energy-environment\/2020-02-25\/this-warm-winter-austinites-can-look-out-their-windows-and-see-climate-change\"\u003Eread\u003C\/a\u003E last February.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Experts say, people should get used to such sights,” the article suggested. It might be a little harder to see those sights from the record-setting snowstorm that just buried Austin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EEven this January, the experts were \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/2021\/02\/01\/january-brought-snow-austin-but-la-nina-could-mean-warm-winter-ahead\/4339431001\/\"\u003Estill touting\u003C\/a\u003E a warmer winter in Austin. The pivot from warning that global warming was causing a warmer winter to blaming it for the snowstorm came with the snow.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bYA_lJaxo7E\/YDvW3QvehFI\/AAAAAAAAS40\/MhXw70P7kX8PuebO1cTLECHiYQ1GyFSEACNcBGAsYHQ\/s519\/image_2021-02-28_094604.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"519\" data-original-width=\"519\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-bYA_lJaxo7E\/YDvW3QvehFI\/AAAAAAAAS40\/MhXw70P7kX8PuebO1cTLECHiYQ1GyFSEACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-02-28_094604.png\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E“A Warmer Austin: The Future is Here,” a high-profile story from the Austin-American Statesman  declared last February. A Sierra Club organizer pushing green energy warned that \"warmer winters\" would have a \"disproportionate effect\" on \"low-income people of color.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow, “low-income people of color” are dying of carbon monoxide poisoning because of a green energy grid with windmills that don’t turn, solar panels that don’t work under snow, and battery power which holds its charge in freezing temperatures about as well as your phone does.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDefying expectations and experts, Austin recorded its lowest temperature in 33 years and its deepest snowfall in 55 years. Warmer winters weren’t the future. The future was plowing through 6 inches of snow in a city that was expecting warmer, not colder weather.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe experts are back to crediting the snowstorm to ‘climate change’. Replacing God with Gaia means that every bit of weather is evidence of man’s sinful industrial nature. But up until last year, the Church of Climate Change had been predicting warmer winters and Democrat policymakers in Austin and in Texas cities controlled by the Democrats had counted on it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Texas Observer had cited the National Climate Assessment, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/trump-administration-report-climate-change-is-hurting-texas\/\"\u003Ewhich it\u003C\/a\u003E described as \"the result of three years of work by more than 300 government officials, academics and researchers\", telling readers to brace for \"prolonged droughts\" and \"warmer winters\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EReports like the Geos Institute's \"Hot Enough Yet? The Future of Extreme Weather in Austin, Texas\" spread alarmism about the climate of tomorrow. Fear of global warming and expectations of a climate that was hotter and drier helped drive the adoption of green energy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESolar panels and wind turbines seemed like a good idea for a state that was expected to look more like Arizona. And little effort was made to prepare wind turbines for coping with weather conditions that global warming experts had been telling Texans were a thing of the past.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“By the end of the century, there might be as few as four freezing nights a year in Austin,” was typical of the sort of media pablum that policymakers and many residents had come to absorb.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy bother planning for snowstorms when the future is going to be warm and snowless?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe snowstorm that hit Austin wouldn’t get a second glance in much of the country. But the difference is that Austin leaders and residents had absorbed the idea that they didn’t need to prepare for snow. They had been told, over and over again that the oracle of science had predicted that winters would be warm and that snow was becoming an artifact of the past.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy get ready for a snowstorm that ‘science’ has told you will no longer be an issue?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreen Energy isn’t really green. The fundamental shift ushered in by so-called renewables is a move away from ‘brown energy’ and power supplies based on resources that can be mined, to ‘green energy’ which depends on the weather: on sunshine, on wind, and on tides. Weather is a much less reliable basis for an energy grid than coal, gas, nuclear, or any resource fuel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat happened in Texas isn’t extraordinary. It’s inevitable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen weather is your energy source, then your power grid depends on the weather. Environmentalists insist that global warming will make the weather more erratic and then propose that the solution is to switch over to power sources that depend on the weather.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat an argument so counterintuitive and self-contradictory could have become the basis for a trillion-dollar industry subsidized by taxpayers is a testament to the madness of the elites.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Texas storm laid bare the paradoxes of green energy in swaths of white over every road.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe artificial boom of green energy has become another of those bubbles that is too big to fail. The imaginary crisis of global warming requires more subsidies for solar panels and wind turbines. The net effect of injecting more of that ‘green energy’ into a power grid is to make it less reliable and more prone to failure. The experts try to compensate for that with more solar panels and more wind turbines, and more batteries, while extending the grid even wider, so that there are more failure points, less reliable energy, and higher prices for whatever power you get.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis isn’t an accident. It’s a calculated strategy for lowering power usage by raising prices. And meanwhile the experts, the consultants, and the donor class cash in on the green subsidies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENone of this can actually be said out loud.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDavid Ismay, a California lawyer who had been working as the undersecretary for climate change, was forced to resign \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/02\/climate-change-official-resigns-after-threatening-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eafter he was \u003C\/a\u003Ecaught ranting, \"60% of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you, the person on your street, the senior on fixed-income. Right now, there is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts, to point the finger at and turn the screws on and now break their will, so they stop emitting. That’s you. We have to break your will.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGreen energy’s higher energy prices break the public’s will to heat and cool their homes, much as higher gas prices break their will to drive to the grocery store, higher car prices make it less likely that the public will buy an SUV instead of a compact car. Don’t think of solar panels, wind turbines, and electric cars as an actual solution, but as a way to break the will of the public.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd enrich the breakers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the disaster in Texas, green energy advocates are insisting that the problem wasn’t enough ‘green energy’. What Texas really needed was more solar panels covered by snow and more wind turbines that wouldn’t spin. Not to mention more interdependence with other states.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The infrastructure failures in Texas are quite literally what happens when you *don’t* pursue a Green New Deal,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez tweeted. This counterintuitive argument is typical of the counterintuitive arguments for most environmentalist and leftist policies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe defenders of everything from the Soviet Union to police defunding insist that their preferred policy was never implemented in its purest form. The Soviet Union failed to truly eliminate all private property. Crime is only skyrocketing because the police haven’t been fully defunded.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Texas had switched entirely to solar panels, no amount of snow would have shut it down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, as AOC's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti had said of the Green New Deal, “Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?” Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the economy has been changed by becoming dependent on a green energy bubble.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMillions lost power in Texas, as they had previously lost power in California, because the radicals want to change the economy. It’s about the political climate, not the actual climate.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s why environmentalist discourse easily shifts from forecasting a new age of warm winters to endless blizzards. The political prophecies of global warming have little to do with science. And they change as rapidly as the weather does, but they rarely keep up with the weather.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Is Texas’s Disaster a Harbinger of America’s Future?” an article about Austin declaims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYes, but not for any of the reasons inside the article. Environmentalists have trashed America’s industries while promising to replace dirty energy with clean energy. But their energy isn’t clean and their finances are even dirtier. The new emerging green energy grid, funded and championed by Democrats at every level of government, is erratic, expensive, and unreliable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorse still, traditional weather forecasting models are being abandoned for political global warming models that forecast huge environmental changes. And that leaves cities, states, and the entire country unprepared when the weather doesn’t follow John Kerry’s memo.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe weather is apolitical. Rain and snow, sunshine and droughts don’t have a manifesto.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left politicized weather. Now our weather forecasting models have been rebuilt to follow their political predictions. And they’re becoming as worthless as Soviet agricultural forecasts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lesson of Texas is that when you politicize the weather, you won’t see the snow coming.\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\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003ED\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eaniel 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\/p\u003E\u003Cp\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.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4611052536617941098\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/02\/this-warm-winter-austinites-can-look.html#comment-form","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4611052536617941098"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4611052536617941098"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/02\/this-warm-winter-austinites-can-look.html","title":"“This Warm Winter, Austinites Can Look Out Their Windows And See Climate Change\""}],"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\/-bYA_lJaxo7E\/YDvW3QvehFI\/AAAAAAAAS40\/MhXw70P7kX8PuebO1cTLECHiYQ1GyFSEACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-02-28_094604.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-794648014211844860"},"published":{"$t":"2021-02-15T14:21:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-02-15T14:21:09.452-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"global warming"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Kerry"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"John Kerry Emitted 302 Tons of CO2 to Save the Planet"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In his last year in office, Secretary of State John Kerry was touting the fact that he had traveled over 1.06 million miles and spent some 96 days in the air in the course of 3 years. The archived State Department site tallies Kerry's total record at 1,417,576 miles and 126 days in the air.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKerry spent more time flying in 3 years than the average American would in 50 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Air Force Boeing 757 which ferried Kerry around the world broke down for the fourth time, the media and the foreign policy establishment treated it as some sort of accomplishment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RKImw68yTns\/YClcUYh9IQI\/AAAAAAAASxg\/Lw5Gg7DvsN0jQtGn0EKL9wKv-kKZS7kLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s1608\/kerry_donuts_public_domain_stategovphoto.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"905\" data-original-width=\"1608\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RKImw68yTns\/YClcUYh9IQI\/AAAAAAAASxg\/Lw5Gg7DvsN0jQtGn0EKL9wKv-kKZS7kLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/kerry_donuts_public_domain_stategovphoto.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThat might have amounted to something if the ketchup gigolo had done anything in that time except jet around the world to give speeches about the importance of not jetting around the world. Kerry kept racking up miles by flying to Morocco to address the 22nd UN Climate Change Conference, to Indonesia to deliver a speech denouncing unbelievers in global warming, and to Paris to warn that the earth was about to be destroyed if people didn’t stop living like him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKerry’s flights would have powered all the appliances in 50 American homes for a year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It's the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle,\" Kerry recently retorted when a reporter asked him about flying his private jet to Iceland to receive an environmental award. Environmentalists don’t fly coach or even first class. They jet set.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut sometimes you have to destroy the environment to save the environment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFormer Secretary of State John Kerry racked up 302 tons worth of CO2 emissions just from his flight time. Americans would have to burn 100 tons of coal to match the CO2 emissions from Kerry’s jaunts to save the world from people wanting to fly on vacation or heat their homes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd as Biden’s new ‘Climate Envoy’, Kerry will soon be filling the sky with even more hot air.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEveryone from Moscow to the Middle East knew that Kerry was full of hot air, but not even they would have guessed that John Forbes Kerry was full of 302 tons of hot air. Don’t just think of Kerry as a politician, but as the Exxon Valdez with a “Save the Whales” sticker on the hull.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s ‘Climate Envoy’ recently argued that coal, oil, and gas workers needed to make better choices and make solar panels. In 2004, Kerry had won the endorsement of the United Mine Workers of America by promising to protect coal jobs. The UMWA didn’t even bother trying to endorse Biden, just as it didn’t try endorsing Obama or Hillary in 2012 and 2016.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats are militantly anti-coal now. Hillary Clinton had vowed to destroy coal and Kerry thinks coal miners ought to move to China and get jobs constructing toxic solar panels there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut while the Democrats may be anti-coal, they’re pro-mansion and pro-private jet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the Obama regime ended, Kerry went back to using his own private jet to flit around the world, give speeches, and accept awards. Iceland was just one stop on the Kerry world tour.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then it was back to one of his portfolio of mansions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Local sea levels are rising twice as fast as the global average,” Kerry claimed in 2015. Two years later, he and his wife bought a seven-bedroom waterfront house in Martha’s Vineyard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch like jetting everywhere, that’s just the sort of island property that a man who sincerely believes that global warming is causing the oceans to rise and flood the world would buy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKerry’s homes, like the jet set lifestyle, clash with his apocalyptic environmentalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I don’t see it as all tragedy at all. I mean, yes, there will be tragedy associated with it. It’ll be hard for some people to give up homesteads and move away,\" Kerry, speaking as Biden's new \"Climate Envoy\", argued. \"So yes, life will be different, but it doesn’t have to be worse.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot when you can afford to pay for the carbon offsets the way that Kerry does.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s not easy being ‘green’. But you don’t have to be green, as Kerry told a reporter in Iceland, \"if you offset your carbon, it's the only choice for somebody like me.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPaying someone else to be ‘green’, which is what carbon offsets amount to, is the modern equivalent of the Civil War practice of allowing the wealthy who were drafted to pay poor people to fight in their place. Life won’t be all that different for John Kerry, aside from giving up an estate on Nantucket for one on Martha’s Vineyard, because he’ll pay the poor to be green.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETrading coal for solar raises energy prices. Attaching carbon taxes to everything will make the cost of living impossible for millions. Air travel will become a thing of the past. For most.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“What I'm doing, almost full time,\" Kerry whined in Iceland, \"is working to win the battle on climate change, and in the end, if I offset and contribute my life to do this, I'm not going to be put on the defensive.\" And it’s not as if any reporter outside Iceland would dare to even try.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJohn Forbes Kerry is flying around the world like Superman, fueled by hot air and carbon offsets, to save the world from the rest of us who irresponsibly drive to work and run our air conditioners without caring about the environment. While John Kerry goes through enough CO2 to cover 60 Americans driving their cars for a year because he cares about the environment.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll these years after Vietnam, Lt. Kerry, who collaborated with the Viet Cong to stop a war and launch a political career, is still destroying things to save them. And if these things, whether it’s the people of Vietnam or the planet, never get saved, he still gets rich and famous.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile he emits enough CO2 to account for 100 tons of coal while fighting coal with jets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen John Kerry first got the State Department gig under Obama, he divested a number of resources including millions worth of the Sustainable Technologies Fund which the media described only as a “green energy-oriented private equity firm” while leaving out a key detail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeaving out key details when it comes to the dealings of Democrats is the new journalism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Sustainable Technologies Fund was co-founded by Andre Heinz: Kerry’s stepson.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The emergence of new policies and laws aimed at aligning our economic system of production with our environment’s carrying capacity,” STF’s site tells potential investors. “Understanding and predicting the desired goals of such policies is key to an optimal market strategy.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo doubt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe conflict of interest here didn’t go away with Kerry and his wife shedding their financial interest in Andre’s Swedish green energy fund. Much like jetting everywhere while lecturing the proles on setting their thermostat too high isn’t vaporized by carbon offsets.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The time it takes me to get somewhere, I can't sail across the ocean. I have to fly, meet with people and get things done,\" Kerry argued. The rules never apply to the elites. They can’t. Not when those elites, like John Kerry, are saving us from ourselves by taking on the privileges that we are no longer allowed to exercise for ourselves in the name of the greater good of mankind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd what sort of skeptic would begrudge the elites from jetting to save us from the jets?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGoing ‘green’ is great when you’ve got private equity funds and private jets. It’s a lot less fun when you’re a British pensioner freezing to death in the winter or a \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/08\/environmentalists-killed-more-europeans-islamic-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EFrench senior citizen\u003C\/a\u003E dying of heatstroke due to the lack of air conditioning. Greenness means factory workers making $20K a year paying for the Teslas of upper class Californians. It’s oil and gas workers losing their jobs at the behest of environmental consultants pushing Chinese solar panels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s John Kerry flying a private jet to accept another award ten thousand miles away while emitting enough CO2 to heat an American home. If Biden still lets Americans heat their homes.\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\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.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/794648014211844860\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/02\/john-kerry-emitted-302-tons-of-co2-to.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/794648014211844860"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/794648014211844860"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/02\/john-kerry-emitted-302-tons-of-co2-to.html","title":"John Kerry Emitted 302 Tons of CO2 to Save the Planet"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-RKImw68yTns\/YClcUYh9IQI\/AAAAAAAASxg\/Lw5Gg7DvsN0jQtGn0EKL9wKv-kKZS7kLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/kerry_donuts_public_domain_stategovphoto.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6091348086857580408"},"published":{"$t":"2010-02-13T21:02:00.000-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-02-13T21:50:52.308-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"environmentalism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"global warming"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Temperature at Which Global Warming Freezes"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Wednesday afternoon, the sky over New York City was a falling sheet of white. Temperatures had dropped sharply and the blizzard was underway. But nowhere in the city was the blizzard more pronounced than in Central Park, which had been designed in the 19th century to create a miniature forest in the heart of one of the biggest cities in the world. The trees were layered with coats of snow and visibility had vanished into a cloud of\u0026nbsp; whiteness. And walking along a path in the Ramble, I heard a woman lecturing her children on the dangers of what else, but Global Warming.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/S3S9M7mflJI\/AAAAAAAADPY\/cJPHVdJkgvw\/s1600-h\/SL732882%20smallc.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/S3S9M7mflJI\/AAAAAAAADPY\/cJPHVdJkgvw\/s400\/SL732882%20smallc.jpg\" width=\"286\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThere is a kind of madness to walking through a blizzard, while wearing a thick coat and picking the moment\u0026nbsp; to discuss Global Warming. A theory according to which we should be sliding toward the tropics, awash in fleeing polar bears and Florida style temperatures, instead of frantically shoveling our driveways. Such an attitude has very little to do with science, and a great deal to do with faith. Because while the scientist sees what is and evaluates it based on the available evidence, the believer has faith in what he cannot see. And to see Global Warming while walking through a blizzard, is itself an act of faith.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrior to this season's unfortunate weather, Global Warming advocates had staked their bets on a mild winter in order to show people the pernicious effects of people driving to work and using extra shopping bags. Which was a decent enough angle, considering that we had been experiencing milder winters over the last few years. But the problem with betting that the weather will help prove your point, is that the weather may have other plans. And now digging out of a snowstorm and their own lies, Global Warming advocates are arguing that colder winters and snowstorms are actually another effect of global warming. Which may now need to be renamed, Global Temperatures We Don't Like.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHad environmentalists hedged their bets by calling Global Warming something vaguely neutral like Global Temperature Imbalance, they would have had a much easier time covering their asses. Because temperature imbalances are a more subjective thing and the graphs are easier to fake. But Global Temperature Imbalance is much less entertainingly alarmist than Global Warming, and the environmentalists knew that they needed a name with some heft to frighten the public. Armageddon. Apocalypse. We think of destruction as a fiery event. And Global Warming was an environmentalist apocalypse, supposedly backed by science. No wonder it got as much traction as it did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it isn't just the weather that's turning on Global Warming, from Anglia to the IPCC, the scientific case for Global Warming is being undermined by revelations of fraud and malfeasance. And the political case for Cap and Trade is being undermined by the refusal of politicians and nations to cut their own throats so that Al Gore and George Soros can make a few billion selling \"Right to Emit Carbon\" certificates to every factory on the planet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWalking through Central Park, it's easy to see how perverse the modern day Environmentalist has become in his view of the relationship between man and nature. Central Park was inspired by one of the co-founders of the Republican party, newspaper editor, William Cullen Bryant, and co-created by Republican architect and landscape designer Frederick Olmsted, to harmonize the natural world and the urban one through human industry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe New York Republicans of the 19th century viewed public parks as part of their civilizing mission. Central Park was created as part of an ongoing battle with the corrupt Democratic Tammany Hall machine, which wanted segregated slums and downtrodden workers who would rush to them as saviors and vote how they were told. By contrast Bryant and Olmsted saw parks as a way to improve human health, inspire public citizenship and build a strong republic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/S3S9d1bfioI\/AAAAAAAADPc\/Mcq2DZRhN3M\/s1600-h\/SL732745%20-small.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/S3S9d1bfioI\/AAAAAAAADPc\/Mcq2DZRhN3M\/s320\/SL732745%20-small.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile today's environmentalists are fixated on holding back human development in order to maintain wetlands, banning DDT to save the mosquito and campaigning against agriculture to reduce population growth-- the visionaries behind Central Park did not restrict human development for the sake of nature, instead they used human industry and the state of the art technology of the time to turn a decrepit site used for slaughterhouse refuse, swamps and shantytowns into a magnificent park that seems effortlessly natural. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe difference is in the emphasis. Environmentalists demonize most human industry and accomplishment, except the ineffective and efficient kind, as evil, because they are wedded to a black and white view of humanity and the environment as opposites. In their worldview, for the environment to prosper, humanity must go into decline. And when humanity prospers, they insist that the environment is in decline.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy contrast, Conservationists, who included the likes of President Theodore Roosevelt, valued the natural world for what human beings can learn about themselves from engaging with it. That was the philosophy behind Central Park, which to this day remains an elegant demonstration of human accomplishment as applied to the natural world. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGlobal Warming is an ideological weapon by the environmentalists against human industry and civilization. It is part of a broader anti-civilization agenda by the left, which values the natural world only because it sees it as a \"primitive\" antidote to the complexities of civilization. That romanticism goes back many centuries. It is the borrowed hostility of the nomad to the farmer (and it is very telling to look at Europe and see its intellectuals championing the virtues of the grandsons of Bedouin nomads over the grandsons of French and English farmers) taken up by bored intellectuals, arguing against the complexity of civilization and for the noble barbarism of the savage. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere the Conservationist values the natural world because of its beneficial impact on the human spirit through cultivation and achievement, the Environmentalist only thinks he values the natural world, in reality he does not love nature, he only hates civilization. Where the Conservationist sought out the natural world for its civilizing effects, the Environmentalist seeks it out for its decivilizing effects. He does not want to be a better human being, but less of one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccordingly to the Conservationist, we needed to integrate the natural world into our lives in order to build a better civilization. The Environmentalist is not interested in building a better human civilization. His objective can only truly succeed if every human being, every building, factory, car and artifact vanished off the face of the earth tomorrow. Because his environmentalism is really a mask for his hostility to human civilization.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECentral Park does not duplicate Manhattan before the arrival of the settlers, a trendy bit of landscaping that environmentalists are rather fond of. But then who besides environmentalists would fancy the idea of reverting Manhattan to a swamp bordered island with poor water sources and high rates of disease. Instead it creates something better, improving on the natural world, cultivating land into a transcendent statement that is more about man than nature.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhere Global Warming insists that everything humans do just makes the world worse, Central Park is a shining statement that says we make it better. The ideology of Global Warming's only real message is, \"Stop Doing Things We Don't Approve Of\". Every ad is another parable about the evil of humans who clear cut forests, pour oil into the oceans and refuse to put things into clearly marked recycling containers. By contrast Central Park was meant to open up the natural world to human activities. The ideas of Olmsted about good citizenship and the natural world did not involve teaching people to leave the natural world alone, but to make it a part of our cities. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/S3S-IhD-ARI\/AAAAAAAADPg\/_8OOPimn9I0\/s1600-h\/SL732771%20small.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/S3S-IhD-ARI\/AAAAAAAADPg\/_8OOPimn9I0\/s320\/SL732771%20small.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EEnvironmentalists today sneer at this attitude, they view parks as patronizing to the environment and artificial human entities. They clamor against hunting and fishing. They agitate to restrict human access to national parks. They push Zero Population Growth and mandatory birth control. Their \"Green\", like that of the Islamic Green, burns with hate for the Red, White and Blue. For human civilization. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut as with so many left wing ideologies, the public may go along with the propaganda, until they begin realizing the real world implications. Much of the public thinks Environmentalism is a good idea, because they think it's ultimately meant to benefit them. And slowly they're realizing that this is not the case. That Environmentalism is an ideology that champions the Supremacy of Nature, better known as the ecosystem covering the surface of the Earth, over man. Where Conservationism believed in the Supremacy of Man, and the utilization of the natural environment for mankind's benefit, the environmentalist doesn't give a damn about mankind's benefit. Less so than he does about an endangered mollusk.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWalking through the blizzard, the trees wreathed in bridal veils of snow, I heard their voices in the distance, a distance that in the whiteness may have been only a dozen feet away. \"The scientists say Global Warming is coming\", the mother said. \"It's too cold out for that,\" answered the little girl.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E(note: photos in this article were taken by me and are under my copyright. More photos from this set can be seen at my photo blog, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/cityminute.blogspot.com\/\"\u003ENew York Minute\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/i\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6091348086857580408\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/02\/temperature-at-which-global-warming.html#comment-form","title":"10 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6091348086857580408"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6091348086857580408"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2010\/02\/temperature-at-which-global-warming.html","title":"The Temperature at Which Global Warming Freezes"}],"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":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/S3S9M7mflJI\/AAAAAAAADPY\/cJPHVdJkgvw\/s72-c\/SL732882%20smallc.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"10"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-1995657021571088724"},"published":{"$t":"2009-12-13T22:50:00.010-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2009-12-16T22:32:56.578-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"global warming"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Post-Human Left Unleashes Species Warfare at Copenhagen"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"A century ago protesters on the streets of a European city might have been marching to call attention to the plight of the poor living in slums on those same streets. Today protesters are rioting in the streets of Copenhagen, not on behalf of their fellow human beings, but for the rights of the ant, the polar bear and the crocodile. The rhetoric has not changed very much, but the core worldview has, embracing a collectivism that no longer has anything human in it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SyWhTQQYbyI\/AAAAAAAADAY\/i-Lk8c6vK80\/s1600-h\/2090850622_0bc9c70acb.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SyWhTQQYbyI\/AAAAAAAADAY\/i-Lk8c6vK80\/s320\/2090850622_0bc9c70acb.jpg\" width=\"226\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENo longer is it about the poor of Copenhagen or London or New York. In modern industrialized nations, such people have in any case become increasingly hard to find, let alone portray as the victims of greedy capitalists. It is not really about any human collective anymore, but a biological collective in which humans occupy a role within the biological kingdom, identical to the one that Americans identify within the global order, that of occupiers and exploiters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor half a billion corporate dollars, the movie Avatar will be splashing that same worldview across a million movie screens, backed by the latest and most ingenious corporate technology, using aliens in place of animals. It is a worldview that began with Save the Whales and ends with Drown the Humans, but it is one that originates even more deeply in the collectivism of class warfare, in the notion that every modern society is innately corrupt and must be subject to a constant wave of reform revolutions meant to unseat the powerful and uplift the oppressed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that very notion of class struggle has been dying a prolonged and painful death, crushed by the reality that trickle down economics do work, and that capitalism writ large ultimately turns the poor into the middle class. And so to replace the vanishing domestic poor who had become the new middle class, the \"new poor\" in the form of Third World immigrants were imported and transported to fill the proletarian gap. And so Europe, Israel and America's left helped transform their countries into war zones, new class consciousness was raised up and once again the sons and daughters of the wealthy could get out their guitars and their Marxist textbooks, and damn the privilege and wealth of their forebears.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut once again the greatest enemy of class warfare has been productivity. Today the productive powers of capitalism have extended even to the worst off parts of Africa. From the billions that Bush had directed to Africa, to the Gates Foundation to One Laptop Per Child and to Microfinance, liberal capitalists were demonstrating paradoxically enough, that business profits could produce actual change, rather than simply treating the Third World as poster children for the perpetual evils of Western oppression.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnvironmentalism, in its current embodiment as the Cult of Global Warming, has become the ultimate weapon of class warfare, except it is no longer class warfare, but species warfare. Say what you will about polar bears or penguins, but unlike every single human minority whose cause the left has tried to appropriate at one time or another-- they are not likely to pad in from the North Pole and demand a seat at the table. This has made animal rights and environmentalism the perfect pet cause for the post-human left.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClass warfare began as a dualistic view of society split between the haves and the have nots. Environmentalism perpetuates the same premise, except this time the haves are human beings, and the have nots, are the members of the animal kingdom. And that is the new face of the post-human left, the face of a dog, a polar bear, a rat-- a blue shining impersonal globe symbolizing a global collectivism no longer dependent on any political franchise or even humanity. Because the Post-Human Left is less interested in human beings than it is in mosquitoes and clams. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course the movers and shakers at Copenhagen have extended offers of financing to fight the pernicious effect of Carbon, one of the most common elements in the air, to African countries in order to bring them on board the Global Warming bandwagon. And too many African governments who have been trained to demand handouts from the First World have shown up on cue. Naturally they don't believe in Global Warming, but they do believe they're entitled to money for all that the West has wrought, and if shouting about the damage that Carbon has done to Africa is the way to get it, that's the way they'll go. Even more naturally the funding to fight Global Warming will go into the usual foreign bank accounts and the same places that much of the usual foreign aid that isn't human centered goes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SyWhXnmqaPI\/AAAAAAAADAc\/Lv5mkYRuPPY\/s1600-h\/Save%20the%20Polar%20Bear.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SyWhXnmqaPI\/AAAAAAAADAc\/Lv5mkYRuPPY\/s320\/Save%20the%20Polar%20Bear.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EBut then Copenhagen is the triumphant bleat of an inhuman world, a world in which humanity has no more meaning than a mollusk. Had the activists of the left thrown a fraction of the effort they have devoted to Global Warming into the genocide being carried out by the Sudanese regime in Darfur, countless numbers of people might have been saved. Instead the hypocritical jet setters of the left will get on their jets and into their limos, reserve entire hotel floors, gorge themselves on the finest delicacies imported from around the world at the expense of working class taxpayers-- all in order to spend trillions of dollars on schemes that will do nothing to fight an imaginary problem that even the dullest of them knows doesn't exist, but that will personally enrich them and their supporters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe left has always used the ideology of Class Warfare as a lever to raise themselves up to power under the guise of a Dictatorship of the Proletariat, seizing on economic downturns and political outrage to raise up a tower of tyranny over the very people who put them into office. The EU, like the USSR, like the Obama Administration, like every international body gimmicked up to serve the interests of the same crowd, exists to merge the political and business interests of corporate socialists, with the hard left wing mobs outside that supply their ideological innovations for them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpecies Warfare has that advantage over Class Warfare, that it is fundamentally irresolvable, that success can never be measured or tracked, and that it completely destroys the self-worth of nations and individuals, teaching generations of children to see themselves as a pestilence not only against a variety of aborigines and less developed countries, but against every living thing one earth from the microbe to the trained seal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf there is one message put forth by the Cult of Global Warming, it is essentially, A Plague on Humanity and All Its Works. And indeed if one were to take their ideology and every warmed over ancient myth presented as fact, then the inevitable conclusion is that the world would be better off if humanity had never existed. For all the clever cartoons, bright colors and adorable animals that are on the packaging-- this poisonous conclusion is the inevitable worm inside the box. Humanity is a plague. A toxic destroyer ravaging the environment. Its factories, its cows and even every breath of air that comes out of its mouth is killing the earth. Wouldn't it be better than if humanity didn't exist?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe ideology of Class Warfare successfully convinced generations of university students that they were at fault for being the sons and daughters of the wealthy and the middle class, convincing them to fight on behalf of the poor, only to find that most of the poor who weren't interested in living on the dole generally wanted to be wealthy and middle class themselves. Such a backward attitude naturally required that they be ruled by enlightened people like the aforementioned students in order to cure the poor of such selfish and greedy tendencies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the poor of the Free World got their wish and became middle class, in contrast to the poor of the Socialist Motherland of the Soviet Union, where everyone but the aforementioned students were poor, the ideology of Class Warfare became Global Class Warfare, and new generations of students were convinced that they were evil simply for being Americans, Canadians, Britons, Israelis, and other exploitative developed countries, who were taking advantage of the Third World. As it turned out though, like their own domestic poor, what the Third World nations wanted was to be First World nations. And while the First World nations have ravaged their own industrial economies, China and India are on the way to becoming First World nations instead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd now Class Warfare and Global Class Warfare gives way to Species Warfare, and if turns out that all that the Polar Bears really want is to drive SUV's and own big screen TV's-- luckily they will never be able to make that known. And generations of students are taught to feel bad for simply being human, for having two arms and two legs, for having the intelligence to use a microwave oven instead of eating meat raw, and for enjoying all the comforts of civilization that have allowed them the luxury of bemoaning the fate of the animal kingdom in the first place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SyWhfYm72WI\/AAAAAAAADAg\/WINKoDMBn_k\/s1600-h\/reid%20polar%20bear.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SyWhfYm72WI\/AAAAAAAADAg\/WINKoDMBn_k\/s400\/reid%20polar%20bear.jpg\" width=\"318\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAnd what of a people who are taught to be ashamed of working for a living, of being citizens of a prosperous country and of even being human? What comes of children who are taught that a noble savage is nobler than them and that in turn an animal is nobler than a man? We don't have to look far to see the intellectual consequences of an ideology that claims that not only are human beings no better than animals, but that we are actually worse than animals. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is the moral and spiritual traits of a nation that make it great. And those traits are rooted in a sense of self-worth. To tell generation after generation that they are worth less than animals, is to transform them into animals, without shame, without striving and without any sense of self-worth, but that which is derived from the nakedly egotistical plumage of the animal kingdom. And such people are of course all too easy to rule over, to fool, to gull and deceive, to crack the whip overhead and watch them fall to their knees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe chains being wrought at Copenhagen are the ideological product of a post-human left determined to wipe out every trace of the dignity of man, for their own political and ideological power. In order to rule as they wish to, one must have a nation of slaves to rule. And to create a nation of slaves, one must first eradicate every barrier between a slave and a free man. The chains are being wrought out of laws, but there are deeper chains of the mind being placed over the foreheads of every child and adult. A chain that says you are not worthy, your efforts and strivings accomplish nothing except the destruction of the earth. And it is those chains that must first be broken, for us all to be free."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/1995657021571088724\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2009\/12\/post-human-left-unleashes-species.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1995657021571088724"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/1995657021571088724"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2009\/12\/post-human-left-unleashes-species.html","title":"The Post-Human Left Unleashes Species Warfare at Copenhagen"}],"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$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SyWhTQQYbyI\/AAAAAAAADAY\/i-Lk8c6vK80\/s72-c\/2090850622_0bc9c70acb.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}}]}});