Pirate's Cove

Young progressives would do anything to save the environment — except learn anything about it and the rest of the word we live in. https://t.co/ADHKTqzpIf

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) December 26, 2018

Nor will they give up anything in their own lives that would reduce their own “carbon footprint”. From the Axios article

A youth movement that was founded less than two years ago and that stages most of its protests by singing has been lobbying on Capitol Hill for the “Green New Deal” — and has become “the dominant influence on the environmental policy” of the young, progressive Democrats, The New Yorker’s Emily Witt writes.

Why it matters: The Green New Deal is an economic and climate plan supported by incoming Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and about 40 lawmakers. The youth movement, which goes by the name “Sunrise,” is one of the reasons the plan is getting so much attention.

Here’s where it gets fun

Details:

• Their inspiration comes from Occupy Wall Street, the Movement for Black Lives, United We Dream, and Cosecha.
• “They studied the wins and the losses of the climate movement in its forty-year history,” Witt writes, and they “tend not to talk about starving polar bears, melting ice caps, or ocean acidification. Instead, they talk of family members who have lost their homes to floods or fires, young relatives who have asthma, or beloved landscapes that have been degraded or destroyed in the spans of their short lifetimes.”
• They focus on racial and economic justice in their message, since poor communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change.
• The activists are working to get out the youth vote and getting politicians to back away from accepting donations from fossil-fuel billionaires.

So, let’s see: they get their inspiration from OWS, which featured filthy people do hard drugs, pooping on police cars and people’s doorsteps, stabbings, and the need for “rape free zone” tents to keep from being raped by other Occupiers. Plus, all the attempted bombings and such. BLM? Riots, arson, theft.

Wins and losses? People have always lost homes and gotten asthma. It’s called weather.

The big one is the third one, which highlights that this has zero to do with science and everything to do with far left politics. And then “Go deeper: Democrats’ left turn on climate change”

The details: Ahead of any actual legislating, the Green New Deal is mostly a catchy slogan, largely unknown by the public, which represents broad progressive policies. What details are available are outlined on Ocasio-Cortez’s election website:

• An eventual goal of 100% of electricity coming from renewable energy, a controversial proposition. Right now, such sources make up just 17% of the nation’s power mix, with nearly half of that coming from hydropower.
• A guarantee of federal jobs for those working in the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources.
• Federal programs guaranteeing basic income and universal health care. While health care has little to do with energy and climate, the outline says it would help “promote economic security, labor market flexibility and entrepreneurism.”
• There’s no price tag on the plan yet, but the outline says it would be paid for by a combination of the Federal Reserve and a collection of even more unprecedented funding sources, including a new public bank. A tax on carbon emissions could be one way to raise revenue, says Ocasio-Cortez spokesman Corbin Trent.

Funny how this is all about more and more government control while taking even more money, while initiating a host of left wing policies.