Pirate's Cove

I guess they missed that the climate cult is pretty much authoritarian, that it is primarily made up of Progressives, otherwise known as nice Fascists. Let’s see where this goes, because the original title, as you can see from the link, was about “renewables congestion climate”

Could New York Fight Fascism With Climate Policy?

One lesson commentators and strategists are drawing from the 2024 election is that Democrats ignore the cost of living at their peril. That has huge implications for climate policy: Even with deadly drought, wildfires and flooding hammering the working class nationwide, policies that limit this damage from climate change are too often successfully framed by Republicans as a cost to “ordinary Americans.” The clean-energy focused Inflation Reduction Act, despite its name, didn’t do enough to derail that narrative, nor address the very cost of living crisis so many Americans face. New York state, however, now has an opportunity to try to do climate policy right, and put money back into working people’s pockets.

Wednesday at City University of New York’s John Jay College in midtown Manhattan, hundreds of New Yorkers rallied before a public hearing to demand that the New York Power Authority (NYPA) fulfill the mandate set out by the groundbreaking Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA). Passed last year, BPRA commits the state to funding and building renewable energy in the inevitable event that the private sector is not on track to build enough to meet ambitious decarbonization goals that were set by the state in 2019.

OK, nothing about Fascism yet. Skipping three paragraphs ahead

After months of drought and with Prospect Park literally on fire, the state’s legislatively mandated climate goals should loom large for everyone in government. So should the BPRA’s commitment to phase out the state’s polluting peaker plants, which contribute to childhood asthma in poor neighborhoods. But with Trumpism gaining ground even in this blue state—Harris lost the votes of more New York City residents than any Democratic presidential candidate in recent history—it also behooves the Democratic governor to push NYPA for another reason: we need climate policy that resists Trumpist narratives by improving ordinary people’s everyday material conditions.

Is that the Fascism? Wanting freedom from tyrannical government?

It’s fitting that NYPA was founded by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1931, as Americans—and people worldwide—were struggling for economic survival in the Great Depression and the Nazi Party in Germany was beginning to win elections. The following year, just before Hitler came to power, FDR won the U.S. presidential election. He was savvy about how to fight fascism. “Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations—not because the people of those nations disliked democracy,” he said in 1938, “but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion and government weakness…”. In NYPA, FDR’s legacy lives on and New York has an opportunity to once again fight fascism by democratizing energy.

Wow. That’s a big stretch, but, you know Warmists are nuts.

FDR and his contemporaries invested heavily in antifascist messaging, but knew that a better antidote to far-right poison was government action to improve people’s lives. New Deal era liberalism tackled energy access and transit, among many other problems of everyday life. New York has a chance to build on that deeply beloved tradition and fight the climate crisis at the same time.

One big difference between Big Government FDR and today’s Big Government Democrats: he was dealing with the Great Recession (and most likely prolonged it with his policies), but, he wasn’t trying to control everyone’s lives. Hitler and Mussolini also had lots of big government projects, and did control everyone’s lives.

Read: New Yorker Wonders If NY Can Fight Fascism With ‘Climate Change’ »