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By Paul Driessen

Totalitarian actions in the name of ‘climate change’ threaten wildlife, people and freedoms

Paul Driessen

Environmental activism was already nasty and lethal when I wrote Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death 18 years ago. It’s gotten steadily worse since then, especially with hysteria about the "looming manmade climate apocalypse” driving ever more extreme demands that we rid the world of fossil fuels and prohibit or roll back modern living standards.

The demands have reached previously unimaginable extremes – based primarily on GIGO computer models and wild assertions about planetary temperatures, weather, icecaps and vanishing wildlife. The claims have little basis in real-world evidence, but are presented as Gospel Truth by climate alarmists.

One group of extremists wants to make what it calls "ecocide” an "international crime” – then prosecute and imprison political leaders and corporate executives who have engaged in "mass ecological destruction” that these zealots assert has now reached a magnitude "similar” to Nazi genocide.

Others are agitating for a "Great Reset” – demanding that corporations reject their traditional roles and goals, and focus instead on "saving the planet” and advancing racial and gender "equity.” This unavoidably means companies must embrace "a certain degree of eco-dictatorship,” corporate-state tyranny and "top-down authoritarianism.” But in exchange they will reap huge profits by trying to replace reliable energy, while reducing middle and working class living standards, in the name of climate stability.

The radical left routinely employs eco-hysteria and Nazi analogies to deflect attention from the horrific disease and death tolls they have inflicted on Third World "people of color,” by denying them access to reliable energy, spatial insect repellants and modern farming technologies. Slinging these epithets at fossil fuel providers, users and defenders is as wanton, wicked and baseless as claims the Nazis made to justify exterminating Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, disabled people and other "undesirables.”

Meanwhile, in the real world, the actual threats to our planet, people, wildlife and freedoms come from the green zealots who demand we replace hydrocarbon energy with electricity generated by weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels, and backed up by half-ton Tesla-style battery modules.

This Green New Deal would reverse job creation, economic growth, revenue collection, and human health and welfare gains. It would also inflict ecological damage on scales unprecedented in history.

The Harris-Biden Administration wants 80% hydrocarbon-free electricity generation by 2030, 100% by 2035 and elimination of fossil fuels from all sectors of the U.S. economy by 2050. This would require replacing coal and natural gas for generating electricity; gasoline and diesel for powering vehicles; natural gas for smelting and manufacturing; and natural gas for heating, cooking and water heating.

Together, this would send the nation’s annual electricity requirement soaring from about 2.7 billion megawatt-hours (the fossil fuel portion of total U.S. electricity in 2018) to almost 7.5 billion MWh per year by 2050. Substantial additional generation would be required to constantly recharge backup batteries for windless, sunless days, to safeguard society against blackouts, cyberattacks and wholesale collapse.

Generating all that electricity without new nuclear and hydroelectric plants would require tens of thousands of 850-foot-tall offshore wind turbines, hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of somewhat smaller onshore turbines, and billions of photovoltaic solar panels. Backing up sufficient nationwide electricity for even one week of windless, sunless days would involve well over a billion battery modules. Connecting all this and our cities would require thousands of miles of new transmission lines.

The number are sky-high because wind and sun generate electricity only 25-50% of the year in the best locations (less than 33% on average nationwide), and the more "green” electricity we need, the more we must put turbines and panels in lower quality areas, where they generate power only 15-20% of the year. Just President Biden’s plan to install 30,000 megawatts of wind power off America’s coasts by 2030 would require 2,100 14-MW turbines. Even if they operated at full capacity 24/7, they would not meet peak summer electricity needs for New York State, much less coastal states or the entire USA.

Even if wind and solar facilities avoided the most highly sensitive areas, they would still disrupt or destroy scenic areas, croplands and wildlife habitats. Turbine blades would kill millions of birds and bats. Vibration noise from offshore turbines would disrupt whale and dolphin navigation and communication.

All these turbines, panels, batteries and power lines would require tens of billions of tons of non-renewable iron, copper, aluminum, cobalt, lithium, rare earth elements, plastics, limestone and other materials. That would necessitate mining, crushing, processing, refining and transporting tens of billions of tons of ores – from thousands of mines and quarries, using gigantic gasoline and diesel equipment – followed by smelting and manufacturing, all with fossil fuels. None of this is clean, green or sustainable.

These energy-intensive activities often employ hazardous chemicals and release toxic pollutants. They require enormous volumes of water, often in the world’s most water-deprived regions. They cause acid mine drainage, create mountains of waste rock, and often result in vast "lakes” of toxic chemicals.

Just that initial Biden offshore wind program would require millions of tons of materials, including 110,000 tons of copper. At an average of 0.44% copper in all types of copper ore deposits today, that means just those first 2,100 offshore turbines would require mining, crushing and processing 25 million tons of copper ore, after removing some 40 million tons of overlying rock to reach the ore bodies.

Add in materials for solar panels, onshore wind turbines, backup battery systems, subsea and onshore electrical lines, electric vehicles, electric heating systems and other technologies – and the "U.S. energy transformation” would require raw materials in excess of the entire world’s current and foreseeable mining and processing capabilities. A global Green Deal would require mining half our solar system.

Environmental fanatics insist that the United States continue to stymie or ban mining, even to support their grand energy, economic and societal reset. They and Team Biden insist that we outsource all this mining, mostly to China. They couldn’t care less about compromising our national security or their supposed commitment to environmental protection, human rights and climate justice.

Chinese companies already control the mining and processing of many GND minerals mined in Africa and other countries; they manufacture a majority of USA-bound wind turbines, solar panels and batteries. They certainly don’t adhere to U.S. laws and standards for environmental protection, pollution control, mined land reclamation, workplace safety, fair wages, child and slave labor, or human rights.

Some 40,000 children as young as four already toil with their parents in Democratic Republic of Congo mines, for a few dollars a day, under constant threat of cave-ins and exposure to toxic and radioactive mud, dust and water – just to meet today’s cobalt needs, which would skyrocket under a Green New Deal. The cobalt ore is sent to China for processing in plants that have equally abominable safety and pollution conditions, and have been linked to alarming cancer, blood disease and other health problems.

An enormous toxic dump for effluents from rare earth mining and processing in Inner Mongolia has destroyed agriculture and created serious health issues for workers and residents. China uses Uighur slave labor to build solar panels for sale to the United States and Europe.

Woke climate and human rights activists become apoplectic when clothing and coffee producers and importers fail to meet their lofty "fair trade” standards. Maybe they should travel to Moscow, Kinshasa, Beijing, Xinjiang and Hong Kong, don their ski masks, and rage, burn and loot for our planet, Uighur rights and "responsible sourcing” of raw materials for the Green New World they want to foist on us

Meanwhile CFACT’s amicus curiae brief supports a multistate lawsuit against the Biden Administration over its fossil fuel eradication plans and phony "social costs of carbon” claims. It brings much-needed reality to the "climate chaos” and "renewable” energy charade, including costs to people and planet.

Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, climate change, human rights and economic development.

Contact me: pkdriessen@gmail.com

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From Frank Lasee:

Low Antarctic Continental Climate Sensitivity Due to High Ice Sheet Orography

No warmer 70 years.

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Timothy Birdnow

Hmmm....

Major funder of Wuhan lab refuses House request for docs as Democrats fail to subpoena
Peter Daszak has been at the center of SARS-Cov-2 controversy since last year.

So what is everyone so afraid of?

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Warner Todd Huston

Legalizing pedophilia IS the left's and the gay lobby's next goal.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/07/mainstreaming_pedophilia_.html?fbclid=IwAR3x-y3OEg9zFSnNOK2Z2Wku996krDLnjgs6SVapnWZ8qfSMTyrjM9BmInM#.YOMWGAM_0V0.facebook

Tim adds:

Totally agree; they've been working their way to it in the same way they worked their way to gay marriage and the like.

The American Psychiatric Association downgraded pedophilia from a criminal psychiatric disorder recently, much like they did with homosexuality in the '70's  which brought about the gay movement. I would add the New York Times is all on board with this.

 It's clear this is where our oh-so-moral Ruling Class wants to go.

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From Jim Church:

Let me state the obvious: California policymakers are providing a case study in how not to manage an electric grid. Furthermore, that case study shows what could happen if policymakers at the state and federal levels decide to follow California’s radical decarbonization

mandates, which include a requirement for 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2045 and an economy-wide goal of carbon neutrality by 2045.

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Warner Todd Huston informs us of a startling criminal act:

Why was the seafood restaurant owner arrested? Because the police heard he battered his fish.

Tim replies:

Groan! You're really floundering here Warner. Or maybe it was just a fluke? I would add the poor restaraunteur probably was just concerned about the soles of the fish!

I guess you might say he had a crappie day!

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This from Willis Eschenbach:

Facebook, Congress, and the FBI are all looking to investigate and punish the evil folks like President Trump who think that cheating and fraud affected the 2020 election ...

Looks like they'll have plenty of targets to punish, since FIFTY-ONE PERCENT OF ALL VOTERS think fraud was likely involved ... including 30% of Democrat voters.

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Timothy Birdnow

I recently had a thoughtful conversation on Facebook with couple of other conservatives  conservative about the death penalty. One of them argued the death penalty is barbaric and should be abolished. I took the alternate argument. Here is the thread:

Scott Snell says:

I oppose the DP on a simple principle: Civilized nations don't kill. Period.

Roof will, and should, spend the rest of his life regretting what he did. Some day, if it hasn't already. a fire of remorse will be lit within him. It will be there every moment, and will never, ever go away. And that is a worse punishment than any form of execution.

I reply:

Scott I disagree; there are times the death penalty is necesary. It's not a punishment but a warning to others.

Ray jumps in:

You do realize psychopaths are NEVER going to feel remorse? Your idea is very sweet and all, but disregards the fact that the vast numbers of cold blooded murderers are not going to feel remorse. So they become a permanent burden of the state & we the people who fund the state. You may want to keep paying so a murderer gets 3 squares a day and an exercise period. I don't.

Scott replies:

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Warner Todd Huston

Get the stones on the media... they spend every day saying the flag is racist, America is evil, and that it is too powerful and needs to be taken down a notch... and then they get all puffed up and act as if they are mad that "the right wing" instigated an "insurrection" against the country on Jan. 6.

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Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/07/nycs-mayoral-election-is-like-the-third-world-only-more-so.html

You could say that many of our elections now, particularly in places such as New York City, are reminiscent of the Third World.

Except that would be an insult to the Third World.

In poor Brazil, after all, where many people suffer greater privation than our vagrants do, the latest election’s results were known in four hours. They just counted the votes — simple addition.

In NYC’s current mayoral race, it’s complete attrition.

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This from Tom DeWeese:

John Adams chose Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence. These two fully understood what they had created for all humanity. Perhaps the greatest testimony to their knowledge of that accomplishment is that both breathed their last on the Fourth of July, exactly 50 years after its creation. Jefferson’s last words were "is it the fourth?” Adams last words were "Jefferson survives.” To have lived with such giants among men must have been an incredible experience. I share Jefferson’s birth date. Perhaps one day I’ll also share his passing date. All I want is to be greeted at the pearly gates by Jefferson and Adams and have them tell me "well done!”

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Warner Todd Huston

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Warner Todd Huston

Failing TIME Magazine takes $700K from China, somehow forgets to tell readers about it.

Iconic American Magazine Fails to Disclose CCP Funding in Latest Print Edition

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They state publicly this isn't about the environment but about a " great reset" getting rid of free markets in favor of socialism and world governement. Of course you won't find most of these quotes on Google.

From Richard Cronin:

"We've got to ride this global warming issue.Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy."
- Timothy Wirth,
President of the UN Foundation

"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart,
former Canadian Minister of the Environment

"The data doesn't matter. We're not basing our recommendations
on the data. We're basing them on the climate models.”
- Prof. Chris Folland,
Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research

"The models are convenient fictions
that provide something very useful.”
- Dr David Frame,
climate modeler, Oxford University

"I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-represent ation' of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience."
- Al Gore,
Climate Change activist

"It doesn't matter what is true,
it only matters what people believe is true."
- Paul Watson,
co-founder of Greenpeace

"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
-professor David Botkin

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Here is the original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. Note it condemns slavery as one of the crimes of the British monarch:

A Declaration of the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress assembled.

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, & to assume among the powers of the earth the equal & independant station to which the laws of nature & of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the change.

We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it's foundation on such principles & organising it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness. prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light & transient causes: and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. but when a long train of abuses & usurpations, begun at a distinguished period, & pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to subject them to arbitrary power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government & to provide new guards for their future security. such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; & such is now the necessity which constrains them to expunge their former systems of government. the history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations, among which no one fact stands single or solitary to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, all of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.

he has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good:

he has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate & pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has neglected utterly to attend to them.

he has refused to pass other laws for the accomodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of representation, a right inestimable to them, formidable to tyrants alone:

he has dissolved Representative houses repeatedly & continually, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people:

he has refused for a long space of time to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, & convulsions within:

he has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither; & raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands:

he has suffered the administration of justice totally to cease in some of these colonies, refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers:

he has made our judges dependant on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and amount of their salaries:

he has erected a multitude of new offices by a self-assumed power, & sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people & eat out their substance:

he has kept among us in times of peace standing armies & ships of war:

he has affected to render the military, independant of & superior to the civil power:

he has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions and unacknoleged by our laws; giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation, for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;

for protecting them by a mock-trial from punishment for any murders they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;

for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;

for imposing taxes on us without our consent;

for depriving us of the benefits of trial by jury;

for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences: for taking away our charters, & altering fundamentally the forms of our governments;

for suspending our own legislatures & declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever:

he has abdicated government here, withdrawing his governors, & declaring us out of his allegiance & protection:

he has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns & destroyed the lives of our people:

he is at this time transporting large armies of foreign merce naries to compleat the works of death, desolation & tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation:

he has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, & conditions of existence:

he has incited treasonable insurrections in our fellow-subjects, with the allurements of forfeiture & confiscation of our property:

he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.

in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered by repeated injury. a prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. future ages will scarce believe that the hardiness of one man, adventured within the short compass of 12 years only, on so many acts of tyranny without a mask, over a people fostered & fixed in principles of liberty.

Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. we have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend a jurisdiction over these our states. we have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration & settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension: that these were effected at the expence of our own blood & treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain: that in constituting indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual league & amity with them: but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if history may be credited: and we appealed to their native justice & magnanimity, as well as to the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations which were likely to interrupt our correspondence & connection. they too have been deaf to the voice of justice & of consanguinity, & when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have by their free election re-established them in power. at this very time too they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch & foreign mercenaries to invade & deluge us in blood. these facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce for ever these unfeeling brethren. we must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and to hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. we might have been a free & great people together; but a communication of grandeur & of freedom it seems is below their dignity. be it so, since they will have it: the road to glory & happiness is open to us too; we will climb it in a separate state, and acquiesce in the necessity which pronounces our everlasting Adieu!

We therefore the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled do, in the name & by authority of the good people of these states, reject and renounce a11 allegiance & subjection to the kings of Great Britain & all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve & break off a11 political connection which may have heretofore subsisted between us & the people or parliament of Great Britain; and finally we do assert and declare these a colonies to be free and independant states, and that as free & independant states they shall hereafter have power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, & to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, & our sacred honour.

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From Steven Chase:

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Richard Cronin

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Selwyn Duke

https://www.selwynduke.com/2021/07/nyc-mayoral-race-dems-are-back-to-denigrating-our-system-according-to-hillary-clinton.html


First, to question our elections was the "denigrating” of our "democracy,” said Hillary Clinton in a 2016 debate with Donald Trump. Immediately after losing that year’s presidential contest, Clinton & Co. commenced the denigration, proclaiming, "Russia stole the election”! Then, denigration fell out of style again when Joe Biden was elevated to the presidency and questioning his "victory” made you complicit in the Insurrection that Wasn’t.

But now, that 135,000 test votes were accidentally counted in the New York City mayoral race, it’s Denigration 2.0.

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This from Steven Chase:

SATURDAY STIMULATION....
The way the mass media have begun simply ignoring major news stories that are inconvenient for the powerful, across not just some but ALL major news outlets, is extremely disturbing. It means any time there's an inconvenient revelation, mainstream news institutions will just pretend it doesn't exist.
Seriously think about what this means for a moment. This is telling whistleblowers and investigative journalists that no matter how hard they work or how much danger they put themselves in to get critical information out to the public, the public will never find out about it, because all mainstream news outlets will unify around blacking it out.
You want to talk about a threat to the press? Forget jailing journalists and whistleblowers,

how about all news outlets of any real influence unifying to simply deny coverage to any major information which comes to light? This is a threat to the thing the press fundamentally is. More than a threat. It's the end. The end of the possibility of any kind of journalism having any meaningful impact
- C. Johnston, a very Left-wing philosopher in Australia. I am waiting for other leftist intellectuals to chime in.... (For Godot)

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