Friday, July 29, 2022

Rigging the War on Fossil Fuels

The Green New Deal agenda

  • Calls for the U.S. economy to achieve "net zero greenhouse gas emissions" by the year 2030
  • Mandates trillions of dollars in inflationary public expenditures on government-approved, energy-saving "upgrades" and "retrofits"
  • Zero-carbon standards for all new building construction
  • In addition to doing away with nuclear and fossil-fuel power plants, it seeks to raise living standards for communities most affected by climate change and to end federal funding for environmental upgrades and "green jobs."

The Brooklyn-based Right to The City Alliance (RTCA) claims that the GND holds the key to developing "a regenerative economy based on cooperation, deep democracy, feminism, and equity."

  • Other major supporters of the Green New Deal include tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit activist organizations such as the National Audubon Society, which in 2020 held net assets of $585 million and awarded more than $5.4 million in grants and similar disbursements.
  • These and hundreds of other likeminded activist organizations are united in their mission to advance the economic and cultural transformation.

The agendas of the activist organizations, charitable foundations, and educational institutions discussed above reflect their political rather than charitable agendas, make them agents of the Democrat Party, and should disqualify them from receiving billions in taxpayer subsidies.

  • But thanks to the partisan nature of the current I.R.S., they don't.
    In addition to doing away with nuclear reactors and fossil fuels, the Green New Deal seeks to raise the living standards of “low-income communities, communities of color, indigenous communities, [and] the front-line communities most affected by climate change, pollution, and other environmental harm.” Toward that end, it aims to guarantee that members of those demographics will be preferentially trained and hired to fill federal “green jobs” that will pay them at least $15-per-hour to implement the aforementioned upgrades, retrofits, and construction projects, thereby helping them to enjoy a “just transition” from their previous occupations to the new “green economy.” The premise underlying these training/hiring policies is that some form of economic reparations or wealth transfer program should be put in place to counteract the alleged affects of America’s historical discrimination against nonwhites and the poor.  

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/07/rigging-war-fossil-fuels-david-horowitz-and-john-perazzo/ 

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