The Green New Deal: Pure Evil

By now, you have no doubt heard of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (AOC's for short)  "Green New Deal."  If you live in reality as apposed to fantasy  land, you have probably had a good giggle if not a huge guffaw.  It is the engineering equivalent of proposing to hang  a roof from "sky hooks."  Don't laugh.  Air has friction, right?  That is why things coming in from space burn up in earth's atmosphere.  In theory, the friction on a long enough object should retard that object so that you could hang a roof structure on such "sky hooks."  The problem is that any material massive enough to hold a up a roof has too much weight such that gravity would overcome the air friction.  So while one can imagine a sky hook working, it is a practical impossibility, along with the perpetual motion machine and Ayn Rand's magic machine that generates power in Atlas Shrugged.

Two articles to consider, of the many I have read so far are by Ben Shapiro and David Harsanyi.  Shapiro's, at the Daily Wire is entitled AOC's Green New Deal Proposal is One of the Stupidest Documents Ever Written. While the original proposal is no longer available Shapiro preserves it in this document. The second piece is by David Harsanyi at the Federalist entitled The 10 Most Insane Requirements of The Green New Deal. Read both articles.

I have contended that the intent of many so called environmentalists is to ratchet us back to the technological advancements of the 17th or 18th centuries. Environmentalist claim that isn't so, they just want some regulation because...the reasons vary...but usually boil down to the idea that people... not them of course... but other people, are just too stupid to handle sophisticated technology.  Their fear is the fear that drove Mary Shelley to write about Frankenstein's Monster.  It is the fear that causes people to believe in the Malthusian prediction.  Like Chicken Little, they run about screaming the sky is falling and we're all going to die unless we do what they say.

I myself have had a good chuckle over the proposal.  It is ludicrous, and the fact that it came out from a Congresswoman is almost unbelievable.  But don't make the mistake of dismissing The Green New Deal, or of dismissing AOC.  I do not know if AOC actually believes much of what she says, including her socialist pronouncements, or she just sees this as a pose to get her to more power.  I have seen too many things that derive from the Socialist/Communist/Facsist/Progressive agenda come to pass to dismiss this.  The welfare state was a New Deal idea that was not fully implemented until 1965 with Johnson's Great Society.  Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring came out in 1962. while it had a kernel of truth, the main premise was hog wash, yet by 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency was born, and has been a bane of our existence ever since. Having a single payer universal healthcare system like England's NIH was a wet dream of the Democrats since 1948, and they are closing in on it now.

No, don't dismiss The Green New Deal. It is a classic misdirection that keeps everyone arguing about climate and "saving the planet" while what it really does is take away freedom and choice. So, for instance, by getting rid of airplanes, it eliminates one choice for long distance travel. By getting rid of internal combustion engines it gets rid of one of the most used modes of short distance travel. Constricting choices for energy to wind and solar severely restricts our choices of when to do things, and how we do them. That is ultimately the goal of all these socialist proposals, to control you and me, while giving them power and wealth. Wealth is normally earned by producing a product people want. These people couldn't produce their way out of a paper bag, so they have to resort to finding a way to con you out of your wealth, thereby constricting what you can do. It is pure evil.