Green New Deal has a dirty secret
By Jim DeMint, opinion contributor — 04/13/19 12:00 PM EDT The dirty little secret of the Green New Deal is not that it is an unserious proposal that has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with the sense of entitlement of elite progressives. That is not a secret at all. It is common knowledge. The secret of the Green New Deal is that this valentine to socialism from Senator Edward Markey and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is already obsolete.
For the American people have already passed their Green New Deal, through the miracle of free market innovation. Not in the House and Senate, but in the Permian Basin, at the Bakken Formation and the Marcellus Shale. The left will not admit it, but the fact is Americans are living in a golden age of clean energy, right now.
The natural gas revolution, made possible by both the discoveries of new reserves and the development of technologies to extract it from previously inaccessible deposits, has helped the United States cut pollutant emissions by 70 percent over the last three decades. Despite adding almost 100 million people to our population since 1990, an increase of 30 percent, even total carbon emissions have only increased by 2 percent. Greenhouse gas emissions are not just rising slowly. They are actually falling in recent years.
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