John Kerry, Global Warming Ghoul
I & I Editorial Board
February 2, 2021
I&I Editorial
Presidential climate envoy John Kerry stirred up a black cloud last week when he said the workers who lost their jobs over the administration’s decision to shut down Keystone XL pipeline construction could just make solar panels instead. At least he didn’t tell them they should learn to code. But it was a cruel comment nonetheless, and representative of the political left’s careless destruction of livelihoods in service of their climate god.
At a news conference last week, Kerry said “what President Biden wants to do is make sure that those folks†who lost jobs “have better choices, that they have alternatives, that they can be the people who go to work to make the solar panels.†Unsaid yet clearly understood is the Democrats’ contempt for calloused-hand working class Americans – these “deplorables†just can’t make good decisions and need the guiding hand of government to help them avoid the briar patches and potholes of life.
Kerry went on to scrape coarse-grained sandpaper across workers’ wounds when he admitted the executive order to halt the pipeline is a useless gesture that will have no effect on the climate, since “almost 90% of all of the planet’s emissions, global emissions come from outside of U.S. borders.â€
“We could go to zero tomorrow and the problem isn’t solved,†he said.
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