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WSJ: Why Pretend Green Pork Will Stop Climate Change?
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20 hours ago Eric Worrall 53 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t M; There have been some surprisingly climate skeptic Wall Street Journal articles lately, at least in terms of hilighting the obvious flaws of big government subsidised climate “solutions”.
Why Pretend Green Pork Will Stop Climate Change?
Because organized groups and politicians want the money, and the public wants to be a sucker.
By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.Follow
July 29, 2022 6:07 pm ET
Lies told by government officials provoke little concern from the public until voters encounter a consequence: That mask or vaccine didn’t prevent you from being infected by Covid. You can’t keep your doctor. The half-trillion dollars you were asked to spend on climate change didn’t stop climate change.
Take the Joe Manchin-sponsored climate compromise coming together in the U.S. Senate. Despite panegyrics in the press, this euphoric proposal amounts to exactly the sort of subsidy regime the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, after a similar splurge, judged to be a “poor tool for reducing greenhouse gases and achieving climate-change objectives.”
One analysis pinpointed in the fewest possible words why: “Alternative energy is not replacement energy.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/01/wsj-why-pretend-green-pork-will-stop-climate-change/
