An Earth Day Addendum: Environmental Justice and the Poor
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By Benjamin Zycher
Editors are a central scourge of mankind, imposing length limits guaranteed to hollow out a finely-crafted argument. And the renowned editors of RealClear Energy? A fortiori: they are merciless.
I kid, of course. But in my RCE column on Earth Day 2025, one of the issues that I left on the cutting room floor is that of “environmental justice,” an empty nostrum devoid of rigorous definition but supremely useful to the proponents of left-wing environmentalism in terms of acquiring funding from various foundations, from government, and from private donors either naïve or engaged in classic virtue signaling.
As I discussed in my earlier column, the central Earth Day policy proposal this year is a tripling of renewable power (primarily wind and solar) generation globally by 2030, an insane idea environmentally destructive, fantastically expensive, and guaranteed to yield economic growth and employment impacts massively adverse. The Earth Day proponents continue to assert that wind and solar power are “cheap,” an exercise in political propaganda that shunts aside both the need for massive subsidies to keep the wind and solar power industries afloat and the attendant actual effects on household budgets.
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