Before The Supposed Climate Change Crisis Could Ruin John Kerry’s Posh Neighborhood – Drug Addicts Did It Instead
The article highlights the contrast between former Secretary of State John Kerry’s long-standing warnings about climate change and the current addiction crisis overtaking his affluent neighborhoods. Despite Kerry’s decades of advocacy for addressing climate change as a major national security threat and promoting green energy solutions, his own properties in Martha’s Vineyard and Boston’s Beacon Hill are reportedly facing serious issues with drug use and public safety. Local residents express concern about widespread open drug use and paraphernalia on the streets, which they feel city leaders, including Boston’s Democratic mayor Michelle Wu, have inadequately addressed. The mayor’s controversial needle exchange program, which also distributes free smoking pipes, is defended as a way to prevent disease but criticized by some as enabling addiction. The article contrasts the urgent funding and attention given to climate change with what it views as ineffective and misguided responses to the drug epidemic in liberal-run cities, suggesting this contributes to population shifts away from these areas.
Former Secretary of State and climate change alarmist John Kerry’s high-class neighborhood has reportedly been overrun with drug users, who ironically did more damage to the area than his supposed extreme weather events.
Kerry’s been preaching about climate-change consequences for decades. Yet before any of the hypothetical chaos had a chance to affect him, liberal governance brought another plague to his doorstep: Addiction.
Back in 2007, Kerry spoke with the Council on Foreign Relations about how climate change is “a national security issue.”
The former senator was introduced as having spoken out “on the topic of climate change for some 20 years now and has promoted hi-tech green solutions to stabilizing climate change and called attention to the economic risks of failing to address climate change. He’s also [an] advocate for the adoption of innovative and strategic national energy policy.”
Kerry’s 2009 claim in a Huffington Post op-ed that the Arctic would be “ice free by the summer of 2013” was examined by PolitiFact and judged to be “mostly false” at the time.
“Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now,” Kerry wrote. “Make no mistake: catastrophic climate change represents a threat to human security, global stability, and — yes — even to American national security.”
In 2017, when Kerry paid $11.75 million for property on the water in Martha’s Vineyard, he didn’t seem too concerned about rising sea levels or climate catastrophes.
Fast forward to today, and an actual crisis is playing out in Beacon Hill, where Kerry also owns property, according to Fox News.
Local residents are complaining that city leaders aren’t doing enough to contain open drug use in the streets, creating a chaotic situation.
“Prior to this year, I’ve never seen the Boston Common, Cambridge Street or the Esplanade get this overrun with drug paraphernalia or folks in crisis,” resident Katherine Kennedy said. “As a mother of two small children, this is very scary.”
Boston’s Democratic mayor hasn’t helped the situation, either.
Back in 2022, Mayor Michelle Wu launched a needle exchange program, which also included distributing free pipes for smoking crack or meth.
Wu defended the program, claiming it prevents addicts from contracting diseases that could spread into the general populace, WHDH in Boston reported.
So, using liberal logic, we should spend billions — even trillions — of dollars on climate-change funding with no questions asked, despite its ever-changing benchmark. But when it comes to a drug epidemic, we should feed the fire by giving out free paraphernalia?
Got it.
Kerry’s been telling the nation for years that a climate crisis could doom us any day now. He insisted it was likely to cause extreme weather events that would be devastating.
Yet when his own neighborhood is slammed by addiction and illicit substances, he’s nowhere to be found.
This is the sort of backward thinking that’s causing people to flee blue cities and states for regions of the country that actually apply common sense when governing.
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