{"id":1085297,"date":"2021-12-04T23:43:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1085297"},"modified":"2021-12-04T23:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:43:36","slug":"pinkerton-bidens-green-new-deal-china-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pinkerton-bidens-green-new-deal-china-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinkerton: Biden&#039;s Green New Deal = China First\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpinkerton-bidens-green-new-deal-china-first%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1085297&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><b>The Biden Plan to Squeeze the Middle Class<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a December 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/senatorbraun\/status\/1466162222154096647?s=11\">tweet<\/a>, Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) got right to the point:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>A year ago America was energy independent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Now gas prices have skyrocketed, with Hoosiers paying 68% more at the pump compared to this day last year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>High energy costs hurt everyone and are a direct result of the mindless decisions made by Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing to argue with here, except for one thing: Maybe the Biden administration\u2019s decisions were <i>not<\/i> \u201cmindless.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Maybe they\u2019re just the opposite:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Maybe they\u2019re all part of a plan\u2014a plan, as Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lTHDNbI9HD8\">said<\/a> in 2020, to \u201cfundamentally transform the country.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To be sure, from a Democratic <i>political<\/i> point of view, it\u2019s a counter-productive plan; it could cause Democrats to lose elections.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And yet from a progressive <i>ideological<\/i> point of view, it all makes sense; it\u2019s in keeping with the long march of a certain kind of leftism, begun more than a century ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16367996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/biden-president-joe-biden-speaks-virtual-leaders-summit-climate-east-of-white-house-friday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16367996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/biden-president-joe-biden-speaks-virtual-leaders-summit-climate-east-of-white-house-friday.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden speaks to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, from the East Room of the White House on April 23, 2021. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Without a doubt, the lefty greens who dominate the Biden administration are thinking big\u2014and they\u2019re in a hurry.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>In a hurry, that is, to reach their long-sought end point on environmentalism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>As they wrote in the Democratic Party\u2019s 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/where-we-stand\/party-platform\/\">campaign platform<\/a>:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p>We agree with scientists and public health experts that the United States\u2014and the world\u2014must achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, and no later than 2050.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We can pause over the vaulting ambition here: Net-zero greenhouse gases, not just for America, but for <i>the world<\/i>. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet it soon becomes clear that the Biden greens\u2019 main focus is the United States.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>The same platform document calls for \u201celiminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>And since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/02\/03\/china-built-three-times-as-much-coal-power-in-2020-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined\/\">Chinese are still building coal plants<\/a>, that means, as a kind of compensation, that the Democrats must come down all the harder on <i>American<\/i> carbon-fuel plants.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>The greens have to have a win somewhere!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Democratic platform focuses heavily on electric cars, ASAP, because, after all, in the writers\u2019 minds, Teslas are cool and Buicks are not. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet most of all, the platform urges urgency.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Phrases such as \u201cclimate change,\u201d \u201cclimate crisis,\u201d and \u201cclimate risks\u201d appear hundreds of times of times in the document. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s clear: This is what a certain tranche of elite Democrats\u2014the kind that sit around, reading and writing position papers\u2014truly believe:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>As President Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-calls-climate-crisis-an-existential-threat-to-human-existence-as-we-know-it-at-cop26\">said<\/a> on November 1, climate change is \u201can existential threat to human existence.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_17112254\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/china-carbon-market-sun-sets-coal-fired-power-plant-yangtze-river-nantong-eastern-china-jiangs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17112254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/china-carbon-market-sun-sets-coal-fired-power-plant-yangtze-river-nantong-eastern-china-jiangs.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sun sets near a coal-fired power plant on the Yangtze River in Nantong in eastern China\u2019s Jiangsu province on Dec. 12, 2018. (Chinatopix via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>So yes, they still believe in the Green New Deal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>To be sure, the exact words \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d are no longer used\u2014they were laughed off the political stage in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/25\/study-green-new-deal-would-cost-93-trillion-over-four-times-the-national-debt\/\">2019<\/a>\u2014and yet the concept of deep eco-transformation is still central to progressive hearts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Nowadays, though, it goes by other names, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/the-great-reset\/\">Great Reset<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Guided by such existentially ambitious thinking, <i>of course<\/i> the Biden administration has sought to kibosh carbon-based fuels, starting with\u2014on his first day in office\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2021\/01\/21\/american-workers-business-leaders-on-biden-axing-keystone-pipeline-slap-in-face-to-union-members\/\">canceling the Keystone Pipeline<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Now some might wonder: What about jobs?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>To which the Great Resetters reply, in effect,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span><i>Jobs, schmobs\u2014that was all just boob bait for Biden voters<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><i>What really matters is decarbonizing the planet.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Obviously, in addition to hurting employment, such cancellations were going to raise the price of carbon-based energy, including gasoline. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>in fact, for most of this year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/07\/white-house-we-want-keep-gas-prices-low-climate-crisis-cant-wait\/\">White House insisted<\/a> that higher gas prices were all to the good\u2014the greater good (or is it greater <i>god?<\/i>) of decarbonization.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, higher energy prices are baked into the Democrats\u2019 multi-trillion-dollar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/budget-reconciliation\/\">reconciliation bill<\/a>; as energy expert <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexepstein\/status\/1465762475782008833?s=11\">Alex Epstein<\/a> pointed out on November 30:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p>\u201cBuild Back Better,\u201d aka \u201cMake Everything Worse,\u201d promises to further restrict US oil production and increase prices via:<\/p>\n<p>1. new bans on offshore drilling,<\/p>\n<p>2. a costly methane tax that only applies to US production, and<\/p>\n<p>3. many other oil taxes and penalties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats insist that they are going full speed ahead on this legislation, which Sen. John N. Kennedy (R-LA) variously dubs \u201cBuild Back Bonkers\u201d and \u201cBuild Back Broke.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And yet electoral-minded Dems have started to notice that this approach isn\u2019t popular.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Biden\u2019s approval rating on handling the economy fell into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/14\/post-abc-poll-biden\/\">high 30s<\/a> last month, and we have yet to see what happens to his poll numbers when everyone realizes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=partner-pub-9229289037503472:6795176714&amp;q=https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/powell-fed-not-at-all-sure-inflation-will-fade-next-year\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjM8LKC3cX0AhX_q3IEHYpODwQQFnoECAQQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw3QwiP91aZJCGtXGGo5XXZa\">inflation<\/a> is <i>non<\/i>-transitory.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Already, according to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/27\/us\/politics\/biden-policies-approval-ratings.html\">poll<\/a> cited in <i>The New York Times:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>72 percent of registered voters wanted Mr. Biden\u2019s top priority to be getting inflation under control and fixing supply chain issues, compared with 21 percent who thought the priority should be new spending on social services, health care and green energy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So we can see: Nearly three-fourths of Americans want Biden to focus on curbing inflation, compared to 21 percent who want him to focus on everything else, including the Dems\u2019 sacred \u201cgreen energy.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And since Biden is doing the opposite of what the vast majority wants, Democratic political fortunes are sinking; according to the betting site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictit.org\/markets\/2\/Congress\">PredictIt<\/a>, Republicans have a 71 percent likelihood of winning the U.S. Senate next year, and an 83 percent probability of winning the House of Representatives. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet true-believing greens have their eye on their grand goal, which to them is vastly more important than grubby politics. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thus Biden climate chief John Kerry, who shrewdly married into billions\u2014and who used his donor-class clout to muscle his way into the administration\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1466160594067894285\">said<\/a> loftily on December 1, \u201cWe have to be phasing out coal plants five times faster.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>That\u2019s not exactly the way to woo Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and his key senate vote, but Kerry is too rich to care about \u201clittle people.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So now we mere mortals might step back and ask: <i>How did we get here?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>How did we end up with an intensely ideological administration committed to an unpopular agenda?<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18646482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/us-special-envoy-john-kerry-30-veteran-of-climate-geopolitics-he-counted-initiatives.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18646482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/us-special-envoy-john-kerry-30-veteran-of-climate-geopolitics-he-counted-initiatives.jpg\" alt=\"AFP\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry delivers a speech at COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 2, 2021. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>The Root of Zealotry: Progressive Technocracy<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Michael Lind is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Which is to say, he\u2019s not exactly a Tea Party or Trump Republican.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And yet in<a href=\"https:\/\/thebreakthrough.org\/journal\/no-15-winter-2022\/green-new-deal-social-engineering\"> a long article<\/a> for <i>Tablet<\/i>, this scholar applies a critical eye to the Biden-Kerry administration\u2019s green zeal, which he sees as just the latest manifestation of \u201cprogressive technocracy.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lind explains that progressive technocrats trace their lineage back a century or more, to the days President Woodrow Wilson.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>That\u2019s when \u201cprog-techs\u201d got the blessing to start reordering American society in ways that a Princeton University professor (which Wilson once was) would approve of.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>As Lind writes:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n[Their] utopia is a planned society administered by social scientists and technical experts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>In it, social engineers, insulated from democratic accountability and wielding vast authority, are empowered to devise long-range plans to promote social and environmental goals, which are handed over to deferential elected officials to implement with few changes\u2014against the opposition of the ignorant masses if necessary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here Lind pauses to make a key point: The progressive technocrats are <i>not<\/i> communists.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>That is, they don\u2019t sit around thinking of Bolshevizing the means of production, nor do they look forward to living in propertyless communes and wearing egalitarian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mao_suit\">Mao suits<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Instead, the prog-techs like to live well, and they are quite friendly to capitalism, albeit capitalism in its most elitist, cronyistic, and woke form.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>It\u2019s that tight relationship with money, Lind explains, that\u2019s the source of their power: They are financed by capitalist wealth, shoveled toward them by \u201cSilicon Valley and Wall Street moguls who find technocracy the most congenial version of liberalism.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet make no mistake: <i>There\u2019s an iron fist inside this liberal glove<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing with climate change, as the technocrats embrace this new issue as a rationale for doing what they\u2019ve always wanted to do: bend the citizenry to do their bidding. As Lind explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p>Rising concern about global warming in the last three decades has given progressive technocrats an opportunity to move from the political sidelines to the center.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Because of the \u201cclimate emergency,\u201d the various causes of twentieth-century progressive planners\u2014high-density housing, replacement of automobiles by mass transit, renewable energy\u2014are no longer matters of personal taste.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Now these generations-old top-down social engineering schemes are necessary to save the planet.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>If these plans are not immediately adopted into a war-like mobilization, progressive technocrats claim, civilization will collapse, and hundreds of millions or billions of people\u2014perhaps humanity as a whole\u2014will die.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Got that?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><i>Do as the prog-techs tell you, or die!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/i>And thus we can see that one needn\u2019t be an all-out communist to nonetheless think like Josef Stalin or Pol Pot.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In reality, the notion that climate change is some sort of immediately deadly emergency is a <i>non-fact<\/i>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>That\u2019s the view of Ted Nordhaus, a preacher of reason at the Breakthrough Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/by-invitation\/2021\/11\/19\/ted-nordhaus-on-how-green-activists-mislead-and-hold-back-progress?utm_campaign=a.21holidayny_fy2122_q3_conversion-cb-dr_warm_global-global_auction_na&amp;utm_medium=social-media.content.pd&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_content=conversion.content.non-subscriber.content_staticlinkad_np-tednordhaus-n-nov_na-na_article_na_na_na_na&amp;utm_term=sa.followers&amp;twclid=11466401170189127690\">writing<\/a> in <i>The Economist.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i> Nordhaus does not dispute that climate change is happening, and yet he points to truths that are inconvenient to prog-tech climate-alarmism:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>Deaths around the world from climate-related disasters are at an all-time low.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>People\u2019s vulnerability to extreme weather has fallen rapidly in recent decades.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>Recent research in <i>Global Environmental Change<\/i> shows that climate vulnerability has declined the most in recent decades among the poor globally, owing to the resilience that comes with economic growth and development.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And that\u2019s the point: We can survive changes in the weather the same way that we survive changes in anything: with brains and the ability to adapt.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>That\u2019s why have roofs over our head, and heat and electricity\u2014because we built them, for our safety and comfort.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And if we need to build newer and better, we\u2019re smart enough to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Another climate-rationalist, Bj\u00f8rn Lomborg, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0827TL851\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0827TL851&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=copenhagencon-20&amp;linkId=1c425324307e54a40dd022056ccc776d\">made<\/a> similar points in his 2020 book, <i>False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/i>As the author explains, the impact of climate change, by the end of the 21st century, will amount to about 2.6 percent of world economic output.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>In <i>dollar<\/i> terms, that\u2019s a huge amount, and yet in <i>percentage<\/i> terms, it\u2019s obviously small\u2014and so it\u2019s manageable.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>We just have to figure out how to manage it, Lomborg continues, through a combination of carbon dioxide reduction (nuclear power, carbon capture) and physical mitigation (sea walls, water pumps). <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that we might have to do all this adapting no matter what we do, or don\u2019t do, on carbon dioxide, because the earth is getting warmer, seemingly for reasons far beyond our control.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>In fact, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resonancescience.org\/blog\/Is-Our-Solar-System-Heating-Up\">entire solar system is getting warmer<\/a>, most notably, the planet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/22807575\/venus-hot-hellscape-climate-change-earth\">Venus<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>(Who does Greta Thunberg blame for <i>that<\/i>?)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Still, whatever the cause of earthly climate change, we probably <em>do<\/em> have to do something to adapt.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Here experts Nordhaus and Lomborg agree: With the right mix of human brains and economic resources\u2014resources that can only come from continued growth\u2014we can calmly solve whatever challenges loom ahead.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, this much is obvious: The whole progressive technocratic doomsday argument is somewhere between a false alarm and a hoax.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>We may need to take action, but we don\u2019t need John Kerry and the Green New Dealers Great Resetters to tell us what to do, or how to do it. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet at least for now, the Bidenite prog-techs are in charge.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>So how did that happen?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>How have they come so far in Resetting us? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because the prog-techs have been boosted by a partner\u2014a partner across the Pacific Ocean.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Qui Bono?\u2014Who Benefits from the Green New Deal?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Michael Lind is crisp and to the point: <i>The green progressive-technocrats have a de facto ally in the People\u2019s Republic of China.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And China is the big winner in the Green New Deal, the Great Reset, or whatever else it might be called.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the Red Chinese regime itself isn\u2019t the least bit green.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>As noted, the country is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/02\/03\/china-built-three-times-as-much-coal-power-in-2020-as-the-rest-of-the-world-combined\/\">still building coal plants<\/a>. However, the Beijing capitalist-communists have been clever: They have used their cheap coal-powered electricity\u2014and slave- or semi-slave labor\u2014to dominate the world market in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2017\/12\/16\/dimicco-stopping-china-plot-dominate-solar-industry\/\">manufacture of solar panels<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>And now the American prog-techs want America to buy them from China, by the boatload. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it doesn\u2019t have to be this way.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>We could mandate that the green technology we use must be Made in USA.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>However, it would take a few years to stand up these new industries, and the green prog-techs say that we can\u2019t wait, because of the urgency of the \u201cclimate crisis.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17211762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-141654387.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17211762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-141654387.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chinese workers inspect a solar panel at the Tianxiang Solar Energy Equipment Factory in Huaibei, east China\u2019s Anhui province on March 21, 2012. (STR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Not surprisingly, for their own reasons, the Chinese agree: Buy solar panels from us. <i>Now.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/i> This is the de facto alliance: <i>American greens and Chinese reds.<\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>Lind writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>It is thus no coincidence that American supporters of the Green New Deal tend also to be dovish toward China in matters of trade, arguing that the coming climate crisis gives the United States no time to rebuild its own capacity to manufacture equipment needed for renewable energy installations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The green prog-techs say: Never mind China\u2019s human rights abuses, or its threats to neighbors, or its ongoing theft of American intellectual property.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>As Kerry has said, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/john-kerry-china-climate-9c2f3a13-9c6f-46ef-a63e-26a8962059af.html\">chief concern<\/a> must be climate change.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, just on December 2, <i>The Washington Post<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/12\/02\/congress-needs-act-xi-jinpings-genocide-now\/\">reported<\/a> that the Biden administration was lobbying <i>against <\/i>Congressional efforts to get tough on blood-stained Chinese exports.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>In the cutting words of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomCottonAR\/status\/1466504161361600516\">Sen. Tom Cotton<\/a> (R-AR), the Bidenites are lobbying \u201cbecause John Kerry wants to import solar panels made by slave labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For American greens, it\u2019s climate first.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>For Chinese leaders, it\u2019s China first. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden Plan to Squeeze the Middle Class In a December 1 tweet, Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) got right to the point:\u00a0  A year ago America was energy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1085297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}