{"id":119723,"date":"2021-02-06T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=119723"},"modified":"2021-02-06T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T18:28:32","slug":"massachusetts-climate-official-on-people-producing-emissions-we-have-to-break-your-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-climate-official-on-people-producing-emissions-we-have-to-break-your-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Climate Official On People Producing Emissions: \u2018We Have To Break Your Will\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fmassachusetts-climate-official-on-people-producing-emissions-we-have-to-break-your-will%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=119723&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-944229926-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Massachusetts climate official made startling remarks regarding people who heat their homes and drive cars, suggesting their \u201cwill\u201d needed to be broken in order to reduce carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>David Ismay, Massachusetts Undersecretary for Climate Change, made the remarks last month during a meeting with the Vermont Climate Council. Ismay said during the meeting that the Bay State had no more \u201cbad guys\u201d left, apparently referring to corporations, and that the majority of the emissions that still had to be reduced, in his eyes, were from regular people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know one thing that we found in our analysis is that 60% of our emissions come from \u2013 as I have it started to say you and me, except you guys are in Vermont \u2013 60% of our emissions come from residential heating and passenger vehicles. Let me say that again: 60% of our emissions that need to be reduced come from you, the person on your street, the&nbsp;senior on fixed-income. Right now there is no bad guy left, at least in Massachusetts, to point the finger at and turn the screws on and now break their will so they stop emitting. That\u2019s&nbsp;<em>you<\/em>. We have to break&nbsp;<em>your<\/em>&nbsp;will,\u201d Ismay said, according to a clip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2021\/02\/05\/baker-climate-official-blasted-for-comments-to-break-your-will-over-emissionsvideo\/\">posted<\/a> by the Boston Herald.<\/p>\n<p>Ismay went on to say that \u201c\u201cWe can\u2019t have no offshore wind, no transmission, no solar, and have clean energy,\u201d adding, \u201cSomething has to give. There has to be some mechanism we trust to find a place to site a transmission line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ismay admits at the end of the clip, \u201cI can\u2019t even say that publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Charlie Baker (R-MA), criticized Ismay\u2019s statements, saying it was something \u201cno one who works in our administration should ever say or think,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/2021\/02\/massachusetts-undersecretary-for-climate-change-david-ismay-captured-on-video-saying-state-needs-to-break-consumers.html\">according to Mass Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, no one who works in our administration should ever say or think anything like that,\u201d Baker said. \u201cSecondly, Secretary Theoharides is going to have a conversation with him about that. And third, one of the main reasons we didn\u2019t sign the climate bill when it got to our desk was because we were specifically concerned about the impact it was going to have on people\u2019s ability to pay for many of the pieces that were in it, which means it also doesn\u2019t represent administration policy or position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The clip was posted by the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, who cut the video clip mid-sentence when Ismay says he can\u2019t publicly say what he had just said. MFA issued its own criticism of Ismay\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s frightening to think an official so high up in the Baker administration is bragging to an out-of-state group about the economic pain he wants to inflict on the very people who he\u2019s supposed to work for,\u201d Paul Craney, a spokesman MFA, <a href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthmagazine.org\/environment\/baker-irked-by-undersecretarys-climate-remarks\/\">told<\/a> Commonwealth Magazine. \u201cRemarks like this have no place in state government. Ismay should be dismissed from his position in state government, as he\u2019s clearly demonstrated he does not have the best interests of the residents of Massachusetts at heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Massachusetts climate official made startling remarks regarding people who heat their homes and drive cars, suggesting their \u201cwill\u201d needed to be broken in order to reduce carbon emissions. 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