{"id":1687000,"date":"2022-10-12T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687000"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:22:08","slug":"blood-for-solar-panels-politico-honors-vladimir-putin-as-climate-influencer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blood-for-solar-panels-politico-honors-vladimir-putin-as-climate-influencer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood for Solar Panels: Politico Honors Vladimir Putin as Climate Influencer of the Year"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fblood-for-solar-panels-politico-honors-vladimir-putin-as-climate-influencer-of-the-year%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=1687000&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Ukrainian wives and mothers delighted to learn their loved ones died for a good progressive cause<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 October 12, 2022 4:10 pm  <\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: Russian dictator Vladimir Putin topped <em>Politico<\/em>\u2018s list of &#8220;power players behind Europe&#8217;s green agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seriously?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/list\/green-28-class-of-2023-the-ranking\/vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yep<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s messed up<\/strong>: Yeah, it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em>\u00a0argues that the war in Ukraine has been great for the environment\u00a0because it &#8220;forced Europe to finally break its fossil fuel addiction&#8221; and helped speed up the continent&#8217;s &#8220;green revolution.&#8221; By launching his brutal invasion and manipulating energy markets to keep oil prices high, Putin has &#8220;achieved something generations of green campaigners could not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>But war is bad, right?<\/strong> Depends on whom you ask. Left-wing climate freaks would argue anything that leads to higher gas prices is good because it makes so-called clean energy sources relatively less expensive. Former president Barack Obama, for example, favored an energy policy under which &#8220;electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket&#8221; due to the elimination of coal-fired power plants.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d also probably say that humans contribute to climate change, and the war in Ukraine has killed thousands\u2014civilians and soldiers alike\u2014which is good for the environment. <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Ezra Klein says his readers are constantly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/05\/opinion\/climate-change-should-you-have-kids.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asking<\/a> whether it is morally acceptable to have children &#8220;knowing they will contribute to the climate crisis the world faces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never let a crisis go to waste<\/strong>: Just weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste-biden-urged-to-use-ukraine-as-excuse-to-advance-green-new-deal-through-emergency-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">liberal activists<\/a> in the United States urged President Joe Biden to use the war as an opportunity to &#8220;accelerate the transition to clean energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line<\/strong>: Thanks, <em>Politico<\/em>. The wives and mothers of Ukrainian soldiers will be pleased to know\u00a0their loved ones died for a righteous progressive cause. Russian conscripts are understandably reluctant to fight and die in what seems like a pointless war. Morale should improve once they realize they are fighting and dying to heal the planet by facilitating a &#8220;green revolution&#8221; in Europe, where civilians bracing for a brutal winter amid soaring energy prices will take comfort in the fact that their suffering is making a difference in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened: Russian dictator Vladimir Putin topped Politico&#8217;s list of &#8220;power players behind Europe&#8217;s green agenda.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Blood for Solar Panels: Politico Honors Vladimir Putin as Climate Influencer of the Year appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"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-1687000","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\/1687000","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687000\/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=1687000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}