Guest essay by Eric Worrall
If you thought New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was a hardline green, wait until you see the alternative; Sex in the City star Cynthia Nixon is running to become the next Governor of New York, on the basis that Governor Cuomo is too soft on climate issues.
Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon is running to become the next governor of New York, and on Friday, she unveiled an aggressive climate change plan for the state.
Since announcing her candidacy, Nixon has loudly criticized the current governor’s inaction on climate change and his soft spot for pipelines.
“Eight years ago, I voted for Andrew Cuomo because I believed he was a real Democrat,” her website reads.
“Our state could be a place where every single New Yorker has what we need to thrive, if only we could stop our governor from selling New York off to the highest bidder.”
Nixon thinks she can do better. Her recently published “Agenda for a Clean Energy Economy and Climate Justice” lays out a bold plan to transition the state to 100 percent renewable energy by no later than 2050.
In comparison, Governor Cuomo has only committed to 50 percent renewables by 2030. And, as Nixon points out in her new plan, “Governor Cuomo only has a plan for the electricity sector when most of the emissions in New York come from buildings and transportation.”
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The following from Cynthia’s Agenda for a Clean Energy Economy caught my attention;
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Estimates say that making the investment necessary to reach 100% renewable energy could generate over a 100,000 new jobs every year through building solar panels and wind turbines, retrofitting houses and other buildings, and revamping our outdated transit systems. This bill has passed in the Assembly twice, and garnered bipartisan support in the Senate, and simply needs strong visionary leadership to shepherd it through the legislature to get it passed.
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Reject All New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure. While the extraction of fracked gas has been banned in New York, our current leadership believes that fracked gas is a “bridge” to a renewable future. Yet the science is clear. Investing in new fracked gas infrastructure locks us into decades more emissions we cannot afford, and poses serious health risks for surrounding communities. We must immediately end investment in any new fossil fuel plants and pipelines and refocus efforts and funding toward renewable energy.
Hold Corporate Polluters Accountable & Make Them Pay. Our state and local communities are already spending critical tax dollars addressing the negative impacts of climate change. Every time the fossil fuel industry pumps a ton of carbon dioxide or methane into our air, a New Yorker pays the price, whether it’s an asthma attack or another superstorm Sandy. As we learned with the tobacco industry, until we start holding corporate polluters responsible for their actions, we will see very little change in their behavior.
As Governor, I will work with the State legislature to make corporate polluters pay for the damage their causing to our communities and our planet. This would generate billions of dollars to invest in building renewable energy, protecting communities at the front lines of climate change, supporting workers transitioning into the new energy economy, and giving rebates to low and middle-income New Yorkers to save them money on their energy bills. It’s a bold, common-sense policy, that others states are already exploring. New York should be the leader in getting it done.
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Read more: Agenda for a Clean Energy Economy and Climate Justice
Frankly I’m disappointed Cynthia doesn’t cut to the chase, and promise to immediately stop all fossil fuel use in New York State.
Instead of employing hundreds of thousands of people to build solar panels over a period of time, Cynthia could take advantage of the temporary cessation of normal economic activity in New York to employ millions of people to get all her solar panels installed in just a few weeks.
The temporarily unemployed bankers and executives whose reckless rent seeking greed helped build the green movement could get their hands dirty for once, by helping out with constructing Cynthia’s solar panels and wind turbines.
>> Reaching 100% renewable energy.
While China builds another 500 coal fired power stations……
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All businesses in New York State should start the relocation process. They also should de-emphasize New York as a market to reduce dependency on any income from there.
“Instead of employing hundreds of thousands of people to build solar panels over a period of time …”
It actually should read ‘..hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Indian people to build solar panels over a period of time …’
Gee I wonder how the Chinese got their hands on all those dollars they are spreading around the world?
Cynthia Nixon,
Please do your homework. Study the technical and economic realities of what you are saying before saying anymore. You seem to have fallen short in your research efforts that back your vision.
It’s not enough to be intrigued by a fantasy. You have to face reality, and reach a compromise. I say this in lieu of calling you bad names.
Leftists tend to have 2 outstanding personality traits:
1. Attraction to magic ideas, such as anything that seems to promise “fairness”, “equality”, “equity”, “diversity”, “socialism”, “community ownership of the tools of production”, etc.; and
2. An inability to subject magic ideas to critical analysis.
Combined with youth and ignorance of economics and history, these traits give us the snowflake/Libtard/Antifa/Marxist/communist/postmodernist crowd.
I like how Jordan Peterson made the distinction, and I’m sure others:
They want equality of outcome, rather than outcome of opportunity
History is replete with the consequence of equality of outcome, and it equals destruction
Ugh, equality of opportunity. Daggum Android
Which one, Data or Lor?
These people are a danger to society. They have no understanding of reality.
Exactly right. They live in an alternate universe.
So another failure of an actor wants to be governor and ruin a state, didn’t California try that already………
Nixon is obviously brilliant. She can employ 100,000 people to do what 100 do now and cut costs.
I have a vision to increase employment opportunities: I want to hire four people to cut an apple into four slices at every restaurant where apples are offered as an alternative to potato chips. The first person cuts the apple in half, passes it to the second person who cuts one of the halves in half, while passing the second half to the third person who cuts THAT half in half again, who then passes all of it to a fourth person who organizes the fourths into an aesthetically pleasing arrangement, who then passes it to the sandwich-making team, who follow a similar procedure to get the sandwich part done.
Of course, the sandwich and apples will cost quite a bit more, because we have to have a way to pay all those sandwich-shop employees, but, hey, this is not an unrealistic expectation for most people to pay the higher price is it? I mean, look at all the employment opportunities that we have created !
Other businesses can follow suit, raising the prices of EVERYTHING to astronomical levels, all for the super great cause of increasing employment opportunities.
Thank you, Cynthia Nixon, for your inspiration !!
That’s another common chorus – no matter what they do, ‘it’s just a beginning, just a bare beginning.”
A constant game of Holier-than-thou one-ups-manship.
You can practically FEEL them tingling with warm-fuzzies.
That babe needs to be fossil shamed!
Cynthia should stick to something she understands – like acting.
“…renewable energy could generate over a 100,000 new jobs every year…” Talk about grandiose claims.
Yes, by all means, go full greentard. Hit the wall running at full speed. It’ll be less painful in the long run.
Also, job creation via mandated inefficiency is not a winning economic move.
‘Estimates say’
Estimates can talk?
‘lays out a bold plan to transition the state to 100 percent renewable energy by no later than 2050.
In comparison, Governor Cuomo has only committed to 50 percent renewables by 2030.’
Uhh . . . I’m not seeing a distinction. Anywho, promises to do something 30 years out is preposterous. The term is only 4 years.
François Hollande promised to reduce the fraction of nuclear energy in the French electric mix before 2025!
Someone should tell her that it ain’t gonna be like “Girls”, when the political hitmen get zeroed in on her.
Some lessons are best learned the hard way.
100,000 people using pedal-generators would provide a small amount of reliable energy. Much like ancient galley-slaves…
Oh, great. Another well-meaning celebrity turning to politics in order to “save the world”. And just like everytime, she is all just big talk with magical claims and without any consideration what her policies would actually cause. And then people vote for her, because her talk just “feels good”. Not to mention the fact that she probably got her info from our “neutral and objective” media. If history has taught anything to us, it’s that the well-meaning politicians are the most dangerous.
Politics is not about discussion, honest debate or carefully considering the opposing point of view. If that would be the case, parties probably wouldn’t even exist, or atleast they would be a lot more flexible. Politics is about advancing your agenda at any cost because naturally you are right and everyone else is always wrong. Kinda like religion. Our political system is so messed up.
So Cynthia Nixon is another “soft in the head” political activist on climate BS. Shocker, another virtue signaling Eco-Fascist from the Hollywood echo chamber circles.
I’m so sick of these “we’re not doing enough to solve the non-existent problem” types.