From The Daily Caller
Fighting Nazi Germany
2:45 PM 02/08/2019 | Energy
Chris White | Energy Reporter
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker appeared to compare adopting the so-called Green New Deal with fighting the Nazi regime.
“Our planet is in peril, and we need to be bold,” Booker said at a Friday campaign event in Iowa. There are a lot of people who are critical of the deal. Critics claim “it’s too impractical, and it’s too expensive.”
“And when the planet has been in peril in the past, who came forward to save Earth … from the scourge of Nazis and totalitarian regimes?” Booker asked rhetorically. “We came forward.” (RELATED: Does Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal Outlaw Every Building In The Country)
“We came forward with the Marshal Plan,” he added, referring to a U.S. program concocted during the 1940s to rebuild parts of German and other European countries bombed out during World War II.
The GND, which was introduced Thursday by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, calls for a “10-year national mobilizations” toward a series of goals aimed at fighting global warming. A separate fact sheet published online claims the plan would “mobilize every aspect of American society on a scale not seen since World War 2.”
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) hold a news conference for their proposed “Green New Deal” to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 7, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Ocasio-Cortez’s original concept received support from Booker and other potential presidential candidates. The updated version, however, which was rolled out Thursday morning, got only tepid support from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who called the idea a “green dream” Wednesday.
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Cory Brooker and Ms. Cortez’s proposals do not add up:
She is proposing 10 years for “100 % renewable energy.” Impossible. Here are the numbers based on Dept. of Energy statistics (all numbers are in one and the same unit, the GW).
Over-all energy production in the US in 2017 was 3300
Electrical energy alone was 465
Now, the question is, which energy was Cortez referring to? One is 7 times bigger than the other. But, because renewables generate only one form of energy, electricity, let’s assume she meant the smaller number.
In 2017, electricity production from renewables averaged 35. That implies 465-35 = 430 to go. Is that possible?
Wind and solar are the only renewables with appreciable growth potential in the US. Together, they have been adding about 3.5 annually lately. At that rate, 430/3.5 = 120 years to reach her goal, not ten. And that is, providing the consumption should not be increasing during that century as it should in a prosperous and growing population.
Cortez might say: So, we’ll grow renewable energy sources twelve time faster than we ever did!
Unlikely. Nor is it in our interest. The renewable-energy industry already employs slightly more than either the gas or coal industry at about 250 000 jobs and growing. The irony: We are growing energy sector where one employee at thermal power-plants accounts for 1600 kW, in contrast to the 16 kW in W&S industry. The available US work-force will be insufficient to manufacture, operate, maintain, tear down, dispose of and erect all those millions of W&S plants that would be needed anew every 20 years.
We also should recognize that jobs are a cost. And that unnecessary, unproductive jobs are demoralizing thus reducing productivity. Employing robots instead, as some claim, implies more energy yet for powering them.
I claim: not in 10 years, not even in a century can we have 100 % renewable electricity, let alone all of energy. (But we could have: there is a better source of CLEAN energy – nuclear generated electricity and heat.)
PS: In case you are missing wood, geo, bio, and hydro sources among the renewables – their yield is minuscule and has no worthwhile growth potential.
Jake
Any publicity given to kooker is far too much!
The same goes for markey’s malarky or ocasio’s ignorance.
You mean Ed MAHHHHHHKY, the emptiest suit political hack to crawl out of Boston politics in several generations.
Billionaire Tom Steyer – if you want his money, you have to sing his tune.
In fact it IS a lot like the NAZIs in Germany—always some fear or another to justify seizing power and wealth from citizens. But in this case, the evil threat are the politicians using fear, fear of witches, Jews, ice ages, the population bomb and famine by 1980, or whatever.
The truth is that we need to fight these people. They don’t fight fair, because they use lies and misdirection . . . and fear to accomplish their ends, whereas we worry about truth and fact and our own self imposed morals. They have none
Lacking any political platform that the people would embrace it’s more social engineering for the Left. If Green is their new calling card it means the desperation is increasing and they will dig their own political graves. Americans have proved over and over at the polls that given the choice between saving some sub species over saving people’s lives and standard of living they vote for the people. Carbon tax anyone? Obama temporarily enacted some Green plans to destroy our economy and livelihoods but given the chance to vote on them he knows he would have never succeeded. Kyoto anyone? I think the whole Socialism push is another dead end for the party as well. They are desperate. Trump can continue bungling his way through this term and he’ll still be reelected.
Yes! Cory Hookerchild is correct!!!!~!!!! Fighting the lie spewing c**ts of Climatelie is exactly the same as fighting NAZIs, they are the same f**king thing!
Well, I’m optimistic that the PoW camps the Democrats establish for skeptics are in Hawaii and not Alaska or Minnesota.
You are forgetting that soon Minnesota will have palm trees and be the only state (besides Alaska) where any human could survive the devastating .5 C increase in temperature.
I’m not THAT optimistic!
Skeptics are not to be tolerated. https://kdvr.com/2019/02/08/ski-chief-urged-to-quit-over-climate-change-comments/
It will be interesting to see Democrats like Booker campaigning in Iowa (first presidential primary). The state is primarily a farming state. It’s entire economy would be destroyed by the GND. Some people will figure this out and start asking uncomfortable questions.
-Lots of cows in Iowa that the GND wants to eliminate.
-Lots of corn grown for ethanol which is unneeded with electric cars.
-A forced healthy diet would reduce the need for corn as well. No high fructose corn syrup, corn chips, etc. Can’t grow all that much fruit in Iowa.
I doubt they could put up more wind turbines as the state already has too many.
Diversity or color judgment (e.g. racism), Jew… White privilege and redistributive change, social justice without borders, Pro-Choice/selective-child or life deemed unworthy of life. Just like the National Socialists of that period. Just like the Nazis, but also an unhealthy conflation of logical domains.
Here is a link to the updated summary & FAQs released by AOC’s office in conjunction with the draft of the GND resolution itself:
https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=5729035-Green-New-Deal-FAQ
Reading this summary+FAQs document is very entertaining, yet scary for its ignorance of reality. Among the highlights:
— “Move America to 100% clean and renewable energy” (Specifically, nuclear power plants are to be eliminated)
— “Create millions of family supporting-wage, union jobs.” (Apparently, non-union jobs aren’t worth including in the Resolution)
— “Ensure justice and equity for frontline communities by prioritizing investment, training, climate and community resiliency, economic and environmental benefits in these communities.” (no definition provided for “frontline communities”)
— Guarantee (no less):
“ A job with a family-sustaining wage, family and medical
leave, vacations, and retirement security
High-quality education, including higher education and
trade schools
Clean air and water and access to nature
Healthy food
High-quality health care
Safe, affordable, adequate housing
Economic environment free of monopolies
Economic security for all who are unable or UNWILLING to
work” (capitalization emphasis added by me)
“Yes, we are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases. Anyone who has read the resolution sees that we spell this out through a plan that calls for eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from every sector of the economy.” (Hmmm, among other things, I wonder what will replace cement and concrete? And asphalt, as well? And we will have to get rid off all those plants, including food plants, that release CO2 during nighttime.)
“We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast . . .” (Yes, that is a verbatim quote!)
“The Green New Deal makes new fossil fuel infrastructure or nuclear plants unnecessary. . . It would simply not make sense to build new fossil fuel infrastructure because we will be creating a plan to reorient our entire economy to work off renewable energy.” (Hmmm, reliable and dispatchable renewable energy across the United States to the exclusion of fossil-fuel or nuclear powered backup generation capability . . . that’s gonna require a LOT of new dams, batteries, molten salts, flywheels, gravity trains, and compressed air underground storage. The waste heat from such energy storage processes is sure to contribute to global warming for hundreds of years into the future.)
It’s better comedy than Saturday Night Live offers up . . . and this is only a sampling of the full document.
I’ve heard of engine backfire, but I’ve never heard of farting airplanes.
Jet engines can make some weird noises when they aren’t pointed directly into the wind.
Does that mean they will encourage the setting up of alternative governments?
The Marshall Plan was created to address something very concrete that actually happened!
Our country did not start to mobilize against Germany because the “elite thinkers” amongst us theorized that Hitler would be a threat a decade or two in the future!
Those efforts involved sacrifice; rationing of meat, butter sugar and gasoline (we didn’t have EVs to take the place of our ECIs). Our youth volunteered to fight overseas for several years without home leave. We had “Victory Gardens” for staples. Patriotism soared!
Notice the GND only promises “free entitlements” and the righting of “environmental” and “social” injustices.
Booker and AOC will pay for it by taxing OTHER people and by printing money.
Imagine if today’s youth were asked to do what the “Greatest Generation” did willingly to fight Hitler. Not a pretty picture.
I wonder how many “red lines” Obama would have drawn as Hitler moved across Europe? How many times he would hold a press conference to “condemn in the strongest terms” the actions of the Nazis?
“Imagine if today’s youth were asked to do what the “Greatest Generation” did willingly to fight Hitler. Not a pretty picture.”
Well, no doubt that applies to a lot of people, but not all. I had the opportunity not long ago to meet some young National Guard troops and must say I was very impressed with them. They were squared away, it top physical condition, and had their heads on straight when it comes to the world around them. I left feeling very confident in our future defenders. You don’t won’t to go up against these guys! Their level of training and expertise and knowledge of warfare are an order of magnitude greater than when I served during the Vietnam era.
We are in good hands.
“Cory Booker Compares Green New Deal To Fighting Nazi Germany”
Are the Greens just about to murder 6 million Jews?
J.-P. D. in Germany…
Seeing as how jetliners are put into service for about 30 years, Boeing should have been shut down almost 20 years ago. Time to shut it down. Too bad about the 60,000 employees split between the progressive states of Washington and Illinois,
The greens are proposing the elimination of >90% of the global populace as that is the only way current “Green Technology” can support the whole (remainder).
After all, don’t they seek a global population of 50,000,000
Of course Booker compared the “Green New Deal” to WWII. That has been the go to metaphore of “progressives” for more tyhan a century. Jonah Golberg reviews the history of the trope.
“Everyone a Conscript” By Jonah Goldberg
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/02/25/everyone-a-conscript/
“As I have argued at length elsewhere, such as in my book Liberal Fascism, ever since the philosopher William James gave his lecture “The Moral Equivalent of War” in 1906, the agenda of 20th-century liberalism has been an exercise in trying to decouple the benefits of war from the bloody bits.
“James, the philosophical godfather of progressivism (along with his disciple John Dewey), gave the lecture at Stanford in 1906. He proposed that war is “the only force that can discipline a whole community.” As a pacifist, James wanted to find some new way to inculcate toward productive ends the social solidarity and unity of purpose that war provides.
“the New Deal, that great lodestar of the liberal imagination, was itself pitched as “the moral analogue of war,”
“Roosevelt served in the Wilson administration and campaigned on a promise to bring the same methods to bear in the war on the Great Depression.
“the New Deal has remained the ideological idée fixe of American liberalism, and from Truman’s Fair Deal to Kennedy’s New Frontier to Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty to Barack Obama’s “New Foundation” and Cold War–nostalgic rhetoric about “Sputnik moments” and “economic patriotism” to Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, American liberalism has been recycling the same motif over and over again, often without realizing it.”
“Udder Madness” By Jonah Goldberg February 8, 2019
https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/green-new-deal-farting-cows/
“Contained within the FAQ for the Green New Deal is one of the greatest sentences ever written with the intention of being taken very, very seriously:
‘We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.’
* * *
“It would be udder chaos as each cow tried to be neither seen nor herd because the steaks would be so high. I know I’m milking this by butchering a very serious topic. I don’t want to steer you wrong, and I understand why you might have beef with all of these puns that have moved pasture your lactose tolerance.”
They are already running away from it:
“The mysterious case of AOC’s scrubbed ‘Green New Deal’ details” by Susan Ferrechio | February 09, 2019
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/the-mysterious-case-of-aocs-scrubbed-green-new-deal-details
On Feb. 5, the congressional office of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a new blog entry under “energy issues” detailing her “Green New Deal” proposal and answering “frequently asked questions.” …
By the afternoon of Feb. 7, Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., removed the document from her website without explanation but following backlash and even ridicule over the radical plans outlined within it, including a call to “eliminate emissions from cows or air travel” — which would functionally ban the latter — and to provide “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.”
But on Saturday morning, chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti tweeted that the FAQ page was indeed posted by the Ocasio-Cortez staff but was done so in error. He called the page “an early draft of a FAQ that was clearly unfinished and that doesn’t represent the GND resolution got published to the website by mistake …”
As for the blog post, it has not been restored to her congressional website as of Saturday morning but is available via archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190207191119/https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/blog-posts/green-new-deal-faq
and its text saved online:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf
Well, in the very real sense that the GND would be familiar to Stalin who did fight Nazis (belatedly), I guess the good Comrade Booker is right.
Markey reminds me of a dementia patient with xerostomia (dry mouth from hanging open).
I suspect the Senator Markey’s xerostomia has a similar etiology.
The democrats have been told they have people are secretly working on Star Trek-like transporter technology. They are currently looking for a supply of dilithium crystals.
Democrats have always needed an enemy, real or imagined, to keep the war machines moving.
“Democrats have always needed an enemy, real or imagined,”
When one is a hater, one has to have something on which to focus that hate. And this fits in well with the Democrat tactic of trying to divide various groups in order to pit them against each other for political gain.
Democrats play on the basest of human instincts. They foment fear, anger, hate and division as a means to political power.
Spot on, Tom!!
Cory Booker: “And when the planet has been in peril in the past, who came forward to save Earth … from the scourge of Nazis and totalitarian regimes?”
The irony is mind blowing! Booker and most of the designer-brained products of progressive Big Lie miseducation have no idea that they are servants to the new totalitarians that threaten the lives and wellbeing of billions of people.
The Nutsies didnt threaten the planet. The planet isnt vulnerable to destruction by puny humans. They threatened most of humanity, exactly the intention of the exploiters of the invented Catastrophic Anthropo Global Warming crisis. Booker’s and fellow travelers’ numbed minds will never understand this.
Who saved us from the Totalitarians last time? USA! That is precisely why they are coming for the USA now!
In 1929 USSR dictator Joseph Stalin declared that peasants who owned one or more cows were “capitalist roaders” and thus “enemies of the people”. More than 1.8 million “kulaks” were “liquidated” by 1930 and their lands confiscated.
By 1932 famine had struck and ~15 million people starved to death, mainly in the Ukraine. This famine-genocide is known as Holodomor.
The same Stalinist policies are now endorsed by Booker, OAC, and other progressives, with the additional bludgeon of eliminating fossil fuels.
Should all this come to pass, there will not be enough peasants to yoke up to pull plows on the confiscated farm lands and many tens of millions of Americans will starve to death.
Stalin is correctly viewed as one of the most monstrous mass murders in human history. It is unbelievable that modern American politicians would be endorsing his insane policies.
That’s a Red Herring – look closer to home – its Confederate economics. The US only became an industrial powerhouse after Lincoln won, and within a few years Germany and Japan took off from agrarian backwardness. The British Empire looked on in utter desperation – result a century of war.
ACO and the GND fully intend de-industrializing which means mass murder, or “optimal population” as decarbonizer Dr. Schellnhuber CBE smirkingly calls it.
The intent is genocide on a scale to make Goebbels blush. To cover for the sticker-shock all kinds of free-stuff is pasted on.
The US was already an industrial power house. That’s how the North won the war.
Of course having free access to the material wealth of the south did increase the rate of northern industrialization.
You couldn’t be more correct. It’s time for all sane people to start fighting back…as hard as we can!
Has anyone noticed that there has been an increase in MSM propaganda about CAGW the last several days? It is everything from Fatherly magazine to the ‘usual suspects.’ I don’t think that it is a coincidence.
Ocasio-Cortez’s winning formula seems to be young female with a toothy grin, see current NZ prime minister:
Cory Booker’s mind is like alternating current.
He is likely to change his direction before the next news cycle.
Kind of like Macron and a certain Russian pipeline.
It shouldn’t be called the Green New Deal , the Great Leap Forward is more appropriate. Like Mao, AOC and the lunatic progressive fringe want to totally repurpose the US economy for a period of at least 10 years in order to create the perfect “just” state. This could only be done at gunpoint. What could possibly go wrong with putting the government in charge of a plan to force the American people to save the planet and create universal social justice and equality. I mean, Mao killing millions of Chinese and the French Reign of Terror would be a small price to pay for a perfect world.What the heck, let’s give it a try folks, what do we have to lose.
The Green Leap Forward
Let’s start referring to it as the Green Leap Forward. And AOC can start reading from the Great Helmsman Crazy Bernie’s little green book.
Well I suppose that assumes too much historical awareness to have any impact on the public-school-educated.
Ha ha you beat me to it Mark
Seattle has recorded 10.6″ of snow (as of 9AM) so far this February. This already makes this February this snowiest since 1949 (13.1″ recorded) and the 2nd snowiest February on record (since 1945). Records taken at Sea-Tac. #WAwx
You cannot have the worst snow in almost 70 years in a massively warming world. These records cannot occur in that scenario.
Each time I hear “Nazi” My ears shut because I know we are in the “Goodwin law” territory which means there can be no more arguments on anything without being called bad names.
Trying to equate the green new deal to the fighting of nazi Germany is just that.
This is the typical posture of people having no sensible argument for their case.
The problem here is that this madness is now turning into a political platform aimed at defining idiotic and dangerous policies for you and me !
I think this illness should be given a psychiatric name so that pharmas can work quick on a treatment !
I would that with “Climate Anxiety Derangement Syndrome ” . What’s your take ?
The Alarmists definitely need a lot of counseling. 🙂
The problem is the crazy person is the last one to know he is crazy.
Of course you can call them whatever you like, but if they use the nazi dogma point to point, they are nazis.
Renaming them with something political correct newspeak is not going to change anything.
Saying apple is apple and nazi is nazi is an honest way to talk about these green monsters.