Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Apparently it’s OK because legislators asked kids to draft the bill.
Minnesota Introduces Bold New Climate Change Bill Crafted By Teens
Brian Kahn
Apr 13, 2019, 4:00amEveryone always looks to California for climate action, but don’t sleep on the Midwest. On Thursday, Minnesota legislators introduced a sweeping new bill modelled after Alexandrio Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal.
…“This is our future, and we’re actually taking action on it,” Anna Grace Hottinger, a 16 year old sophomore who helped author the bill, told Earther.
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The Minnesota Green New Deal bill represents a much more dramatic step. Introduced by state Representative Frank Hornstein and Senator Scott Dibble along with 17 co-sponsors, the legislation follows the outlines of the Green New Deal resolution introduced at the federal level earlier this year.
The bill requires the state to run on 100 per cent carbon-free energy by 2030 and puts a moratorium on fossil fuel permitting. It also requires commissioners of various state agencies to come up with plans for decarbonisation of different sectors, including transportation and agriculture, as well as divesting the state’s pension system from fossil fuels.
…The bill is ripe with language on how the state can help facilitate a just transition to a clean energy economy, from jobs training to identifying any economic impact the shift could have on electricity rates.
“The Minnesota Green New Deal not only represents a bold agenda toward climate change, but also represents a new style of politics, one that values people over profits,” Tiger Worku, a junior from Minneapolis, said at the press conference announcing the bill on Wednesday
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Read more: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/04/minnesota-introduces-bold-new-climate-change-bill-crafted-by-teens/
I’m not kidding when I say they want to ban home heating, at least for new residences. From the text of the bill;
Sec. 8.
[216B.2427] FOSSIL FUEL FACILITIES; CONSTRUCTION
MORATORIUM.A state agency is prohibited from issuing a permit to construct (1) a facility to transport, store, or process coal, crude oil or its derivative products, propane, or natural gas, or (2) a facility defined in section 216B.2421, subdivision 2, clause (9), pending issuance of the report required under section 11.
Read more: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text.php?number=HF2836&session=ls91&version=list&session_number=0&session_year=2019
Good luck getting the home solar heating work in the middle of a Minnesotan winter, especially really cold weather like the winter Minnesota just experienced.
But maybe they won’t need home heating. According to Judah Cohen, a climate researcher at Atmospheric and Environmental Research, a consulting firm in Massachusetts, “Our winters would be warmer if we weren’t getting these increased polar vortex disruptions.”
Perhaps Minnesotan legislators hope by putting the children in charge and trying really hard to recycle, properly demonstrating their green piety, the polar vortex disruptions will go away, and they will have their warmer winters. Or perhaps they will get back the colder winters they enjoy, rather than the unnatural polar vortex colder winters which cause so much disruption.
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Gosh these kids should be able to vote.
And tell their parents what to do.
What does this tell you about the future of our country? AOC just may be right, end of the world in 12 years, but it won’t have anything to do with climate change. These young brainwashed victims of liberalism are more concerned about a 22 ppm increase in atmospheric CO2 than an increase in the $22 trillion national debt. Bernie Sanders, or a dozen other equally bad candidates and a democrat congress could do a lot of damage 2020-2028 (probably enough).
Maybe checking the source of this proposal would explain many of the concerns voiced in the comment section.
This is a Jesse Ventura level of stupid.
Jesse is a brilliant genius compared to these people.
The more people leap off this cliff the more obvious it will be to the survivors that 1. there is no climate problem, 2. there is no strong evidence human’s are a major contributor to the climate we have and 3. trying to revolutionize current society based on eco fantasies is the worst thing you can do to society and the environment. Cold, hungry people with no means of transportation will not quietly dedicate themselves to recycling, eating vegan, paying those who aren’t in the mood to work as if they were productive, and accepting a quiet death on the frozen prairie. They will struggle tooth and nail to remain alive and to protect their own, they will eat every scrap of protein available, burn every stick of wood for fuel and fight anyone standing between them and survival. Minnesota would look like the aftermath of trench warfare in WWI in no time.
I can support this bill as long as it has one irrevocable clause added: That for 99 years no residents of that state may move to another state! Then after all that time has passed, other citizens are allowed to enter Minnesota and reclaim the wilderness with a homesteading act!
Minnesota will have tropical weather and palm trees?
Bring it on!
Manitobans needs a close winter getaway location.
Seriously though, why would that be bad?
Just excellent. Minnesota, with its weather extremes will be an excellent test case for the GND-equivalent legislation drafted by those oh-so-mature teens, who being substantially less than 30-years of age have not lived long enough to even experience NASA and NOAA’s time period for establishing “climate”.
I give it two years maximum before the legislation—if the proposed bill in fact passes into law—will be overwritten by the sanity of adults that have shivered too long in the cold.
“Just excellent. Minnesota, with its weather extremes will be an excellent test case for the GND-equivalent legislation drafted by those oh-so-mature teens”
With Minnesota’s extreme winter weather the weaknesses in the Miinesota Green New Deal will show up quickly. One cold winter with Minnesota on 100 percent solar and wind ought to do it. No fair importing electricity from other states! That’s a sham, not a Minnesota Green New Deal.
When those who survive the winter thaw out they will pass new laws rescinding the Minnesota Green New Deal.
This whole thing with the children reminds me a lot of an old episode of the original Star Trek where the crew of the Enterprise beams down to a planet that is ruled by some very unruly children. They discover that adults have all succumbed to a deadly disease and the children then set about making their own rules and doing whatever they please. Of course, the society they live in is in a shambles, and they live like animals in the streets eating whatever stored up food they can find.
Kirk and crew try to convince the kids that once they reach puberty, they too will succumb to the deadly adult disease. But they won’t hear of it until one girl starts showing symptoms.
Well, in Minnesota there are apparently adults around, but the disease so many of them suffer from is liberalism. They, like the kids, refuse to see the truth and facts as they are and want to continue to live in their delusion, regardless of the suffering it will eventually entail.
That said, I’m sure these teenagers would just love to have to get up early every day and split, chop and load firewood + all the other duties like cleaning out ashes and dirt that come with running a woodstove. And then have to do these same chores again when they come home and also on weekends. Sure would put a damper on after school sports and activities! But hey, that’s what many kids did for chores back before there was automatic fossil fuel heating. If they think taking out the trash is hard, they ain’t seen nothin yet!
Saying they’re going to get rid of fossil fuels by 2030 be like:
https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1117067043902242816
If they ban home heating in Minnesota, fur coats will be getting a whole lot more popular again. Bears, watch out!
Polar bears?
This is madness!
Going Venezuela and one generation from the nut house if they were to get their way.
What about a scientifically settled correlation between risks of zombie apocalypse and fossil fuels use?
Minnesota legislators introduced a sweeping new bill modelled after Chiquita Khrushchev’s Green New Deal.
There! Fixed it for you!
The Chinese Communists did the same during the Cultural Revolution…. They put the children in charge.
The Red Guards of the Student revolutionary movement were responsible for all sorts of atrocities.
The kids writing the new regulations should be tasked with discussing all the consequences of the regulations that they can think of. Then do it again, and again a third time. Finally, they should review the regulations and revise them to resolve the issues found the best way they can.
If lack of home heating doesn’t turn off teenagers on their revolutionary plan, nothing says home happiness like an empty fridge! (Let them eat snow!!)
Their state bird is the common loon. Might be some sort of evolution going on.
Historians will have a difficult time explaining how the disconfirmed CAGW hypothesis was able to obtain a fanatical cult-like following of almost 50% of the world’s population, which had government “solutions” that—if implemented— would have assured the complete economic and social collapse of all advanced nations, leading to to the death of billions…
Fear of death. So, you place yourself in the role of God, run the planet, and by extension have eternal life. Death is only because of evil conspirators withholding the solution to cancer, etc.
Going to be a huge moneymaker for the gangs running illegal propane and heating oil.
didn’t they just come off a winter where the current natural gas infrastructure was insufficient to keep people from freezing. Wasn’t the utility company begging people to turn down their thermostats and use electric space heaters? Pass the popcorn.
There are still empty spaces on this planet that these teenaged dipsticks can migrate to, so that they can set up their ideal colony of Totally Green Living. It’s just that those empty spaces are on islands in the Arctic circle and near Antarctica and nobody except penguins wants to live there – for a good reason.
They’ve likely never been cold, hungry or uncomfortable. It’s far past time that happened to them. They want everyone to know who they are, too, which is always the fatal flaw in these plans. If their parents just took 2 minutes to review what their kids are up to, they’d probably take away their electronic junk, turn off the heat and shut off the electricity at the breaker box, and also, clear out the cupboards and fridge and tell the little snots they are on their own. Or just kick them out of the house.
These brats might have enough stamina to last – well, maybe an hour in the summer. In the winter, 15 minutes in the cold – real cold – at most. It’s Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes and a long, long winter.
However, it appears to be a somewhat small group. Kids NOT associated with these idiots might be less likely to fall for this twaddle.
Just an update here: it is 9:16AM and has been snowing for the past half hour, but the volume is what is picking up.
The snowfall includes strong winds and thick gusts of snow, as well as BIG snowflakes, and it means I’ll have to shovel the front steps and the sidewalk (again ). I’m sincerely glad that I have a cozy little house with a (FOSSIL FUEL) GAS FURNACE, which keeps me warm in cold weather, along with a GAS STOVE, which lets me cook even if the electricity goes out, as it did back in November.
I don’t take any of this for granted. These Greenbean ecohippie twits have no idea what it’s like to have to live in a world lit only by fire and scrounge for anything edible, hoping that winter won’t be too harsh.
3:55PM and now it’s SIX inches deep and still piling up.. No wonder I can’t tolerate weather forecasters any more. They all said 1 to 3 inches of snow. All of them. And 75% of them will knuckle under to that ’caused by global warming/climate change’ nonsense, just to keep their jobs. They should be ashamed of themselves.
I thought I had heard all this before and I was right. In 2017 I downloaded and printed a paper entitled “Energy Policy in Minnesota: The High Cost of Failure” published by the Center of the American Experiment and authored by Steven F Hayward and Peter J Nelson. This excellent document presents, in fine detail and with graphs, the appalling mismanagement of that state’s energy supply and the expresses the hope that it may learn something and change its ways. Apparently not.
Well that was 2 years ago. Far past the average lefties memory capacity.
If only we could sucker them into passing the thing. The US Federal system is designed to let states try things out before the whole nation gets involved.
With no carbon fuels, Minnesotans would have no way to drive to work–and how would employers “keep the lights on,” anyway?
Hordes of ravenous citizens would eat every living thing, causing so much soil damage that these young idiots would find out what “climate change” really is.
Our younger generations are so dangerously foolish that the survival of the nation is at stake: both the political existence of “The United States of America” and the ability of 320 million people to keep body and soul together in our territory.
That came from the destruction of the educational system that taught responsibility and rhetoric, and encouraged our best to become teachers. We restore it beginning with church and private schools. See http://www.constitution.org/col/one_room_schoolhouse.htm for an introduction.