Guest “You can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton
Left-wing activists demand Democrats exclude nuclear and carbon capture from climate bill
by Abby Smith, Energy and Environment Reporter | | May 12, 2021Left-wing climate activists are stepping up their opposition to policies from top Democrats promoting nuclear energy and carbon capture, signaling a tough debate as the Biden administration advances legislation to curb power sector emissions.
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Jean Su, energy justice program director with the Center for Biological Diversity, said there’s a prevailing narrative that 100% renewable energy isn’t feasible because there isn’t the political will to figure out how to get there.
“Nobody knows exactly how to get there yet because nobody is trying,” Su said. “We need to actually try, and how we try is by putting on very stern deadlines as close as possible to now.”
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They say policies that promote technologies such as nuclear energy and carbon capture, or allow natural gas to continue operating, harm the health of minority and poorer regions the most, as they’ll continue to breathe air polluted by power plant smokestacks or live near toxic mining sites.
“When you want to get to the heart of racism and inequalities, the tentacles in our energy system are very deep,” Su said. “And if you want to actually address that in our energy system, that means you have to start at the core of it, which is stopping these fossil fuel plants altogether.”
Washington Examiner
“Nobody knows exactly how to get there yet because nobody is trying. We need to actually try, and how we try is by putting on very stern deadlines as close as possible to now.”
Ms. Su mustn’t have watched much Star Trek…
“They’ll continue to… live near toxic mining sites…”
As opposed to living and dying *in* toxic mining sites?
The lawsuit alleges that “the young children mining Defendants’ cobalt are not merely being forced to work full-time, extremely dangerous mining jobs at the expense their educations and futures; they are being regularly maimed and killed by tunnel collapses and other known hazards common to cobalt mining in the DRC.” Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Dell and Tesla are alleged to have been aiding and abetting the deaths and serious injuries of the Claimant’s children working in cobalt mines in the supply chain of the tech corporations.
Forbes
“When you want to get to the heart of racism and inequalities, the tentacles in our energy system are very deep. And if you want to actually address that in our energy system, that means you have to start at the core of it, which is stopping these fossil fuel plants altogether.”
Jean Su just earned a Billy Madison Lifetime Achievement Award with a Ron White Cluster Frack.
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Some of us have a deep need to look down on the rest of us, to see us suffer abject poverty while they rise to the top.
From the article: ““When you want to get to the heart of racism and inequalities, the tentacles in our energy system are very deep,” Su said.”
People of Color buy and use gasoline, too. They are not refused a purchase based on the color of their skin. There are equal rights at the gas station.
These lunatics on the Left see racism everywhere and want us to see it, too. No. I’m a resident of Realville and I don’t see what you see. What I see are a bunch of leftist lunatics seeing racism everywhere because it fits in with their delusional vision of the world.
It must be extremely stressful to be a True Believer Leftist. Their vision of the world they live in is a horrible vision. We know that because they describe their delusional world to us all the time, like this author does here.
Fortunately, this delusional,scary world is only in *their* minds. The rest of us are calm, cool and collected in comparison.
Tom,
The simplest explanation for why they see racism everywhere is projection! They know racism is bad, so they deny that they have any. Only the Others can be the horrible, evil creatures we despise!
The saddest part is that America was getting really close to being a post racial society, but two terms of Obummer and the nonstop attempts to paint Trump as a racist have pushed us back to the 1950s or 60s in race relations!
“The saddest part is that America was getting really close to being a post racial society, but two terms of Obummer and the nonstop attempts to paint Trump as a racist have pushed us back to the 1950s or 60s in race relations!”
I agree with that. The radical Democrats are bound and determined to separate all of us into little groups so they can pit each group against the other.
One difference now: Black conservatives are starting to speak out and condemn the racist Democrats. The Leftwing Media ridicules them when the do, but more and more of them are speaking up. They are not deterred or discouraged and we should not be either.
“You are correct Mr. Middleton, you can’t fix (Texas) stupid.”
That will depend on whether Texas adds additional windmills to their grid without adeqate backup.
That would be REAL stupid.
“Nobody knows exactly how to get there yet because nobody is trying. We need to actually try, and how we try is by putting on very stern deadlines as close as possible to now.”
And if we really try, we will have the best yearbook ever!
“Nobody knows exactly how to get there yet because nobody is trying,” Su said. “We need to actually try, and how we try is by putting on very stern deadlines as close as possible to now.”
I thought AOC knew how to get there?
Or maybe she just needs a stern deadline? (Maybe 12 years?)
Or maybe she just got distracted by something shiny and needs a stern word from Su?
“Enough’s enough, AOC! Put down that garbage disposal manual and TRY HARDER!!”
So gone woke retarded has the Left become that if CBD didn’t have a moron like Jean Su writing such idiocy, then they’d have to hire one. Which is how she probably got her job and title Energy Justice Program Director. Anything these days with the word “justice” added you just know from the start it is smelly crapola with a heavy dose of Marxism.
If we take President Biden’s target of a 50% reduction in America’s carbon emissions by 2030 as an intermediate goal towards a carbon free energy future, we do in fact know how to get there.
It is impossible to build enough wind, solar, and nuclear by 2030 to reach the 50% GHG reduction goal. So it must be done through a combination of strictly enforced energy conservation measures dictated by the central government, plus a universal carbon pricing mechanism of some kind which greatly increases the cost of all forms of energy for all energy consumers.
Reaching the intermediate goal of 50% by 2030 requires that Americans consume roughly half as much energy in 2030 as we do today in 2021.
Doubling or even tripling the price of energy, and directly constraining the supply of energy through a carbon fuel rationing scheme of some kind, can in theory allow us to reach Biden’s target — assuming the American public is willing to accept the consequences of these highly coercive energy conservation measures.
Moreover, it is within the existing power of the Executive Branch to unilaterally raise the price of fossil fuel energy through a system of carbon pollution fines which is the functional equivalent of a legislated tax on carbon, and to impose a program of carbon fuel rationing through the formal declaration of a carbon pollution emergency.
Biden will spend trillions of dollars building a green energy infrastructure as his advertised means of reaching a 50% reduction by 2030. But will he take all those actions needed to guarantee that 50% reduction? So far, he has shown no sign he is willing to do what actually must be done to reach his stated goal.
The UK already achieved a 51% reduction on 1990 CO2 levels, simply by shutting down coal power plants and more wind power. Nobody in the UK noticed any effect on standard of living, lifestyle etc
Left Wing Activists Demand Americans Freeze in the Dark… Because?
Well, the real answer is self-righteous hatred.
Jean Su, energy justice program director
With this title you know this person is going to be a pain in the a**