(February 13, 2019 at 4:10 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: What is the AOC's Green New Deal actually about?
I've read something about it and, based on what I've read, I just can't believe anyone can be that insane.
Like, make all the petrol vehicles illegal in 10 years, that is, almost all the cars, all the current airplanes, the vast majority of the current ships, almost all the tractors... Sounds even crazier than the Mao's policies in the 1950s, and such policies would, if somehow implemented (and it's hard to imagine something like that happening even in a country like the modern-day China, yet alone the US, both of which value free speech and economic freedom much more than the 1950s-era China), certainly lead to starvation.
All for what? Climate change? Jesus Christ, I now completely understand climate-change deniers. If you only know the political parts of the story, you are apparently completely justified to disbelieve in climate change. Climate change denial is by orders of magnitude less dangerous than the Green New Deal.
Don't get me wrong, I believe it's our duty to, as much as practical, protect the environment and, even more, sentient animals in it. That's why I am a vegetarian. But it's also our duty not to destroy the economy with nonsensical policies.
Please tell me that I am mistaken about what the Green New Deal actually is.
It's great that you believe in man made global warming and that this has inspired you to become a vegetarian, but tiny little changes in personal lifestyles will have just about zero impact on reducing our emissions. If we are going to stop global warming, we need to do really big things and set extreme goals. It absolutely will require us to operate on a different theory of economics. Things like the privately owned automobile are going to become history. Those who won't govern themselves will be governed. No one has a right to live an environmentally ruinous lifestyle.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
