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Obama's Climate Fascism Is Another Nail In The Coffin For The U.S. Economy
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Is Barack Obama trying to kill the economy on purpose? On Sunday, we learned that Obama is imposing a nationwide 32 percent carbon dioxide emission reduction from 2005 levels by the year 2030. When it was first proposed last year, Obama’s plan called for a 30 percent reduction, but the final version is even more dramatic. The Obama administration admits that this is going to cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars a year and that electricity rates for many Americans are going to rise substantially. And what Obama is not telling us is that this plan is going to kill what is left of our coal industry and will destroy countless numbers of American jobs. The Republicans in Congress hate this plan, state governments across the country hate this plan, and thousands of business owners hate this plan. But since Barack Obama has decided that this is a good idea, he is imposing it on all of us anyway.
So how can Obama get away with doing this without congressional approval?
Well, he is using the “regulatory power” of the Environmental Protection Agency. Congress is increasingly becoming irrelevant as federal agencies issue thousands of new rules and regulations each and every year. The IRS, for example, issues countless numbers of new rules and regulations each year without every consulting Congress. Government bureaucracy has spun wildly out of control, and most Americans don’t even realize what is happening.
In the last 15 days of 2014 alone, 1,200 new government regulations were published. We are literally being strangled with red tape, and it has gotten worse year after year no matter which political party has been in power.
These new greenhouse gas regulations are terrible. The following is a summary of what Obama is now imposing on the entire country…
Last year, the Obama administration proposed the first greenhouse gas limits on existing power plants in U.S. history, triggering a yearlong review and 4 million public comments to the Environmental Protection Agency. In a video posted to Facebook, Obama said he would announce the final rule at a White House event on Monday, calling it the biggest step the U.S. has ever taken on climate change.
The final version imposes stricter carbon dioxide limits on states than was previously expected: a 32 percent cut by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, senior administration officials said. Obama’s proposed version last year called only for a 30 percent cut.
In America today, the burning of coal produces approximately 40 percent of the electrical power used by Americans each year.
So what is this going to do to our electricity bills?
You guessed it – at this point even the Obama administration is admitting that they are going to go up. The following comes from Fox News…
The Obama administration previously predicted emissions limits will cost up to $8.8 billion annually by 2030, though it says those costs will be far outweighed by health savings from fewer asthma attacks and other benefits. The actual price is unknown until states decide how they’ll reach their targets, but the administration has projected the rule would raise electricity prices about 4.9 percent by 2020 and prompt coal-fired power plants to close.
In the works for years, the power plant rule forms the cornerstone of Obama’s plan to curb U.S. emissions and keep global temperatures from climbing, and its success is pivotal to the legacy Obama hopes to leave on climate change. Never before has the U.S. sought to restrict carbon dioxide from existing power plants.
And we must keep in mind that government projections are always way too optimistic. The real numbers would almost surely turn out to be far, far worse than this.
In addition, these new regulations are going to complete Barack Obama’s goal of destroying our coal industry. In a previous article, I included an excerpt from a recent news article about how some of the largest coal producers in America have just announced that they are declaring bankruptcy…
On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that the biggest American producer of coking coal, Alpha Natural Resources, could file for bankruptcy as soon as Monday.
Competitor Walter Energy filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, and several others have done the same this year.
Barack Obama has actually done something that he promised to do.
He promised to kill the coal industry, and he is well on the way to accomplishing that goal.
Of course Hillary Clinton thinks that this is a splendid idea. She called Obama’s plan “the floor, not the ceiling”, and she is pledging to do even more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The following comes from the Washington Post…
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged Sunday that if elected she will build on a new White House clean-energy program and defend it against those she called “Republican doubters and defeatists.”
Clinton was the first 2016 candidate to respond to the ambitious plan that President Obama will debut on Monday. Details of the program, which aims to cut greenhouse-gas pollution, were released over the weekend. The new regulation will require every state to reduce emissions from coal-burning power plants.
And you know what?
The climate control freaks will never be satisfied. Since just about all human activity affects the climate in some way, they will eventually demand control over virtually everything that we do in the name of “saving the planet”. That is why I call it “climate fascism” – in the end it is all about control.
During the month of September, the Pope is going to travel to the United Nations to give a major speech to kick off the conference at which the UN’s new sustainable development agenda will be launched. As I have documented previously, this new agenda does not just cover greenhouse gas emissions and the environment. It also addresses areas such as economics, agriculture, education and gender equality. It has been called “Agenda 21 on steroids”, and it is basically a blueprint for governing the entire planet.
Unfortunately, that is ultimately what the elite want.
They want to micromanage the lives of every, man, woman and child on the globe.
They will tell us that unless people everywhere are forced to reduce their “carbon footprints” that climate catastrophe is absolutely certain, but their “solutions” always mean more power and more control in their hands.
Barack Obama promised to fundamentally transform America, and he is doing it in hundreds of different ways. These new greenhouse gas regulations are just one example. Our nation is being gutted like a fish, and most Americans don’t seem to care.
What in the world will it take for this country to finally wake up?
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Yes civilisations collapse and individuals survive.What happens next is the interesting bit.
It is true that I am assuming that full use of human faculties is pre - requisite to survival.
But some may just get lucky.
What is wrong with drinking anyway?
Shit. I was replying to your comment above.
I am using an I-pad so I am not going to try and cut and paste. Sorry about that. :-)
No problem about the switch. Yeah, well I've be mussing about cutting drinking since new years. Looks like I have some minor medical stuff. But mainly I don't get a lot of reply posts on the weekend and apparently ZH readers drop off. So I don't know. Could be I am distracted by my own drinking.
I tend to agree with you.
I have a friend that is a science guy and he is deep into consulting and economic. Kind of a good combination. He is like you. Organism survive. They either adapt or they die out. But the amazing thing is all the adapting going on in life. Now... if you talk about Humans... sheesh. They don't adapt quickly in the main population. We resist change.
As individuals yes. Humans adapt quickly. And now, today, we must adapt quicker and quicker to more and more data.
Thus sayith the scientist.
O.K.
Sleep well.
Gotta split to feed my cows.
Humans are finished.
Humans are finished.
Humans are finished.
The problem with the very, very, very few humans who are awake, and more-or-less understand what is going on, is that the are still unintentionally trapped in the collectivist mindset. Why? Because that is the default mindset and premise of 99.999% of everything you read and hear everywhere, from everyone.
When have you read an article that says something with an individualist mindset and premise? Something like the following.
Well, humans are finished. The vast majority are simply beyond hope, physically and intellectually poisoned beyond function. So the vanishingly few of us who have a clue need to stop wasting our time, effort, planning and resources on ways to save the world or nation or state or county or city or neighborhood. Because it cannot work... that time passed long ago.
Instead, we need to look at the world from a fully independent individualistic perspective and figure out a plan to save ME... or a very small collaborative group of US who have a clue and have the same goals (survival and a good life).
Look at the world. What are the best places to create a [largely] self-sufficient place to live. Somewhere that will be impacted little by events in the world at large. What do we need to design and construct to set up a viable, efficient, comfortable self-sufficient place?
Then do it.
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Instead, even the vanishingly tiny percentage of mankind who understands what is happening spends ALL his time, ALL his effort, and ALL his resources looking for ways to save the entire Titanic... which is clearly sinking, and clearly beyond saving!
What a total waste of the few good folks remaining. The reason, of course, is that they foolishly adopt the premise that they must fix the world, fix the problem for everyone, find solutions that will lift everyone up and save them.
NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
I cannot emphasize the above enough. The preators-that-be have gained control of everything that you'd need to "save the world". They control all governments. They control all large corporations. They control all mainstream media. They control the education system. They control all the the cops. They control all the militaries.
WAKE UP.
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You have one and only one ace in the hole... individualism, which includes small scale collaborations of goal-sharing individuals. Remember the great power of individualism. You don't need permission. You don't need to persuade. You don't need to vote. You don't need a majority... hell, you only need one vote - yours.
You can just do it.
Plus, individualism has other virtues that few remember. For example, efficiency. The larger the scale of human organization, the worse the efficiency. With seriously excellent individuals, efficiency can grow with number, but only up to a very few (2, 3, maybe 5 at most on any one item of work). And often 1 is most efficient.
Plus, an enormous and rarely recognized potential benefit of small-scale individualist approaches is the "out of sight, out of mind" phenomenon. If you find an out of the way place in some obscure but well chosen place on the planet, and do your own thing, and keep your mouth shut... you will remain largely if not entirely out of sight and out of mind. Not only from the predators-that-be and predator-class, but from regular folks when the collapse of uncivilization drives millions and billions to desparation.
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I know nobody will hear this. But I tried.
PS: If you don't feel comfortable outside the crowd, you better learn. But if it makes you feel any better, thousands of individuals have realized what I said, and have moved to carefully chosen places in the world, and have set themselves up in moderately to largely to entirely self-sufficient ways. But they value their privacy and value being "out of sight, out of mind". And so, you won't hear them very often. Which is wise of them. But that gives the false impression nobody figured out what I said above. But that's not entirely true. Just mostly true.
I realise that you are going for dramatic effect, but "finished" is right over the top.
What number of individuals scattered over the globe , makes a viable human race in your view?
i am not arguing about mega-cities - the most unsustainable of human communities- I accept that they will not support the present numbers.
But the human race is very adaptable, as shown by the variety of habitats currently occupied.
Humans are indeed adaptable. But you see, the whole point of collectivism and collectivist approaches (and mindsets) is... individuals stop adapting. They allow human predators to tell everyone what to do, and they "go along" with it. They become mostly "uniform".
The problem isn't population, it's insanity and irresponsibility.
I'd prefer the earth have about a million residents, but if humans were sane and responsible, earth could be cleanly developed to support 10 times the population. Hell, the entire mass of earth could eventually be converted to a foam structure the size of Jupiter or even the sun and be home to trillions of humans.
I would TOTALLY hate that... because I totally love wide open spaces and solitude. However, if the entire planet was converted to a foam structure and humans lived everywhere inside, a population of a trillion would seem a lot like solitude, because the total volume of living area would be millions of times greater.
In the longer run, humans need to expand into outer space.
You are correct in your basic premise that humans can adapt, but humans cannot adapt when controlled by central planners. Their choice becomes "attempt to adapt and be killed" or "do the same thing as everyone else, as mandated by the central planners".
I suspect humans won't end up entirely collectivized, but only because everyone is exterminated by the predators-that-be first. That is their plan, openly stated. However, also possible is the end of everyone in the process, including the predators-that-be.
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As far as "finished" and "for dramatic effect", it doesn't even matter whether every human dies. Humans are finished because they're just slaves. Look at them already! And consider the predators-that-be have developed the power to control all of them with new technology. You just can't properly compare previous times in history to current ones, due to the powers new and developing technologies give the predators-that-be.
But worst of all is... how utterly accepting humans are of this situation. Given the motives and powers the predators-that-be have and will soon have, and the stupidity and willingness of humans to be abject slaves, humans are finished... whether many survive or not.
Well then , I admit to not knowing what you mean by finished.
Those who end up continuing the evolution of Homo sapiens are likely to be those with more self awareness, i.e. those who understand that rationality and imagination both are hard wired into the human brain, and that the use of one overly, at the expense of the other will not be a sustainable strategy.
I see all this as selection, in the evolutionary sense, occurring in front of our eyes.
Maybe it would be good to narrow down the definition of collectivism ,since it is clear that our social behaviour, at the level of small groups or tribes has also been to our survival advantage.
Modern Man is 100,000 to 200,000 years old, but we don't even know our history.
Turns out the first civilization is Sumeria where we had language, writing, laws carved in stone, bi-cameral government, contract law, liability law, medicine, fermentation, alcohol, agriculture, trade, slaves, values for our slaves and their offpring, property law on who owned the child of a citizen and noncitize slave, value of a slave harmed, value of crop, value of chattle, weighted silver sheckels, classes of citizenship with voting citizens, art.
Look 6,000 years ago they had public education and welfare.
There is little difference from us today and they knew about tar and using bitumen.
But we don't know what people did over the last 100,000 years?? Same people?
What was the Crisis that created a DNA bottleneck? A Knowledge Bottleneck or Dark Ages?
I just think you are making assumptions about who the survivors are, what they will know, what knowledge & history they will retain.
Code of Ur-Nammu
Code of Hammurabi
But I've been drinking and I am known for not being part of some group behavior, tribe, or collective.
I assume we hit some Dark Ages periodically like every 13,000 years give or take 7000 years.
My reply is below your#6388063
But you have a family, right. I see that as the basic social unit which has survival value.
A global thermonuclear war might kill everyone (has the potential, depending on details). Biological warfare research gone awry might kill everyone. The predators-that-be have stated their intention to wipe out 95% of the population, and depending on how they attempt this, they might screw up (or have unintended consequences) and kill everyone. I can continue on with more ways modern predators-that-be could wipe out all humans on earth that they never had available before recently.
So the idea, "oh, humans will muddle through" is total BS. When this kind of power is concentrated in the hands of one or a few individuals, it is only a matter of time until one of them starts a chain of actions that ends everyone, or most everyone (leaving the survivors on a trashed planet).
To look back and think "man has muddled through before" is true, but is a totally misguided way to consider the future.
As for "collectivism", when anyone forces another, that is collectivism. For individuals to voluntarily cooperate to achieve something may fairly be called a "collective activity", but due to the term "collectivism" can be misleading. This is one of many problems with "words" as they have developed. That some people actually have a "warm and fuzzy feeling" when they hear the term "collectivism" is scary. They advocate everyone be enslaved... by someone, everyone, or some tiny group. Any central planning IS collectivism.
Frankly, if humans survive, but they're all abject slaves (the current trend, accepted by 99% of the world population), humans are worse than finished.
Ann, you are missing a key point.
Let's say you created your little world of individualism -- let's say a life boat away from that titanic. Before long, a few of your neighbors would be shitting on your property or trying to steal from you. You and the rest of your clan would soon realize you need rules and police to control the inevitable assholes, who would fuck things up. As you grew and grew over decades, your society would morph into Obama land.
Humans simply CANNOT BE GOVERNED. So the state of human societies always turns to chaos and fighting. Have small societies, and they will have wars with each other. Have large societies and they will become bureaucratic.
Then all humans deserve to die.
And good riddens.
PS: The solution is not "governance". Just the opposite.
The key is immediate, effective self-defense. Then those humans who are predators are dead, and those humans who wish to live in peace and harmony can enjoy the good life.
Epic!
Individuals and individualism are the nexus of genuine change.
you said nexus
Yes. Be adaptable and able to live in any one of a number of out of the way places. There are some where the current civilization will probably survive intact as it is now with only minor disruptions. The trick is to be there already using good forsight or luck or having the ability to go there on your own power no matter where that may be.
We aren't finished. The best thing I ever did just produced fruit, 27 July. I spent 15 years on it. Zh was the catalyst for right action. I used you to reach Him. I did reach Him. Now He's acting on it. Globally.
Thats my friend.
What did you do?
Look and learn. Its big.
I hear you. I'm an individualist, but I find it very hard to watch all of the asleep people continue to perpetuate their own demise. If people just worried about their own selves and situations and worked to better themselves, we would be in a much better place. Instead, they pour their energy into, yet again, the belief that someone else will make their lives better. I've had it with the stupidity. Things are going to have to burn for most people to wake up.
Hang about. Jesus will be here very soon , and everything will be alright.
Got it?
Ann; I might be your Problem Patient or problem client if you are a helper.
I get that I can move to an island in the southern hemisphere and would think more freedom in the pacific(since less people so deeply indoctrinated).
Actually although I deceived myself for years thinking I was creative... I was actually conflicted and suppressed in my thinking... mostly due to poor decisions... like a snowball if you hang on to one decision, your roll in one direction.
Building a Home in the Outback.
Boats are high maintenance due to salt water.
But assume I can get materials shipped up river, get a few animals: chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, maybe goats(but they could be destructive)... bring in fruit trees...
But the Location is Critical.
Water, Buffers from the harsh winds, protection from sea storms... normally you would not expect electricity long term... you can bring in generators, planes, wind turbines, solar... that is a big investment and will last 10-20 years.
Setting up pens for animals, fields for grass to feed animals, hygiene for animals, water access for animals, maybe fresh water fishing, maybe rock traps for sea fish, ... outhouse pits, fresh water maybe just a waterfall or a stream, or a tap into the ground... in the warm climate you don't need heat or hot water...
Then you need access back to civilization... boat, airplane, ferry, smoke signal to passing craft, hiking distance, motorcycle, pedal bike.
I'm just amazed at your model. I guess if I could have a farm on a dirt road near a bus route back to the city that is where I am at. But that is not building a house or ranch. Most Islands have really rough terrain. Rocks, Steep Mountains, shifting footing, pants where you can't see where you put your foot and you can't be sure you won't slip.
Well anyway. Island life is hard. I might do it someday if I can take over a house on a bus route.
That is where I am coming from : a small family farm in N.Z. , with all the production facilities necessary , on a no exit road , within walking distance of a city (which I rarely visit).
It has the things that I think I need.
Thanks. I looked at VISAs and thought it was for people richer than me. Of course I not brave enough to buy a farm yet as a business.
Maybe that is the way past the VISA.??
Islands are not the only solution. The "easy way" to implement something not quite complete but adequate is to move to a tiny existing farm not too far away from a road of some kind. You can put a gate on the road to your property to be more secure (or better yet, make your turnoff and road "invisible"). This way you let some existing farmer set up the basic infrastructure.
The trick is to find a small enough (and cheap enough) farm... unless you need to make revenue from the farm (which I don't). You can feed one human being all year from a garden 20 meters square... plus an open area you let chickens wander free.
I went for total isolation, but that's not necessary, and probably not appropriate for most people (far more social than me). One of the easiest and cheapest places to do what I describe is probably Ecuador or northern Peru. Easy to grow food all year given the mild weather. And cheap.
Yes, it does cost money to install solar-panels and/or wind-turbines and battery-banks and such. If you can't afford that, buy a [backup] generator but live off the electric grid as long as it works. But have a huge stash of fuel (LP, LNG, whatever) to power the generator. So if the SHTF, and electricity is never available again, you can switch into "farmer mode", only be awake during the daytime, and only consume electricity for absolutely necessary activities. You can stretch the fuel out for decades that way, and you may never need to.
You don't even need to be far from "civilization" if you choose appropriate locations. For example, if you do move to Ecuador or Peru, you can find places that are near many tiny rural towns, but still far away from major population centers. This gives you access to all modern conveniences without the disaster that will spread from cities when the SHTF and people are starving, and the people are vastly more down-to-earth and in fact used to living with almost nothing (many never had electricity, and are happy people). I realize WE can't be happy that way any more, but good to be around people who ARE okay that way compared to city slickers who can't produce ANYTHING they need to survive.
Unless you're talking about large unpopulated islands, I don't know where you get such a negative impression. Maybe you're thinking you need to be as far away and well hidden as I am. No need for that... probably.
If you buy something that exists, no need to build a home... or much of anything. In my case, I designed my place in modular pieces, had them constructed by a company in a city, then had them hauled out in flatbed trucks. Since my place is not accessible by land, I had to have a special temporary "bridge" built that the trucks could make their way across. That was a massively insane prospect on that makeshift rinky dink temporary "bridge" (a grossly over-generous term). Nothing like that would ever fly in the USSA or any major country (at least not if anyone saw it). Even nobody saw it, no worker in the USSA or other major country would have been willing to drive the flatbed trucks across. I really was scary to watch, and I'm sure even scarier to drive across! Fortunately, that's all behind me now. Others need not be as over the top insane as I was!
Thanks for the reply.
Seems like you are on track with what I was saying or thinking. I took a trip to South America to a spot like you were saying Peru and Ecuador. I guess there are border bandits that target tourists and buses as the enter the border region. Northern Ecuador had a caution out about the Colombian Rebels near their border. I guess mountains are good places for Rebels.
But local people think nothing of the risks when they live there or are used to the thieves. Some where near that border of Ecuador and Colombia there are condos and expatriates, but think everyone is hit by the thieves no matter if you are local or not. But anyway they are nice people.
On my trip I've seen dirt roads near the main beach with chickens and even cows mixed in with the stray dogs.
Different climates and maybe quieter and nicer people away from the beach I thought. Nothing is perfect and nowhere has everything. Mountains. Jungle. old Colonial small towns with dryer climate, surrounded by mountains.
It is a big task to check everything out.
Some places have land title problems, some have squatters rights that prevent you from leaving your house for very long. On the safe side you can rent for years to keep from being stuck in a country that sank into deep economic crisis or civil unrest. One big Colonial City I stay in was in the process of changes increasing taxes for various things. They were adapting to bigger national taxes and becoming more international with many foreign tourists. Big government is kind of scary.
I've just gotten crabby and picky in recent years, but think smaller communities and not so hot or jungle like.
I'm not 100% sure about any people of any country.
Christianity certainly changed Germany and Scandinavia, all of Europe and Latin America. Disciplined Protestants and Catholics seem to accomplish a lot in terms of education, intelligence... they can be judgmental and disappointed in my quietness, lack of graciousness, lack of social graces, lack of being devoted to work, study, accomplishing things.
Many Americans are that way too. Staying busy to be a success or be a role model or to just get more stuff. Haha they are so busy they let the predators take over banking, business, government, create fraud, put household savings and wealth at risk, set up systemic deceits as businesses and government mandated insurance and drug programs. They are so busy they still think the Iraqi war was okay or the right thing and they think 9-11 had no links to US Insiders.
But again we get a break from that in small towns.
I would like to visit Peru. I haven't planned anything for a while. I was thinking to visit Panama, Belize, Chile', Argentina... there are probably some islands, but not expecting anything useful. The Boca Del Torros in Panama are unbalanced with a tourist season and expensive too. Plus I'm not sure I can last in tropical sun/heat.
It is a little Culture Shock to be in the middle of nowhere alone, but still see families spending time with each other. Some people move where other expatriots go. That wasn't my original intent, but seems I have to think about it.
We are close enough to September and Financial Events I will probably put off any trips.
BTW, if you're willing to stay closer to the evil empire, and you like the idea of making a killing over a 10~20 year timeframe, I suggest you buy a farm on the west coast of Nicaragua.
Why? Cheap, and you can get farms with a fair stretch of oceanfront for peanuts compared to most places. And the climate is fairly reasonable on the west coast, and the coastline is pretty enough.
The government signed an agreement for China to build a newer, bigger, better canal through Nicaragua. That will take some time (years), but even before it opens, land prices should soar in anticipation. But they haven't yet, which is why I think buying now is genius for a long-term investor. Plus, you can live there... and grow food if you want (or have locals (or previous owner) grow food on your land). And you can develop the coastline.
I can't see many ways this could be a bad move for anyone who wants to get away from the evil empire, protect against SHTF, and have a good chance to become very rich before they die as pure gravy.
If you have an abrasive personality (grew up in NYC for example), you should practice putting on a kind, meek, gentle, humble, gracious act. You will enjoy your life much more everywhere "south of the border" if you do that.
Petty theft is common in central and south america, especially for obvious gringos wearing fancy clothes and/or driving fancy cars and/or carrying fancy purses. But if you live down there, you take a few simple measures and you'll be fine. Then, anything you lose will be trivial, and you should consider it a "cost of a massively better life". However, if you stay at home most of the time, you are pretty much isolated from this. Just be wise when you go to town. Don't dress up. Dress down.
"What in the world will it take for this country to finally wake up?"
The coming global economic crash.
We may have reached peak civilization. Back to the 70s we go.
Why don't we just pay these coal producers not to produce coal? It's been done with agriculture.
DYOH
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Once upon a time I walked through Hell. You asked for a hint. I gave you that.
If you kick ass, you might recognize it. Probably not. The Temple is Screwed.
Oh cut the crap! Obama doesn't give a flying shit about the United States!!
How's Obanacare working out? Ever higher premiums sold to the people in the states.
Flood the US with H1Bs and people for the limited jobs. In the meantime pushing for more Chinese solar cells.
Obama's old friend, Hugo Chavez, would be happy about how much the US has been pushed to adore socialism,.
Coal? Rilly Ty? Sad.
Tell me something I don't already know.
You say: "They want to micromanage the lives of every, man, woman and child on the globe."
No, they don't! They only want us all to do the things they say, when they say it. They're not "micromanagers," they don't have the time.
The truth about energy usage cannot be revealed to the public because if people in America realized how much electicity they use each day they would never agree to measures calling for clean energy. Clean energy (wind, water and solar power) could never generate the amount of electricity all of America needs to power its homes, computers and cell phones. The truth is, in order for us to convert to clean energy we will have to give up a lot of our current quality of life. The only way to do that is to make our current quality of life unaffordable.
I am afraid that our civilization may have reached it's peak when it comes to technology use by the masses.
I am typing this on a computer, while watching TV on another monitor attached to a Roku, while my two cellphones are charging and the lights and air conditioner are on. Unsustainable with clean energy.
So enjoy your electricity and gasoline while it is cheap because it can't possibly stay this cheap with clean energy.
Clean energy is only unaffordable because mankind spends so much on extreme inefficiency and destruction (wars).
Why do you consider that hydro is not clean energy?
The government gives away billions of dollars of tax credits to oild companies every year. Lets cut those, and then see how "cheap" fossil fuels are. ALso the hidden cost of fossil fuels is that their CO2 emissions are warming the planet and will cause more and more destruction every year. But you are probably an ignorant 7th grader who doen'st know anything about science.
It seems pretty clear that Obomber is trying to destroy America. Most regular people can survive because they have so little to love. What surprises me is that the politicians, such as the congress critters, who have the most to lose if the US goes under, are helping Obomber destroy the US.
Is Barack Obama trying to kill the economy on purpose? YES!
Or is he really this stupid? Maybe he is because green energy is the same darn thing - a lot of money spent with almost zero benefit. Obama has complelty given up on growing jobs because the media is is covering for him and letting this folly that we are back, go untouched. If Obama does decide to create jobs it will be something incredibly stupid like proposing to spend a trillion dollars to build a bridge across Lake Michigan. Obama has to go.
Why not Ban coca-cola & pepsi as the biggest contributors to CO2 pollution.
American companies are killing the planet earth.
Affirmative Action Barry Soetoro Obama is an uneducated POSED (Piece Of Shit Elitist Democrat) moron who is either too stupid or doesn't care that the whole climate scare thing is a hoax.
There are millions more of these Affirmative Action morons out there who also never earned their education.
Burn down the White House Barry!
I can't wait for the day when POSED Affirmative Action Barry Soetoro burns down the White House to protest racial injustice. It would serve America as a warning for at least the next one-hundred years regarding the perfidy of the rich and their POSED and POSER whores.
POSED—Piece Of Shit Elitist Democrat
POSER—Piece Of Shit Elitist Republican.
"What in the world will it take for this country to finally wake up?"
I would have said the next recession, but not anymore with all the Public TITS that are availabale and sucked on by > 50 % of Americans.
"What in the world will it take for this country to finally wake up?"
It will happen the day that we cancel all EBT cards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rmDf0AYXks
my favorite uncle went to summer camp for racketeering
It was already clear that Obama intended to destroy America well before he was elected and he has pitched for a Third Term while on the Kenya reservation. If Trumpanator and Clintoris blow up you'll get your Civil War 2.0.
Civil war could be a perfect excuse for Obama to declare emergency and continue in chair (African style)
The collective ignorance on Zh is breathtaking. When will you wake up, recognize and accept the reality of climate change? It is real and happening and will get much worse without global action. Obama is exercising something most of you wouldn't recognize, leadership.
Yes, climate change is real. And you are not nearly as important to that process as you think you are. It just happens in cycles whether you drive a Prius or not. How many Priuses would it take to offset what ONE volcano spits out? Get over yourself.
Wake up ZHers. Reality is knocking:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-04/obama-didn-t-kill-coal-...
"Critics of the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Power Plan are describing it in apocalyptic terms. But much of what they believe about the plan -- that it will destroy the coal industry, kill jobs and raise costs for consumers -- is wrong. And it’s important to understand why.
The overblown political rhetoric about the plan tends to obscure the market reality that the coal industry has been in steady decline for a decade, partly as a result of the natural gas boom, but mostly because consumers are demanding cleaner air and action on climate change. Communities across the U.S. have led the way in persuading utilities to close dirty old coal plants and transition to cleaner forms of energy. The Sierra Club’s grass-roots Beyond Coal campaign (which Bloomberg Philanthropies funds) has helped close or phase out more than 200 coal plants over the past five years."
Read the whole article.
The whole 'what will it take to wake people up' refrain. Plenty of people are awake and more waking up each day. They just aren't vocal or doing anything to fight the collapse of America it because they view it as a lost cause or not worth saving and they still have too much to lose to use the ammo box option.
There is still hope, bro!
How many you commentors have PhDs in science, let alone climate science? You are all so full of crap. You don't know what you're talking about. At least EPA has done something to try to slow down global warming. It isn't enough, and Obama continues to allow new CO2 and methane pollution with fracking and Shell's arctic drilling.
Take a look at the chart of USO v GRN (carbon credits) over the last two years. I will make a bet with any of you, which ticker will be worth more in ten years? The age of oil is coming to a close. There is a big UN climate conference coming up in December which you will all hopefully make fun of. I would like there to be lots of criticism of this conference because the US media doesn't even report on these yearly COP conferences in the first place. There is no such thing as bad publicity. And in that vein, don't buy GRN.
a phd in climate science? when did they create that bullshit degree?
"I don't need a PhD in $cience.
Or "climate $cience".
Global warming?
I thought it was now refered to as "climate change?""
-Courtesy of NASA.
PS- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTSA_sWGM44