If America does not gut her economy by eliminating all carbon emissions, her people will suffer great loss of comfort due to the ever-changing climate.
These are the findings and threats of the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which met in Egypt this month.
Not only does this report advocate for a complete restructuring of our industrialized country, it builds this conclusion upon the premise of white guilt.
It is argued that those in the United States more threatened by climate change are the “marginalized communities [excluded] from the benefits of historical fossil-fueled growth.”
The solution presented is to control from the top-down industry to level the playing field for all Americans in the face of supposed climate catastrophe.
According to the draft of the report, while adaptive measures should be implemented where change has already occurred, humanity must reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 if there is any hope for the planet.
It is hard to imagine how drastically the government would need to infringe upon the rights of its citizens to accomplish this goal.
The American people got a taste of it in 2020 when the doors of the economy were forcibly shut and bolted. The aftertaste of that decision lingers today every time Americans buy eggs or fill their car with gas.
Now imagine the same overreach, in every productive sector of the economy.
Factories dismantled. Transportation and supply chains halted. Electricity only available for certain hours of the day. Oil drilling banned. A weaker America.
While the great green promise hopes that a gradual phase away from carbon-emitting fuels will be upon us soon, the reality of the situation is that the technology in existence today could not support any semblance of a functional society with the electric, renewable, and battery capacity thus far invested.
More government intervention is what has been proposed. However, less would be more effective.
Climate scientist Kim Cobb was wrong when she told the Washington Post that the report did a “remarkably good job of connecting the dots between climate change and the things that really matter to folks.”
What matters to the American people is stability. Drastic climate policies will bring sacrifice like the nation has never seen.
The American people do not want to see the sunset of their nation.
So they will adapt, for adapt we must, and adapt we always have. They will innovate using the strength of our free market system to someday invent more healthy, sustainable, affordable sources of energy.
They will discover new sources of freshwater or invent technology to better filter salt water. They will take care of their own communities, building sea walls and rebuilding homes, when weather gets rough.
But they will not surrender their freedoms into the hands of a bloated Government.
