Today I went over to Google News to check out today's elite-sponsored fake news. I was not disappointed. Today we were inundated with news of a proposed "Green New Deal." I clicked on the NPR link because I like my fake news straight up, no chaser.
I've added some emphasis so you don't have to do much work. In fact, I whipped out the red font because I know that making an effort to understand the world is not generally speaking a human characteristic.
Whether it's a deadly cold snap or a hole in an Antarctic glacier or a terrifying new report, there seem to be constant reminders now of the dangers that climate change poses to humanity.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., think they have a start to a solution.
Thursday they are introducing a framework defining what they call a "Green New Deal" — what they foresee as a massive policy package that would remake the U.S. economy and, they hope, eliminate all U.S. carbon emissions.
That's a really big — potentially impossibly big — undertaking.
"Even the solutions that we have considered big and bold are nowhere near the scale of the actual problem that climate change presents to us," Ocasio-Cortez told NPR's Steve Inskeep in an interview airing Thursday on Morning Edition.
She added: "It could be part of a larger solution, but no one has actually scoped out what that larger solution would entail. And so that's really what we're trying to accomplish with the Green New Deal."
What is the Green New Deal?
In very broad strokes, the Green New Deal legislation laid out by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sets goals for some drastic measures to cut carbon emissions across the economy, from electricity generation to transportation to agriculture. In the process, it aims to create jobs and boost the economy.
In that vein, the proposal stresses that it aims to meet its ambitious goals while paying special attention to groups like the poor, disabled and minority communities that might be disproportionately affected by massive economic transitions like those the Green New Deal calls for.
Importantly, it's a nonbinding resolution, meaning that even if it were to pass (more on the challenges to that below), it wouldn't itself create any new programs. Instead, it would potentially affirm the sense of the House that these things should be done in the coming years.
Lawmakers pass nonbinding resolutions for things as simple as congratulating Super Bowl winners, as well as to send political messages — for example, telling the president they disapprove of his trade policies, as the Senate did in summer 2018.
What are the specifics of that framework?
Do you really need to know the specifics of a framework which will have the same effect as resolutions congratulating Super Bowl winners? I don't think so.
But for me, the usual question arose: is there an upper limit on human self-deceptive bullshit?
The answer is self-evidently
NO
There is no upper limit. And there was also this:
This latest iteration [of the Green New Deal] is different both in the political energy that it has amassed and the grand scope it is taking. While it was a product of the progressive activist community, Ocasio-Cortez has been perhaps the most visible proponent of the plan, and has helped it gain nationwide attention.
So will it pass?
That looks unlikely.
So, even a non-binding resolution expressing humanity's positive but delusional hopes and fantasies is unlikely to make it through the U.S. Congress. Maybe that's because the goal of the Green New Deal is to create a emissions-free U.S. economy in only 10 years
By the way, when I use to punctuate a sentence, that indicates sarcasm. I can't tell you how many times I've been quoted on other websites or discussion boards where the person in question left out the
If all this doesn't tell you everything you need to know about H. sapiens, I don't know what does. As usual, I am not allowing comments. If you have a burning desire to tell me something, send me an e-mail.
