Correction, Please!
The “Great Reset” From Coronavirus to Climate Emergency
Tell them what they want to hear: Here Joe Biden says we have to do something about climate change to deal with the fires in the West, but other times he said that he would not interfere in such activities as fracking. Evidence suggests that he told the climate alarmists the truth.
Item: Time magazine’s print edition dated November 23, in an article entitled “Taking Climate Seriously,” asserted that the “global crisis will be central to the new Administration’s agenda.” In hyperbolic language, the leftist publication insisted that Biden’s climate policy “will not only dictate the future of U.S. emissions but also shape the 21st century geopolitical and economic landscape and help determine whether the world can stave off the worst effects of catastrophic climate change.”
Item: Former New York Mayor and presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, writing in Bloomberg Businessweek for November 16, declared that it is “imperative that President-elect Joe Biden take a whole government approach to climate action right from the get-go.” This should include, he said, agencies and departments. Among the examples he cited was the Federal Reserve Board, commenting, “Monetary policy can be used to reduce the costs of borrowing for investments that help to cut emissions, increase resilience, and take climate change into account — and to increase costs for those that don’t.”
Item: Radical economist and commentator Paul Krugman is attempting to set the narrative for progressives. (He writes for the left-wing New York Times.) In a November 20 piece entitled “Covid, Climate and the Power of Denial,” Krugman dismissed the concerns of “right-wingers” who claim that “taking climate seriously would doom the economy.” The “truth,” he maintained, “is that at this point the economics of climate action look remarkably benign. Spectacular progress in renewable energy technology makes it fairly easy to see how the economy can wean itself from fossil fuels. A recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund suggests that a ‘green infrastructure push’ would, if anything, lead to faster economic growth over the next few decades.”
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