Green-Scam

Late last year, I got into a discussion with a fellow who was quite sold on the idea that man’s activities were warming the Earth.  While not a hardcore ideologue, it was apparent the gentleman had accepted the climate change narrative presented by mainstream media and believed we truly were imperiling the planet.  I didn’t say much to him initially, as we were engaged in some recreation, but later on, I resurrected the topic and told him I just wanted to pose one question.

“What is the ideal average temperature of the Earth?” I asked.

Premier Doug Ford says the future of Ontario’s auto sector is in electric vehicles and his government will pour “billions and billions of dollars” into it as part of his “Driving Prosperity” plan to ensure it succeeds.

The province says doing nothing is not an option, because major auto manufacturers, influenced by government green energy policies, are gearing up EV production, while governments compete for where production plants will be located.

Pie in the sky.

If there is anyone still confused why ESG, and the entire “green” movement is one giant, boiling cauldron of lies, hypocrisy and fraud, read on.

Last summer, we reported that the European Commission – that murder of career bureaucrats – has proposed exempting private jets, the one most polluting form of transportation, from the planned EU jet fuel tax. A draft indicated that the tax would be phased-in for passenger flights, including ones that carry cargo. Private jets will enjoy an exemption through classification of “business aviation” as the use of aircraft by firms for carriage of passengers or goods as an “aid to the conduct of their business”, if generally considered not for public hire. It gets better: a further exemption is given for “pleasure” flights whereby an aircraft is used for “personal or recreational” purposes not associated with a business or professional use.

While the movie Don’t Look Up starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Meryl Streep has been promoted as a satirical warning about ignoring the existential threat posed by climate change, that’s not the message the plot delivers.

The actual message, whatever the intent of the filmmakers, is that what destroys the planet is a greedy corporation attempting to greenwash itself, while making usurious profits from climate change hysteria, even at the risk of ending life on earth.

If there is one thing liberals hate more than guns, it’s automobiles, and not because of the climate; our vehicles are scorned by the Left because they free the individual to go anywhere he or she chooses.

In a word, privately owned cars and trucks equal F-R-E-E-D-O-M.

It’s no secret that most of Europe (and much of the world, really) has been struggling to meet the ambitious “green energy” goals that were demanded during the climate summit last year. Analysts in the energy industry had attempted to warn them that a full conversion to wind and solar, involving the total abandonment of fossil fuels, wouldn’t be able to produce enough energy to keep the grid at full power in the specified time frame. Those predictions proved true when Germany was forced to restart some of its coal-fired plants last April after the lights started going out at night.

Denmark’s government has announced a goal to make domestic flights fossil fuel free by 2030.

In her New Year’s address, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she wanted to “make flying green”.

However she acknowledged that the solutions to reach her target were not yet in place.