Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez flew to Copenhagen to deliver a 14 minute speech on climate change.
This is a stunning clip from that speech less than two minutes long. Let’s count the number of lies packed into it.
First, there is absolutely no evidence nor is it scientificly valid to say that Hurricane Maria happened or was intensified by global warming, i.e., saying “if we had put out less CO2 in the last arbitrary number of years, Hurricane Maria would have been a CAT 3 instead of a CAT 5” is not a scientific statement.
Second, Puerto Rico is not under colonial rule. What caused so much damage was not colonial oppression but the corruption of the local government. This is an FALN talking point and should be called out as such.
Lastly, the “indigenous wisdom” statement is entirely the idea of the noble savage. She believes that subsistence farmers are going to feed the population of this planet with their of traditional techniques because of their ethnicity. This is hugely bigoted and also infeasible.
Less than 2% of our population farms enough for to produce a surplus for this country by using the best knowledge and technology that the scientific Western World has created. She wants to throw this out and replace it with less efficient practices because the less efficient practices are used by native peoples.
If this were to come to pass it would make the Great Leap Forward look like the SoBe Diet craze.
She should really be called out for to love of the noble savage trope, but as a progressive Democrat, her bigotry will be given a pass.
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