Here is my take on Trump’s backing out of the Paris Accords and the response by the Left.
There is little accuracy in predicting what the Paris Accords will accomplish in terms of climate change. Will it lower temperatures by 1.9 degrees or only 0.2 degrees a century from now. In a century, what will the effects be?
The reality of the situation is this: central planning vs. the free market.
Paris is central planning of the environment. A group of European bureaucrats decide who spends how much on what technology where.
Pulling out of Paris means that the free market can create new, more efficient and cost effective technology to reduce energy consumption to save money. That’s ultimately what will drive green technology, cost savings.
If a semi truck gets better milage it costs less to operate and is more profitable. FedEx has been covering the roofs of its distribution hubs with solar panels because the long term energy savings pay for themselves.
There is a lot we can do without staying in Paris. The idea that we are either beholden to the accords or we suffer the environmental apocalypse is a false dichotomy.
What this is are Leftists who have a hardon for central planning losing their minds that America decided to go it’s own free market way.
If there is one thing we know about economics, nothing works when it is centrally planned. The free market isn’t perfect but it evolves out the most functional ideas over time.
It was the Soviet central planners who starved 10 million Ukrainians to death in the Holomodor. Chinese central planners starved 50 million in the Great Leap Forward. We’re seeing that play out again in Venezuela right now.
American farms feed this nation with less than 2% of the population working as farmers.
There are very few guarantees in politics, but if there is one about Paris, it is that central planning of the environment will fail as badly as central planning of an economy.
That of course won’t stop the Left and their love of central planning. They will once again explain how their idea was right it just wasn’t implemented correctly and next time will be better.
This whole kerfuffle has nothing to to with the environment and everything with the central planners no longer being able to include America in their (doomed) plans.
All the screaming you hear is the anguish of petty tyrants having a plaything ripped from their hands.
its all about MONEY,nothing else. I heard that if we stayed in it would improve the enviroment by 0.005 %. WOW spending BILLIONS of OUR money and losing MILLIONS of jobs for 0.005 % GREAT idea….NOT. ” climate change” has zip to do with man, its a giant religious scam. climate drones dont believe in GOD so this becomes the religion for them, oh and the money aint bad either, just ask Mr Gore…
It’s about the power. There is money in power, for sure. But it’s about the power.
Why would Tom Styer who is worth $1.6 billion or Mark Zuckerberg who is the 6th richest man on earth at $62 billion freak out about Paris if it were just about the money?
It is about the power. Many of these people stand to gain a fortune from having the power, but the drive to make people bend to their will is much stronger than greed.
100% accurate. I could never have said it better myself.
The left has good intentions with the climate stuff (at least the people that make up the left that is, I’m sure there’s leaders just in it for money and such, that’s not what I’m talking about). But it’s not about intentions.
It’s like we always said in the Corps, “good initiative, bad judgement”. It’s good to recognize that your intentions are good and your initiative is admirable…but that doesn’t automatically mean it was in good judgement and that we should continue doing it.
The free market works. You don’t PLAN how to get the result, you allow a pressure (such as energy costs) to evolve results that you never would have thought of.