It is probably appropriate that climate extremists have named their policies after Roosevelt’s New Deal, a response to the Great Depression that, most economists agree, prolonged that depression. I find myself increasingly skeptical of the climate-change narrative, not because of the data but because the people promoting it seem more interested in social engineering than in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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A case in point is a recent report from the Climate and Community Project, a “project of the Tides Center.” Full disclosure: the Tides Foundation once gave money to the Thoreau Institute, but they stopped when they figured out I wasn’t a socialist. In any case, the new report proposes “a green new deal for transportation” that will “build just and sustainable communities.” Note that social justice has suddenly become as important as climate change. Continue reading
