If you’ve followed along with our climate change friends, not only is the planet in danger but it is always your fault.
You drive too much, you are too comfortable, you have too many children, you eat too well.
The solution from our climate change compadres always involves pain.
Vox has the latest piece: ‘Biden Can’t Fight Climate Change Without Tackling Our Meat Obsession’
President Joe Biden has a plan to tackle climate change. His major infrastructure program, the American Jobs Plan, is mostly a blueprint for doing just that. It’s exhaustive — the summary alone clocks in at 12,000 words — and that’s encouraging. But in all those words, something crucial is missing.
Nowhere does “meat” get a mention. Likewise, “animal agriculture” appears exactly zero times.
If Biden is serious about staving off climate disaster, our meat system is not something he can afford to ignore. At least14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions comes from animal agriculture. That’s largely because ruminant animals like cows emit a lot of methane, and producing feed requires using energy and clearing forests that would otherwise be trapping carbon.
Yes. Cows and tractors are a problem, you see.
And, of course America is the biggest baddie of them all.
“If US agriculture was its own country, it would be the 14th biggest emitter in the world,” said Richard Waite, a senior research associate at the World Resources Institute, an environmental research organization. “We can’t get to where we need to be on climate if we don’t also address our agricultural system.”
Now I understand that now everyone eats meat. That’s cool. But let’s be real. Eating meat is what separates us. The poorer you are, the less meat you eat. The less meat you eat, the worse your health is. Eating less meat, especially because of some environmental fiat, would make us poorer and worse off.
But that’s kind of the point for many climate changers. They want us, particularly rich, fat Americans to be punished.
I am not going to argue the ‘science’ over climate change. The climate people don’t want to hear it. Instead I will simply ask the question, ‘How does suffering help heal the planet?’
Are we not better off finding more efficient means of feeding people, cooling them, getting them to work? Banning the internal combustion engine shuts down the boats that are skimming plastic out of the ocean. Forcing people to live on rice and beans will not get rid of tractors or production-scale agriculture. The modern petrochemical economy is the key to the future’s success, not it’s death warrant.
But again, our climate friends don’t want to hear this. Instead they want to nag, and complain, and inflict some pain on you and me and the rest of America if they can.
Pain is part of their plans for climate change.
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