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anyone follwing Rogan knows that the hysteria over 1 degree celsius is ridiculous. there we climate swings of 8 or 9 degrees celsius over 10,000 years ago accompanying mass extinctions. RFK is correct. the power junkies are weaponizing normal environmental stewardship to enslave humanity.

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Fools. Won’t be so cute when prime farmland is covered in solar panels, when they freeze in the winter because the grid can’t handle the load, when they go hungry, and the devastation to third world countries because of horrible mining practices. Guess these kids are for slave labor and eco-imperialism that denies third world countries the energy they need to feed the people.

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This is a topic in my wheelhouse.. Biden made a campaign promise that many knowledgeable people thought was illegal. Offering leases is required by pesky old Congress. Sure enough he tried not to offer them and the courts got after him (note: separation of powers was working). I honestly don’t know what these folks wanted him to do.

At a recent Society of Environmental Journalists panel at their annual conference I attended, Secretary of the Interior Deb Harland stated the obvious..

“Interior Secretary Deb Haaland defended her department's approval of the contentious Willow oil project on Friday, saying that despite President Joe Biden's campaign promise to end new drilling on federal lands, "We're not going to turn the faucet off and say we’re not drilling anymore.''

Speaking to the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, Haaland said the Biden administration is "following the science and the law when it comes to everything we do, and that includes gas and oil'' leases considered by her agency, which oversees U.S. public lands and waters.”https://www.ktvb.com/article/tech/science/environment/deb-haaland-defends-willow-says-us-wont-end-oil-drilling-society-of-environmental-journalists-conference-boise/277-d89fcd3a-88bd-44be-bf47-4490628850c2

Obviously, it ain’t happening. And plenty of campaign promises have been broken. So what is this really about? It’s not about climate change.. it seems to be about closing off domestic production.. and whom does that benefit? Is this a Russian-funded disinformation effort? Just kidding.

If you want to see the the Sec’s comments, they are posted here.https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej2023-interior-secretary-deb-haaland-keynote-and-qa

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New headline: Preening Hypocrites Inconvenienced by Useful Idiots.

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I thought the point of this post was not about if you agree or disagree with the climate activists (which I do not), but rather the fact that it was not covered by the mainstream media. I believe if it were a republican president who had broken a campaign promise, any protest against him/her would be big news.

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A green agenda by corporate interests with profit the only motivation. While the true problems , mainly industrial pollution , are completely disregarded and poverty continues to grow because they really only care about the bottom line; profits at any cost. Suicidal madness.

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If I had kids that behaved this way, I would kick them out of the house and cut off their money to force them to work. No wait! The government would finance them and give them a tent to live in. Basic cultural mechanisms don't work in a socialist environment. I guess that means socialism is unnatural and dehumanizing.

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Every time I hear of one of these protests I go out of my way to do something that would be considered "high emissions". In fact me and friends have even started a (joke?) of who has the highest carbon footprint. I hope the idea goes viral

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Idiots

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If they "heat" things up enough they can all just replace fossil fuels by being human batteries like in The Matix. Sounds as plausible as the plan to power our energy juggernaut of a society with windmills & solar panels.

Oh wait, I forgot electric cars. Well that changes everything doesn't it?

Utopia is just around the corner. Joe said it's so and we all know Joe doesn't lie.

Although Vlad's defeat has been just around the corner for about 6 months now so that "corner" might be farther away than we think. Sort of like a liberal optical illusion.

Yeah, that's it, an optical illusion. No doubt. So there's no reason to go all Negative Nora on Joe.

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We saw all this coming more than a decade ago.

It was no accident we launched when we did. All we needed was the Substack platform.

It is fair to say that among the group pictured in this post and doing this generally worldwide, there are some folks who mean well and truly believe that climate change is an existential crisis. A few (very few) are actually well or even highly informed. It is also fair to say that those who fit such a description are likely in the minority.

None of this is surprising to us as environmental industry veterans. Ayn Rand's "Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution" predicted this, and why and from where it would emanate. The only thing surprising for us is that it has taken citizens of the Western world this long to recognize the malevolents hiding among the well-intended.

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As a veteran protestor over many decades, one thing that jumps out in the video is that about 100% of the protest signs look professionally printed. That has not been true of any real grassroots protest that I have ever seen. To me this is a sure sign that top-down money was behind the organization of this event meant to demonstrate criticism of the Biden administration by left climate militants.

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if the climate fascists spent as much time and money planting trees and investing in devices that can harvest CO2 as they do trying to shut down and enslave others, we'd have this so called problem licked.

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Climate Death Cult

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Boy, the stupid deniers are out in force. Morons with no redeeming qualities. The fact is that we either end our use of fossil fuels, replace our extractive economy with a sustainable one and reduce the human load to a sustainable level, well below 2 billion, or we collapse every ecosystem that exists.

Deniers should read about previous extinction events and understand that humans have been driving extinctions at a faster rate than seen at the end of the Permian Era. AGW is but the final straw that will end life on earth as we know it and collapse civilization.

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The volume of opinionated ignorance in response to this article, which is actually about a MS press that will not cover anything critical of the Biden administration, is a pretty good indication of how we got here.

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