Not only that but very few of them (the ones pushing the climate change agenda) actually practice what they preach.
I'm all for recycling, to the extent it is a net positive for the environment.
But that whole Paris accord framework was just the globalists' attempt to transfer billions of dollars of US wealth and redistribute it to the poorer nations while giving China and India a pass for 15 years. Trump did the right thing IMO to back out of that deal.
Solar, wind, tides, nuclear - and especially landfill gas (which turned out to be a big part of my business, though it wasn't even on the radar screen when I started the business) - bring it all on as long as the markets support it and it's a net decrease on greenhouse gas emissions.
But we can't just turn off the spigot on fossil fuels without killing the goose that lays the golden eggs (i.e. the US economy).
Did anybody see that segment on 60 Minutes last week about that Ocean Cleanup effort, the idea of a guy in his 20's from one of those European socialist utopias (I think he's Dutch)? Have to applaud what he's doing, and I hope he can work out the bugs.
But I did not know before watching it, that most of the plastics being "recycled" in this country were actually just being baled and shipped to China. At least they WERE going to China till China stopped taking it. Seems there has not been much success in THIS country at actually turning waste plastic into a raw material for consumption by US industry. Now, since China quit taking it (and there was no reason given for that, but I imagine their growing middle class is consuming enough plastics they don't need our garbage anymore...), it is mainly going to places like the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam... and Lord knows how much of it they're actually using to make things vs. just dumping it in landfills, rivers and the oceans...
Thoughts?
