Green New Deal

[OgNasty]

EDIT: Nuclear power is also not allowed with the Green New Deal.

Lie.  I posted the resolution link.  I cannot click on it and read it for you.

Seems like maybe you didn't read the Green New Deal and most definitely didn't read the now deleted FAQ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/02/07/green-new-deal-excludes-nuclear-and-would-thus-increase-emissions-just-like-it-did-in-vermont/

The written statement distributed by the office of Ocasio-Cortez says "the plan is to transition off of nuclear."

[coins4commies]

The FAQ is not a piece of legislature. I made this point in OP.  There are a few details in the FAQ that are nowhere in the resolution.  Incidentally, these details are the entire focus of criticism against the resolution.  The faq must have been written by an aide and it seems as though it was just copied from the Green party/Jill Stein website. 

Nuclear is not part of the green new deal but it isn't "outlawed" as stated in this thread. The green new deal has a timeframe of 10-12 years.  This time frame cannot possibly include nuclear because it takes decades not years to get new nuclear power plants online.  We simply don't have the infrastructure in place to fast track nuclear power. 

[Spendulus]

... The green new deal has a timeframe of 10-12 years.  This time frame cannot possibly include nuclear because it takes decades not years to get new nuclear power plants online.  We simply don't have the infrastructure in place to fast track nuclear power. 

That all may change with thorium reactors.

And then there is the promise of fusion.

And then there are those who would create a new dark age.

[mOgliE]

That all may change with thorium reactors.

And then there is the promise of fusion.

And then there are those who would create a new dark age.

This is completely different. It's not because you want out of nuclear energy that you want out of nuclear RESEARCH.

Thorium aren't incredible, they're not a long term solution, but they're definitely an amazing innovation greatly enhancing the possibilities of old reactors. Especially in the waste disposal part ^^

Fusion would change everything. It's like discovering petrol again.
Fusion would mean no need for negative growth, no need to chose between green and consumation, no wars for at least 50 years.

Fusion is a singularity. It would basically mean free (or nearly free) energy without any pollution for all humanity.

I'm against nuclear energy but I'm all for funding fusion research as much as we can ^^

[Spendulus]

That all may change with thorium reactors.

And then there is the promise of fusion.

And then there are those who would create a new dark age.

This is completely different. It's not because you want out of nuclear energy that you want out of nuclear RESEARCH.

Thorium aren't incredible, they're not a long term solution, but they're definitely an amazing innovation greatly enhancing the possibilities of old reactors. Especially in the waste disposal part ^^

Fusion would change everything. It's like discovering petrol again.
Fusion would mean no need for negative growth, no need to chose between green and consumation, no wars for at least 50 years.

Fusion is a singularity. It would basically mean free (or nearly free) energy without any pollution for all humanity.

I'm against nuclear energy but I'm all for funding fusion research as much as we can ^^

So if we can survive the Potus singularity, the Green abyss, the AI singularity, then we have a home run with the fusion singularity?

[Quickseller]

Congress should vote on AOCs version of the GND immediately so voters can see who supports this nonsense.

[Spendulus]

Congress should vote on AOCs version of the GND immediately so voters can see who supports this nonsense.

Since the bill proposes to immediately cut deep into many sectors of the economy, what it actually represents is giving some group of government Overlords total control over those portions of the economy.

That's directly a totalitarian takeover.

Voting is probably usually based on the opportunities for graft. That's huge in this scheme but it's also huge as things are unchanged.

After such a bill is passed, what has occurred is a transfer of power. The original purported "green goals" are forgotten or just given lip service. All it was ever about was power.

[Flying Hellfish]

Congress should vote on AOCs version of the GND immediately so voters can see who supports this nonsense.

McConnell has already said he will be doing just this.

[squatz1]

Congress should vote on AOCs version of the GND immediately so voters can see who supports this nonsense.

McConnell has already said he will be doing just this.

Did he really?

WOW YOU'RE NOT LYING WHAT A TIMELINE - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/12/mitch-mcconnell-to-force-the-senate-to-vote-on-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal.html

This is interesting, I think it's a pretty good move by McConnel to force people to vote on this. It was a joke of a release though, I don't think this is going to help them in the least.

[Flying Hellfish]

This is interesting, I think it's a pretty good move by McConnel to force people to vote on this. It was a joke of a release though, I don't think this is going to help them in the least.

It's a big fat nothing burger as usual, do you really think McConnell invented show votes.  McConnell can't force anyone to vote on anything all he can do is bring it to the floor, since it won't pass the dems don't need to do ANYTHING.  The dems that don't want to be on the record either way will vote present (as GOP and dem senators have done many time in past show votes) or not show up to vote at all.  The ones that are looking to appeal to the progressive base will happily vote for it.

Ironically as usual Yurtle the Turtle has rallied against show votes when the dems have done them but of course when he thinks it will benefit him he is all about it!

Show votes are completely irrelevant and accomplish nothing but a waste of everyone's time and money.

[TECSHARE]

This is interesting, I think it's a pretty good move by McConnel to force people to vote on this. It was a joke of a release though, I don't think this is going to help them in the least.

It's a big fat nothing burger as usual, do you really think McConnell invented show votes.  McConnell can't force anyone to vote on anything all he can do is bring it to the floor, since it won't pass the dems don't need to do ANYTHING.  The dems that don't want to be on the record either way will vote present (as GOP and dem senators have done many time in past show votes) or not show up to vote at all.  The ones that are looking to appeal to the progressive base will happily vote for it.

Ironically as usual Yurtle the Turtle has rallied against show votes when the dems have done them but of course when he thinks it will benefit him he is all about it!

Show votes are completely irrelevant and accomplish nothing but a waste of everyone's time and money.

Interesting that you care about our fiscal responsibility all of a sudden, especially since you don't pay taxes here. I wonder how much that witch hunt Russia probe cost.

[Spendulus]

This is interesting, I think it's a pretty good move by McConnel to force people to vote on this. It was a joke of a release though, I don't think this is going to help them in the least.

It's a big fat nothing burger as usual....

So a vote on the GREEN NO BURGERS plan is a no burger?

[DireWolfM14]

Theorizing aside... what is not a theory is that humans have shown the capacity and will for genocide and depopulation on a massive scale in the past. Pretending it will never happen again is the exact kind of mistake that will allow it to happen again. The difference is this time they will have a better marketing strategy. I am sure it is just a coincidence "environmentalism" and mass depopulation have parallel goals...

That's the crux of the issue, isn't it?  It isn't climate change, it's control.  Control not only of your modes of transportation, but also your thoughts.  They know they won't win a debate peddling a transparent socialist agenda.   So they attempt to peddle it to you hidden and obfuscated by legislating moral virtues.  The newspeak Green New Deal is nothing but a Red Old Scam.  

The climate control crowd are the modern day Nazis.  You can't challenge their "extensive research" without being dismissed as a backwoods, right wing conspiracy theorist.  It's ironic they claim to know so much about the climate, and postulate how they are so powerful that they can change the nature of the planet.  But they only demonstrate that human nature is nearly impossible to change.  

If you have it in you to see the big picture you can look at almost anything the left does, any action the left takes, and trace it directly back to the quest for the ultimate authoritarian one world government.

Try me.. I will show you..
I am curious to see any leftist policy that I can't relate to advancing their quest of an ultimate authoritarian one world government to gain ultimate power..

They don't have solutions to problems, they only want to beat you over the head with all the problems for which you're to blame.  That way they can justify taxing the shit out of you under the guise that will fix the problem.  But of course history demonstrates that only generates more problems...  For which, you're to blame.

  

[coins4commies]

Mcconnell's idea will backfire long term.  Calling a vote will thrust this even further into the conversation.  He thinks that will hurt the democrats but 81% of the population supports it.  This will result in people who have never voted showing up to vote for the candidates that support the green new deal.  Establishment "moderate" democrats in power will no longer be able to play both sides or dodge the issue.  Those Pelosi types will be pushed out  and replaced by a coalition of much more progressive justice democrats. AOC could be speaker as soon as 2021...

Theorizing aside... what is not a theory is that humans have shown the capacity and will for genocide and depopulation on a massive scale in the past. Pretending it will never happen again is the exact kind of mistake that will allow it to happen again. The difference is this time they will have a better marketing strategy. I am sure it is just a coincidence "environmentalism" and mass depopulation have parallel goals...

This is a mischaracterization.  Population is not an issue and depopulation is not achieved through genocide.  The problem with the environment is how the top 50% consume almost all of the natural resources.  Its a small amount of people causing all of the environmental harm and the population of this group is not actually increasing.

The other thing is that women without education and access to reproductive healthcare have a lot more children so providing those things to everyone is a right would be the easiest solution.

Its only people who want to avoid the inconvenience of cutting back consumption or spending money on education who even bring up "overpopulation"

That's an exaggeration in many ways.

Scientists have been very wrong about many many trends and phenomena in the past. They are not infallible to making mistakes, otherwise there would be little need for the peer review system.

And there is an ongoing debate amongst climate scientists. The only people who push the narrative that the debate is over are the corporate media and the corporate-bought politicians. Why would anyone trust what they say?


I have a great deal of sympathy for the CO² alarmists. Their heart is in the right place, being careful with the balance of nature is very important (human wisdom has been cognizant of this for thousands of years). But the facts don't support the anthropogenic warming hypothesis. Sorry, but the facts matter.

You are taking the "scientists have been wrong in the past" and using it to justify your assumption that no only scientists are wrong in this case, but that the opposite is true.  Nothing is 100% certain in science but we still operate with it as "fact" because there is overwhelming evidence supporting it.

... The green new deal has a timeframe of 10-12 years.  This time frame cannot possibly include nuclear because it takes decades not years to get new nuclear power plants online.  We simply don't have the infrastructure in place to fast track nuclear power.  

That all may change with thorium reactors.

And then there is the promise of fusion.

And then there are those who would create a new dark age.

Fusion and thorium are also far into the future.

[Spendulus]

....
Fusion and thorium are also far into the future.

Thorium is today.

But we could use a crash 10 year program for nuclear.

[Spendulus]

Theorizing aside... what is not a theory is that humans have shown the capacity and will for genocide and depopulation on a massive scale in the past. Pretending it will never happen again is the exact kind of mistake that will allow it to happen again. The difference is this time they will have a better marketing strategy. I am sure it is just a coincidence "environmentalism" and mass depopulation have parallel goals...

That's the crux of the issue, isn't it?  It isn't climate change, it's control.  Control not only of your modes of transportation, but also your thoughts.  They know they won't win a debate peddling a transparent socialist agenda.   So they attempt to peddle it to you hidden and obfuscated by legislating moral virtues.  The newspeak Green New Deal is nothing but a Red Old Scam.  ....

If you look at the proposed power structures only and ignore the nonsense, that's correct. The claim is "my way will save the planet so give me total control of the planet."

Yes, they think people are that stupid.

[Flying Hellfish]

The other thing is that women without education and access to reproductive healthcare have a lot more children so providing those things to everyone is a right would be the easiest solution.

I'll just leave this here for all to enjoy, as a wise man once said:


The green new deal has already brought the conversation right back into mainstream focus and like healthcare will help the GOP take another epic lose in 2020 like they did in 2018!

[TECSHARE]

Theorizing aside... what is not a theory is that humans have shown the capacity and will for genocide and depopulation on a massive scale in the past. Pretending it will never happen again is the exact kind of mistake that will allow it to happen again. The difference is this time they will have a better marketing strategy. I am sure it is just a coincidence "environmentalism" and mass depopulation have parallel goals...

This is a mischaracterization.  Population is not an issue and depopulation is not achieved through genocide.  The problem with the environment is how the top 50% consume almost all of the natural resources.  Its a small amount of people causing all of the environmental harm and the population of this group is not actually increasing.

The other thing is that women without education and access to reproductive healthcare have a lot more children so providing those things to everyone is a right would be the easiest solution.

Its only people who want to avoid the inconvenience of cutting back consumption or spending money on education who even bring up "overpopulation"

Thanks for this reply as it is a great demonstration of how you don't actually read and absorb a premise, you just talk past people as if their sentences are just a bag of words for you to pick out and reply to in any order or context you choose to make it relevant to making your world view seem right.

First of all I never said I thought overpopulation was an issue. I said depopulation via genocide has happened before and could happen again. Now before the steam shoots out of your ears and you shift to your preprogrammed response go back and read what I just said again.

This is a fact. Again, this is a fact, not open for dispute. Also it is interesting that you mention women and consumption, because it seems the ones crying the loudest about these things are the biggest perpetrators of it. Women do something like 70%-80% of all the purchasing and consumption by dollar value. Perhaps they should be looking closer at their own habits then trying so hard to find scapegoats. This is just another case of wanting all the rights but shifting the responsibilities off to others...

[Spendulus]

The other thing is that women without education and access to reproductive healthcare have a lot more children so providing those things to everyone is a right would be the easiest solution.

I'll just leave this here for all to enjoy, as a wise man once said:
.....

The green new deal has already brought the conversation right back into mainstream focus and like healthcare will help the GOP take another epic lose in 2020 like they did in 2018!

Derail.

[DireWolfM14]

My son just showed this to me.  If it wasn't so true it would be hilarious.