....declare a "climate emergency"?
ZeroHedge moved a Brownstone essay on the topic of "climate emergency".
...Most people don’t realize that under US law, a national emergency declaration triggers a set of emergency powers that allows a president to act without the need for further legislation.
The Brennan Center for Justice compiled a list of the 123 statutory powers that may become available to the president upon declaration of a national emergency (plus 13 that become available when Congress declares a national emergency).
The scope of these powers is difficult to summarize, except to say that if exercised to their maximum extent, they potentially encompass vast areas of American life....
Yah, there are a bunch of conditionals in there. But as we've learned, Biden's Junta is inclined to rule first and get smacked by courts later. Meantime, of course, the damage is done.
And it will be a LOT of damage. Here's a scenario that was posted at Brownstone:
...Elizabeth Kolbert, a leading climate journalist, recently wrote an article “Climate Change from A to Z,” published in the New Yorker. Here’s what she says must happen to reach net-zero by 2050:
The fossil fuel industry will essentially have to be dismantled, and millions of leaky and abandoned wells sealed.
Concrete production will have to be reengineered. The same goes for the plastics and chemicals industries.
The fertilizer industry will also have to be refashioned.
Practically all the boilers and water heaters that now run on oil or gas, commercial and residential, will have to be replaced. So will all the gas stoves and dryers and industrial kilns.
The airline industry will have to be revamped, as will the shipping industry.
Farming “emissions, too, will have to be eliminated.”
Electrical transmission capacity must be “expand[ed] so that hundreds of millions of cars, trucks, and buses can be run on electricity.”
“Tens of millions” of public charging stations [must be installed] on city streets and even more charging stations in private garages.
Nickell and lithium must be extracted for electric batteries, “which will mean siting new mines, either in the U.S. or abroad.”
New methods for producing steel or building a new infrastructure for capturing and sequestering carbon” must be invented.
“All of this should be done — indeed, must be done,” Kolbert wrote. “Zeroing out emissions means rebuilding the U.S. economy from the bottom up.”...
Need more reasons to be concerned?
We don't. We're just buying more ammo.
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