The Green New Deal Won't Just Destroy the Economy

It will destroy the forests, ranges, fields and waters of our world.

Ever wonder what happens to a region once it is “preserved”? Right now, all through the US and Canada, governments are taking giant bites of land, and locking them down under the guidance of the UN’s Agenda 2030, which means a full 30% of the land and waters will be ‘saved’.  If anyone notices, the local media preens and praises itself. Aren’t we all so wonderful and enlightened and caring, the PR says, and the newspapers copy it line-for-line.

This is a reclaimed stone quarry near me. The family who owned it turned it into a garden, as a hobby, over 20 years, with their own money. It is now an “attraction”, much used in green circles as an example of ‘profits’ from green. This is obviously, a false equivalence.

No, it’s terrible. It is possibly the very worst thing ever. Set-aside land degrades. There aren’t enough bureaucrats in the world to take care of it. Besides out in the forest or up on the ranges is decidedly not where a civil servant wants to be. As a result none of them know what they have done. It’s a loop, politicians, stupid women and beta males, civil servants engaged in a masturbatory celebration of their goodness and triumph over commerce. From hipster neighborhoods all over North America a song of self-praise rises like smoke into the air

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Except now, right now, I sit in a smoke haze courtesy of the set aside forests in Washington State which are burning.  Look, this is simple to think through. In the early 90’s Clinton ratified the spotted owl preservation plan and hundreds of millions of acres of forest were left to themselves, no cutting, no grazing, no firewood collection, no thinning, no fire breaks, no removal of dead trees, especially not beetle-killed trees. In fact, no touch.

What happens when a formerly industrial forest is left to itself? A thousand tiny trees start to grow right up against each other. They grow like carrots that haven’t been thinned. They grow so thick they can’t get light. They draw all the water from the ground, they end up like tinder. Around them brush grows — it too cannot get light or much water so it too is desiccated. It grows up the trees, trying to get at the water in the trees, and acts as a fire ladder

Boom.

Massive canopy fires, which, since they decommissioned the roads into the forest, are  very very difficult to either brake or put out.

These groups burned the forests and broke the water and power system of America’s inland empire.

On every single environmental metric, in every single system, these people destroy the land. What they do is exactly the opposite of what they claim. They take massive amounts of tax money to “save” land and then they destroy the resource. And the towns in the resource area. And the families, and the tax base.

I could go through every environmental goal, and tear it apart. None of them use science that is provable. It  can’t be duplicated, its assumptions are wrong, its statistics fiddled. Tens of thousands of papers are used to create these policies, written by the environment movement through its NGOs,  funded by rich morons from old families, most of whose ancestors created environmental devastation themselves. I can refute the math and assumptions of EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM given a maximum of four hours and one phone call. No one challenges these studies, and these abominations then become law. Law that destroys the water and land.

Right now the centre of the US lies under severe drought. This is a natural cycle. BUT, in the 1890’s the Army Corps of Engineers started to build the water system which became the Ninth Wonder of the World. Dams, thoughtfully placed and carefully engineered, turned the US into an abundance-creating food machine that fed the growing nation and the rest of the world. Water was set aside in massive reservoirs for drought years. For a decade that water has been released into the sea for the sucker fish and coho. The dams are broken, the reservoirs drained.

And this winter, many will starve.

Once that water system was refined, by the early 50’s, the energy from that abundance poured into the men and women of the interior,  creating people who were almost super-human in their beauty and strength. When they, as college kids, started to travel in Europe, they became famous, a source of fascination. And were they ever creative. Their energy lit the post-war world.

Since the 1990’s this system has been broken by the environmental movement. Dams and reservoirs that served as irrigation and clean power creation were taken out. Up in the mountains and in the high forests thousands upon thousands of little weirs were broken. Result, massive flooding. Crop and animal starvation. Desperation, addiction, misery.

Almost every massive flood reported in major towns and cities over the last ten years is directly attributable to a green revisioning of the water systems. It has caused billions upon billions in damages.

Every time you hear the Green New Deal, think of these results. The Green New Deal will bring devastation to every township and county in North America. It will destroy ranges, farms, water systems, forests and every rural township in America.

The “intellectual” underpinning of this disaster comes out of an obscure think tank in DC, with a single employee, the improbably named Storm Cunningham. From his work on what he calls “The Restoration Economy”, all the metrics, all the projections of wealth creation come. His three books have been stripped down and codified by the environmental left and the Democrat Party. And Canada’s Liberal Party. The E.U. Etc. Everywhere.

The programs he proposes were airlifted right into the Green New Deal

It’s all nonsense. But, there is a lot of money attached to it and it is all public money, so his work was very popular within the administrative state, which happily the Green New Deal will double in size. Cunningham has (of course) his TED talk wherein he demonstrates that reclaiming brownfields for example (with public money) creates wealth. Which it does, for those doing the work of reclamation. But actually producing wealth?

No, and this is important. The way wholesale, government-subsidized restoration creates wealth is if you assign a monetary value to air, water, pollution “reduction” and what are called ‘ecosystem values’. But actual wealth that employs people, grows and flourishes by creating products and services people can use to create their own wealth?

Only in a kind of etheric realm. Which assumes that people are so vile and corrupt that if they were not stopped they would create middle England during the Industrial Revolution. Toxic, polluted, with everyone dying at 30 of black lung.

If you assume that, which they do, then the Green New Deal is financially viable. It only requires $100 Trillion from the taxpayer as seed money.

But there is another turn of the screw that is even worse than this abomination. The vultures in green government have been joined by the super-rich. And their plan is to monetize everything and trade it on the exchanges. Earth, air, fire, and water all the eco-system values they can identify will be monetized. We will pay to exhale.

This is a new iteration of conservation, so cruel and destructive, it will leave you breathless.

I’ll dig into the players and the plans on Saturday.