I'll believe that "climate change" is a crisis only when the people who confidently assure me that "climate change" is a crisis start acting like "climate change" is a crisis.
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to save the planet with her Green New Deal, but she keeps tripping over her own giant carbon footprint.
“We’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ ” the progressive darling said in January, speaking of herself and her fellow millennials. “And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II.”
Last week, she ratcheted up the rhetoric: “It is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult” due to climate change. “And it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: is it OK to still have children?”
The guiding principle of her eco-vision is to bring about “a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases” within 10 years.
To achieve this, the GND fact sheet says, the nation must “totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail … create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle.”
But the woman who boasts of a “razor-sharp BS detector” seems to have trouble sniffing out her own.
Since declaring her candidacy in May 2017, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign heavily relied on those combustible-engine cars — even though a subway station was just 138 feet from her Elmhurst campaign office.
She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show. The campaign had 505 Uber expenses alone.
In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals — even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train.
I haven't worked since the end of 2012. I live on a small inheritance my dad left me. I can pay the rent, buy groceries and indulge in a very occasional extravagance but not much more than that. I don't own a car anymore because I can't afford to keep one going and I live where I currently do only because there's a supermarket/pharmacy right across the street.
Life's pretty damned boring if you're me.
But it is nice to know that I'm a more climatically responsible citizen than Allie High School.
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How she thinks the electricity for all those electric cars and trains will be generated without fossil fuels is a mystery. Actually, thinking is not her strong point.
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