{"id":17929,"date":"2021-05-10T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17929"},"modified":"2021-05-10T00:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T07:06:24","slug":"green-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/05\/10\/green-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Environmentalism isn\u2019t actually about the environment, but about creating an a purported existential threat that requires totalitarian control of the population, even if it means harming the population for the sake of \u201cGaia\u201d\u2026 or the holy doctrine of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/john-s-2\/2021\/04\/27\/greta-thunbergs-earth-day-testimony-was-pretty-revealing-n386275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equity<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Well, if we just thought like that it would be very convenient, wouldn\u2019t it?\u2019 Thunberg said. She continued, \u2018Rather we need to see the holistic perspective. How can we\u2026? If we take for example India, how could we expect India to take action when the developed countries who have actually promised to lead the way won\u2019t do that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018If we take into account the global aspect of equity I mean there are many, many people around the world who need to be able to raise their standard of living and if we who live in high-income countries aren\u2019t able to take a few steps back in order to let other people raise their living standards then that just doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018And of course those countries definitely need to take their responsibility as well. And that\u2019s why we need global cooperation. Countries won\u2019t take action when there is no global cooperation. If the U.S. for example, which is the biggest emitter in history, won\u2019t take action then how can we expect other countries to do that? Taking action ourselves is also a guarantee that\u2026I mean, it would be a snowball effect most likely. If one country does something then other countries will follow. If no country does something then no one will follow.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EUIWVZAuE6M?start=153\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Note the assumption here: By having more advanced countries destroy their economy and intentionally retard themselves, then and only then can other countries advance, and by doing so everyone will be able to \u201cgo green\u201d together and immanentize the ecological eschaton. This is the crux of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/02\/01\/the-tyranny-of-equity-the-totalitarianism-of-wokeness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equity<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But this clever scheme of theirs ignores the fact that you do not create wealth by destroying wealth creators, and those wealth creators are the one who also create environmentally friendly alternatives to the dirty emissions of places like China, which now produces more carbon dioxide emissions than the entire developed world <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/chinas-emissions-surpass-developed-nations-125137751.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">together<\/a>. It also ignores the fact that wealth is not a zero-sum game, and while <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/03\/03\/so-long-as-the-gap-is-smaller\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the gap would be smaller<\/a> between developed and developing nations, all nations would be worse off from the developed world\u2019s economic collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This argument sounds familiar, doesn\u2019t it? It has also been debunked over thirty years ago:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/okHGCz6xxiw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This \u201cequity\u201d obsession can only be understood as an article of faith that a utopia will spontaneously pop into existence if this mythical \u201cequity\u201d is actually achieved\u2026 no matter how many people have to suffer for it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/equality-equity-in-theory-in-reality.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/equality-equity-in-theory-in-reality.png 402w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/equality-equity-in-theory-in-reality-300x153.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Green Equity\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Environmentalism isn\u2019t actually about the environment, but about creating an a purported existential threat that requires totalitarian control of the population, even if it means harming the population for the sake of \u201cGaia\u201d\u2026 or the holy doctrine of 'equity'.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/equality-equity-in-theory-in-reality.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Environmentalism isn\u2019t actually about the environment, but about creating an a purported existential threat that requires totalitarian control of the population, even if it means harming the population for the sake of \u201cGaia\u201d\u2026 or the holy doctrine of \u201cequity\u201d. \u201c\u2018Well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/05\/10\/green-equity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,65,26,24,48],"class_list":["post-17929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-green","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17930,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17929\/revisions\/17930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}