John Kerry Admits They're Killing Jobs and It Won't Matter

a reply to: CharlesT

a reply to: stosh64

Yes, but it will all be "public" land, so they will merely be holding it in trust for us. Don't you see? It's for the public good that no one can ever see it or use it of enjoy it in any way.

John Kerry's claims fact checked by WaPo.

They gave him two Pinocchios for his claims that wind and solar jobs will be able to absorb the coal miners in any realistic timeframe.

And keep in mind this is WaPo where they are all-in invested in promoting the Uncle Joe as the best thing ever for the country.

So, yeah, jobs will be killed and there won't be replacements in any viable timeframe to matter.

originally posted by: stosh64
We will all be mandated to live in their urban utopias while 95% of the US land mass will be illegal to trespass on, unless you are part of the ruling class.

Lots of "us" will remain on the US land mass. I've no desire to migrate to an urban utopia. I'd rather be hunting.

There's no doubt I've bagged my quota of two legged critters. Know what the trick is? Aim fast and pull the trigger before they gather their wits and scatter.

Once all the sheeple are enjoying utopia I'll be a happy camper. Who needs 'em anyway?

I wonder if they send machines to clear us out ... or wait until we just die off.

a reply to: ketsuko

That's the new Globalist banner - "Net Zero Emissions" .. CHARGE ! Onwards..

Take all their sh*t !

Ironically, U.S. greenhouse emissions decreased during Trump's tenure, while increasing in the EU! A big factor was the greatly increased availability of natural gas from fracking, which caused a lot of electric utilities to switch to much cleaner gas-fired power plants instead of coal-fired plants. But fracking is evil we're told and must be destroyed, along with all those jobs and energy independence (from the oil produced by fracking). Not to mention the savings Americans have enjoyed from cheaper natural gas to heat their homes and cheaper gasoline to run their cars.

The Paris Agreement doesn't require China or India to reduce their emissions until 2030, and they account for at least 36 percent of the world's emissions. Trump was absolutely right to withdraw from it.

Meanwhile, the Left is adamantly opposed to nuclear power, although numerous well-advanced small modular reactor projects offer safe, non-polluting, abundant power for hundreds of years, especially if the thorium fuel cycle is implemented.

a reply to: FlavianYou think the "vast majority" of China's power will come from green energy in "a few years?" China is building hundreds of new coal-fired power plants.

Kill jobs during covid.....only the Democrats have such ideas....and they dont even try and hide it anymore.

originally posted by: Flavian

a reply to: ketsuko



Couple of points. A majority of the global population now see Climate Change as the biggest threat to the planet. That means most of us want action taking. So if that costs some jobs, tough - the many outweigh the few. Although, in the long run, those jobs should be replaced in the green energy sector.
Secondly, China is currently embarking on a major Green Revolution. Give it a few years and they will be producing the vast majority of their power from green energy sources, not coal power stations.

Climate change is a global issue so it requires a global response.

Why has nobody got wind (N.P.I.) of the fact that we still have yet to discover any source of green energy!? There is either no such thing or it is in the not so near future. Solar power, wind power, all that nonsense is stuff that is far dirtier than even coal.

I do find it amusing how the green energy nutters ignore the negative impact on the environment from wind farms, and solar farms... kinda like how trust in the political sector is split.

The correct way moving forward is to blend the 2 and let green energy prove it can do the job... NOT gut the traditional energy sector and hope green energy can do the job.

Also how do they plan to replace plastics without fossil fuels?

Plastic that is in EVERYTHING now a days, upwards to 10% of our oil supply goes into making plastic, so if the cost of oil goes up (which it will) then the cost of everything that has plastic in it will go up.

originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: SeektoUnderstand

Perfect for the overlords.

They get an unsolvable problem they can use as an excuse to randomly dick with us forever.

Its a way to redistribute wealth without actually saying Americans are too rich and too free to control so we are fixing that.

a reply to: ketsuko
It's a continuation of Obamas globalist agenda.
I miss Trump already. He was right to get us out of that mess.
Now we are just throwing taxpayer money down the drain.

a reply to: Irishhaf

Not to mention the environmental impacts of litium battery addiction.

In South America, the biggest problem is water. The continent’s Lithium Triangle, which covers parts of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, holds more than half the world’s supply of the metal beneath its otherworldly salt flats. It’s also one of the driest places on earth. That’s a real issue, because to extract lithium, miners start by drilling a hole in the salt flats and pumping salty, mineral-rich brine to the surface.

Then they leave it to evaporate for months at a time, first creating a mixture of manganese, potassium, borax and lithium salts which is then filtered and placed into another evaporation pool, and so on. After between 12 and 18 months, the mixture has been filtered enough that lithium carbonate – white gold – can be extracted.

It’s a relatively cheap and effective process, but it uses a lot of water – approximately 500,000 gallons per tonne of lithium. In Chile’s Salar de Atacama, mining activities consumed 65 per cent of the region’s water. That is having a big impact on local farmers – who grow quinoa and herd llamas – in an area where some communities already have to get water driven in from elsewhere.

There’s also the potential – as occurred in Tibet – for toxic chemicals to leak from the evaporation pools into the water supply. These include chemicals, including hydrochloric acid, which are used in the processing of lithium into a form that can be sold, as well as those waste products that are filtered out of the brine at each stage. In Australia and North America, lithium is mined from rock using more traditional methods, but still requires the use of chemicals in order to extract it in a useful form. Research in Nevada found impacts on fish as far as 150 miles downstream from a lithium processing operation.

You find rare earths in dry places and the water is rapidly depleted from communities that need it, or it becomes toxic and spills.

Cobalt is mined by child labor, by hand, without protective gear and incredibly toxic. It's mostly only found it Democratic Republic of the Congo who gives all of two craps about its people. The cute thing is that they call them "artisanal mines".

And then there's the problem with disposal. They can leach toxic substances into the grounds and water table and in some places, they actually use the same type of robots they use to handle nuclear waste to dismantle the spent batteries.

But, you know, let's make combustion engines bad and convert every vehicle over to electric! Quite aside from the problem of where the electricity comes from, this sounds about as awesome as that time everyone had to put mercury lightbulbs in their homes.

a reply to: Flavian

A response from a nation that is already been responding for decades.

The rest of the world needs to take care of themselves. They can't? To borrow your cute little wording: Tough. Sorry to say, the needs of the 300 million plus here in the US take, or should be, the priority.

Don't like it? Tough.

Please remember that Kerry is a left-Hegelian Skull and Bones and he and his International friends will all make out no matter what they do to the US economy and the American people. It’s time for liberals to wake up about it.

a reply to: ketsuko

Because the plan is to convert the U.S. into a third world nation. When people have the ease of today's world in which you only have to go to the nearest supermarket to buy all the food your family needs, people have time to do other stuff, including pestering our elected, and non-elected leaders to do better for us all.

But when people have to use a day or several days finding food, as it happens in Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc, it's easier to control people.

This is their plan, to destroy the U.S. economy and convert the U.S. into a third world country.

Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc went through this as well. There are too many Americans, in all side of the political spectrum, whom think "this can never happen in the U.S." But those people are wrong. It is the same thing the people in Venezuela thought when Chavez and communists told them "this is a different type of socialism. It is socialism of the 21st century, a better form of socialism..." When in reality it is the same old BS from socialists, fascists, and communists whom want complete control.

Soon enough the Biden/Harris administration will implement a social score program just like China has. Watch. It will happen, and still you will get pro-Biden idiots claiming "oh they won't actually do that.."