Setting a green example
- August 19, 2024
Jeff Willis, BizPacReview
Recently some enlightened congressmen, senators, and members of the “donor class” took decisive action. Their goal: “To awaken slumbering Americans to the dangers of climate change.” It sounded honorable and good; until the inevitable price tag showed its ugly head.
It hardly mattered to these privileged few. Most had incomes that far exceeded seven figures. Many had transportation paid for by their companies and/or the government. They had a complicit, corporate media with them every step of the way.
Best of all, they had an agenda that could further enrich them, at the average family’s expense. A bit painful for North American and European families perhaps, but it was for theirs and the earth’s own betterment! It was an idea that was both innocuous and noble. To be paid handsomely for such an endeavor was a given.
Former Massachusetts Senator, U.S. Presidential Candidate, Secretary of State, and current “Climate Tsar” in the Biden Administration, John Kerry has been the master of climate change “hyperbole.” It may finally be catching up with him. A Fox News report yielded eye-opening truisms.
In its complaint, Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) alleged that Kerry violated federal scientific integrity policy when he said in May 2023 that greenhouse gas emissions “kill 15 million people per year worldwide.” PPT requested a federal investigation into Kerry’s comments.
“15 million people are dying every single year around this planet as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, in the air which travels around and drops in the form of pollution and is warming the ocean at record rates, changing the chemistry of the ocean itself,” Kerry remarked on May 10, 2023, at the Department of Agriculture’s AIM for Climate Summit.
“Without action, millions of lives and the livelihood of the planet is at risk,” he said