{"id":311848,"date":"2024-03-22T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=311848"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T13:22:30","slug":"climate-policy-vs-social-justice-bloomberg-green-decries-rollbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=311848","title":{"rendered":"Climate Policy vs. Social Justice (\u2018Bloomberg Green\u2019 decries rollbacks)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cApologies are in order from Bloomberg Green. In terms of social justice, why hurt the average person as consumer, ratepayer, and taxpayer?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s Green-Bashing and Europe\u2019s Right Put Climate Goals at Risk<\/a>,\u201d write Laura Millan, Zahra Hirji, Olivia Rudgard, and Jonathan Gilbert (maybe it takes four writers to tip-toe around the climate vs. social justice issue).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bloomberg Green<\/em> authors call it \u201cthe campaign against climate.\u201d Realists would call it a long overdue populist campaign for energy justice and against alarmism and energy rationing<\/em>. And expect a lot more such protest in the future as Net Zero fails\u2013and an \u201cenergy transition\u201d back to the real thing (dense, stock, affordable, plentiful, reliable energies) occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the Bloomberg Green Daily<\/em> story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politicians are vowing to roll back green policies and downplaying climate change ahead of key elections on both sides of the Atlantic, casting doubt on whether countries can maintain momentum<\/a> in the transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the US, former President Donald Trump, who has a long record of climate denial, is the frontrunner to challenge President Joe Biden in November. On the campaign trail, Trump has minimized the effects of climate change, attacked electric vehicles<\/a> and pledged to repeal Biden\u2019s signature climate law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, in Europe, polls show right-wing parties that oppose strong climate action are likely to increase their representation after the European Union\u2019s parliamentary elections in June, while the climate-minded Greens are expected to lose seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That raises the prospect of the US and the EU, two of the world\u2019s top three<\/a> climate polluters, retreating on environmental ambition following the world\u2019s hottest year<\/a> on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shift is a mix of backpedaling \u2014 goals being pushed back or watered down \u2014 and backlash. The growing hostility in some cases veers into outright climate denial and is part of a drift into authoritarian rhetoric that relies on attacks and emotional appeals more than traditional policy debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here comes the hyperbole, the religious-like premise of climate alarmists and forced energy transformationists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists warn that what\u2019s at stake is a livable planet. Earth has already warmed 1.2C compared to the preindustrial era, and that\u2019s on track to go up to about 2.5C<\/a> by the end of the century if the world doesn\u2019t speed up the shift to clean energy. Any slow-walking comes at the risk of additional warming that\u2019s already driving disasters<\/a> and costing billions of dollars<\/a> every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the regular green hype. Then comes the politics, where the authors get realistic. I offer my comments (in green).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate isn\u2019t a core issue for most voters the way the economy and security are. But the populist right has made climate policy another culture-wars flash point \u2014 an example in their eyes of costly, intrusive overreach that compromises personal choice and national sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correct<\/strong>\u2013and more. Frankly, the general public knows about exaggerated climate \u201cscience\u201d and the behind-the-scenes shenanigans from a politicized profession (Climategate turns 15 years old this year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the right believes that the bigger threat \u201cis not climate change; it\u2019s the actions taken by governments to decarbonize economies,\u201d says Mahir Yazar, a researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen in Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Correct!<\/strong> Just add \u201cpolicy\u201d to climate change to understand the real threat to what Alex Epstein calls human betterment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the reason the political winds are shifting is that climate regulations, as they ramp up in stringency, are starting to impinge more on people\u2019s daily lives \u2014 at a time when many feel squeezed by inflation and the cost of living. \u201cDo you choose a heat pump in your house? What car are you going to drive? These are emotional things to people,\u201d said Bas Eickhout, a Dutch member of the European parliament with the European Green Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes<\/strong>, \u201cgreen\u201d policies increase energy prices and swell government budgets (and deficits in many places, led by the U.S. And yes, personal freedom to choose the best energy appliances and energies is a human preference against the Climate Industrial Complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far-right politicians have prospered by tapping into that sentiment. Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders won over voters last year by promising to scrap the Netherlands\u2019 climate law and exit the Paris Agreement. Libertarian Javier Milei, who has called global warming \u201ca socialist lie,\u201d became Argentina\u2019s new president in December. Germany\u2019s far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD) party, which rejects the decades-old scientific consensus on human-caused climate change, has promised to tear down Germany\u2019s wind farms<\/a> and has recently broadened its public support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fantastic!<\/strong> Removing ill-performing industrial wind turbines to allow more green space is surely environmental\u2026. Climate policy is all pain, no gain, whatever one\u2019s views on the cause and pace of physical climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closer to the political center, leaders are scrambling to show they\u2019re not prioritizing net zero at the expense of household budgets or consumer choice. In the UK \u2014 by some measures a world leader in efforts to cut carbon emissions \u2014 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hit the brakes<\/a> on decarbonizing as one of his ministers vowed the Conservative government wouldn\u2019t \u201csave the planet by bankrupting Britons.\u201d The rival Labour Party dropped its own pledge<\/a> to invest \u00a328 billion in green projects should it win the country\u2019s next general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So climate policy does<\/strong> increase energy prices<\/em>. So much for the \u201cmagical thinking\u201d that Net Zero was a free lunch or one you are paid to eat\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But abandoning pledges is one thing; undoing settled policy is another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But\u00a0failed policy<\/strong>\u00a0needs to be rescinded. Apologies are in order from Bloomberg Green. In terms of social justice, why hurt the average person as consumer, ratepayer, and taxpayer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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