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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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\u201cThe Progressive Left is being pillared to stop pushing 20 percent issues (80 percent nonsupport). Blackouts might be a 2 percent issue. The working class deserves the Democrat Party to ditch climate alarm and forced energy transformation\u2013for all the right reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Now that solar itself got the blame for the recent European blackout, what is the argument from the Deep Ecology, anti-modernism cult?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LA-based climate campaigner Michael Mezzatesta<\/a>, self-described economics and climate educator, has a new one<\/a> for the climate debate: blackouts are good, bringing us together! He states<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mainstream economic narrative in the USA would have us believe that power blackouts are always a bad thing \u2013 just think of all that lost productivity! Think of the effect on the GDP!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I was curious to see this video about the recent blackouts in Spain rack up millions of views on Instagram <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to Nature, the Garden of Eden? Off the grid for happiness and solidarity? Small is beautiful? Less is more? Negawatts? Degrowth<\/a>? \u201cI campaign for the extinction of the human race<\/a>\u201c? Sammy Roth of the Los Angeles Times<\/em> digs the pain too. \u201cWould it be easier and less expensive to limit climate change \u2014 and its deadly combination of worsening heat, fire and drought and flood,\u201d he asks<\/a>, \u201cif we were willing to live with the occasional blackout?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how about Big Brother authoritarianism<\/a> to achieve all this? [1]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Progressive Left is being pillared to stop pushing 20 percent issues (80 percent nonsupport). Blackouts might be a 2 percent issue. The working class deserves the Democrat Party to ditch climate alarm and forced energy transformation\u2013for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1] <\/strong>\u201cImagining a low-carbon world, then, means reevaluating our conception of freedom itself.\u201d (\u2013 Audrea Lim, \u201cThe Ideology of Fossil Fuels<\/a>.\u201d Dissent<\/em>, Spring 2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Progressive Left is being pillared to stop pushing 20 percent issues (80 percent nonsupport). Blackouts might be a 2 percent issue. 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