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The Green New Deal Will Never Work
While well-intentioned, it just won’t do what U.S. progressives want it to do: The world is too globalized; and not globalized enough.
That U.S. progressives are a bit confused about climate change should come as no surprise to the world at large.
The “science is settled” folks don’t like it much, but they obviously don’t like science much either. In science, few things as complicated and complex as climate change are ever “settled”. Most scientific theories are proven incorrect; most scientific experiments end in failure.
Scientific predictions about the future are equally fallible. Even predicting a week of weather accurately is a challenge of the highest order.
Among scientists who agree on many aspects on human driven climate change, there is still dissension in the ranks about what to do, how much to do, and when to do it.
In addition to these important questions is another, even more pressing, overarching and dominant question:
Can a democracy, like ours, ever commit to a plan of climate action on a magnitude sufficient to satisfy Democratic Party progressives and climate change alarmists?
Some of these measures are likely to be extremely expensive. They will also need to be implemented for decades before any benefit will be…