The Great Climate Divide

For John, BLUF:  The Republican Party, heck the Republic, is divided between the well off, with well paying, long term, jobs, and the rest, who are not so well off and have more of a hard scrabble existence.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Charllie Baker Climate Official blasted for comments to 'break your will' over emissions.

Here is the sub-headline:

Baker:  Undersecretary will be talked to over comments

From The Boston Herald, by Reporters Joe Dwinell and Sean Philip Cotter, 5 February 2021.

Here is the lede plus five:

The state’s $ 130,000- ayear undersecretary for climate change is being blasted by a fiscal watchdog for saying the administration needs to “ break” the will of taxpayers when it comes to heating homes and driving cars.

The video shows David Ismay, Gov. Charlie Baker’s under secretary for climate change, telling Vermont climate advocates that it’s time to go after homeowners and motorists to help reduce emissions.

At the end of the clip, he adds:  “ I can’t even say that publicly.”

Ismay did not return a Herald request for comment Friday.  Asked about the video during a press conference, Baker said he and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito had seen the video earlier that morning.  He added Climate Secretary Kathleen Theoharides, Ismay’s boss, is also aware of it.

“ First of all, no one who works in our administration should ever say or think anything like that — ever,” the governor said.  “ Secondly, Secretary Theoharides is going to have a conversation with him about that.”

Baker continued, “And the third — and one of the main reasons we didn’t sign the climate bill when it got to our desk was because we were specifically concerned about the impact that it’s going to have on people’s ability to pay for many of the pieces that were in it, which means it also doesn’t represent the administration policy or position.”

First, thanks to Mass Fiscal Alliance for posting the talk by Undersecretary for Climate Change David Ismay.

Second, this is a warning that there are people out there, like those talking about the "Great Reset",♠ who are prepared to demolish our Capitalist economic system in order to prepare for a climate change that may never arrive.  The losers in such an economic realignment are the little people.  People like those who read this blog.

When we reorganize our Economic System in anticipation of catastrophic climate change, we will have the haves and the have nots, and the great American dream of everyone being able to better themselves will be shattered.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  I am reading the book, but it is slow going, because I sense where the author (World Economic Forum CEO Klaus Schwab) is going, and it is a bad place for most of us.  The sorting out will be ugly.