John Kerry's most important concern in regards to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is, you guessed it, the local weather.
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To state the apparent, John Kerry is an unserious particular person. That’s not a reference to his wind-surfing or flip-flops or different traditional marketing campaign fake pas from days passed by.
With Ukraine struggling dying and destruction by the hands of Vladimir Putin’s navy, Kerry shared his true concern in regards to the battle: local weather.
“A struggle is the very last thing you want with respect to a united effort to attempt to cope with the local weather problem,” Kerry informed a Reuters reporter. He then decried the “emissions” penalties of Russia’s invasion, including, “You’re going to lose individuals’s focus . . . actually huge nation consideration, as a result of they are going to be diverted” from the local weather agenda.
Kerry’s remarks are aloof, callous, clueless — however, most of all, unserious.
In truth, his local weather agenda is partly guilty for the present geopolitical mess. The Biden administration, from its first day in workplace, unleashed an assault on our once-robust power business. In pursuit of the Inexperienced New Deal, the socialist utopia that may ban the combustion engine, regulate diets and make use of photo voltaic panels and wind generators alone to energy the nation, President Joe Biden & Co. sought to eliminate fossil fuels.
However by throttling the business, they minimize the worldwide provide and costs rose accordingly. That harm Individuals, whereas making Vladimir Putin wealthy.
And a Vladimir Putin with surplus money is a harmful factor.
America’s shortsighted climate-change efforts are destabilizing world peace. This was not Biden or Kerry’s intention, however it's the consequence — and the extra harmful the world turns into, the extra unserious “local weather change” hysteria is.
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Telling Putin to not invade Ukraine due to emissions is akin to lecturing these fleeing Kyiv to masks up and social distance. It’s a luxurious they don’t have.
That's the local weather agenda: the luxurious of privileged elites. Households who can’t afford their heating invoice or grocery invoice because of energy-price-caused inflation don’t have the luxurious of fretting about local weather change. The 7,000 US troopers headed to Germany proper now don’t have the luxurious of handwringing about their local weather footprint.
John Kerry does, and he loves luxurious, too.
Requested in regards to the inexperienced contradiction of touring on his non-public jet to win an environmental award in 2019, the unserious statesman claimed it was “the one alternative for somebody like me.” Reporters have tracked quite a few such Air Kerry flights. Emissions? What emissions?
Kerry made his newest cringeworthy feedback in Egypt as preparations start for COP27, the worldwide climate-change convention coming this fall to the Crimson Sea resort city of Sharm-el-Sheikh. For those who’re going to fuss in regards to the local weather, you would possibly as properly do it in consolation. Final 12 months’s convention in Glasgow, Scotland, boasted 40,000 individuals in attendance, together with 670 non-public jets: Kerry isn’t the one inexperienced hypocrite.
We didn’t elect John Kerry, in order local weather czar within the White Home, he’s unaccountable to Congress and subsequently the American individuals who pay his wage. Nobody will get to have a look at his budgets. Nobody has oversight over his conferences, however there he goes on his non-public jet committing the US to emissions reductions and punitive measures on fossil fuels.
In the meantime, the actual threats are Russia, China, Iran and North Korea persevering with to construct weapons, steal know-how, launch cyberattacks, have interaction in terrorism and now begin a full-scale struggle, the likes of which Europe hasn’t seen in 75 years.
Take the specter of local weather change severely when John Kerry forgoes the non-public jets and luxurious mega-conferences. Fear about rising sea ranges when John Kerry sells his oceanfront mansion.
Till then, we have to cease the assault on America’s power business, assaults which have strengthened our enemies and weakened our personal nation. Till we reverse Biden’s reckless and harmful power insurance policies, we don’t have the luxurious of worrying about tomorrow once we can’t afford life in the present day.
Daniel Turner is the founder and govt director of Energy The Future, a nationwide nonprofit that advocates for American power jobs.
Twitter: @DanielTurnerPTF
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