“DGR is an aboveground organization that uses direct action in the fight to save our planet. We also argue for the necessity of an underground that can target the strategic infrastructure of industrialization. But these actions alone are never a sufficient strategy for achieving a just outcome. Any strategy aiming for a livable future must include a call to build direct democracies based on human rights and sustainable material cultures.” (Deep Green Resistance)
“When civilization ends, the living world will rejoice. We must be biophilic people in order to survive.” (Deep Green Resistance)
Know thy enemy. And beware of organized violence against modern living.
With the Green New Deal (GND), the enemies of mineral energies and of modern living are at the door. And one spinoff from the GND for the radical, Progressive Left is the Deep Green Resistance.…
Continue Reading… under the Green New Deal, they don’t like clean, beautiful natural gas. They don’t like anything. They don’t know what they like. They sort of like wind, even though it kills all the birds. You want to see a bird cemetery? Go under a windmill sometime….
You know, in California, you go to jail for five years if you kill a bald eagle. If you go under a windmill, you see them all over the place.
– Donald Trump, “Remarks on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth,” Hackberry, Louisiana, May 14, 2019
Back in 1997, I published a long Policy Analysis for the Cato Institute, “Renewable Energy: Not Cheap, Not ‘Green’.” A section of that study, “The ‘Avian Mortality’ Problem,” addressed what President Trump recently said (above) 22 years later.…
Continue Reading“The golden era of American energy is now underway.” (President Donald Trump, The White House, May 14, 2019)
… under the Green New Deal, they don’t like clean, beautiful natural gas. They don’t like anything. (President Donald Trump, “Remarks on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth,” Hackberry, LA, May 14, 2019)
Who has been the most free-market energy President in U.S. history? In modern times, Ronald Reagan comes to mind. He decontrolled crude oil and petroleum products in his first week of office (January 1981), although Jimmy Carter’s phase-out of such regulation had just six months to go. Reagan did some other things to undo a decade of energy statism but fell short of his election goal of abolishing the US Department of Energy. [1]
Enter Donald Trump.…
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