Thousands of people have died of Covid19. Thousands more will likely die. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every one of those deaths is a tragedy, snuffing out a human life of incalculable worth and immense potential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, all of them but one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the casualties is the “Green New Deal”, says Kevin Williamson<\/a>, as people life with previews of the Green New Deal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n What we are seeing right now is what it looks like when Washington tries to steer the economy. There are times when that is necessary, and this is one of those times. But emergencies do not last forever, and emergency measures should be, by nature, temporary. The attraction of the climate-change crusade is that it creates a permanent state of emergency. The Left wants very much to convince Americans that climate change presents an emergency of the same kind requiring the same \u201cmoral equivalent of war\u201d worldwide mobilization.107<\/a><\/p> One suspects that the people who are missing their paychecks right now, and the ones who worry that they may be missing them soon, are going to need some convincing. The adverse effects of climate change are likely to be significant and may prove severe \u2014 as noted, many of our progressive friends insist that they already are. But we have a new point of comparison, and those challenges feel relatively manageable if the alternative is an extended version of the coronavirus shutdown \u2014 and no amount of marketing will change the fact that that is precisely what is being advocated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n A couple of months of this is going to be very hard to take. Nobody is signing up for a lifetime of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n And two trillion dollars of bailout is bad. The Green New Deal is going to cost an order of magnitude and change more. And unlike Covid, it’ll never end. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thousands of people have died of Covid19. Thousands more will likely die. Every one of those deaths is a tragedy, snuffing out a human life of incalculable worth and immense potential. Well, all of them but one. One of the casualties is the “Green New Deal”, says Kevin Williamson, as people life with previews of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,61],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-73700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73701,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73700\/revisions\/73701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}