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The Green New Deal transition

“Under a spreading chestnut tree

The village smithy stands”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1841

The Green New Deal (GND) and similar climate proposals envision a transition to a zero-emissions energy economy in the coming two to three decades. These are clearly ideas whose time has come: recent polls show that almost 70% of 2020 voters support them. That percentage is likely higher in the population at large, as many in the upcoming generation who are too young to be counted in voter polls are nonetheless climate savvy and support climate campaigns.

Most of us will live through part or all of this transition, so it’s natural to wonder what it will look like, and how it will affect our daily lives and livelihoods. Will we be deprived of familiar comforts? Will our energy supply be reliable? Will the benefits, in terms of climate security, clean air and jobs outweigh any associated costs or “sacrifices?”

Fortunately, we don’t have to speculate too much about the future, because for the past several decades we’ve been living in the early phases of what can be called the “great green transition.”

In 1954 Bell Labs announced the invention of the first practical silicon solar cell, and its adaption to home energy production soon followed. By the 1970s, courses in passive solar building design were being offered at a community college in California. And notably, California instituted the nation’s first stringent energy-efficiency building codes, which have saved enormous quantities of heating and electrical energy, in 1978.

But these early experiments in alternative energy and energy efficiency were generally aimed at what later became known as the “peak oil” phenomenon, the idea that we would run out of fossil fuels but never run out of sunlight, so we should prepare for a coming energy shortage.

Then came the summer of 1988, the hottest on record until that time. The “greenhouse effect,” which had been known to science for almost a century, suddenly became a household term. Urgent media reports of the global warming trend — with dire warnings on the covers of magazines ranging from Time to Ms. — made the public aware of the real, if then somewhat distant threat of severe climate change.

That awareness has been followed by a halting but persistent growth in energy efficiency and green energy production. The Toyota Prius, the world’s first mass-produced hybrid passenger vehicle, was launched, with great success, in 1997. A number of all-electric cars have since been introduced to the market, and charging stations are popping up all over the country. Within a decade or two, people will shake their heads and wonder why federal and state fuel-efficiency standards were ever a point of political contention. Meanwhile, there is an ever-growing movement toward bicycle commuting — and telecommuting.

High-speed, solar-electric railroads connecting cities on the East and West Coasts and along the Mississippi corridor are under construction or planned. City planners are designing for pedestrian access. More states have adopted California’s energy-efficient building standards, and even more will adopt them in coming years.

And in a telling sign of the times, there are now more jobs in alternative energy than in oil in Texas. Texas.

Jobs, as has been noted, are one of the keys to the green transition. Jobs will be lost, it’s true. But even more jobs will be gained. At one time every village had its blacksmith, wranglers and horse corral. Then came the automotive revolution…and now every town has its auto shop(s).

Really, the only downside of the green transition is that it’s not happening fast enough to protect us from a climate debacle. But if today’s voters are heard, that will change quickly at our ecological house.

gazettetimes

112 Comments on "The Green New Deal transition"

makati1 on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 4:41 pm

I’m busy, not gone! Typhoon not even a bad thunder-storm. Switching internet providers and set-up, so down occasionally.

The Great Leveling/Reset will be more painful for Amerikans and other Westerners, than those in other countries, like the Ps and China.

Davy on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:00 pm

Welcome back mak. We missed you a lots. Good to see you got yer innernet back up and running!

REAL Green on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:05 pm

Davy was REAL worried you might not be coming back mak.

Mick on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:08 pm

:<) The Mak is back

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:14 pm

Mak has always been one of the smartest commenters on our forum.

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:17 pm

Look at Ppee jacking off now that his daddy mak is back. You lovers belong on Facebook. Anon was REAL worried about Mak. LMFAO. What a group of low lifes with no life.

Mick said :<) The Mak is back

REAL Green said Davy was REAL worried you might not be coming back…

Davy said Welcome back mak. We missed you a lots. Good to se…

Davy said “What do US elections and hurricanes have in commo…

dratrepus tak muzz American hostage rescued in West Africa by SEAL Team 6 in daring raid said muzznews

dratrepus tak first whitey supertard president nixon who opened up master race chink by sending mr spock only nixon can go to china said now china joe or sleepy joe want to make china gra…

FamousDrScanlon said No worries clog. Since you’re an old fuck wh…

FamousDrScanlon said Clog, tell them HI from me. In their own words: N…

dratrepus tak supertard Pnauj no supertard edrich is smartest commenter bar none on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:19 pm

he speaks both low and high english
he’s a muzzie lovah

he’s gratest

zero davy on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:23 pm

Look at widdle daVvee crying now that his superior mak is back. Go whine on Facebook widdle. LOFAO. What a low life goatherd with no life.

dratrepus tak BREAKING - Rival drug gangs with automatic weapons exchange fire in #Montpellier, France. Military and police units dispatched to the scene. on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:33 pm

harvesting muzz soon?

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:33 pm

widdle IQ Ppee, who the fuck is dratrepus? What a stupid fuck. Ppee, how is that smart? LMFAO @ FOOL!!

zero davy said Look at widdle daVvee crying now that his superior…

dratrepus tak supertard Pnauj no supertard edrich is smartest commenter bar none said he speaks both low and high english he’s a m…

zero juan said Look at Ppee jacking off now that his daddy mak is…

bochen787 on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:44 pm

To all the Amerikkka fuckers hoping the Three Gorges Dam would collapse and take down 400 million Chinese lives, go eat shit

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1205278.shtml

dratrepus tak instead of turning on webcam and opening up chink servers so we can comment on supertard bochen777 is using some chink server to convince us 3gd is not croaking on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:49 pm

but 3gd level is 174.4m, max is 175m. btw the numbers are not clear. nobody allows to get near 3gd.

don’t get me wrong, i love master race chinks solely because they harvest pedifiler worship muzz male karens

chink troops are in canada now. maybe they harvest muzz in canada first starting with top muzz

remember a chink woman was killed by muzz a few months ago. this didn’t happen in chinkland of coruse. it happened in canada

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:54 pm

fuck wak juanPpee comment over on the moderated side and said the same thing here on the insane side with his lunatic bo chen sock. What a fucked up individual. Ppee, you comment on the moderated side is low IQ so par for the course fuck head! I am heading over to fuck with you on the moderated side. I will wipe you off. LMFAO. YEA, I know you got me on ignore until I wipe your face in shit! DOUBL LOL!

dratrepus tak instead of turning on webcam and opening up chink servers so we can comment on supertard bochen777 is using some chink server to convince us 3gd is not croaking said but 3gd level is 174.4m, max is 175m. btw the nu…

bochen787 said To all the Amerikkka fuckers hoping the Three Gorg…

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:58 pm

Ppee, I wipe your stench from the moderated side. LMFAO

Davy on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 5:59 pm

Did you see the latest from the Pentagon’s primary military intelligence gatherer Mak?

We all need to read the disclaimer. Not very good news, I am afraid.

https://tinyurl.com/y4h3hz49

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:00 pm

BTW, Ppee, you need to be a man and quit posting bo chen on the moderated side. There was no bo chen October surprise. You lose loser. Man up pussy

REAL Green on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:02 pm

JuanP can’t see are comments widdle. Cus JuanP has us on ignore.

bochen787 on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:04 pm

To all the Amerikkka fuckers hoping the Three Gorges Dam would collapse and take down 400 million Chinese lives, go eat shit

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1205278.shtml

https://www.globaltimes.cn/Portals/0/attachment/2020/2020-11-01/3b716796-eb0d-415e-ae88-125aaa456dde.jpeg

https://www.globaltimes.cn/Portals/0/attachment/2020/2020-11-01/446e30ec-0c16-4e29-abe4-6ed97128999c.jpg

https://www.globaltimes.cn/Portals/0/attachment/2020/2020-08-20/8acea7de-d20d-405b-8556-7339dee8dbd3.jpeg

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:05 pm

Ppee, I could give a shit if Ppee sees me. I wipe him off the board. So nobody has to see the fuckwaks name. Only cowards put people on ignore. You are the biggest coward on this forum. What are you scared of, pussy?

REAL Green said JuanP can’t see are comments widdle. Cus JuanP has…

Davy said Did you see the latest from the Pentagon’s primary…

dratrepus tak 3gd is croaking at 174.4m 175m max and all im talking about is techs invented by master race chinks who forte is harvestation of supremacist muzz who worship pedifiler muhammad and who are male karens on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:06 pm

i like the mobile execution vans. those things can move fast to harvest top muzz

thank you for your service to humanity master race chinks

i’m a sinophile

if you think supertard kat is alive you must believe in lazarus effect i don’t think so

muzz-19 cills (control or kill) permanently

REAL Green on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:11 pm

Are Pink Poodle avatar is embarrassing to us Davy. It makes us look like a widdle pussy.

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:30 pm

PPee the embarrassment is on you. You can’t ID theft the pink poodle, fuck. That is your designator. LMFAO. You are fucked PPee!

REAL Green said Are Pink Poodle avatar is embarrassing to us Davy….

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:31 pm

PPee, who the fuck is dratrepus, loser? LMFAO

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:35 pm

I agree with REAL Green Davy. Hows about a cartoon of a widdle green goat instead? It would be more fitting for us.

makati1 on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:43 pm

PO, always good for a laugh. ^_^

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 6:59 pm

Ppee, your screwed. The pink p o d d l e is you PPee

zero juan said I agree with REAL Green Davy. Hows about a cartoon…

dratrepus tak i know some wrong when a pretty little white girl ran to a black man arms dead giveaway deeeed giveaway my neighbor got big testicles becos we see this dude everyday we ate ribbbbss with this dude on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 7:00 pm

if you think dratrepus tak is not croaked u would want to buy a bridge from me

he croaked from muzz-19

REAL Green on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 7:03 pm

Everyone no’s were pink poodle Davy. Were not foolin anyone.

dratrepus tak convict-19 for 500 alex on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 7:08 pm

During the first week of convict-19 dratrepus went into self imposed quarantine which smells and need amputation

Davy on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 7:11 pm

Stop calling me dratrepus, fuck wak!

zero juan on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 7:37 pm

PPee everyone knows it is you

Davy said Stop calling me dratrepus, fuck wak!

dratrepus tak convict-19 for 500 alex said During the first week of convict-19 dratrepus went…

REAL Green said Everyone no’s were pink poodle Davy. Were not fool…

The board on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 8:25 pm

DaVvEe, everyone knows you are widdle pink poodle. And you like to call yourself zero juan. LOFAO!

dratrepus tak Angela Charlton Its brutal colonial past, staunch secular policies and tough-talking president who is seen as insensitive toward the Muslim faith all play a role…. on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 8:27 pm

This whitey supertard is muzz lover
Forbes said single whitey female should solo travel muzz Pakistan
How about whitey females behad in Morocco

If you think dratrepus tak is alive he is not
I need shekels please buy my bridge

Danke for speak anglais

dratrepus tak very good harvesting by master race chinks on Sun, 1st Nov 2020 9:56 pm

In its war against Islamic extremism, the Chinese government has systematically destroyed 16,000 mosques in Xinjiang since 2017

This stuff makes me salivate I want to own 100000 amputated muzz and 10000 acres

I can live off free labor

dratrepus tak very good harvesting by master race chinks on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 7:38 am

In its war against Islamic extremism, the Chinese government has systematically destroyed 16,000 mosques in Xinjiang since 2017

poor master race chinks because 3gd gona croak soon water level 174.18m

FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 1:44 pm

MAGA-tards who’ve always seen leftys as anti gun pacifists do-gooders are not so cocky now. That doubt creeps in once you know the other guy will now be shooting back.

Gun sales are soaring, and it’s not just conservatives stocking up

“This time, the sales appear to be driven by fears of societal instability, and gun shop owners and trade groups say the customer base is much broader, including large numbers of Black Americans, women and people who identify as politically liberal.”

https://www.unionleader.com/news/back_page/gun-sales-are-soaring-and-its-not-just-conservatives-stocking-up/article_dc9b2435-3c36-54d9-9f6a-13e85b1826a6.html

I think it’d be hilarious to see video of a vengeful, raging, black trans women with great tits & a monster cock convert a couple of proud boys heads into pink mist.

Everyone should own & openly carry firearms because a heavily armed society is a polite society.

dratrepus tak very good harvesting by master race chinks on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 7:38 am In its war against Islamic extremism, the Chinese government has systematically destroyed 16,000 mosques in Xinjiang on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 1:55 pm

In its war against Islamic extremism, the Chinese government has systematically destroyed 16,000 mosques in Xinjiang since 2017

poor master race chinks because 3gd gona croak soon water level 174.18m

Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 1:56 pm

“Everyone should own & openly carry firearms because a heavily armed society is a polite society.“

Only in a homogeneous societies, not in diverse powderkeg USA.

May nobody win tomorrow and we’ll have a nice society-mobilizing and destabilizing stalemate.

zero juan on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 2:03 pm

Ppee Juan, who the fuck is dratrepus? Is that your brudder’s name, fuck face?

FamousDrScanlon said MAGA-tards who’ve always seen leftys as anti…

FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 2:07 pm

GO TRUMP 2020 AMERICA IS GREAT!

Police Investigating ‘Trump Train’ Incident Say Victim ‘Appears To Be’ MAGA Truck
Profile picture for user Tyler Durden
by Tyler Durden
Mon, 11/02/2020 – 14:30
A Biden campaign staffer driving a white SUV ‘may be at fault’ after colliding with a Trump supporter’s truck on a Texas highway on Friday, after a ‘Trump Train’ of trucks surrounded a Biden campaign bus to ‘escort it’ out of the state, according to WFLA.

“The at-fault vehicle may be the white SUV and the victim appears to be the black truck,” said the San Marcos, Texas Police Department in a statement after reviewing the crash via online videos.

“Calls to the driver of the white SUV have gone unanswered and SMPD has not been contacted by the driver of the black truck. Since SMPD has not spoken to either driver at this time, additional investigation would be required to fully ascertain who was at fault,” the statement continues.

Over the weekend, the Texas Tribune reported that the FBI was investigating the incident.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/police-investigating-trump-train-incident-say-victim-appears-be-maga-truck

bochen787 on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 2:08 pm

SCAM Factory: The 8th Wonder of the World: Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin (Same time, By 2019, Foxconn Guangzhou Gen 10.5 factory had been running for 168 days in Guangdong province, China)
https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/document/C561FAQGK64mStvZu9w/feedshare-document-pdf-analyzed/0/1604303001642?e=1604430000&v=beta&t=IBxmQdBIiM2EFpZquYWxRW_VZdZ_ihwonp4PXROrp4c

Employees describe a toxic workplace, where supervisors often berated and publicly humiliated employees. Many of the original Wisconsin hires have quit or been laid off.

Recruiters were told to hit the number but given little in the way of job descriptions. Soon, the office began to fill with people who had nothing to do. Many just sat in their cubicles watching Netflix and playing games on their phones. The reality of their situation became impossible to ignore. Multiple employees recall seeing people cry in the office. “The best is when you’re in the elevator with somebody and then they just scream out of nowhere,” said an employee who experienced this several times. “They’ve had enough, because things don’t make sense here.”

“Imagine being in a job where you don’t really know if it’s real or not. Or you know it’s not real, but you don’t know it’s not real. It’s a constant thing you’re doing in your head day after day,” said one employee, who returned to the rented building Trump had spoken at, where workers had been assembling TVs, only to find the line shut down and the lights dimmed a couple of weeks after the photo op was over. “I think all of us were on the verge of a major breakdown.”

Bochen787 on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 2:17 pm

“Debt, Zombies, And Geopolitics: China’s Belt-And-Road Initiative During COVID”
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Debt-Zombies-And-Geopolitics-Chinas-Belt-And-Road-Initiative-During-COVID.html

“In giving Chinese SOEs unprecedented access to overseas contracts, the BRI seemed well-positioned to aid debt reduction and job creation, two key issues for ensuring China’s economic survivability. But the BRI may have also revealed a grim truth: that China’s SOEs have difficulty competing in both domestic and overseas markets, even with the assistance of the Chinese government and the BRI. China’s SOEs are popularly called “zombie enterprises” because they rely on government subsidies or bank loans to stay alive (China Brief, March 16), a fact noted by the “authoritative person.” As a result, one of the most urgent tasks of the Chinese government is to deal with these “zombies” in order to reduce excessive production capacity, and free up valuable physical resources, credit resources, and market space (People’s Daily, January 4, 2016)… Conclusion: SSSR and the BRI after COVID-19 The Rhodium Group has projected that Beijing can retain the high gear lending of the BRI because policy banks are able to maintain the loan pace of 2015-2019 (Rhodium Group, April 15). BRI loans form a minor part of the Chinese overall lending portfolio, and China Development Bank and China Export-Import Bank have ample political support to cover the cost. But Beijing is unlikely to enlarge its loans to BRI-participating countries in the short term. Due to the pandemic, some states may not be able to make their repayments on time, and the BRI may face financial losses. A June report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that COVID-19 had “seriously affected” nearly a fifth of projects along the BRI (SCMP, June 28). Beijing may either opt to reduce debt obligations or seek to postpone payments and extend terms, as sovereign lenders often do in response to a financial crisis. Renegotiating the terms of BRI-related debt will bring its own political and economic risks, and could raise the specter of debt-trap diplomacy, hurting China’s international prestige. Postponing payments would also increase the financial sector’s total debt, undermining the principles of SSSR.”

bochen787 on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 2:18 pm

Why China’s official data don’t add up
Figures from National Bureau of Statistics lack credibility because of its ‘cherry-picking approach’ and the changing of data from previous years; GDP growth is nowhere near the official figures as interior provinces are in recession, economist says
https://www.asiatimesfinancial.com/why-china-s-official-data-don-t-add-up
by Shehzad Qazi
Migrant workers sit on the street with the boards to search for work in Guangzhou, Guangdong on Money October 26, 2020. Photo: Koki Kataoka / Yomiuri Shimbun via AFP.
(ATF) Last week China released it’s much anticipated third quarter GDP, and along with it came fresh concerns of data accuracy.
While the 4.9% print missed rather exuberant market expectations of over 5% growth, the real head-turner was Beijing’s announced revisions to its fixed asset investment (FAI) data for September 2019. The revised numbers depressed last September’s FAI by 2.8 trillion yuan, thereby boosting this year’s growth figures as well as the Q3 GDP.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics explained away the change in a short footnote, stating that historical data were adjusted on the basis of the “fourth national economic census unit inventory.” In August, China had reported its first positive retail sales growth of 2020 on the basis of a similar adjustment, which depressed year-ago figures by 50 billion yuan.
Predictably, this latest revision came under immediate scrutiny.
The core statistical problem here is the sample’s changing characteristics and size. The NBS has a longstanding practice of only surveying firms above a minimum annual revenue. Any firm that falls below the threshold is dropped from future surveys and its results removed from past data. Alternatively, if the number of firms meeting the revenue threshold rises in a given year, the sample then becomes larger than last year’s by thousands of firms.
This cherry-picking approach — which can produce trillions of yuan worth of adjustments — invalidates any claims of random, representative sampling. Furthermore, it creates a constant stream of revisions to official statistics without details on methods or the release of underlying numbers. The more fundamental challenge it underscores is that investors cannot rely on official data to reliably capture economic conditions, especially when the economy is under pressure.

bochen787 on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 2:32 pm

Americunts have to keeping stealing my ID… pathetic… same fuckers who said 3GD was croaking, China Covid numbers were fake, mass famine coming, Xi shot in front of CCP firing squad….. yeah okay

But truth is Amerikkkkkka nightmare:

Employees describe a toxic workplace, where supervisors often berated and publicly humiliated employees. Many of the original Wisconsin hires have quit or been laid off.

Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 2:48 pm

Breaking – German news now – attack on synagoge in Vienna, Austria. Several wounded and killed:

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/wien-schuesse-in-der-innenstadt-medienberichte-sprechen-von-angriff-auf-synagoge-a-6a0a9f7c-a940-4394-a7f9-71ab9cdd8ff4

Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 3:14 pm

‘Seven dead and several injured near Vienna synagogue’: Huge manhunt underway as gunman rampages through streets and ‘accomplice blows themselves up’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8906871/Shots-fired-near-synagogue-Vienna-police-say-major-operation-underway.html

Diversity is a crime against humanity.

FamousDrScanlon on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 3:51 pm

“Diversity is a crime against humanity”

You’re only here because of diversity you fucking imbecile.

It’s evolutionary bitch. No diversity no humans.

What about your neanderthal gene’s? Where do they fit in with your nazi cult purity project?

Oh, right, Nazis nor anyone knew about DNA then, nor the other millions of pieces of evidence helping fill in the human evolutionary diversity puzzle discovered since that blow holes & sinks your pure race fantasy.

Your entire pure bred fantasy ix based on 1930’s nazi cultist pseudo science.

Clog, you were born into a Nazi unconditional surrender Europe in rubble, raped Nazi whores & a cowardly LOSER leader who shot himself in the fucking head because he could not stand one more second of being a self loathing failure. One of history’s greatest defeats – want some more bitch?

Clog=born loser. Clog=die loser after a wasted life of hate & rage based on some dead defeated losers ideology.

Duncan Idaho on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 3:58 pm

How Trump Learned to Love Fascism–
(Even the Fat Boy is still learning)

https://buzzflash.com/articles/steve-jonas-for-buzzflash-the-evolution-of-trumps-fascist-agenda-from-authoritarian-business-ceo-to-dictator

Duncan Idaho on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 4:03 pm

” there have only been four fully formed capitalist/industrial states that can be given the label “fascist:” Hungary under Miklos Horthy, 1919-1944, Italy under Benito Mussolini, 1922-1945, Germany under Adolf Hitler, 1933-1945, and Spain under Francisco Franco, 1939-1975. ”

The Fat Boy is trying, but probably not smart enough.

Duncan Idaho on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 4:34 pm

Republican Texas Judges Get Big Money Boost Ahead of Redistricting

https://readsludge.com/2020/10/29/republican-texas-judges-get-big-money-boost-ahead-of-redistricting/
Repugs can be easily bought– and having no moral problems, never have to hold their noses.

The Green New Deal transition

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