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The Green New Deal transition

Public Policy

“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"

  1. dratrepus tak only master race chinks can deal with this this stuff used to happen in pedifiler worship land 2 decades ago on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 7:11 pm 

    Austria: At least seven dead, hostages taken, suicide bomb detonated in Vienna

  2. if you think the real dratrepus tak is not croak from MUZZ-19 then ur ready to wheel and deal now is a good time start bidding for that bridge on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 7:16 pm 

    Austria: At least seven dead, hostages taken, suicide bomb detonated in Vienna

    Only happens in pedifiler worship land just 2 decades ago

  3. dratrepus tak pedifiler worshippers killed (((supertards))) in Vienna on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 7:32 pm 

    7 croak

    Only master race chinks can help

  4. dratrepus tak pedifiler worshippers killed (((supertards))) in Vienna o on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 7:38 pm 

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

    Chink master race state tv runs program to blaspheme pedifiler after France inner struggle

    That’s how master race chinks can help

  5. dratrepus tak pedifiler worshippers killed (((supertards))) in Vienna obv muzz are victims here we fear backlash on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 8:15 pm 

    When muzz inner struggle kill kaffir muz are victims
    When kafir roasted muz
    Muz r victims

  6. dratrepus tak convict-19 for 500 alex on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 8:49 pm 

    This dratrepus recently croaked from MUZZ-19

  7. bochen787 on Mon, 2nd Nov 2020 10:23 pm 

    Fuck Amerikkka

  8. dratrepus tak convict-19 for 500 alex This dratrepus recently croaked from MUZZ-19 on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 5:16 am 

    T

  9. dratrepus tak muzz for 900 alex this master race is the only one who can harvest pedifiler worship karens on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 5:18 am 

    Y

  10. zero juan on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 5:31 am 

    Dumbfuck, Ppee juan, who is dratrepus and what happened to you bitch Lana?

    dratrepus tak muzz for 900 alex this master race is the only one who can harvest pedifiler worship karens said Y

    dratrepus tak convict-19 for 500 alex This dratrepus recently croaked from MUZZ-19 said T

  11. the board on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 5:46 am 

    Dumbfuck, zero juan, who is Ppee and what happened to you bitch widdle daVvee?

  12. zero juan on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 6:05 am 

    Po widdle Ppee juan is whining becuase he is getting trolled. Fuck face is a stalking troll with a multiple personality disorder. He is a lunatic troll that is now in the hell of being trolled and stalked. Welcome to hell troll! LMFAO @ the whiner!

    the board said Dumbfuck, zero juan, who is Ppee and what happened…

  13. The Board on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 6:33 am 

    Po widdle zero juan is whining becuase he is getting trolled. Fuck face is a stalking troll with a multiple personality disorder. He is a lunatic troll that is now in the hell of being trolled and stalked. Welcome to hell troll! LMFAO @ the whiner!

  14. zero juan on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 6:46 am 

    po Ppee is REALLY frustrated. Ppee where the fuck is lana?

    The Board said Po widdle zero juan is whining becuase he is getti..

  15. So Woke it's crazy, u wud Neva understand on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 7:33 am 

    I joined my local cannibal club here in New York. Tonight we feasted on some Asian guy they rounded up behind the dumpsters in Queens someplace.

  16. Mao Tse Tung's grandchild on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 7:35 am 

    How dware you eat one of us with no oyster swauce or swide of bean spwouts!
    Unbeweevable!

  17. the board on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 9:27 am 

    po zero juan is REALLY frustrated. zero juan where the fuck is widdle davy? po po widdle. LOFAO!

  18. makati1 on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 4:56 pm 

    Amerikans, it doesn’t matter who sleeps in the White House for the next four years.

    You have been brainwashed, divided, muzzled and locked down and that will not change.

    You are already sliding down the slippery slope to fascism/communism and the 3rd world.

    You have the most corrupt government in the world, bar none. A gambler on one side and a grifter* on the other running for Prez.

    You are not even allowed to see the real world outside the 50 states.

    * English dictionary definition of grifter. Slang n. 1. Money made dishonestly, as in a swindle. 2. A swindle or confidence game.

    Sigh!

  19. I AM THE MOB on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 6:21 pm 

    Mak

    Shit is like a horror movie here.

  20. I AM THE MOB on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 6:22 pm 

    NYPD Prepared To “Freeze” Parts Of Manhattan In The Event Of Post-Election Unrest

    https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-prepared-freeze-parts-manhattan-event-post-election-unrest

  21. I AM THE MOB on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 6:25 pm 

    Mak

    They has sneaked in all these one worlders here. I feel like a fighter pilot who has been shot down behind enemy lines. But I was shot down by my own side.

    This is going to get ugly. Yelp

  22. makati1 on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 6:59 pm 

    MOB, unfortunately, I agree. Things are returning to normal here. Still some requirements but no riots, protesting, etc.

    The One Worlders will fail, I think, but until then, it will be hell in some places.

  23. FamousDrScanlon on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 7:12 pm 

    I AM THE MOB, are you a fighter pilot who has been shot down behind enemy lines 1 or more times?

    No you’ve just watched many war movies where a fighter pilot has been shot down behind enemy lines & it made your little heart go pitter patter & your brain trick you into believing you went through being a fighter pilot who has been shot down behind enemy lines.

    Same effect you get from watching ‘Plandemic’ & other conspiracy tard propaganda docs.

    It’s why all you half wits think you know things you don’t. It’s about manipulating your hair trigger emotions.

    “I watched Plandemic, now I can pretend I have PhD level knowledge of infectious diseases even though I could not pass an 8th grade biology exam if my life depended on it” I be smart

  24. zero juan on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 7:20 pm 

    Ppee, widdle juan, you are not famous. You are a fuck. Your sock FamousDrScanlon is low IQ version of yourself who talks too fucking much. Get lot loser!

    FamousDrScanlon said I AM THE MOB, are you a fighter pilot who has been…

    Davy said Everyone knows FamousDrScanlon is famous zero juan…

  25. Davy on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 7:56 pm 

    Everyone knows FamousDrScanlon is famous zero juan. Or they wouldn’t call him FamousDrScanlon.

    Dumbfuck

  26. REAL Green on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 7:58 pm 

    Your the dumbfuck Davy. zero juan is yer sock puppet.

    lunatic

  27. Davy on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 8:02 pm 

    Your one of my sock puppets too REAL Green.

    cuntface

  28. I AM THE MOB on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 8:18 pm 

    Mak

    This is a nightmare.

    The elites are fucked. The oil is declining. They don’t know what to do.

  29. makati1 on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 8:44 pm 

    MOB, I again agree. They are getting desperate. The resources are shrinking while the consumers are multiplying. LOL

  30. Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 9:14 pm 

    “IT HAS BEGUN! Liberals Prepare For Violent Riots As Hopes For Biden Victory Vanish – Stay Tuned For Updates“

    https://www.infowars.com/posts/it-has-begun-liberals-prepare-for-violent-riots-as-hopes-for-biden-victory-vanish/

  31. Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 9:52 pm 

    Trump en route to win the popular vote.

    It looks like four more years.

  32. makati1 on Tue, 3rd Nov 2020 11:35 pm 

    Abe, I hope so. It will be interesting.

  33. Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 2:14 am 

    “Abe, I hope so. It will be interesting.”

    I don’t hope so at all, I hope for a contested election and America falling apart, liberating the planet and most of all Europe, from this globalist menace.

    Oh wait:

    https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/donald-trump-offen-gesagt-wie-haben-diese-wahl-gewonnen-a-453d6204-e878-4bd2-a491-153f16ff6fe3

    “Trump reklamiert Wahlsieg – obwohl das Ergebnis nicht feststeht”

    (Trump claims victory, although result is not yet known)

  34. Anonymouse on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 2:55 am 

    Here is my election prediction.

    With 0 ballots counted, I am going to call the winner of the uS election for……(drum roll)

    Israel!

    Oey vey. 4 more years!

    Just like they won the preceding 20 or so uS elections. Give or take.

    No wonder cloggjude is already jizzing in his depends undergarments.

  35. Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 3:13 am 

    These people need to be politically buried:

    https://www.eurocanadian.ca/2020/11/justin-trudeau-calls-for-acceleration-replacement-whites.html

    “Justin Trudeau Calls For Acceleration in Replacement of Whites”

    “With 0 ballots counted, I am going to call the winner of the uS election for……(drum roll) Israel!”

    The house negro keeps claiming that, somehow, Trump is working for international Jewry, a colossal blunder, only his cotton picking ilk could make.

    Trump, like Putin, Hitler and Iran are adversaries of global Jewry and their communist schemes.

    F*ck the elections. Use the occasion to break away from Washington and start all over again in an all-white ethno-state.

  36. FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 3:21 am 

    Anonymouse on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 2:55 am
    Here is my election prediction. With 0 ballots counted, I am going to call the winner of the uS election for……(drum roll) Israel!

    Anonymouse, everybody is sick of your jew obsession. Is there not anything positive in your head?

  37. Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 3:34 am 

    “Let The Meltdown Begin: Liberals Already Starting to Freak Out As Election Leans Towards Trump”

    https://www.infowars.com/posts/let-the-meltdown-begin-liberals-already-starting-to-freak-out-as-election-leans-towards-trump/

    Watch the videos, you stupid docile US whites, to see what is coming to you if you lose the elections and don’t revolt. You are under racial attack, all in the name of fighting racism, of course. Rise up now or go under.

    https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results

    Trump leading in: Georgia (16), Michigan (10), North-Carolina (15), Pennsylvania (20), Wisconsin (10)

    Biden leading in: Arizona (11), Nevada (6)

    Trump: + 71
    Biden: + 17

    Trump probably won.

    But neither Reps nor Dems will admit defeat. Exactly what you want to see happening as a white nationalist: maximum chaos, antifa uprisings… until the first shooting takes place, with a couple of dozens killed, the signal you need for CW2 and secessions. America = road-block country.

  38. Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 3:41 am 

    Anonymouse on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 2:55 am
    Here is my election prediction. With 0 ballots counted, I am going to call the winner of the uS election for……(drum roll) Israel!

    Anonymouse, everybody is sick of your jew obsession. Is there not anything positive in your head?

    Try to get this in your thick skull, anonymouse:

    FamousDrScanlon is the real Jew here.
    I am the resident white nationalist “nahtzi”.

    Got it? You think you can remember that?

  39. Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 3:50 am 

    Wisconsin flipped to Biden, but very close:

    https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results

    Trump: 213
    Biden: 238
    Diff: 25

    Trump: +61
    Biden: 6+10 = +16

    Diff: 45

    Trump leads (virtually) with 45-25=20

  40. Abraham van Helsing on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 4:01 am 

    Trump is the American Moses that will lead his (white) people to the promised land:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River#/media/File:Mississippiriver-new-01.png

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/amerikaner/

  41. bochen787 on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 4:33 am 

    All you dumbfucks, I told you Biden was gonna win…

  42. FamousDrScanlon on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 4:41 am 

    “bochen787 on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 4:33 am
    All you dumbfucks, I told you Biden was gonna win…”

    Bochen, Biden is losing so now it will be how much election fraud can they get away with. You are doing another surprise that makes you look like the failure you have been. Most of your proclamations are failures. The only people that worth worth a grain of salt have left.

  43. Davy on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 7:06 am 

    The people have spoken.

    Lock and load good ol boys. Lets git er dun!!!

  44. zero juan on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 7:49 am 

    Ppee juana, Davy does not comment here anymore on this insane forum. Everyone knows it is you, lunatic. You are the troll that ran off the intelligent people.

    Davy said The people have spoken. Lock and load good ol boys…

  45. The Board on Wed, 4th Nov 2020 9:56 am 

    Davy, JuanP does not comment here anymore on this insane forum. Everyone knows it is you, lunatic. You are the troll that ran off the intelligent people.

  46. Antius on Thu, 5th Nov 2020 8:45 am 

    An interesting presentation on pneumatic capsule pipelines. Quite old now.
    http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/archive/conferences/jointsummer/2006/ports/session4liu.pdf

    If the world is transitioning to a wind and solar energy base, then this sort of transportation system arguably works better for long-distance freight transportation than battery electric or hydrogen trucks. The transport cars can run on rails within the duct. The cars do not need to carry their own power supply and no internal drive system is needed, so this mode of transport is energy efficient and the vehicles themselves would be cheap to build.

    The PCP is useful for transporting freight between nodes, like railways. So this probably isn’t something that will deliver to your front door. More likely, large pipelines would deliver freight to yards that serve towns and cities and their surroundings. Short range electric or hydrogen vehicles would then deliver freight to destinations within 10km of the node. It is technically much easier to build short range electric or hydrogen trucks. We have had gas bag trucks since the 1930s and a truck with this sort of range could be powered by flywheel, compressed air, nickel iron battery, lead acid, etc.

    The PCP would run off direct electricity without storage. The speed of the capsules could even be varied depending on the abundance of electricity supply from sun and wind.

  47. Antius on Thu, 5th Nov 2020 8:48 am 

    An interesting presentation on pneumatic capsule pipelines. Quite old now.
    http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/archive/conferences/jointsummer/2006/ports/session4liu.pdf

    If the world is transitioning to a wind and solar energy base, then this sort of transportation system arguably works better for long-distance freight transportation than battery electric or hydrogen trucks. The transport cars can run on rails within the duct. The cars do not need to carry their own power supply and no internal drive system is needed, so this mode of transport is energy efficient and the vehicles themselves would be cheap to build.

    The PCP is useful for transporting freight between nodes, like railways. So this probably isn’t something that will deliver to your front door. More likely, large pipelines would deliver freight to yards that serve towns and cities and their surroundings. Short range electric or hydrogen vehicles would then deliver freight to destinations within 10km of the node. It is technically much easier to build short range electric or hydrogen trucks. We have had gas bag trucks since the 1930s and a truck with this sort of range could be powered by flywheel, compressed air, nickel iron battery, lead acid, etc.

    The PCP would run off direct electricity without storage. The speed of the capsules could even be varied depending on the abundance of electricity supply from sun and wind. A 25% change in driving force around a baseline datum, would only make a +/-10% difference in delivery times.

  48. Duncan Idaho on Thu, 5th Nov 2020 9:09 am 

    The Fat Boy, facing prison and financial ruin, clings to hopes of stealing the election

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/4/1992831/-Trump-facing-prison-and-financial-ruin-clings-to-hopes-of-stealing-the-election

  49. Duncan Idaho on Thu, 5th Nov 2020 9:21 am 

    Lets give the Fat Boy some credit:

    “Give Donald Trump some credit, he did manage to cock the American gun with the help of a devastating virus, which he made all his own. In this pandemic year, gun sales have already totaled more than 17 million (including many first-time gun buyers). A record 15.1 million weapons were sold between March and September alone. Even for the country whose citizens were already (by far) the most heavily armed on the planet, this is record-breaking territory.”

  50. REAL Green on Thu, 5th Nov 2020 11:18 am 

    You gotta wonder dumbcan. Who are we planning on shooting with all these guns? It’s not like were bein invaded or anything?

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