{"id":183721,"date":"2019-02-13T04:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T04:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183721"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:53:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T07:53:53","slug":"green-new-deal-would-kill-almost-everyone-warns-greenpeace-co-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183721","title":{"rendered":"Green New Deal Would Kill Almost Everyone, Warns Greenpeace Co-Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Alex Newman \u2013 The New American Feb 11, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Patrick-Moore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-183726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Patrick-Moore-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Moore\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Patrick-Moore-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Patrick-Moore.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d proposed by congressional Democrats is a \u201crecipe for mass suicide\u201d and the \u201cmost ridiculous scenario I ever heard,\u201d Greenpeace Co-Founder Patrick Moore (shown) warned in an exclusive interview with <em>The New American<\/em>. In fact, Dr. Moore warned that if the \u201ccompletely preposterous\u201d prescriptions in the scheme were actually implemented, Americans could be forced to turn to cannibalism to avoid starvation \u2014 and they still would not survive. Other experts such as Craig Rucker, the executive director of the environmental group Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), also sounded the alarm about the \u201cgreen\u201d proposal in Congress, comparing it to Soviet five-year plans and calling it a \u201cprescription for disaster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The so-called Green New Deal is a massive scheme to, among other goals, restructure the U.S. economy. It is being advanced by a coalition of radical communist and socialist Democrats in Congress led by U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). A resolution (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-resolution\/109\/text\">H. Res. 109<\/a><\/strong><\/span>) \u201crecognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal (GND)\u201d already has 67 co-sponsors in the House. If the scheme outlined in the resolution expressing the \u201csense of the House\u201d is implemented, it would seek to eliminate air travel, the eating of steaks, the use of hydrocarbons, and more. It would aim to completely end all emissions of CO2 \u2014 an essential gas exhaled by every living person and required by plants \u2014 over the coming decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moore, who was one of six international directors of Greenpeace, was flabbergasted that something so ludicrous could even be proposed, much less be advanced in the U.S. government. \u201cIt is quite amazing that someone that is in government \u2014 actually elected to the government of the United States of America \u2014 would propose that we eliminate all fossil fuels in 12 years,\u201d he said in an on-camera interview with <em>The New American<\/em> from Canada. \u201cThis would basically result, if we did it on a global level, it would result in the decimation of the human population from 7-odd billion down to who knows how few people.\u201d It would end up killing almost everyone on the planet, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Worse than mass death would be the way people reacted. \u201cIt would basically begin a process of cannibalization among the human species, because the food could not be delivered to the stores in the middle of the cities anymore,\u201d Moore continued. \u201cThe point that bothers me the most is that if you eliminated fossil fuels, every tree in the world would be cut for fuel. There is no other source for heating and cooking once you eliminate fossil fuels. You could use animal dung, if there were any animals left, but the animals would all die too because they would all get eaten.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moore also slammed the \u201csocial aspects\u201d of the Green New Deal proposals such as \u201cpaying people who are unwilling to work,\u201d according to a FAQ released by Ocasio-Cortez&#8217; office. \u201cI can&#8217;t believe that anyone would write that in a proposal for law in the United States of America,\u201d he said, calling it \u201cjust unbelievable.\u201d Indeed, that language and other half-baked ideas caused nationwide ridicule of Ocasio-Cortez and others involved in pushing the \u201cNew Deal.\u201d The ridicule got so intense that one of its propoents eventually lied, claiming that mischievous Republicans might have put out a fake Green New Deal document to make Democrats look ridiculous. But then the truth came out, depsite the FAQ being removed from Cortez&#8217;s congressional website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But the absurdity of it all may be a boost to Republicans and President Donald Trump. \u201cWe have a situation where something completely preposterous is being backed by a large number of Democratic congressional elected representatives in the United States of America,\u201d Moore said. \u201cThis is actually going to put Trump right over the top. I cannot see how this can possibly be negative for him. It can only be positive, because people recognize when something is preposterous. And I think that is the best word for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThe best term for it is actually mass-suicidal,\u201d Moore added. \u201cWhy would anyone vote for something that was going to result in the death of nearly all humans on Earth?\u201d As far as what Americans could do who support the environment but not mass suicide, Moore urged people not to vote for anyone who would support the \u201cGreen New Deal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hUXKaBbqecQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Speaking at a conference put on by the Economic Education Association of Alberta over the weekend, Moore also explained that so much of what climate alarmists were pushing was pseudo-science and easily discredited lies. For instance, carbon dioxide is actually doing great things in terms of greening the planet \u2014 after all, it is plant food, Moore said. He also lambasted those who say coral reefs are dying due to alleged man-made global warming, something he said was not true. Noting that trucks need hydrocarbon fuels to bring produce to market in cities, Dr. Moore explained that just that one problem alone would be absolutely catastrophic if CO2 emissions were ended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Moore has since left the Greenpeace he helped found, because it left him. When the group was founded, \u201cwe wanted to save civilization, we didn&#8217;t want to destroy it,\u201d he told <em>The New American<\/em>. \u201cBy the time I left Greenpeace, it had drifted into a situation in which all they had left was the green. They kind of dropped the peace, which was the human side of the situation. And now they were characterizing people as the enemies of the Earth \u2014 the human species as the enemies of nature, as if we were the only evil species.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">One of the most outrageous campaigns by Greenpeace, Moore said, was when the leadership \u2014 which had no formal science education \u2014 decided to try to ban chlorine use worldwide. \u201cYes, chlorine can be toxic, it was used as a weapon in World War I,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the fact that it is toxic is why it is the most important element in public health and medicine. Adding it to drinking water was the biggest advance in the history of public health &#8230; that has saved hundreds of millions of lives through the time that we learned to use chlorine as an anti-bacterial agent.\u201d Nature, he added, is full of toxic materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In his own keynote address at the conference, CFACT&#8217;s Rucker \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2009\/12\/16\/cfact-boards-greenpeace-vessel\/\">who famously boarded Greenpeace ships to \u201cpunk\u201d them with propaganda banners reading \u201cship of lies\u201d and \u201cpropaganda warrior\u201d <\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u2014 explained that much of the environmentalist movement has it backwards. The real key to preserving the environment, he said, is free markets, private property, and prosperity. Poor nations do not have the resources to protect the environment. And socialist-ruled nations have the worst environmental track-records of all. Meanwhile, freer and wealthier nations such as the United States, Canada, Japan, and Western Europe have remarkably clean environments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In an interview with <em>The New American<\/em>, Rucker celebrated freedom. \u201cWhat&#8217;s good for people is good for nature,\u201d he said, calling for pro-growth policies that benefit people rather than government-enforced scarcity. \u201cIt&#8217;s like the old Chinese proverb: When there is food on the table, there are many problems; when there is no food on the table, there is one problem. Societies that do not take care of their people don&#8217;t have the resources to take care of the planet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Rucker, a top leader of the non-totalitarian environmental movement, also slammed the \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d being advanced in Congress. \u201cIt is a horrible idea,\u201d he said, blasting the original New Deal as well. \u201cBut I actually think it is more like the Soviet 5-year plan&#8230;. They want to be off fossil fuels within 10 years. That is insane. It is not that we are embracing fossil fuels, but this is a government-driven objective much like the old Soviet plans were government-driven objectives. It is going to fail. And the problem is, it is going to take a lot of people down with it&#8230; This is going to really hurt people. It is a prescription for disaster.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Citing University of Maryland business Professor Julian Simon, Rucker used a hillarious example to illustrate the point. If the ideology of the sustainable-development movement were used 100 years ago, there would be great concern about where humanity was going to get enough whale oil to use as lighting. But of course, since then, electricity and light bulbs have taken the place of whale oil, thereby eliminating the alleged prospect of resources running out. The same concept applies to other resources, too, he said. When the price goes up due to scarcity, people will find substitutes and new ways of getting what they need \u2014 at least they will if markets are allowed to operate. \u201cPeople are not just mouths, they are also hands and a brain,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He also drew a distinction between the &#8220;conservation&#8221; ethic, in which man is included in how to protect the planet, and the &#8220;preservation&#8221; ethic and the &#8220;Deep Green ecology&#8221; that views man as a &#8220;virus on the planet&#8221; that needs to be removed. Obviously, efforts to conserve nature should have the well-being of man in mind, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZa8o-J0hpo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Rucker and Moore both served at keynote speakers at the annual \u201cFreedomTalk\u201d conference Economic Education Association of Alberta. This writer gave a speech focusing on the indoctrination of children taking place in public schools \u2014 and particularly the implications of it for freedom. Other speakers highlighted the problems with the man-made global-warming hypothesis, the looming public pension disaster, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for <\/em>The New American<em>, is normally based in Europe. He can be reached at <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"mailto:anewman@thenewamerican.com\">anewman@thenewamerican.com<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ALEXNEWMAN_JOU\">@ALEXNEWMAN_JOU <\/a>or on <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alexjnewman86\">Facebook.<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Related articles:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/politics\/item\/31454-exposed-ocasio-cortez-can-scrub-but-she-can-t-hide-green-new-deal-details\">Exposed! 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Behind Green Scam, Senate Study Finds<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/tech\/energy\/item\/13952-the-real-green-in-fedgov-s-green-energy\">The Real Green in Fedgov\u2019s \u201cGreen Energy\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/tech\/environment\/item\/7031-un-bosses-secretly-plot-global-govt-through-green-economy-for-rio20\">UN Bosses Secretly Plot Global Govt Through \u201cGreen Economy&#8221; for Rio+20<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/reviews\/books\/item\/6392-exposing-the-green-world-order\">Exposing the Green World Order<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/tech\/environment\/item\/6817un-plans-45-trillion-cost-for-going-green\">UN Plans $45 Trillion Cost for &#8220;Going Green&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/tech\/environment\/item\/31465-green-new-deal-would-kill-almost-everyone-warns-greenpeace-co-founder\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While other experts have compared it to a Soviet five-year plan and warned that the new deal is a \u201cprescription for disaster\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183727,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183721\/revisions\/183727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}