Whale deaths have spiked, and their beached bodies continue to appear on American shores. The people who claim to care about the whales are some of the same folks who love offshore wind, and unfortunately for the whales, Wind Machines can launder a lot more money than marine mammals.
But the political Left still pretends to care about “the oceans,” and the target they’ve chosen to freeze and isolate (and beat to death with the main-stream-media hammer) is single-use plastics. Let’s forget for a moment that their replacements are much more carbon-intensive at birth and death.
- Paper Straws Require More Energy and Carbon Emissions to Make Than Plastic and …
- Replacing Single-Use Plastic with Single-Use Paper Is Worse for The Planet™
- Single-use plastic Bags Are Still Safer and Better for the Environment
- NH Democrat’s Regulations on Plastics and Styrene Are Worse Than Doing Nothing
- Proposed Plastic Bans – When the ‘Solution’ is Worse Than the “Problem”
That’s just niggling over inconvenient science.
Or that the majority of plastic, the preponderance of ocean waste, comes from places other than America (as do emissions).
Or that another ban on something everyone else – especially our enemies – is committed ot using more of won’t make even a tiny little dimple of a dent in the “problem,” even if it were a problem.
And let’s ignore how these meaningless exercises increase inconvenience and raise the cost of everything they touch, diverting fiscal resources away from everything else, including … real problems.
Monday morning, the governor (Maura Healey) announced at The Clinton Global Initiative in New York City that she will be banning state agencies from purchasing single-use plastic bottles because climate change demands it.
“We know that plastic waste, plastic production are among the leading threats to our oceans, our climate, and environmental justice. In government, we have an obligation — we also have an opportunity — to not only stop contributing to this damage but to chart a better path forward,” Healey said.
Is Healey short for Helium (Healeyum) becasue your head would have to be filled with it to think this was anything other than a virtue signal? And an expensive one, at that.
On Monday, Healey also told the crowd at CGI, “In our coastal state, we know climate change is our biggest threat. We also believe that taking action is our greatest opportunity, an opportunity to secure a safe, prosperous, and sustainable future.”
The Clinton Global Initiative is a far more significant threat to (women, children, and the planet) than single-use plastic, but we can’t expect jet-setting progs who show up to things like this to concern themselves with that. The CGI, like the Wind Power industry, is another captured interest that diverts grant money for political favors or political favors for real money.
And that’s the only thing green about any of this. But hey, Massachusetts bureaucrats, enjoy your plastic bottle ban. I’m sure you’ve earned the inconvenience.
HT | The Daily Wire