The emissions lawsuit opera continues after a court told the environmentalists suing the state of Vermont for missing its made-up emissions target that you can’t sue them for missing a target we won’t know we’ve missed until 2027. Oh, but they guessed and we guessed and the official unofficial estimates are that they missed it. The law says they can’t sue yet, so there.
The Judge doesn’t care which is precisely the sort of attitude I’ve been trying to sell to Vermont since last December, since it happens to be theirs too. You don’t care to count the emissions from the states’ two largest emitters, and you still can’t hit your pretend targets. You ignore what’s inconvenient, change the rules and even the so-called consensus, and pretend to care about the rest.[Related: Vermont’s “Emissions Reduction Target” Illusion]
Let’s imagine you have a room filled with 100 women—actual women, not men in a dress. Your goal is to have zero women in the room, but before you do that, you decide not to count the 40 brunettes, which means you only need to excuse 30 blondes and 30 redheads. Somehow, you can’t manage to do that, so you end up with all the brunettes you’re not counting and a handful of the other women.
Someone sues you because the law says you said you’d empty the room.
Why not just call a few blondes brunette (odds are good they are, anyway) and call it a day, especially since the same people clutching the imaginary emissions pearls can’t tell you what a woman or an emission is.
Problem solved.
You’ll never miss your utterly meaningless targets again. And by meaningless, we mean based on your enviro-papal dispensations, the global effect that Vermont achieving net zero would produce in real terms (not the fake net-zero), and that this is all nonsense to begin with.
Pretending is easy, and you’re good at it, so do what you do best. Change the rules or the name or just badger people until they have to take your word for it, and take the win. Seriously, when did following the law mean anything to Democrats anyway?
