Biden promises to funnel more money to Chinese communists for climate change
by Zachary Faria, Commentary Writer |
April 23, 2023 06:00 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opini...-climate-change


Thanks to his commitment to the Democratic Party’s climate cult, President Joe Biden is now pledging to pass money through the United Nations to the Chinese Communist Party.

On Thursday, Biden promised to send $1 billion in taxpayer money to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund. The corrupt bureaucrats at the U.N., who are increasingly beholden to the CCP, consider China to be a developing country. Therefore, that $1 billion can be funneled to China.

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This would be at least the second time in the past few months that Biden promised to help the U.N. funnel American taxpayer dollars to the Chinese Communist Party. Biden previously agreed that the U.S. should pay “climate reparations,” even without the commitment that China, the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter, would contribute to the fund. Instead, because the U.N. classifies China as a developing country, China would be eligible for those “reparations” payments as well.

This is normal for the U.N., which lets China sit on the Human Rights Committee and turned over the World Health Organization to Chinese propaganda at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But this is also normal for Biden and his administration, which has prioritized placating China so the administration can get its preferred climate change policies while pretending that climate change is going to destroy the world.

Take John Kerry, the former secretary of state serving as Biden’s climate czar, who thinks that China’s genocide of the Uyghurs should be ignored because China makes solar panels. Or take Biden himself, who has a long history of soft-pedaling the CCP (“a rising China is a positive development” and “they’re not bad folks”) and a longer history of dubious financial ties to Chinese companies.

The fact that this is unsurprising doesn’t make it any less abhorrent. The U.N. should be receiving no money from American taxpayers, given that the organization is rotten to its very core. That is especially true when everyone knows that climate change money laundered through the U.N. ends up in the pockets of the CCP. And yet here we are, with China continuing to feed off the Democratic Party’s climate change fearmongering.

Biden, as usual, has no problem with China benefiting at the expense of the public. After all, what’s another billion between climate change allies and business partners?-- excerpt, rest at link above --

New evidence that Biden's war on fossil fuels will destroy communities
By James Rogan
April 15, 2023 06:00 AM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/resto...roy-communities


President Joe Biden , his policy advisers, and the majority of Democratic senators and representatives are hurrying to destroy careers, lives, and whole communities with their blind rush to a zero carbon emissions economy .

In a new National Bureau of Economic Research paper , economists from the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco state unequivocally that the transition away from fossil fuels presents "significant risks for communities historically built around the fossil fuel industry." The researchers examine the decline of communities in the Appalachian coal region to project what will happen to large geographies of the nation in the headlong rush to a carbon-free economy.

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What they found is striking.

In the Appalachian coal regions, unemployment rose, credit scores fell, third-party collections increased, and bankruptcy rates increased. The researchers found that the negative effects were not confined to people who lost jobs in the coal industry. Whole communities suffered economic and social loss. The researchers state that "people living in fossil fuel extraction regions are likely to experience declines in financial well-being" from the transition to a carbon-free economy.

This research is consistent with earlier studies conducted by professor Gordon Hanson of Harvard University. Hanson said the green energy transition would "profoundly disrupt" whole communities dedicated to the extraction of fossil fuels. He explained that the fossil fuel industry — oil, gas, and coal — pays relatively high wages to men and women without college degrees. Hanson said the policies of the Biden administration would cause unemployment to increase and earnings to fall for less educated workers over the course of "decades," not just years.

Hanson further highlighted what should be obvious to Biden and Democratic elites: Affected communities will see lower family formation, higher out-of-wedlock births, more children living in relative poverty, and higher rates of alcohol and drug addiction with the attendant increase in early mortality. Biden’s rush to a green economy is creating a new culture of poverty embedded in the fossil fuels regions of the United States. Importantly, Hanson explained that retraining and relocation programs historically have poor success rates among blue-collar workers.

So why is Biden doing this?

The question is especially pertinent because regardless of what the U.S. accomplishes in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, global emissions will continue to increase. The large, highly populated countries of Asia — China, India, and Indonesia — continue to spurt out new coal-fired power plants . The only logical conclusion is that Democratic elites do not care about the common people nearly as much as they do about kneeling before the hysterical altar of global warming.

But the consequences are clear. Biden and Democrats are the wolf at the door of fossil fuels extraction communities. -- excerpt, rest at link above --