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Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D) demanded America “decarbonize” its economy to prevent more wildfires like the one that devastated Hawaii and another currently underway in British Columbia.
“There’s a beast at our door, and that beast is climate change. It seems like the whole world is on fire. We need to defend ourself from climate change,” Inslee told reporters on Sunday.
“We need to decarbonize our economy so these fires don’t ravage us. There’s not enough firetrucks in the world to protect us if we don’t stop climate change.”
“Decarbonize” is a veiled leftist term for “shut down.”
After all, let’s consider what Joe Biden may do if he were to declare a “climate emergency,” which several Democratic lawmakers have already begged him to do recently.
Biden could take various drastic actions with a climate emergency such as halting crude oil exports; stopping oil and gas drilling in the outer continental shelf, and restricting international trade and private investment in fossil fuels.
But that’s not all.
According to U.S. Oil and Gas Association’s Tim Steward, declaring a climate emergency would imbue Biden with similar “unchecked authority” as the COVID public health emergency, which imposed mask and vaccine mandates, lockdowns, school and business closures, and other stringent policies.
“If you grant the president’s emergency powers to declare a climate emergency, it’s just like COVID,” Stewart said, adding that “such a declaration would give Biden “vast and unchecked authority to shut down everything from communications to infrastructure.”
So this is what Democrats mean by “decarbonizing the economy” — shutting down oil and gas infrastructure – the lifeblood of any economy – in the name of fighting climate change.
The mainstream media and Democrats have been quick to blame the Maui wildfires and other natural disasters on climate change.
These are dangerous and evil people.