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What about the false alarms that are done in the name of environmentalism? Why is there no accountability for, say, plastic straw hysteria, or recycling programs that emit more CO2 than just throwing it away? You can't criticize anything done in the name of the environment even if it's blatantly wrong. Why is that?

Why isn't bringing manufacturing jobs back home part of the "green" strategy?



You just did. You weren’t censored or pariahed.

In the US the incoming president denies climate change and is preparing to gut environmental regulation. The new Congress is likely to reverse tax breaks for green initiatives while simultaneously cutting taxes for the most wealthy and dramatically raising the deficit. The judiciary has already knee capped the regulatory agencies and is now set to do the same for any corporate policy that acknowledges environmental issues as a shareholder issue.

The idea that the green agenda is ascendant and dominating strains credibility to the point that I can only assume you are trolling.


If you think I'm trolling that proves my point: there is no room to criticize or question anything the far left does. Double the trucks on the road? Fine. Send "recycled" plastic back to china to dump it in a landfill? Fine. Try to stop it? You're a monster who denies climate change. Life is easy when you force everything in two bins: "you're either with us [environmentalists] or you're against us [trolling]". Which president said that again? You have more in common with conservatives than you realize.


They think you're trolling because of the objectively false things you're saying about censorship, not anything you're saying that's actually about environmental policy.

You're also moving the goalposts by a mile if you go from "you can't criticize" to "the left will dislike you if you criticize".

> Which president said that again?

None of them said that. Replacing half the words in a sentence and asking who said the other half is not a way to make a coherent point.


George Dubya Bush said it. The modern liberal has more in common with a republican president than he does with the modern voter, as evidenced by the DNC's loss last month.


> Why isn't bringing manufacturing jobs back home part of the "green" strategy?

It often is. Then you have the coal/gas lobbies fighting against it, as well as any and every politician whose constituency includes jobs in these industries. Germany used to subsidise solar, then it stopped, which wiped out the solar industry in Germany overnight. It's no different in the US. This isn't a problem with environmentalism, it's a problem with nascent industries fighting change with tooth and nail. And paying the media to convince people like you that it's the environmentalists' fault.

Do you even remember what the infrastructure bill recently in the US even did to invest in green energy and manufacturing/jobs for green energy?

Stop falling for it. Stop falling for the lies and propaganda. There are people trying to make real change for the better, and they're not the ones fighting against green energy. Why aren't you able to recognize it?




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