I’ve seen a disturbing trend recently in public broadcasting and in left-leaning media in general that I think we need to take a deeper look at. While it’s definitely true that we can’t only tackle climate change and other environmental issues with individual actions, I’ve seen some YouTube videos recently that take that argument a little too far. Worse, they’ve even started spreading anti-EV FUD!The theme? “Stop saving the planet. Start saving the world.
But, if we’re being honest, this is still FUD. So, we need to ask ourselves why they’re pushing this right now. Here are my theories:Ideally, yes, we would clean up the whole power grid so that everyone’s emissions go down regardless of personal choices. We’d get more people to ride on a clean electric bus or train in cities.
The same is true for businesses that place large solar farms on the roofs of their facilities. If they buy less electricity from the grid, this lowers our reliance on fossil fuels and signals to the market that people want cleaner power.Another thing that I think is going on right now is that we’ve recently seen the Biden administration back down on climate goals, especially for CAFE standards.
These kinds of people don’t want us to know that liberalism has improved not only the human condition, but the environmental situation in ways that thousands of years of feudalism and empire couldn’t. And radical collectivism? Yeah, let’s check in on North Korea and see how that’s going.