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“Greed of the fossil fuel industry” is “destroying our planet,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders. Young people agree. Their solution? Socialism.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says socialism creates “an environment that provides for all people, not just the privileged few.”
“Nonsense,” says Tom Palmer of the Atlas Network in my new video.
Palmer, unlike Ocasio-Cortez and most of us, spent lots of time in socialist countries. He once smuggled books into the Soviet Union.
What he’s seen convinces him that environmental-movement socialists are wrong about what’s “green.”
“We tried socialism,” says Palmer. “We ran the experiment. It was a catastrophe. Worst environmental record on the planet.”
In China, when socialist leaders noticed that sparrows ate valuable grain, they encouraged people to kill sparrows.
“Billions of birds were killed,” says Palmer.
Government officials shot birds. People without guns banged pans and blew horns, scaring sparrows into staying aloft for longer than they could tolerate.
“These poor exhausted birds fell from the skies,” says Palmer. “It was insanity.”
I pointed out that, watching video of people killing sparrows, it looked like they were happy to do it.
“If you failed to show enthusiasm for the socialist goals of the party,” Palmer responds, “you were going to be in trouble.”
The Party’s campaign succeeded. They killed nearly every sparrow.
But “all it takes is two minutes of thinking to figure, ‘Wait. Who’s going to eat all the bugs?'” says Palmer.
Without sparrows, insects multiplied. Bugs destroyed more crops than the sparrows had.
“People starved as a consequence,” says Palmer. “People confuse socialism with … a ‘nice government’ or a ‘government that’s sweet’ or ‘made up of my friends.'”
Socialism means central planning. That ends badly.
“What AOC wants to do is basically give the Pentagon, or similar agencies, control over the entire society. She thinks that’s going to turn out well,” says Palmer. “It’s a joke.”
China’s central planners keep making mistakes.
Many Chinese lakes and rivers are bright green. Fertilizer runoff created algae blooms that kill all fish. A Lancet study says Chinese air pollution kills a million people per year.
Wherever socialism is tried, it creates nasty pollution.
In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin wanted cotton for his army. His central planners decided it should be grown near the Aral Sea. They drained so much water that the sea, once the fourth biggest inland lake in the world, shrank to less than half its size.
“Soviet planners caused catastrophic environmental costs to the whole population,” says Palmer.
I push back. “That was then. Now the rules would be different. Now the rule would be: ‘green.'”
“All the time we hear socialists say, ‘Next time, we’ll get it right.’ How many next times do you get?” asks Palmer.
Yet American media still sometimes say socialists protect the environment. A New York Times op-ed claims “Lenin’s eco warriors” created “the world’s largest system of most protected nature reserves.”
“These are not nature preserves,” Palmer responds. “They use it as a dumping ground for heavy metals, for radioactive waste — in what sense is it a nature preserve?”
Capitalists destroy nature, too. Free societies do need government rules to protect the environment.
But free markets with property rights often protect nature better than bureaucrats can.
Private farmers, explains Palmer, are “concerned about the ability of the farm to grow food next year, year after year, (even) after that farmer is gone. Why? Because the farm has a capital value. That’s the ‘capital’ in capitalism. They want to maximize that.”
Capitalism also protects the environment because it creates wealth. When people aren’t worried about starving or freezing, they get interested in protecting nature. That’s why capitalist countries have cleaner air.
Also, capitalists can afford to pay for wild animal preserves.
“When no one has property rights and people are poor, tigers and elephants are considered a burden … They kill them,” says Palmer. “When you’re wealthier … you care about the environment.”
Socialists say they care, but the real world shows: to protect the environment, capitalism works better.
Sanders is what we call a Watermelon (Green on the Outside and Red on the Inside) and the left have had a terrible track record in caring for the Environment . China and the Former Soviet Union are good examples of what i am Squawking about
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Let’s replace -isms in this category with a new word, controlism/controllism.
The Chernobyl disaster is another example of socialism’s commitment to a healthy environment. As is the destruction of the cod fisheries off the Atlantic coast of Canada and the U. S. by Soviet trawlers and factory ships nearly fifty years ago. Socialism writ large is pretty much a macrocosm of the covid-19 bug in that it exists for the sole purpose of replicating itself while, at the same time, it is destroying its host.
Chernobyl was not an accident either, it was a dumb experiment that the socialist scientists decided to carry out. They wanted to see if the momentum in the turbines would generate enough power to keep the system running if there was a problem. To check the results they turned off all the safety systems.
The media portrays it as an accident but it was no accident it was stupidity.
The Climate Commie zealots are not concerned about toxic pollution. There has been enough EPA regulations and laws to make us “clean” in that regard. Enough restrictions on dumping on land and into waterways, wetlands, etc. Also restrictions on harmful toxic smoke, etc. So they had to move on and create a “pollutant” LITERALLY OUT OF THIN AIR, i.e. CO2 emissions from normal human activity and use of fuel. Carbon has nothing to do with harmful toxic “pollutants.” This time their objective is clear…to destroy prosperity and capitalism by sabotaging our energy supply. BUT…with this form of pseudo-environmentalism they pretend humanity won’t survive when the Earth warms or gets too cold or floods or whatever. This time their goal is depopulation and slavery because people will inevitably starve and need Big Government in total control in order to survive and laughingly “save the planet.” Socialism Communism is never EVER humane.
PROOF that the Commies don’t care about real environmental pollution or our HEALTH is to look at the Democrat city streets of homeless encampments living in filth and for good measure, those cities even promote drug addiction. Additional PROOF are all the foreign illegals they deliberately allow into our country with all their debris dumped in the desert and no health checks for bringing in infectious diseases. At least Ellis Island dealt with that disease threat to our survival as best they could at that time. In addition comes criminals and more lethal drugs to kill people.
Commie Socialists just don’t care about the people and are notorious for killing millions of their own people one way or another.
Canadian fires—was it nature, bad forest management or was it the Commie climate crazies setting the fires themselves in order to blame “climate change” to impoverish us more with boondoggle “green energy” schemes of solar energy and windmills which in themselves are actually directly harmful to the environment in their manufacturing, to birds and to the whales in the ocean.
Another GREAT and accurate article !
Look, AOC is nothing more that a narcissistic media event, with no original thoughts of her own. She champions environmentalism because it gets her on TV. Remember “seven years to save the planet”?
I listened to him before the wall street sit ins, How can a clown act with his voice and twisted logic maintain any following ? What has happened to us as a People . I am of the peoples park era/ where less Gov. intervention and controls where the agenda of the day. I cannot imagine listening to and individual like him, his dialog alone is for imbeciles and the Mentally deranged and that O.C. is just a fool. She only gets to play in the game because she is Pretty / that all she has going for her simplemindedness. Just listen to her talk, I am applaud at what we have elected for Political leader’s. Shame on us for destroying the Party of Kennedy.
Socialism is taking money away from people who have earned it and handing it over to people who havent.
Communism is against Human Nature.
Any questions ?.
Look what East Germany looked like when the Soviets pulled out.