Dear New York Libs: Save the planet! Stop Breathing!Last week the Adirondack Mountain Club of New York state got caught in a blizzard while protesting global warming.
Their demand for an 80% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2050 is the standard extreme environmental position.
Meanwhile, a study commissioned by New York City shows that the city expels 1% of all the greenhouse gas emissions in the world. That's as much as all of Ireland or Portugal.
Mayor Bloomberg has promised a 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, so it's hard to see how they would meet the radicals demands for an 80% reduction. Anything less than 80% would be meaningless sacrifice with no environmental benefit if you accept the extremists numbers.
So, we call upon the good liberals of New York City to show us the way forward and make the difficult and radical changes necessary in their lifestyle to achieve the 80% reduction.
Come on New Yorkers, you can do it. It's just 80% fewer bus and subway rides. 80% fewer trucks delivering food. 80% less heating, cooling and lighting. You will all have to move close enough to work so you can walk and of course you'll have to take the stairs in your home and workplace as their will be 80% fewer elevator rides. Just think of all the exercise you'll get in those skyscrapers!
Ok, ok it's not a direct correlation between 80% less activity and an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, but even if it were 20% it would mean the end of productive economic activity in New York City. Poor and minorities hardest hit, film at 11.
Maybe it would be a better idea to be more SURE about climate science and global warming before embarking on such idiocy.
You think?
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