‘Contradictory goals’
The present administration is making a very big political deal of its “commitment” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow the relentless pace of climate change.
This is a noble goal worthy of support. There is just one problem.
This same administration is also making a very big political deal of its “commitment” to facilitate the “right” of everyone on Earth who desires to reside in the U.S. and enjoy our many taxpayer-funded entitlements to do so.
Reliable estimates put the total legal/illegal migrant influx since Jan. 1 at well over 2 million, and growing. This leads to a logical conundrum that exists outside of moral/political judgments.
It is physically impossible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and simultaneously scratch out of the earth the equivalent of a new Chicago every year, indefinitely, while maintaining the current U.S. standard of living and entitlements.
The only way these two contradictory goals can be accomplished is for the standard of living and carbon footprint of 99%-plus of the U.S. population to crater to Third World levels.
Then, yes, greenhouse gas emissions will go down even as the population increases.
Unfortunately, this will create the same levels of poverty that millions of people are now swarming the southern border of the U.S. to escape. They obviously did not get the new slogan, “Own nothing, and be happy.”
Watch carefully how this transformation will be accomplished. Enjoy the carefully crafted narratives we will be fed by the government/corporate mass media cabal as we march dutifully towards global “equity.”
Fasten your seat belts. We are in for quite a wild ride! But we voted for this.
Didn’t we.
John Powers
Pahoa
Mailbox thief
Several years ago, there was a small, wall-mounted blue mailbox for outgoing mail at the Nanawale mail boxes.
One day it was there, and the next it had been ripped off of the support beam. Now, we have more mailboxes mounted to the ground with clusters on a pedestal that are screwed to a beam.
Evidently, someone has a mailbox fetish and is set upon stealing the newest box cluster closest to the bus stop.
It’s only a federal crime. If they managed to take it, what would they do with it? Try to sell it at a local market?
Dave Kisor
Pahoa
