"Picture Al Gore, his staff, and a half-million peasants. That is the green United States of the 22nd century"

Articles: Green Twilight

"Obamanomics," as James Pethokoukis recently put it, "is about the top-down redistribution of wealth and income. Government spending on various 'green' subsidies and programs, along with a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon emissions, would enrich key Democrat constituencies: lawyers, public sector unions, academia and non-profits." Pure communism is no longer the goal -- it's the environmentalist state that lies closest to the heart of the modern social democrat. Obama is unquestionably an authoritarian, an autocrat, whatever you wish to call him, but his hue is as much green as it is red.

So it's a real pleasure to see the entire environmentalist edifice falling to pieces just as they thought victory was in their hands. Cap 'n' trade was dead on arrival. Global warming is unlikely to recover from the e-mail scandal, however far the cover-up may extend. The electric automobile has turned out to be less an automotive revolution than a third car for wealthy Democratic donors. And now the centerpiece of the Green agenda, renewable energy, has taken what may well turn out to be a mortal hit.

Note that none of these were brought about by rational arguments or serious opposition. Rationality per se has never made so much as a dent in the green worldview. What happened was that all the green innovations reached a certain point where they could no longer be sustained by the illusions of the faithful, whereupon they crashed and burned. They were overcome by their own internal contradictions more than any other single factor.
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In a green society, there will be no massive power plants, no private automobiles, no jetliners.  There will be no industrial products at all beyond those required by the environmentalist elite.  Picture Al Gore, his staff, and a half-million peasants.  That is the green United States of the 22nd century.