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by Alison Despathy
Vermont Public (formerly Vermont Public Radio) reinforced its reputation for climate propaganda with its recent article, Climate policy grinds to a standstill in Montpelier. It reiterates the bogus talking points used by Vermont Democrats for years.
Cue a Statehouse theme song- Bang Your Head by Quiet Riot about sums it up.
Most Vermonters are not falling for the spin, especially after the Clean Heat Standard saga, the property tax attack and the steep healthcare cost increases crushing the healthcare system, businesses and education spending. The list of irresponsible policy under Vermont democratic ‘leadership’ grows. Vermonters are hurting.
The article quotes climate extremist Sen. Becca White (D-Windsor): “Done properly, initiatives such as the clean heat standard, or a cap and invest framework for the transportation sector could free low and moderate income Vermonters from the financial yoke of fossil fuels.”
Herein lies the problem. These programs are incapable of being ‘done properly.’ How many times must it be said? These programs were definitively determined to hurt low and moderate income Vermonters, despite the intended goal of trying to help.
There false talking points persist due to blind ideology unwilling to accept new, opposing information. White, like many democrats, has repeatedly struggled to acknowledge reality and the damage current climate proposals bring.
Same story for the Climate Council and their recent Climate Action Plan (CAP) which again promotes a clean heat standard, a transportation cap and invest program and ecosystem services, even though they have all proven too costly and inappropriate based on detailed reports by the Public Utilities Commission, Vermont Treasurer Mike Pieciak, and multiyear working groups assessing program impacts.
Keep in mind that heavy-hitting Climate Council member Jared Duval is also Executive Director of Energy Action Network, an organization launched with an aggressive Climate agenda intended for Vermont.
In 2023, an intensive working group concluded the carbon credit program would favor investors at the expense of Vermont farmers. An alternative approach was offered, yet like a zombie, it has resurfaced in the CAP.
Why are VT Democrats falling for this next level empire and forcing this extractive carbon market in all sectors, pretending it is the answer to climate change?
Cue another song from the Statehouse playlist- In 2 Deep by Damian Marley, “If you’re over ten and watch CNN and believe everything, you are in too deep, so don’t get in too deep.”
In the worst game of Whack-A-Mole ever, the reemergence of these punitive, regressive policies will continue to be Vermont’s vicious cycle every session until the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Climate Council are repealed.
Senator White shared, “What gets me out of bed every day is how do we…support the lowest-income Vermonters getting off of extremely expensive, unclean, price-volatile fossil fuels?”
Like many, White has been duped to believe this is possible. Buildings need weatherization and electrical upgrades before taking a heat pump. Biofuels are more expensive, just as price volatile as fossil fuels and not clean when tracking the lifecycle from genetically modified seeds, to profuse pesticide use and ecosystem destruction. Add to this ongoing widespread extended power outages due to storms and grid deficiencies and you have a nightmare without diversification.
How long can reality be ignored by legislators?
If transparent propaganda was the goal, the Vermont Public story was stunningly successful. Unfortunately it does not help anyone understand the real story.
Elena Mihaly, vice president of the Conservation Law Foundation, also chimed in stating, “It is eminently clear right now that the Scott Administration just has failed to deliver the responsible climate action that Vermonters expect and deserve.”
Earth to Mihaly!
Vermont has spent more than $1 billion over the past five years for climate policy. Mihaly fails to understand that Gov. Scott has consistently shown that he will not sacrifice Vermonters for unrealistic agendas by climate activists creating bad laws. Mihaly and White’s statements offer a glimpse into the “we don’t care, we want it now” mentality driving Vermont’s climate policy. History has proven that extremism leads to destruction and Vermont is on the brink.
CLF is a lucrative ‘nonprofit’ responsible for providing the language in the GWSA that the state can be sued if emission reductions are not met. This lawsuit is in play and will force the administration to take action, bypassing the legislature and imposing harmful policies.
The most concerning statement in the Vermont Public propaganda piece masquerading as reporting was, “(Representative) James, (Senator) White and other influential Democrats, including Senate President Pro Tem Phil Baruth, say they stand ready to defend that law (GWSA) against repeal. And if Democrats and Republicans can’t align on a shared climate action plan, then they’re prepared to let the judicial branch force the enactment of emissions reduction policy on elected officials’ behalf.” This admission places Vermont at severe risk and reflects their gross negligence.
Vermont has the lowest level of emissions. Our 75% forest cover with vast mycorrhizal networks constantly sequester, trade and transform carbon, the building block of life. Humanity has yet to fully comprehend nature’s capacity for handling the basic elements of life, especially in Vermont where the environment and natural resources are abundant and many stewards keep an ever watchful eye on the health of Vermont’s ecosystems.
Vermont Public’s propaganda superficially simplifies a complex issue into ‘the Democrats want climate policy and the Republicans are pushing back’. Author Pete Hirschfeld ignores that the programs promoted as climate policy by the Democrats will not work, are deeply unaffordable, involve a fraudulent carbon credit game, hurt low and moderate income Vermonters and our businesses, will not make a difference for the climate and environment and direct money away from communities in need of hardening infrastructure and preparing and recovering from storms.
This has been backed by study after study. Vermonters pay big money for these reports. Reporters should use them. Avoidance of these details harms Vermont and impedes meaningful progress. When will the Democrats wake up to reality? Cue the theme song–again
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Categories: Commentary, Energy, Environment, Media
Well, I’d say you are wrong, propaganda and the fact people are making serious bank on climate initiatives indicates most Vermonters have fallen for the ruse.
It was and isn’t about the environment, it’s about having control of the population through regulation and oversight, by the United Nations, for their Marxist one works government.
So yeah all the people whose income depends upon the grift, npr, vnrc, vpirg, Vermont law schools, zoning people, wet lands, storm water, insulation codes, will push for more of the same. We are over run with grifting non profits run by tax payer money, it needs to stop.
Exactly… it’s a huge scam being played on the Citizens of the entire World!! Globalists making big bucks and the end game is to control every one! People need to wake up now! This BS shouldn’t be in our schools and they need to stop screwing up the atmosphere by seeding just to try to prove their lies!
The script and the grift was planned long ago – Agenda 2030. Remember the movie “Inconvenient Truth” – it was actually convenient and lucrative to those who peddle lies on behalf of their Master. Who is the father of all lies?
Do not give any credit to the Vermont Legislature, the Vermont Administration or any of the operators of the 24/7 laundering services. As we witness the demise of California, the demise of New York State, the demise of Oregon, the demise of New England, all the States failing and falling like dominoes – it started in the EU (Geneva-where the gatekeepers of Hell dwell) and we see how bad other Western nations are fairing these days. When they paraded out the fragile waif, Greta Doomberg Thunberg, it was show business – all to usher in the age of steal, kill and destroy. Puppets dancing on the strings of their Master – do not be deceived.
It is all about depopulation, wealth transfer, reset. The plan is moving foward because all the money and all the power is corrupted, compromised, and fraudulent – from the very top to the very bottom. There is a new age upon us – how it unfolds is purely all speculation at this point. Off the rails indeed.
Absolutely Correct! Bringing in the Islamists to take over Western Countries and kill people off. Their whole “ Religion” is based on Jihad and Murder! The governments in Europe are doing everything possible to make it easy for them! We are next!
Our Republic is unique in that it was conceived to further the individual Liberty and Freedoms inherent in what we today know as free enterprise – “… the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.” It is only as functional, honest and perceptive as the majority of people who live, work and vote here.
Taxation, to’ promote the general welfare’ of any kind, is the precursor of ‘regulatory capture’. And, understanding this, the Supreme Court has ruled, for example, that while the due process clause of the 14th amendment ensures fair processes for welfare recipients, there is no underlying constitutional right to a minimum standard of living.
“In politics, regulatory capture is a form of corruption of authority that occurs when a political entity, policymaker, or regulator is co-opted to serve the commercial, ideological, or political interests of a minor constituency, such as a particular geographic area, industry, profession, or ideological group. When regulatory capture occurs, a special interest is prioritized over the general interests of the public, leading to a net loss for society.”
As Benjamin Franklin opined in his closing speech to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
“In these Sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its Faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well administred; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administred for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other.”
We’ve been here before, as others have done before.
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Yet again, we are at a crossroad. Choose wisely, Grasshopper. “A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
“[Twelve] score and [nine] years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all [of us] are created equal…… Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure……It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us … that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Godspeed Vermonters. Godspeed the United States of America.
How long can reality be ignored by the voters?
Spot on, Alison. People are at last waking up to these bogus science, interest group schemes that sock it to Vermo nters for little or no imaginable benefit, and am I glad.
Where to we find these people, Vermonter’s see this boondoggle for what it is, why is it these so-called elected officials keep pushing this nonsense, why aren’t they working on things like a balanced budget, or tax reductions………………
When will these leftist understand, like always they have the cart before the horse, as we have no infastructure to support this nonsense, and normal common sense people understand this, when will this gaggle of fools get it !!
CHenry: The theme is as old as history itself.
The best that can be said of ‘Leftist’ practices:
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” ― T.S. Eliot
But at some point, we are advised to express concern about those who persist in misleading us under false pretense:
“And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”– 2 Corinthians 11:14
Emerge Vermont, a non-profit 527 political organization, is a classic ‘leftist’ contradiction of terms. On the one hand, it states that:
“Emerge Vermont does not endorse candidates and does not make contributions to, or coordinate its spending with, any candidates or political parties.”
On the other hand, Emerge Vermont claims to be:
“… the premier political leadership training organization for Democratic women in Vermont. Our mission is to recruit, train and inspire Democratic women to pursue public office at the local, state and national levels…”.
Again, this logical obfuscation is called sophistry. Emerge Vermont is “an affiliate of Emerge Inc., a national organization currently working in 26 states:”.
Its literature goes on to say that Emerge Vermont “encourages… people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities and members of other groups who are underrepresented in our political system….whose primary purpose is attempting to influence the election of one or more people to public office at the national, state or local level.”
It seems to me, in Vermont at least, that the Emerge Vermont target demographic is anything but ‘underrepresented’, and that Emerge Vermont is as politically directed as any organization can be. With Rep. Becca Balint, VT SOS Sarah Copeland Hanzas, and VT AG Charity Clark recognized in its recent ‘alumnae spotlight’, and a $50 Million annual national budget, its parent organization clearly wields a lot of political ‘coordination’.