Leading by example at the conference
One hundred eighteen private jets flew into the airport, President Joe Biden’s motorcade had 24 vehicles, including SUVs and vans, and Greta Thunberg was angry. Demonstrators denounced Israel, which recycles and reuses 90 percent of its wastewater while ignoring the Palestinian pastime of burning tires containing multiple carcinogens.
China’s announced 30 new, polluting coal-fired power plants and China being the world’s biggest polluter. Xi Jinping, naturally enough, was a no-show.
Israel, which recycles and reuses 90 percent of its wastewater while ignoring the Palestinian pastime of burning tires containing multiple carcinogens.
Biden came into office deriding Saudi Arabia and what it called “the Saudi war in Yemen.” More correctly, that war is the Iranian-fostered Houthi war in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, in which Saudi cities and oil production facilities have been attacked. But in September, the administration [pulled American Patriot Missile batteries](US pulls missile defenses in Saudi Arabia amid Yemen attacks out of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and some from Jordan, leaving those countries exposed to increasingly long-range and accurate missiles supplied to the Houthis by Tehran.
In the US, Gasoline prices have been rising steadily and they are about to be joined by heating oil and gas heat. President Biden should be rethinking permits for the Keystone Pipeline and his decisions on fracking. Instead, the president asked - demanded – that OPEC pump more oil. Yes, dirty, polluting oil. And shipping it halfway around the world in diesel or coal-powered ships to American ports with offloading problems. OPEC has said no.
In what universe would Saudi Arabia pump more oil, lower the price, and help out the United States?
From 2005 to 2018, total U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions fell 12% while global energy-related emissions increased nearly 24%. Since 2005, national greenhouse gas emissions fell by 10%, and power sector emissions by 27% — as the US economy grew by 25%.
The US remains the bad guy.
Life on the plant earth, insanity rules.
