The Green New Deal, AOC’s attempt to ban fossil fuel power and, on top of that, nuclear power, is not fighting an existential threat—it is an existential threat.

Eliminating cars will make life far more difficult. Eliminating farm machinery will make food much more expensive and require more people to work on a farm to produce as much food as is produced today using machinery.

Eliminating construction equipment and trucks will dramatically increase the time to build and maintain buildings and roads. the time required to deliver food will dramatically increase. Eliminating aircraft will further decrease the amount of food that’s available. With less food many people will die from starvation.

The core idea of the Green New Deal, endorsed by virtually every Democratic Presidential candidate, is that the government should rapidly outlaw fossil fuel power and rapidly replace it with renewable power, mostly from solar and wind.

This would be the most radical change in the history of the American economy—and, as many commentators have pointed out, would have disastrous consequences given a) the unreliability of solar and wind and b) the destructiveness of the government taking over any segment of the economy.

Without a car you could walk about 70 miles in 24 hours without any load. You will have to carry all the food for your family home which will lower your speed and require you to stop to rest periodically. Or, you could pedal a bicycle and pull food home in a wagon but you will have to spend far more time just travelling to and from a food store.

You still will have to spend time eating and sleeping each day during which time you will be unable to shop or prepare food.

Without refrigeration far less food will be available. More power will be required to can food or to dehydrate it otherwise the food will spoil before it can be eaten. And energy is used to produce everything needed to survive so decreasing the amount of energy used by each person will increase the death rate. People over a certain age lack sufficient energy to take care of themselves.
Homes will have to be abandoned in cold places as heating fuel will be impossible to obtain. Who can operate a home heater that uses thousands of gallons of fuel each winter?

What about not being able to use machines to sew or to cut the grass and not being able to afford electricity to heat toast or cook food or even light a home after dark. It takes energy to make a candle so imagine fewer candles and living more in the dark.   

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