High Cost of Green Wishful Thinking

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left) admits, “We’re in Trouble,” as President Joe Biden (center) struggles to respond to the worst energy crisis in 50 years, and as California Gov. Gavin Newsom (right) makes homelessness worse.

Michael Shellenberger explains at his substack page Why Wishful Liberal Thinking Led to Disasters in Ukraine, Homelessness, And Climate.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and some headers. H/T Tyler Durden

The good news is that everything is changing — and fast

In the three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, liberals in the West have denounced their political opponents as deniers of climate change, science, and reality in general. Progressives and neoliberals alike argued that they alone could see the shape of the new world being born. It would be increasingly globalized, democratic, and focused on new threats, like climate change.

It’s now clear that all of that was a delusion.

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