Kamala Harris, Queen of Climate Change-Based Economic Destruction, By Chris Knight (Florida)

One of the issues not being hammered by Trump, in the election which will decide the fate of Western civilisation, including Australia as Elon Musk has said, is Kamala Harris' climate change policies. On this, from day one, she has been a radical and extremist, which is saying something given how extreme and radical this area is.

As attorney general of California, Kamala "won tens of millions in settlements against Big Oil and held polluters accountable." The result in practice was only to increase the costs of energy for the average person, not to in any way reduce carbon emissions, a pure symbolic victory, as much of modern Leftist climate change activism is. She has not departed from zero net, and her support of so-called renewable energy is all based upon this. She boasts about some 31 million acres of land across 11 states being set aside for solar development, all based upon public land. While this is preferable to compulsory acquisition of private land, it is doubtful whether this program will do much beyond be another symbolic act and waste of public money.

Across the West, the renewable dream has become unspun, if that is what dreams, rather than nightmares, do.

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"Center for Energy & Conservation Director Gabriella Hoffman is warning her followers that Kamala Harris, despite claims to the contrary, has not "moderated" on climate issues.

Kamala is still the same far-left "climate crisis" promoter that she has been for years, Hoffman says. Only now, just weeks before the election, is Kamala trying to pivot more to the center to garner more support.

The Kamala Harris for President campaign claims that while installed as attorney general of California, Kamala "won tens of millions in settlements against Big Oil and held polluters accountable." This, we are told, makes Kamala a winner against the climate crisis.

While in the office of vice president under Joe Biden, Kamala "cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act," which supposedly means that Kamala is qualified to make everyday life more affordable for Americans.

The Kamala campaign goes on to boast about how she supposedly performed "historic work in lowering household energy costs, creating hundreds of thousands of high-quality, clean energy jobs, and building a thriving clean energy economy, all while ensuring America's energy security and independence with record energy production."

Hoffman says this is all a lie and that Kamala still supports so-called net-zero, which many warn will harm the stability of the energy grid, not to mention the destruction it will cause to agriculture and every other sector that relies on energy.

Why didn't debate moderators ask Kamala about her net-zero agenda?

During the debate, one of the things Donald Trump said to Kamala is that she has basically adopted his platform as her own despite years of pushing a much different agenda. The Kamala campaign can claim whatever it wants, but her record is what counts.

Kamala claims that if installed as president, she will help advance "environmental justice" while protecting public lands and public health. She is also promising to increase "resilience to climate disasters" while lowering household energy costs and creating "millions of new jobs."

One of the things moderators at the debate "forgot" to ask Kamala is about her net-zero climate policies, which Hoffman says "would destroy our economy with no measurable benefit to the environment."

"It seems all reporters want to talk about are abortion and climate change," wrote someone on X.

Another thing environmentalists are refusing to acknowledge about Kamala's energy plans is the sheer amount of land required for all those windmills and solar panels. According to Hoffman, some 31 million acres of land across 11 states has been set aside for solar development.

"Yikes," Hoffman says. "Preservationists aren't batting an eye to solar intermittency and big enviro footprint ... There's NOTHING pragmatic about net-zero and pushing for 100% decarbonization of the economy by 2050."

Those 31 million acres, by the way, are all public land overseen by the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

"A Bureau of Land Management rule is designating 31 million acres of Western lands for utility-scale solar projects of 5 megawatts or larger," reported the Independent Women's Forum.

"The rule adds areas of land in five states not covered by the original plan: Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming. It's funny timing given that solar investment has fallen 12% in the first half of 2024 while wind investment has grown."

In the comments, someone noted that the proliferation of so-called "renewable" energy technologies like wind and solar has done nothing to lower electricity rates.

"Our renewables share has steadily increased over the last 15 years yet our electric rates have more than doubled in that same timeframe."

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, is no "moderate" on climate issues. On the contrary, she appears to be a climate extremist focused on pushing the destructive green agenda on Americans.

According to the Harris-Walz campaign's policy page, the Democratic nominee promises to "unite Americans to tackle the climate crisis … [and] secure clean air and water for all." The page touted how Harris, during her tenure as California attorney general, "won tens of millions in settlements against Big Oil and held polluters accountable."

The campaign's climate policy also touched on her role as president of the U.S. Senate, where she cast the tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act – which the policy described as "the largest investment in climate action in history."

During the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last month, Harris framed the fight against "climate change" as one of patriotism. She insisted that under former President Donald Trump, "many other fundamental freedoms are at stake … [including] the freedom to breathe clean air, and drink clean water and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis."

But it is worth noting that Harris "has not offered any new policies for addressing climate change," according to a separate piece by Climate Depot. It also noted that the vice president has mentioned climate less frequently than President Joe Biden during his 2020 campaign.

The piece also noted that the approach to addressing "climate change" is far from being rooted in freedom. If anything, most of the steps to tackle it often come from top-down mandates instead of bottom-up initiatives. Examples of these include bans on combustion engine vehicles and coal-fired power plants in the name of "net zero" carbon emissions.

This led Marc Morano of Climate Depot to point out that Harris' approach to climate change is more akin to the "freedom is slavery" idea espoused in the book "1984" by George Orwell.

Even Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who Harris picked to be her running mate, appears to be a staunch advocate of climate extremism with his opposition to fossil fuels. Morano noted in an Aug. 7 article that Walz is no better than Harris as he wants to cancel all fossil fuel production.

He also recounted a separate report by POLITICO, which said Walz signed a sweeping clean energy bill just a month after being sworn into a second gubernatorial term. Under this new measure, utilities must produce 100 percent carbon-free energy by 2040 – a Herculean task given the unreliable nature of renewables like wind and solar.

The aforementioned bill, one of the Midwest's most progressive climate policies and just one of many he signed while in office, faced intense opposition from Republicans. Despite this, it managed to pass in the state legislature along straight party lines after Democrats flipped the Minnesota Senate in 2022.

But before the November 2022 midterm election, the Minnesota governor had to advocate climate reforms on his own via executive order. This he did in 2021 by looking to California, with the North Star State adopting the Golden State's clean cars rule. The complete ban on new gas-powered car sales endured a legal challenge from the Minnesota Auto Dealers Association.

"In 2022, his climate change scheme called for increasing the share of electric cars on Minnesota roads to 20 percent by 2030, from the current one percent," Morano wrote. "He has also proposed completely banning liquid transportation fuels by 2050."