Moron that “end global warming” resolution our leaders just passed

All that dutifully sorted plastic, glass, paper, and cardboard? It’s all either burned or buried. But don’t you feel virtuous wasting your time and money pretending you’re saving the planet?

“Feel Good” resolutions are always popular among political hacks, but will Fredie’s latest proclamation do anything good? Will it accomplish more than our ban on plastic straws? The answer is a resounding no. It will, however, cause harm.

Start with futility:

Climate Tsar Kerry admitted last year that because 90% of global emissions are generated outside our borders, the US could reduce its CO2 emissions to zero and it would have no effect on global warming.

Four days ago, The Wall Street Journal analyzed the just-passed Manchin-Schumer “green” spending bill and concluded that the billion bucks to be printed and passed out to cronies will have an “infinitesimal to no effect” on global warming.

So okay, nothing about yesterday’s vote will make a single iota of change. But Greenwich’s new policy is not just useless, it will cost taxpayers, home builders, and home buyers real money.

Here’s what’s in it:

That the Town of Greenwich sets forth the following goals: the development of a
Sustainability and Climate Resiliency Plan by December 2023 that may include strategies
in the areas of new buildings, energy efficiency, transportation, renewable energy, solid
waste, water and wastewater, land use, natural systems, and the Town operations, to
move Greenwich toward carbon neutrality and increase community resilience to a changing
climate.

What will “The seas will rise ten feet by 2050” Katie DeLuca and her staff do with this resolution as they draw up new regulations governing new buildings, energy efficiency, and renewable energy? What new hell will the rest of the town’s government pull us into as it addresses land use, “natural systems” (?) and carbon neutrality? Who knows, but we can be certain that it will cost money, and lots of it, all for no purpose.

The only debate our supposed adult selectmen had over the children’s resolution was over watering down “shall” to “may”. The change is as meaningless as the resolution itself, because the DeLuca’s in our Planning and Zoning department are’t going to distinguish between shall and may; they’ve received the marching orders they wanted, and they’re on their way. Brace yourself, Bridget.