With climate change, we’re all in this together. Or is that just what a socialist would say?
By Dan Zak Dan Zak Feature writer Email Bio Follow May 8 In February, a congressman from Utah started a caucus. This is not hard to do. You just file some paperwork. There are hundreds of caucuses in Congress. There’s a wine caucus. There’s a horse caucus. There’s a Mongolia caucus. There are caucuses for hockey, for shellfish, for unexploded ordnance. Rep. Chris Stewart wanted an anti-socialism caucus.
Rep. Chris Stewart’s Utah district is mostly nature and public land: salt flats and ski resorts and national parks and forests. The Republican wants to protect these resources; he accepts that the climate is changing and that we are contributing to it. But climate change is not an existential threat, to him. Socialism, on the other hand —
The socialism of the Green New Deal would “literally destroy the economy,” Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, said to his fellow conservatives at the most recent Conservative Political Action Conference. “Socialism is the cry of special interests,” Smith rebutted at a rally in Boston. “It is a subterfuge and a camouflage, and the people are sick and tired of it.”
Any social program was bad, because any social program was a step toward socialism. Which was a step toward totalitarianism. In 2008, Vaclav Klaus, then the president of the Czech Republic, said that socialism was no longer the largest threat to freedom and democracy. “It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism,” Klaus wrote in his book “Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”
The Green New Deal is a"radical, socialist wish list," the Republican National Committee tweeted April 22. It is"a Trojan horse for socialism," declared the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in February. If the Green New Deal is implemented,"America as we know it will disappear entirely," wrote Justin Haskins on Stopping Socialism, a website launched by a think tank that has tried to undermine climate science .
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