The Manhattan Institute’s Mark P. Mills writes on the Daily Caller that the Green New Deal goes against the laws of physics.
- In order to achieve the energy goals of the Green New Deal mining for rare elements would have to increase dramatically.
- Mining has been largely shut down in the United States (due in large part to pro-GND environmentalists), so these rare earth materials would likely come from child-labor mines.
- Instead of subsidizing these ridiculous goals, let’s allow markets to continue to reduce emissions and produce clean energy.
“If all that weren’t enough, there’s also the roughly 20 to 100-fold increase in land use that comes with using green machines to replace hydrocarbons. And, of course, there’s the mother’s milk of a Green New Deal, the trillions of dollars in subsidies, necessarily funded by increased costs and taxes for all consumers. The latter is no longer in dispute; instead those costs now seem to be a feature not a bug in Green New Deal proposals.”
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