Councilman Milliken proposed that the Town adopt a resolution supporting the declaration of a "Climate Emergency and Mobilization" at our September Town council Meeting. Council voted 3 to 2 to postpone consideration until our December meeting. Councilwoman Mignano and Mullinax joined me in voting to postpone. Councilman Boles joined Councilman Milliken in seeking an immediate vote on the Emergency Resolution.
A copy of the resolution shared by Councilman Milliken is here:
The movement for declaring a climate emergency comes from something called "the climate mobilization." They have a website which is very alarming:
This group requested that their activists pressure their local governments to adopt a declaration of climate emergency. Here is their model resolution:
As can be seen above, Councilman Milliken placed an almost identical resolution before the Town. His resolution will have the Town go on record in support of the positions and agenda of this radical activist group--"the climate mobilization."
A declaration of emergency generally allow the chief executive to exercise emergency powers. This allows prompt action without approval by the governing body. For the Town, this would allow the Mayor to take action without approval by Council. This resolution would not override existing Town ordinances which allow the Mayor to declare emergencies. Much more concerning is that this resolution would put the Town on record as joining others in calling for the U.S. President to declare a national emergency in order to unilaterally impose regulations on families and businesses without approval by Congress.
The nature of the regulations the Town is being called on to support are very extreme. It the words of the Climate Mobilization Movement:
Mobilization is an emergency restructuring of a modern industrial economy, accomplished at rapid speed. It involves the vast majority of citizens, the utilization of a very high proportion of available resources, and impacts all areas of society –
Nothing less than a government-coordinated social and industrial revolution.
What would this be like? According to the climate mobilization, the U.S. should copy the World War II economic mobilization. However, this would not be a three year effort that ended with the defeat of the Axis Powers. It is rather a ten year program that will likely never end.
Councilman Milliken is asking Town Council to endorse this social and industrial revolution proposed by the climate mobilization group. They make no secret that they propose the impoverishment of the American people. In the resolution before Council, we are, in effect, asked to blame the people of the United States for global climate change. It should be no surprise that they intend major suffering for our people.
As they implement their social and industrial revolution, food and other necessities are to be rationed. Children will be given smaller rations than adults! It is all spelled out in the Victory Plan.
Included in this plan is the following:
■ Quantity rationing of basic necessities
■ Weekly free allowance issuances to citizens
■ Sharing of rations among family members
■ Appropriately smaller rations for young children
■ Strict enforcement
■ No loopholes for the rich
■ Local citizen rationing boards
Taxes? The plan proposes raising taxes up to 94%!
What about agriculture? U.S. agriculture is very productive and helps feed the world. That is all to end. According to the "Climate Mobilization," we are to:
Transform agriculture
A rapid shift from industrial agriculture to localized, regenerative farming with limits on livestock production and a phase-out of factory farming.
What does this really mean? Returning the U.S. to a third-world way of life, where most Americans will grow their own food. As Councilman Milliken explained, we will all have "victory gardens" in our yards. Meat? The victory plan proposes a vegetable based diet. Ban meat.
The most likely result of this 10 year crash effort is mass starvation.
A social and industrial revolution indeed.
The shift from the production of cars and washing machines to tanks and bombs did require substantial hardship for the American people for several years in the 1940s, but this plan is much more extreme. It is much closer to what the Chinese Communists attempted in the 1950's with their "Great Leap Forward." Their goal was to enhance productivity and improve the standard of living of the Chinese people. It failed utterly and set back the Chinese economy for decades and generated mass starvation. Paradoxically, this effort by the climate extremists would likely greatly reduce the carbon output of the U.S. as it has the same actual consequence of previous government-led social and economic revolutions--mass poverty.
The problem of the build-up of greenhouse gases has been developing for centuries. The notion that it can end in a decade is irrational. A reasonable plan to gradually reduce emissions is the only feasible approach.
President-elect Biden rejected the positions of the climate extremists included in the "Green New Deal" for good reason. If if the U.S. started on such a road, well before the children are given their smaller rations, the plan would be rejected by the voters and any hope for an effective response to global climate change and greenhouse gas production would be set back for decades.
But the far left has been working hard to pressure the President-elect to adopt this and other radical positions. Unlike Councilman Milliken, most James Islanders did not vote for Bernie Sanders to be the Democratic nominee for President. Many James Islanders supported the reelection of President Trump.
It is inappropriate to have our Town government, which should represent all of our people, endorse extremist positions held only by a few, especially when the proposals are a recipe for disaster.
