Jeremayakovka sent this article about what the impacts of draconian climate change policy mean to people: A CEO With A Spine
“Some wealthy elitists in our country,” he told the audience, “who cannot tell fact from fiction, can afford an Olympian detachment from the impacts of draconian climate change policy. For them, the jobs and dreams destroyed as a result will be nothing more than statistics and the cares of other people. These consequences are abstractions to them, but they are not to me, as I can name many of the thousands of the American citizens whose lives will be destroyed by these elitists’ ill-conceived ‘global goofiness’ campaigns.”
Mr. Murray was a coal miner in Ohio who survived two mining accidents and built funds from a mortgaged house into a private coal mining company with more than 3,000 employees. He expresses concern about the proposals in Congress that will ration the use of coal, warning of much worse adverse consequences to Americans than those experienced after the 1990 amendment of the Clean Air Act.
Mr. Murray told me that he had seen the effect of the drastic reductions in coal production, and the wrenching impact on hundreds of communities, as a result of that legislation. In Ohio alone, from 1990 to 2005, about 118 mines were shut down, costing more than 36,000 primary and secondary jobs. These impacted areas have spent years recovering, and some never will. He spoke of the families that broke up, many lost homes, and some were impoverished, because of legislation that the environmentalists call a “success.”
“I don’t need a computer graphic like in Gore’s movie, to learn about this havoc,” he told me, “I lived it and saw it firsthand.”
Climate Change: Drowned out by an official prophecy of doom, one of our top hurricane forecasters says Al Gore “doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” And he was being charitable.
Jeremayakovka also has a terrific post about how he became an ex-Liberal, When In Sparta Do As A Spartan.
He comes out swinging. Go read it.
