Thread by @wretchardthecat

Can environmentalism reduce the human footprint without emptying the earth?

wretchard.com/the-empty-eart…

"The non-profit Pew Research Center reports that 82 percent of U.S. population growth is attributable to immigration ... the U.S. is growing so fast that it trails only India and China in total numbers."

scientificamerican.com/article/immigr…

Recently this conflict came to a head in of all places, San Francisco, where the affluent Woke opposed the tides of homeless on the grounds they were bad for the environment.

amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…

The bucolic vision sold by the Green Left is bogus. What it will really looks like is a landscape filled with windmills, hot solar panel arrays, endless fields planted to biofuels, interspersed with encampments of refugees from an energy poor 3rd world lacking Green Industry.

... unless and this is the deadly unless ... they largely empty the earth.

You tell everybody. Listen to me Hatcher! You've gotta tell 'em! Tell everyone in San Francisco. PEOPLE ARE POLLUTION! We gotta stop them! Somehow!

One of the big challenges to the Green Vision is that the technology it relies on is immature. A WW2 style effort to build massive installations of current Green tech will cover the earth in obsolete junk.

manhattan-institute.org/green-energy-r…