Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
RFK Jr.: “President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will drive billions of dollars into hair-brained carbon reduction projects like offshore wind, which produces energy at five times the cost of onshore wind and does enormous harm to dolphins and whales. Carbon fundamentalism, which values the reduction of carbon above all else, overlooks the reasons most people want to protect the environment in the first place, such as saving rare species and habitats. As I told @MeatEaterTV host Steven Rinella, this may constitute the biggest mistake the environmental movement has ever made.”
Full Transcript from video interview: “I think one of the big mistakes the environmental movement has made is to become kind of carbon fundamentalists and to forget about the issues that made us all environmentalists — which is saving the oceans, and saving the soils, and saving habitat, and keeping our kids safe from toxins.
If all you’re going to talk about is carbon. Then, you know, we just went through COVID, and a lot of Americans saw how totalitarian elements within our society — kind of elites– use these crises to clamp down top-down totalitarian controls and to shift wealth upward. And the same thing is happening with climate, and I see it with what Biden’s done in the Inflation Reduction Act — which is his big climate act — that the money is going to carbon capture projects, hundreds of billions of dollars, which is just a scam. It’s a boondoggle for the oil industry, for the methane industry, and then to offshore wind farms, which are producing energy at five times the cost of onshore wind farms, and they were exterminating the whales and the marine mammals. We were drawn to the environmental moment out of love — not out of fear — out of love for these creatures, and we’re now sacrificing those on the altar of carbon fundamentalism.”
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Related:
Full uncut interview between Morano & RFK Jr. in 2014: 
