Leading into the Biden Administration’s April 22 climate summit, Secretary of State Tony Blinken offered a doomsday foreign policy speech yesterday, warning, Greta Thunberg-style, that “there is no alternative” to the depopulation and deindustrialization policies the administration is demanding, if climate “catastrophe” is to be avoided.
Failure to eliminate greenhouse gases and reduce carbon emissions to zero, doing away with coal and fossil fuels, mean “we won’t have much of a world left,” he intoned. It is up to America to “lead the world in addressing the climate crisis.” Otherwise, our fate is to suffer one climate disaster after another—floods, wildfires, drought, and an array of natural disasters, all of which will affect domestic as well as national security policy. “Unless we turn this around,” Blinken warned, “it’s going to get worse … the science is unequivocal. We need to keep the Earth’s warming to 1.5° Celsius to avoid catastrophe.… We have to stop this from happening while we still can.” And, he went on, even if the U.S. makes major progress on its goals, this won’t be enough, “if we can’t address the more than 85% of emissions coming from the rest of the world.” Coming up short “will have major repercussions for our national security,” because climate change exacerbates existing conflicts and “increases the chances of new ones.”
