GOP Senator Mike Lee Says Very true, Terrifying climate exchange issue should Be Solved by using. . .infants

Senator Mike Lee from Utah raised the bar on outrageously out-of-touch congressional displays from the GOP nowadays all over the session held earlier than the Senate's procedural vote on the eco-friendly New Deal. Lee changed into opining on the "unserious" joint resolution introduced by means of consultant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of new york and Massachusetts senator Ed Markey, a framework for mobilizing the govt to lengths now not considered on account that FDR's common New Deal with a purpose to seriously change the economy and combat the devastating consequences of local weather change. looking like an office presentation given via Michael Scott in entrance of a sequence of weird photographs on an easel—together with one of Ronald Reagan on a velociraptor firing at Soviets—he noted that as a substitute of trying to the government, the united states may still focus on aiding people that should definitely be tasked with fighting local weather alternate: litt le ones.

"The green New Deal is not the answer to local weather exchange," Lee mentioned in his speech on the Senate floor, captured through C-Span. "The answer to climate alternate gained't be present in political posturing or advantage signaling like this. It won't be found in the federal govt at all." Addressing vice chairman (and President of the Senate) Mike Pence, he mentioned dramatically, "You know the place the solution can be discovered, Mr. President? In church buildings, in marriage ceremony chapels, in maternity wards throughout this nation and everywhere. Mr. President, here is the precise solution to climate trade: babies." ok, certain, Mike.

in the logic of Lee, "climate change is an engineering problem," which will be solved by putting extra human beings on the planet who are in a position to innovation—despite the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on climate exchange describing, within the words of The manhattan times, "an international of worsening meals shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs" that may take place as soon as 2040. "The issues of human imagination don't seem to be solved by way of more legal guidelines, they're solved by greater humans," he mentioned, gesturing to a inventory photograph of the world's future local weather-alternate mavericks, clad in diapers, and bringing to intellect a version of baby Geniuses that takes region right through future water wars. Lee stated: "more infants will mean greater ahead-looking adults," on whom we can dump the most beneficial existential crisis of human historical past, one which became made plenty, much worse i n just the closing 30 years. Like in 2011, for example, when Lee voted to limit the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases. Or in 2017, when he advised Donald Trump to desert the Paris contract.

In a latest bid to present up children because the answer to international warming, Lee argued that "the braveness mandatory to remedy local weather exchange is nothing compared to the braveness mandatory to beginning a family unit. . . . The solution to local weather change isn't this unserious resolution. The solution to so many of our problems normally and in all places is to fall in love, get married, and have some children." Lee's focus on babies likely has nothing to do with the more than $200,000 in contributions Lee has taken from oil, gasoline, and coal interests in contemporary election cycles. Nothing in any respect.