Conservatives are understandably skeptical of many of the “solutions” offered by the Left to attempt to mitigate climate change, which environmentalist activists suggest is caused by a combination of cows emitting methane gas and humans emitting carbon dioxide into the planet’s atmosphere. In order to address this problem, these activists seek to reduce the “carbon footprint” of everyone — by force.

The Green New Deal, for example, is quite obviously a totalitarian takeover of our entire economy. Not only does it prop up losing industries while sabotaging winning ones, but it would impose a giant tax on working families in the form of higher energy prices and higher food prices. The American Action Forum analyzed the Green New Deal shortly after it was first released in 2019, estimating that the energy and environmental provisions alone would cost taxpayers between $8.3 trillion and $12.3 trillion, or between $52,000 and $72,000 per household. Many of these provisions have been incorporated into the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill, which is being debated in Congress.