18 Replies to “In Conversation With Tom Friedman’s House, A Continuing Series…”

  1. Good to know the NYT fancy Renzo Piano-designed high rise building has planted an aspen grove in the lobby to signal their eco virtue. Of course this was necessary to “offset” the massive amount of energy required to power the structure. There would be NO eco-economic virtue signaling emanating from Tommy Friedman’s corner office if not for the Uuuuuuge amount of energy pumped into the building each day, 24-7. Of course, Communist mayor Bill De Blazio has “ordered” that ALL … 100% … of New York’s power be completely fossil fuel free by 2040 … or some such nonsense.

    So there you have it, Tommy! Your Communist Premiere Mayor has decreed that NYC will have 100% renewable energy in 21 years. Yeayyyyy!!! NYC will tear down ALL those gas-fired power plants and Nuclear power plants that provide the vast majority of power to the island. Soon … NY harbor will be filled with windmills!! Oh, what’s that? The ugly wind towers will be built in poor white people’s neighborhoods? Phew! Good to know that Tommy’s landscape won’t be sacrificed on the altar of Greeniness. That was a close call.

  2. China hasn’t cut its CO2 emissions because of course it hasn’t. The whole point was to force westerners to starve and freeze so China could gorge on practically free coal and oil.

    Moving on:

    If we were China for a day…that would be more than enough time to disappear a large number of journalists who were objectively in league with enemies of the people. To encourage the others.

  3. Have read that skyscrapers become virtually unlivable during power outages. Something to do with the air becoming deadly, due to the “sealed” structure and lack of air conditioning. Is NYC going to clear out those structures by 2030? The windmills and solar are so very dependable. Maybe break out the windows.

    1. “I think it is a plot by China to reduce its population through lung diseases.”

      Tell you one thing, judging by the jockey shorts they sell us, they’re damned well trying to reduce ours.

  6. The Chinese have mastered how to play this game. You tell rich, white progressives what they want to hear and they shower you with development money and heap praise on you. Then the Chinese do whatever the hell they want. Simultaneously, woke progressives point to China’s “progress” and hobble competing western industries by loading them down with ever growing regulations and social justice nonsense. China must be laughing their asses off.

    Wishful thinking has me hoping that the Sask government can learn a thing or two from China. Make progressive’s promises then just do what’s best for sask citizens. For instance, make ridiculous promises that one of the coldest, most extreme weather jurisdictions in the world can go X% green energy but explain the province needs to build ample natgas power generation for grid stability and backup power to complement wind and solar. Given the short lifespan of wind and solar installations and the longevity of natgas plants, once the green power gets old then completely switch over to the natgas plants and wait for small nuclear reactors. Or just cancel/modify/regulate the green energy industry into bankruptcy (see how progressives are destroying the coal and oil industry for the how-to).

  7. The rich, white progressives know what they’re doing. They make a point of arranging Chinese wives for their heirs and successors. They want their posterity to be Chinese.

    The Chinese are investing in the wherewithal needed to conquer the West and enslave or exterminate its peoples, the only ones posing a meaningful threat to Chinese dominion. The western globalists understandably want to be on the side of the winners.

    2. The Chinese are investing in the wherewithal needed to conquer the West and enslave or exterminate its peoples, the only ones posing a meaningful threat to Chinese dominion. The western globalists understandably want to be on the side of the winners.

      That’s already happened in academe. In the department where I worked on my doctorate, a large number of the grad students, as well as newly-hired faculty, were from China. There were times in which some of them gave me the impression that I was trespassing on their territory.

      That was 20 years ago.

      As for Chinese wives, there are those women who wouldn’t mind a western husband (preferably one who’s well off) who’ll not only provide them with an anchor baby but pay for it as well. The kid will be a citizen and whoever heard of this country deporting a mother of a young child?

  8. Of course, the obvious (NEVER spoken!!!) caveat to this view, spoken time-and-time-again and only “mostly” by leftists, goes as follows: ” – Oh, and… Who gets to decide what the “right solution” is?”

    “Why, I DO! D’uh…”

    Followed by the question the Left always fail-at: “Oh, very nice! And who gets to pay for it all?”

    ” – Why… YOU do! D’uh…”

    Kip’s Law: “Every advocate of central planning always – ALWAYS – envisions himself as the central planner.” To which Amit Varma added, ” – And the rest of us as shmucks, it must be said…”

    1. A guy whose opinions I generally treasure, Karl Denninger, passed-on a good tip for dealing with that:

      1) wage parity – we can’t live on $2 a day, and we can be pretty sure that those who do, live lives of severe deprivation as a result; for a test of this, we need only ask ourselves “How much of the world’s population would trade places with us in a heartbeat, no questions asked? And why would they?” Me, I figger it’d be ~85%. So as I HAVE to buy heating oil, and my house is in an expensive part of the country, I need a lot of money; why should we tolerate whole families living in squalor, often more than one family in a room, in countries from which we import manufactured goods? Equality (that hashtag the Left so loves, except for themselves) demands that all these things our SJW’s insist are “rights”, like free education, free healthcare, guaranteed minimum wage, should be applied to the ‘huddled masses’ in other countries too; so if it isn’t, lay heavy import duties on goods from those countries so they can’t undercut our wage-slaves; and

      2) environmental parity – we have stringent anti-pollution, land-use, &c &c &c regulations protecting our natural environment and (as a result) putting ourselves at an unfair disadvantage against countries that openly could care less. China as an example; rolling clouds of fine dust and pollution regularly blot-out the skies of countries downwind; they mine most of the world’s rare minerals because only they pay their workers little enough that it’s worth their while, and the refining slag is just dumped on the ground and in the rivers, and people downstream have to live with it. Our recycled electronics are shipped to China for recycling, and all the children in the villages where this is done, have elevated levels of lead in their blood. Make them meet our pollution regulations – that’s fair – and once again, if they don’t, slap heavy-enough import duties on them that doing the above is once more profitable here, where we have regulations to keep it being done in a responsible manner.

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