A Train Wreck In Slow Motion

How about the left’s latest installment in their ongoing saga, How to Save the Planet by Destroying It First?

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently floated a gem of an idea: clear-cutting 400 acres of pristine forest to make way for a solar farm. That’s right—the people tasked with protecting our natural resources think the best way to go green is to bulldoze the green. Makes perfect sense if you’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid laced with government subsidies and virtue signaling.

This isn’t just a one-off; it’s part of a larger trend of leftist policies that aim to “fix” problems by creating new ones. Let’s not forget California, the state that has practically turned self-sabotage into an art form. In just the last few days, some of the worst wildfires ever, have ravaged communities, thanks to years of mismanagement, over-regulation, and a steadfast refusal to do basic forest maintenance. Why clear deadwood when you can let it pile up and create the perfect conditions for catastrophic fires?

Bonus points if you can blame climate change afterward and rake in federal disaster relief funds. That’s the progressive playbook in action: cause a problem, then profit from it. Yeah?

And while we’re on the subject of blame and evasion, let’s talk about Mark Zuckerberg’s recent confession. Even the Silicon Valley overlord himself admitted that Facebook’s use of leftist “fact-checkers” was a mistake. Fact-checkers who weren’t interested in facts so much as pushing an agenda. This admission should make any thinking person pause, but for the left, it’s just another Tuesday. The only thing they regret is getting caught.

Circling back to the Michigan DNR’s solar debacle. The left’s obsession with renewable energy often ignores the real-world consequences of their policies. Clear-cutting 400 acres is not just an environmental travesty; it’s economic insanity. The cost of building these solar farms is astronomical, and the return on investment? Questionable at best. Meanwhile, Michigan’s forests—which actually help combat climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide—will be gone, replaced by a sea of silicon panels that will eventually need to be disposed of in landfills. But hey, at least they’ll look good in a campaign ad.

Adding to the absurdity is the state and some environmental groups in the past couple of decades working as hard as they can to remove hydroelectric power as an option. Hydropower, a clean and reliable energy source with an expected life cycle of 50–100 years, is being sidelined in favor of more costly and less efficient alternatives. Meanwhile, the space used by solar farms in areas where the sun doesn’t shine enough also affects the actual cost of solar efficiency and returns. Northern Michigan, for example, has only about 170 sunny days per year on average, making the math for solar even harder to justify.

Los Angeles fires?   I truly feel for those folks. I hope they understand why it happened, and can commit to fighting the true cause of their pain.  Too soon?

Some might think the ongoing fire in Los Angeles is too sensitive a subject right now, and that the insensitivity might hit a new high. Ask yourself: when would we discuss causality? If not now, then when? Avoiding the hard questions in the name of sensitivity only ensures the cycle continues. The policies that enable these disasters need to be addressed—and is there a better time than when their consequences are staring us in the face?

This is the same logic that has led to California’s $6plus-a-gallon gas, rolling blackouts, and a mass exodus of residents fleeing to states where common sense still exists. The left’s policies are a train wreck in slow motion, and the worst part is, they’re not even sorry about it.

They’ll keep doubling down because for them, it’s not about results; it’s about control and appearances.  OK, maybe unfair.  The leftist may actually have sincere motives, but will we/they ever learn?

If you’re tired of this circus, you’re not alone. People are waking up to the fact that leftist policies are long on promises and short on delivery. Whether it’s Zuckerberg’s mea culpa, California’s avoidable disasters, or Michigan’s latest brainstorm, the pattern is clear: the left breaks things and then calls it progress.

It’s time to stop letting these self-appointed saviors dictate policy. Let’s hold them accountable for their failures and demand real solutions that don’t involve torching forests, bankrupting taxpayers, or silencing dissent. Because if this is what saving the planet looks like, maybe it’s time for a new plan.