Top Green Groups Mostly Silent On John Kerry’s Use Of Private Jet To Pick Up Award In Iceland
Critics are calling out top environmentalist groups for largely keeping silent over the issue of John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate czar, ironically using a private jet in 2019 to pick up an environmental award in Iceland.
They accuse Kerry of being “hypocritical” — as reports noted that his family still maintains a private jet while he works as the nation’s top climate adviser.
A private jet is said to emit an estimate of 116 metric tons in a year, or around 25 times more than the emission of a typical passenger vehicle annually.
“Top groups in the fight against climate change haven’t been as critical as others who accused Kerry of glaring hypocrisy,” Fox News’ Sam Dorman wrote, adding that international green organizations like World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and the Environmental Defense Fund have yet to respond to the queries.
He added that the group spent time welcoming Biden as he entered the White House last month — but they are now unable to call out the action of the Democratic president’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.
The main social media channels of these environmental groups were quiet on Kerry’s issue.
Welcome to the movement, @JohnKerry & @JanetYellen. Let’s get the job done. 😎 #StopTheMoneyPipeline https://t.co/cLoGfB5qRq
— Stop the Money Pipeline (@StopMoneyPipe) February 5, 2021
“Welcome to the movement, @JohnKerry & @JanetYellen. Let’s get the job done. #StopTheMoneyPipeline” the Sierra Club retweeted a post “welcoming Kerry to the movement.”
Greenpeace also posted a video appearing to praise Biden’s environmental platform but is now mum on what critics say is Kerry’s “hypocritical” action.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2317421338402928
Multiple reports said private jets emit more than 40 times as much carbon per passenger compared to the usual commercial flight.
Overhauling the US energy economy
The Kerry controversy emerged as the Biden administration seeks to pass a $1.7 trillion climate proposal — effectively overhauling the country’s energy economy — with progressives like New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also expected to push her ambitious “Green New Deal.”
During the campaign, Biden endorsed in all but name the “Green New Deal,” as well as his support for putting clamps on fracking — although his team has maintained it is not his official position.
He also recently rejoined the Paris Climate Accord that former President Donald Trump earlier dropped saying it is “all cost but no benefit” for the United States. The former President estimated that the “onerous energy restrictions” of the agreement would cost the US as much as 2.7 million jobs by 2025.
Energy independent no more
Meanwhile, after former President Trump led the country to “energy independence” — the first time since 1957 — the new administration’s efforts to reverse his policies is being cited for the country now going back to importing more crude oil and petroleum products than it will export for 2021 and 2022.
Distinguished economist, Stephen Moore, already earlier warned that Biden’s economic policies would harm American jobs while “other nations laugh.”
“We have to shut down our coal plants, we have to shut down our oil and gas facilities that employ millions of workers, we have to use more expensive energy while China and India and Russia laugh behind our back,” Moore said then.
“It puts America last because American workers are the ones who are going to have to lose their jobs while the rest of the world — especially the countries that are the big polluters — don’t have to change their behavior,” he added.
