Biden's Wild and Unachievable Ambitions

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Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The podcast takes up Joe Biden's determination to cut carbon emissions in half in nine years and what such a ludicrous promise means politically. What does it tell us about what he thinks his job as president is and what he wants the history books to say about him? Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Friday, April 23, 2021.
0:29.5	I am John Pajor, the editor of Commentary Magazine, the 75-year-old monthly intellectual
0:35.7	analysis, political, provody, and cultural criticism from a conservative perspective.
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0:45.7	Our May issue is up with all kinds of glories and wonders for you.
0:51.1	And also with glories and wonders for you today, we have Executive Editor Abe Greenwald
0:55.3	Hyab.
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0:57.3	Senior writer Christine Rosenheim, Hyjon.
1:00.2	An associate editor in a Rothman Heinewa.
1:03.0	Hyjon.
1:04.0	So yesterday, Earth Day Joe Biden announced that America was going to have its carbon emissions
1:14.3	by 2030 and get to net zero by 2050, which of course is a completely unreachable, indeed,
1:23.8	and delusional goal.
1:27.2	I assume that this is based in some fashion on JFK's promise in 1961 that we would send
1:36.5	a man to the moon and return him by the end of the decade.
1:42.0	But of course, that was a prescribed, limited, technological challenge involving a specific
1:50.4	use of rocketry and ingenuity or something like that.
1:54.5	And this is a wholesale revision of the entire way, the American economy and the daily life
2:02.6	of Americans proceeds.
2:06.2	And it is unreachable.
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