Sen. Bernie Sanders, not content to limit his efforts to extend his relevance to his work in the Senate, is hosting “town halls” on his Facebook page, and his latest was an interview with engineer-suddenly-turned-climate-expert, Bill Nye.
There is certainly a need for outspoken environmentalists. Donald Trump, after all, said that climate change was a hoax invented by the Chinese, but it’s not clear this pair are the ones to do it, unless their objective is to hold the world hostage, forcing everyone to take action, just to make them shut up.
The two can barely hide their effusive affinity for one another, with Sanders calling Nye America’s last, best hope for convincing the Trump administration that we will all die in a catastrophic confluence of tidal waves, volcanoes, hurricanes and earthquakes, because of climate change.
Nye, for his part, sees Sanders as the key to unlocking the “economic benefits” of government-driven environmental solutions—taxing those who pollute until they can no longer afford to stay in business—and can barely keep his bow tie from suggestively pointing in Sanders’s direction.
The combined effect is enough to make this dedicated, concerned environmentalist into a full-on climate change skeptic.
Look, I drive a hybrid vehicle (it burns two kinds of fossil fuels!), and have, in the past, attempted to convince even Republican legislators that careful stewardship of our natural resources is key to our long-term survival, even if the government itself isn’t the right entity to address any sort of climate crisis.
These two may prove it. Sanders is as unqualified to talk about climate science as Nye—an engineer by trade who came to prominence teaching children how to turn potatoes into electric clocks. And Nye is about as adept at economic theory as Sanders, the man who was sure his trillion-dollar government expansion would be well-received by the people who’d pay for it.
With their powers combined, the two barely touch the ground, wafting about on their self-importance and superiority. Its enough to make you buy a monster SUV just so that you can spray flourocarbon-heavy aerosols out the window at save the whales rallies.
