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The Net-Zero Shell Game and Joe Biden’s Deceptions

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The Net-Zero Shell Game and Joe Biden’s Deceptions
President Joe Biden speaks to the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, from the East Room of the White House, on April 23, 2021. Evan Vucci/AP Photo
Rupert Darwall
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President Joe Biden’s Earth Day announcement that the United States is to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 2005 levels (equivalent to a 42 percent cut of 2019’s pre-COVID emission levels) within nine years comes with a double deception—one of cause and the other of effect.

Rupert Darwall
Rupert Darwall
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Rupert Darwall is a senior fellow of the RealClear Foundation and author of the books “The Age of Global Warming: A History,” “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex,” and “Going Through the Motions: The Industrial Strategy Green Paper.” Darwall also authored the reports “The Climate Noose: Business, Net Zero, and the IPCC’s Anti-Capitalism,” “Capitalism, Socialism and ESG,” “Climate-Risk Disclosure: A Flimsy Pretext for a Green Power Grab,” “The Anti-Development Bank: The World Bank’s Regressive Energy Policies,” and “The Folly of Climate Leadership.”
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