{"id":517412,"date":"2021-11-21T14:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=517412"},"modified":"2021-11-21T14:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T19:39:42","slug":"net-zero-policies-taking-from-the-poor-and-giving-to-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=517412","title":{"rendered":"Net-Zero Policies: Taking From The Poor And Giving To The Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>It is too often overlooked in all the discussions about the \u201ctransition\u201d to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-net-zero-emissions\">net-zero emissions<\/a>\u00a0economy that the most consequential transition is that from democratic capitalism to feudal serfdom.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the conclusion of American demographer and \u201cblue-collar Democrat\u201d Joel Kotkin, who has highlighted that the supposedly well-intentioned green policies being adopted across the West come at enormous expense to the working- and middle-classes.<\/p>\n<p>As Kotkin wrote in \u2018Spiked\u2019 earlier this year, \u201cextreme climate measures have driven the loss of traditional blue-collar jobs in manufacturing, construction and\u00a0energy, while other environmental regulations have boosted housing prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kotkin\u2019s thesis is that the West is on the road to serfdom.<\/strong>\u00a0Rather than maintaining our capitalist societies where a large, asset-owning middle-class underpin a stable democratic system, we are becoming stratified feudal societies.<\/p>\n<p>Home and small business ownership are declining, especially among the young and the less well-off, a group of technocratic elites are establishing themselves as permanent rulers in the apparatus of the administrative state, and corporate oligarchs are coming to dominate both the economy and broader society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/net-zero-policies-taking-poor-and-giving-rich\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/net-zero-policies-taking-poor-and-giving-rich<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is too often overlooked in all the discussions about the \u201ctransition\u201d to a\u00a0net-zero emissions\u00a0economy that the most consequential transition is that from democratic capitalism to feudal serfdom. &#8220;This is the conclusion of American demographer and \u201cblue-collar Democrat\u201d Joel Kotkin, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=517412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}