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  Impoverishing Everyone to Save Gaia Brandon J. Weichert  •  Welcome to your ecochondriacal future, Detroit. Detroit is a city that has been  wasted  by the ravages of globalization. Once the hub of the world's automotive industry, by the late twentieth century, much of America's manufacturing industry  had been shipped  overseas. By the time of the Great Recession of 2008, Detroit was on the front lines of economic devastation of that crisis. Today, Detroit is a shadow of its past glory. Yes, it has still  recovered  somewhat from the lows of a decade ago; after all, there was no way to go but up. That, however, won't stop the extreme environmentalist lobby of the Democratic Party-- the Ecochondriacs who believe we must sacrifice ourselves to save hallowed Mother Earth -- from trying to destroy whatever is left of the once great Motor City. Detroit's mayor, Mike Duggan,  believes  that now was the time for his ailing city to make a new name for itself by becoming one

  Cowering Before Carbon America's lands are being stolen ELIZABETH NICKSON Cowering Before 'Carbon' The next "green" horror: exploding carbon-capture pipelines. Right now South Dakota is under attack by a freshly born green corporation,  Summit Carbon Solutions , funded by China’s Belt and Road initiative, and you, through the Green New Deal provisions buried in the last debt ceiling deal, to pipe “carbon,” from the oil fields to some obscure part of the Dakotas and bury it. There can be no more stupid waste of money than this. But even some of our bravest politicians, including Kristi Noem,  Pierre Poilivere  and  Danielle Smith  in Canada cower before the almighty (anti-)carbon lobby and rabbit on about sequestering it. It is an industry into which thieves flood because it means you loot the public purse at the beginning through Green New Deal giveaways, and then for all perpetuity because of the tax advantage. People have been so scarified by the word, they do