{"id":8979,"date":"2026-01-16T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:13:07","slug":"the-green-new-steal-business-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=8979","title":{"rendered":"The Green New Steal &amp; Business\/Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"716\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-3.png\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-2.png\" class=\"wp-image-6051\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-3.png 621w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-3-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Green New Steal &amp; Business &amp; Climate Change<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FORGOTTEN HISTORY<br>1,03 mln. abonnees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lid worden<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abonneren<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12K<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>178.555 weergaven 18 okt 2025 \u272a Voorrang voor leden op 12 oktober 2025 1 product<br>FORGOTTEN HISTORY heeft de onderstaande producten getagd. Meer informatie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apocalypse Never &#8211; by Michael Shellenberger (Hardcover)<br>Beperkte afleverlocaties<br>target.com\/p\/apocalypse-never-by-michael-shellenberger-hardcover\/-\/A-79832155?TCID=OGS&amp;AFID=google&amp;CPNG=Entertainment&amp;adgroup=247-45&amp;srsltid=AfmBOopX704T1LjQ3LSqMm40f7SlUO<br>da8CJdhBzdVQfKCrdaguvHpCHUc7I<br>They told us it was about saving the planet. But what if the climate movement was never about carbon at all? From Al Gore\u2019s million-dollar mansions to trillion-dollar carbon markets, \u201cThe Green<br><strong>New Steal\u201d uncovers how environmentalism became the most profitable business model in modern history.<br>This episode dives deep into the intersection of climate policy, global finance, and political control, exposing how the same corporations that fueled the old energy economy are now cashing in<br>on the green one.<br>We trace the story from \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d and the birth of carbon credits, through the European Union\u2019s Emissions Trading System, the UN\u2019s Agenda 2030, and the Inflation Reduction Act,<br>revealing who truly profits when governments tax, trade, and regulate in the name of climate justice.<br>What happens when the fight to \u201csave the Earth\u201d becomes a marketplace?<br>Who benefits when every mile, meal, and breath carries a price?<\/strong><br>And what if the real product isn\u2019t carbon, it\u2019s us? Written and hosted by Mike Droberg. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production. #GreenNewSteal\u2003#ForgottenHistory\u2003#ClimateEconomy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FORGOTTEN HISTORY<br>1,03 mln. abonnees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Delen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>178.555 weergaven 18 okt 2025 \u272a Voorrang voor leden op 12 oktober 2025 1 product<br>FORGOTTEN HISTORY heeft de onderstaande producten getagd. Meer informatie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apocalypse Never &#8211; by Michael Shellenberger (Hardcover)<br>Beperkte afleverlocaties<br>target.com\/p\/apocalypse-never-by-michael-shellenberger-hardcover\/-\/A-79832155?TCID=OGS&amp;AFID=google&amp;CPNG=Entertainment&amp;adgroup=247-45&amp;srsltid=AfmBOopX704T1LjQ3LSqMm<br>40f7SlUOda8CJdhBzdVQfKCrdaguvHpCHUc7I<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"542\" height=\"531\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/a-problem-does-not-exist.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/a-problem-does-not-exist.jpg 542w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/a-problem-does-not-exist-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>They told us it was about saving the planet. But what if the climate movement was never about carbon at all? From Al Gore\u2019s million-dollar mansions to trillion-dollar carbon markets,<br>\u201cThe Green New Steal\u201d uncovers how environmentalism became the most profitable business model in modern history.<br>This episode dives deep into the intersection of climate policy, global finance, and political control, exposing how the same corporations that fueled the old energy economy are now cashing<br>in on the green one.<br>We trace the story from \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth\u201d and the birth of carbon credits, through the European Union\u2019s Emissions Trading System, the UN\u2019s Agenda 2030, and the Inflation Reduction Act,<br>revealing who truly profits when governments tax, trade, and regulate in the name of climate justice.<br>What happens when the fight to \u201csave the Earth\u201d becomes a marketplace?<br>Who benefits when every mile, meal, and breath carries a price?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"574\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/final-endgame-off-the-beast-global-goals.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/final-endgame-off-the-beast-global-goals.jpg 750w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/final-endgame-off-the-beast-global-goals-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>And what if the real product isn\u2019t carbon, it\u2019s us? Written and hosted by Mike Droberg. Forgotten History is a 10th Legion Pictures Production. #GreenNewSteal\u2003#ForgottenHistory\u2003#ClimateEconomy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Help support our channel:<br>Patreon page: \/ forgottenhistorychannel<br>Join this channel to get access to perks:<br>\/ @forgottenhistorychannel<br>Merch: Forgotten History Merchandise: https:\/\/fh-shop.fourthwall.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Now on Spotify: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2OFlwcP\u2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thanks for watching. Please subscribe using the link below so we can continue making new content. Your subscription to the channel means a lot to us! \/ @forgottenhistorychannel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>About us: Host\/Military Historian\/Film Consultant\/US Army and USMC Veteran &#8211; Colin Heaton<br>https:\/\/www.heatonlewisbooks.com<br>Screenwriter\/Director\/Producer\/US Marine Corps Veteran &#8211; Michael Droberg<br>https:\/\/imdb.me\/michaeldroberg<br>https:\/\/www.10thlegionpictures.com<br>Email The Forgotten History Team: droknows@hotmail.com<br>Brand Deal Inquiries: john@smallscreenmarketing.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Editor:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Associated channel for sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, and film related topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\/ 10thlegionpictures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>-COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER UNDER SECTION 107 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT 1976<br>Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976,<br>allowance is made for &#8220;fair use&#8221; for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might<br>otherwise be infringing. #forgottenhistorychannel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Sources:<br>NASA &amp; NOAA \u2013 Global Climate Report: Annual 2005 (NOAA NCEI; NASA GISS Press Release 06-023, 2006).<br>Bloomberg \u2013 Generation Investment Management LLP Company Profile (Al Gore &amp; David Blood, founded 2004).<br>European Court of Auditors \u2013 EU Emissions Trading System: Free Allowance Allocation Needs Better Targeting (Special Report 2020).<br>U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics \u2013 Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages: Coal Mining Jobs 2010\u20132020.<br>International Energy Agency (IEA) \u2013 The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions (2021).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"629\" height=\"846\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image.png 629w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>481 afleveringen<br>Forgotten History Channel | Full Episodes<br>FORGOTTEN HISTORY<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"914\" height=\"897\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/111y-John-rockefeller-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/111y-John-rockefeller-1.jpg 914w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/111y-John-rockefeller-1-300x294.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/111y-John-rockefeller-1-768x754.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Transcript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Original video\/link: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DOWTDDy6wlg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is all wrong.<br>I shouldn&#8217;t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you?<br>You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I&#8217;m one of the lucky ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.<br>And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How dare you?<br>Greta Thumbberg&#8217;s words echo through the United Nations and across the world. A child shaming nations for destroying the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To millions, she became a symbol of truth and courage. To others, she was a sign that something had changed, that fear itself had become the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time in history, environmentalism wasn&#8217;t just a cause. It was policy. Billion dollar programs, carbon markets, and global treaties built on one untested promise that government could rewrite the laws of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"827\" height=\"883\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/owned-by-blackrock.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8839\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/owned-by-blackrock.jpg 827w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/owned-by-blackrock-281x300.jpg 281w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/owned-by-blackrock-768x820.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They called it a Green New Deal.<br>But before we decide whether it can save the world, we should ask who it really serves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who holds the power when every breath, every mile, every light switch carries a price? And when saving the planet becomes a business, who&#8217;s really being saved?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s try and find out.<br>Hello, I&#8217;m Mike Joberg, Marine Corps veteran and filmmaker, and we will try to answer these questions on today&#8217;s episode of Forgotten History.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you look at the 10 hottest years ever measured, they&#8217;ve all occurred in the last 14 years. And the hottest of all was 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The scientific consensus is that we are causing global warming.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I am Al Gore. I used to be the next president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That was Vice President Al Gore in 2006. The moment climate change stopped being a scientific discussion and became a political crusade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But even while preaching sacrifice, Gore himself lived the life of a king.<br>Multiple mansions, private jets, and an energy bill that dwarfed entire neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Nashville estate alone consumed over 20 times the power of an average American home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet his film, An Inconvenient Truth, declared the signs settled, the danger imminent, and humanity on a clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, 2005 was indeed the hottest year on record by NASA and Noah. But that record only stretched back to the late 1800s when a few hundred thermometers in Europe and North America<br>tried to represent the entire planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By today&#8217;s standards, accurate global measurements didn&#8217;t begin until 1979 when satellites finally gave us full planet coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before that, most of it was educated guesswork stitched together by models and assumptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put this in perspective, mainstream science says the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old. That means our precise measurements cover less than a blink of an eye. a few billionth of a percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From that narrow record emerged a multi-billion dollar movement and a new kind of faith, not spiritual, but financial, built on fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that panic indeed paid off. Al Gore wasn&#8217;t just warning the world about Corbin. He was investing in it. Two years before his documentary hit theaters, he co-founded<br>Generation Investment Management with a former Goldman Sachs executive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1111-The-EU-just-silently-gave-permission-to-freeze-your-money-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8881\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1111-The-EU-just-silently-gave-permission-to-freeze-your-money-1024x562.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1111-The-EU-just-silently-gave-permission-to-freeze-your-money-300x165.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1111-The-EU-just-silently-gave-permission-to-freeze-your-money-768x421.jpg 768w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1111-The-EU-just-silently-gave-permission-to-freeze-your-money.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Their mission was simple. Turn environmental concern into capital.<br>They called it sustainable investing. Wall Street called it scalable. By 2008, carbon had a price tag and trading pollution became a global market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies could buy and sell the right to emit. Polluters paid, but banks, brokers, and fund managers earned fees for every trade and every credit issued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7683\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-25.png 1024w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-25-300x197.png 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-25-768x506.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The cost of pollution became someone else&#8217;s profit, and the green economy was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Industrialized nations agreed to binding limits on emissions and created the first international carbon markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"738\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/madness-endgame.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/madness-endgame.jpg 738w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/madness-endgame-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the 2000s, the European Union expanded that idea into the EU emissions trading system, eventually covering power plants, factories, and airlines across the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And by 2010, the concept of net zero had become a moral badge for governments and corporations alike. It was a clean ledger, not a clean planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"528\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1carbon-to-reduce-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2828\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1carbon-to-reduce-1.jpg 737w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1carbon-to-reduce-1-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The climate crisis had evolved into a global economy and the only thing greener than that message was the money behind it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came the next evolution, carbon taxes and trading. Carbon tax sounds simple. The government puts a price on carbon dioxide, the gas released when we burn oil, coal, or natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea is that if pollution costs money, companies will pollute less.<br>In reality, it&#8217;s a hidden cost built into everything we use. Energy runs a world. It powers trucks, factories, homes, and farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you tax carbon, you tax the entire chain that keeps modern life moving. Companies don&#8217;t pay those costs. Consumers do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prices rise, fuel search charges appear, and heating bills climb. The atmosphere doesn&#8217;t change, the balance sheet does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporters call it market based climate policy. They claim the revenue funds clean energy projects, but real audits tell a different story.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"390\" height=\"383\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/entering-or-leaving-15-minute-city.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/entering-or-leaving-15-minute-city.jpg 390w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/entering-or-leaving-15-minute-city-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the EU, less than half of the carbon auction revenue went to environmental programs. And in Canada and Australia, most of it was recycled into rebates or general spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the money disappears into government budgets or other line items few voters ever see or audit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came the next evolution, carbon trading. Instead of a flat tax, corporations could buy carbon credits, permits to pollute backed by promises of reduction elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It created a new global marketplace, a financial instrument built on air. Polluters could pay to keep polluting as long as they funded someone else&#8217;s project to plant a<br>tree or capture methane halfway around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In theory, offsets were supposed to help pay farmers in the developing world to preserve forests and balance out pollution elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But most of that money never reached the people on the ground. Governments and brokers signed the deals. Locals lost the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-4.png 1024w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-4-300x232.png 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-4-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies in the west kept burning the fuel while villages in Africa were told to stop grazing their cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The carbon stayed on paper, not in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rich kept burning, the poor kept paying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 years ago, we introduced a vision for social and ecological transformation big enough to save our planet. The Green New Deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The critics jumped against it immediately. They said it was an impossible dream, too impractical, not serious enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they were wrong. In the last 5 years, we have made major strides in tackling the climate crisis and creating millions of jobs by building together a diverse coalition of people committed to a better<br>future.<br>From community organizers and frontline climate advocates to labor organizers and everyday working people, we are winning with a movement that rejects the dystopian future and is committed to<br>building a new one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1cal-production-worldwide-1024x723.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1cal-production-worldwide-1024x723.png 1024w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1cal-production-worldwide-300x212.png 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1cal-production-worldwide-768x542.png 768w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1cal-production-worldwide.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AOCC&#8217;s voice fills the room. Confident, triumphant, she says the Green New Deal created millions of new jobs, lifted people out of poverty, and set America on a clean path to the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s a powerful claim, but unfortunately it isn&#8217;t accurate.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Green New Deal was a congressional resolution, not a law. What exists today are offshoot programs, energy subsidies, electric vehicle incentives, and manufacturing credits folded into later<br>legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those created hundreds of thousands of jobs, mostly construction, short-term projects, and factory startups, but nowhere near millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The millions of jobs figure came from the economic modeling, not the actual results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Optimistic forecasts written before a single dollar was spent. If every Green New Deal proposal had passed and been fully funded, models projected millions of jobs, but projections aren&#8217;t proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theory and truth don&#8217;t share the same ledger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But while politicians promised millions of new jobs, tens of thousands of jobs quietly disappeared. Under the banner of the Green New Deal, investors pulled capital from fossil fuels, regulators<br>tightened compliance, and America&#8217;s coal belt turned into a graveyard of shuttered plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 40,000 coal jobs vanished in 10 years. Towns built upon power stations reduced to silence as utilities chased subsidies for wind and solar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oil refineries followed. In California, entire facilities were converted or closed outright, wiping out thousands of high paying union jobs. And for every refinery worker laid off, five to seven<br>support jobs disappeared with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>truck drivers, maintenance crews, restaurants, and small businesses that kept those towns alive. These weren&#8217;t just statistics. They were livelihoods replaced not by green factories or<br>renewable prosperity, but by headlines and empty promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old energy economy was being dismantled faster than the new one could stand. And the Green New Deal didn&#8217;t just stay in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within a year, its language net zero, sustainability, and equity appeared in speeches from London to Brussels and from Davos to Beijing. It wasn&#8217;t the law anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a global script. Then the United Nations promoted Agenda 2030. The European Union introduced fit for 55 and the World Economic Forum rebranded capitalism itself as stakeholder capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The words changed, but the mission didn&#8217;t. Reshape economies through climate compliance and centralized oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-puppet-masters-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4773\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-puppet-masters-1024x574.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-puppet-masters-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-puppet-masters-768x431.jpg 768w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-puppet-masters-1536x862.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/The-puppet-masters.jpg 1560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every nation was told to reach net zero emissions by 2050. A goal that sounded scientific, but rested largely on carbon accounting. Instead of reducing output, industry simply offset it. For every ton<br>of carbon released, a credit was purchased, a tree was promised, or a project was announced somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pollution didn&#8217;t stop. The paperwork just got cleaner. And yet, no one can even agree on what safe carbon emission looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists talk about carbon budget, the amount we can burn before the planet warms too much. But the numbers swing by hundreds of billions of tons depending on who&#8217;s counting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no finish line, no magic threshold, just a moving target wrapped in certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The irony is that the entire world is being taxed, regulated, and restructured around a carbon number that doesn&#8217;t actually exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But regardless of an agreed upon carbon limit, trillions of dollars continue to flow through new green bonds, ESG funds, and carbon markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banks and corporations reinvented themselves as environmental saviors while still extracting, refining, and drilling under different names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"866\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-28.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7687\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-28.png 791w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-28-274x300.png 274w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-28-768x841.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Developing countries borrow to comply, trading sovereignty for sustainability loans they could never repay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same institutions that once financed industry now financed guilt, and both were profitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate policy became less about climate and more about control. Who can build? Who can travel? Who can grow? Who could produce?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And just like that, the crisis became a currency. Every regulation, every limit, every tracked carbon footprint justified as a moral necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saving the planet had become a business plan. And the only thing growing faster than emissions was power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"609\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/aa-pharmaceaticals.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/aa-pharmaceaticals.jpg 920w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/aa-pharmaceaticals-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/aa-pharmaceaticals-768x508.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you follow the money, the saviors start to look familiar. The same investment firms that once financed oil now lead the green transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black Rockck, Vanguard, and State Street, managing over 20 trillion combined, now shape entire industries through ESG scores that turn morality into a metric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every rule, every restriction, every new program creates another fee, fund and market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governments take their share through carbon taxes, green bonds, and climate subsidies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOS&#8217;s and consultants collect grants and administration fees to manage the paperwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the oil giant didn&#8217;t disappear. They rebranded. The same companies that once pumped the fuel now sell the forgiveness, investing in offsets and renewable portfolios funded by the same<br>public they once applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And who pays for it all? The people who can&#8217;t afford to play the game. The worker paying more at the pump. The family watching their electric bill climb. And the small business squeezed by the cost of compliance.<br>The truth is simple. The planet isn&#8217;t the product. you are your labor, your choices, your dependence on the system that tells you it&#8217;s saving you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists tell us the planet&#8217;s recent warming is largely man-made, driven by modern industry and carbon. Maybe they&#8217;re right, but Earth&#8217;s history didn&#8217;t begin in the industrial age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long before the first factory rose, or the first engine turned, the planet&#8217;s climate shifted on its own. sometimes violently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entire civilizations vanished beneath those changes. Doggerland, once a land bridge between Britain and Europe, lies drowned beneath the North Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ancient city of Pablo Potry rests off the coast of Greece, about 5,000 years old and roughly 10 to 15 ft underwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And off Japan&#8217;s coast, the Yanuguni monument sits nearly 80 ft below the surface.<br>None of them burned coal, drilled oil, or drove cars. They were swallowed by nature&#8217;s own cycles of ice and melt, a reminder that earth has always changed with or without us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when modern prophets promise salvation through taxes, markets, and fear, remember this. The seas were rising long before we learned to measure them. And they&#8217;ll keep rising long after<br>the last slogan fades with or without our help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, we should respect this planet. It&#8217;s the only one we&#8217;ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should use cleaner energy, reduce waste, and leave something better behind for those who come after us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But progress has to make sense. It has to work for everyone, not just the corporations, the governments, or the investors who&#8217;ve learned to profit from fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real stewardship means balance, protecting the earth and the people who live on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anything less isn&#8217;t environmentalism. It&#8217;s control dressed as virtue. Because the truth is, clean energy is no clean. Solar panels and wind turbines depend on toxic mining for lithium, cobalt, and rare earth<br>metals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of it done in countries with no environmental safeguards.<br>And when they break or wear out, they become hazardous.<br>Turbine blades can&#8217;t be recycled. They&#8217;re buried in landfills the size of football fields. Solar panels leak lead, cadmium, and chromium when discarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Compared to gas or coal, they produce less power, cost more to maintain, and die decades sooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The planet doesn&#8217;t need false solutions.<br>It needs honest ones. Let us know your thoughts on the green new deal in the comments below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for watching Forgotten History. Please like, share, and<br>subscribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any comments or show ideas, we&#8217;d love to hear from you.<br>Thanks again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Green New Steal &amp; Business &amp; Climate Change FORGOTTEN HISTORY1,03 mln. abonnees Lid worden Abonneren 12K Delen 178.555 weergaven 18 okt 2025 \u272a Voorrang voor leden op 12 oktober 2025 1 productFORGOTTEN HISTORY heeft de onderstaande producten getagd. 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