Vice President Kamala Harris recently told an
Allentown, Pennsylvania, news station that “young leaders” are suffering from “climate
anxiety,” which is “their fear about…whether they should have children,
whether they should ever think about buying a home for fear that it might be
wiped out because of extreme weather occurrences.”
Sales
of U.S. homes dropped to a 14-year low in June, but this was due to rampant
inflation and rapidly rising mortgage interest rates…and the fact that home
prices are at or approaching all-time highs.
Robert
Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders, told NPR,
"A lot of buyers have been priced out. If you don't have access to the
bank of mom and dad to get that down payment, it's very challenging.”
Harris’
assertion is preposterous. At least I hope it is. If our “young leaders” really
are putting off buying homes because they think they will be “wiped out” by “extreme
weather occurrences,” we are in existential danger as a society. I know we have
grown pathetically soft, but yikes!
It’s
a good thing these young ‘uns didn’t have to make a month-long voyage across
the tempestuous Atlantic just to reach this country, like many of their ancestors
did. Or travel across the continent in Conestoga wagons after they arrived, dealing
with unforgiving wilderness, wild animals, occasionally hostile indigenous
peoples, plague, outlaws, severe weather, and an utter lack of
infrastructure or hospitals. (“Good luck crossing the Rockies!”)
They
would’ve curled up in the fetal position during the Great Depression and Dust
Bowl era. And just three or four decades later, “experts” were predicting widespread
and prolonged global
cooling, with
dire consequences for life on Earth. Fortunately, people didn’t quit buying
homes despite the predictions of catastrophic climate change.
Nor did the threat
of Nuclear Armageddon-- taken deadly seriously throughout much of the 1950s,
60s, 70s, and 80s-- prevent young families from buying homes, having children,
and planning a future. So, if young people really are “afraid” to purchase
homes today, what changed? Well, the youth did. Why? Because schools, media, and
social media, have relentlessly exaggerated the threat of climate change and
extreme weather events, both in terms of frequency and severity. “Helicopter
parents,” who hover over their kids in an attempt to protect them from…life…didn’t
help, either. Nor did the deliberate feminization of the nation by “progressive”
groups.
There are no
Marlboro Men anymore. If there were, the country wouldn’t be at death’s door, even
if a few of them would be.
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