The climate kooks of Colorado would make your life more difficult

 National Review:

Boulder, Colo. has big plans to go carbon neutral by 2035, but the local government’s ambitions don’t stop at the city’s borders: They want to use the courts to take the rest of the country with them.

As part of its climate efforts, the city is considering all-electric construction in new buildings and plans to eliminate all single-use plastics, including cutlery, straws and water bottles, by 2025. It also collects a climate tax to fund conversion from gas to electric appliances and EV charging stations, as well as other measures to “center equity and work toward systems change in and beyond Boulder.”

In its Climate Action Plan, Boulder makes clear that it seeks to influence change well outside Colorado. It lays out an underlying theory that addressing climate change and “other emerging existential crisis”— including equity and social justice — “depends on changing the underlying system pillars in ways that drive subsidiary systems to produce the outcomes we want.” Examples include making non-recyclable plastics expensive to produce or illegal to use and instituting an increasing tax on fossil fuel-based transportation systems while making electric-based systems the cheapest and most readily available.

The plan also suggests communities can influence markets to bring about change by partnering with other cities to buy electric vehicles and other green technology in bulk to artificially juice demand.

Now, the city is trying to strong-arm energy companies to comply with its climate vision through the use of a public-nuisance lawsuit. While public-nuisance lawsuits once centered largely on disputes between neighbors, the Left has grabbed onto the litigation as a tool that might be used nationally to circumvent normal legislative processes by instead asking courts to make decisions on a host of issues, from climate change to gun rights.
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What is clear to me is that these climate kooks are in fact a public nuisance.  I want to keep my F-150 and my water bottles.  I am happy with my gas stove top and water heater.  These people have a totally unrealistic belief in Big Green wind and solar.