“Cattle is very energy-consuming and energy-expensive,” Yang began. “And if you project forward what we would need to do to reduce emissions, you would want to modify Americans’ diets over time. Now some of that is happening naturally through education, but I do think it’s difficult to regulate diets. So what you would want to do again is you would want those cattle producers to have to internalize the cost of emissions, because if your cattle ends up polluting a lot, which they do just naturally, we don’t hate them for it, they’re just big animals.”
“Don’t hate the cattle,” Yang added as the audience laughed.
Yang went on to explain how the market might respond if such a measure were implemented. “Then what that would naturally do, and some people are going to hate this, but it would probably make those products more expensive. And that is appropriate, because there is a cost to producing food in that way. And so if you were to make it more expensive, then you would end up changing consumption patterns,” he said.
And...
“We might not own our own cars” by 2050 to wean the United States economy off of fossil fuels, describing private car ownership as “really inefficient and bad for the environment.” Privately owned cars would be replaced by a “constant roving fleet of electric cars.”
Ladies and gentlemen, your modern Democrat party.
“Don’t hate the cattle,” Yang added as the audience laughed.
Yang went on to explain how the market might respond if such a measure were implemented. “Then what that would naturally do, and some people are going to hate this, but it would probably make those products more expensive. And that is appropriate, because there is a cost to producing food in that way. And so if you were to make it more expensive, then you would end up changing consumption patterns,” he said.
And...
“We might not own our own cars” by 2050 to wean the United States economy off of fossil fuels, describing private car ownership as “really inefficient and bad for the environment.” Privately owned cars would be replaced by a “constant roving fleet of electric cars.”
Ladies and gentlemen, your modern Democrat party.
