Playing an increasingly important role in politics is Energy. Voters have always been curious about reducing their energy bills, but as temperature change awareness has increased, voters and therefore the general public have also increasingly expressed support for clean, renewable energy sources.

 

Because of this, political parties just like the Green Party, with its initial target environmental issues, have sprung up. While some might suggest utilizing an Easy DIY Power Plan, not all politicians have embraced renewable energy just like the Green Party. Many have shared ill-informed insights on renewable energy sources so as to dismiss them or use them to get political points, whilst doing little to push it in their own countries, often ‘greenwashing’ issues.

Jack Unwin takes a glance at a number of the mistakes and missteps, politicians have taken in recent years as they struggle to draw in voters using energy policy.

Vladimir Putin – a friend to worms

In July 2019, Russian President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin showed a more caring side when he denounced alternative energy for the damage it causes to worms. No, really.

Speaking at the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS) in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Putin said that while alternative energy is nice, the turbines “shake, causing worms to return out of the soil. This can be not a joke.”

Commenting on his statement, Renew Economy noted: “The source of Putin’s concern about worms? Obscure anti-wind blogs going back nearly a decade. The matter appears nowhere within the scientific literature.”

In the same statement, Putin condemned wind energy for killing birds, a view within which he’s not alone among world leaders.

Donald Trump – wind critic

US President Donald Trump has been a homogenous critic of wind and renewable power. He has criticized wind turbines for killing birds, causing cancer, lowering house prices by 75%, and being so intermittent you wouldn’t be ready to watch TV a day.

These are at the best slightly exaggerated and at the worst outright lies per fact-checker Politifact. His key campaign pledge to rebuild the industry within the US, despite weaknesses in comparison with other sources of energy like wind and solar, was a vote winner but one that has seen little real change to the communities that were previously sustained by the industry.

 

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Scott Morrison – coal champion

Current Australian Prime Minister and victor within the ‘climate election’ Scott Morrison is well-known for his verbose support of coal and tepid support for renewables.

In February 2017 he infamously brought a lump of coal into the Australian parliament so as to denounce the opposing Labor Party. Morrison yelled that the opposition had an “ideological, pathological fear of coal” which they were afflicted by the malady of “coalophobia.”

While Morrison continued to rant about coal’s role in Australian energy security, the lump of coal was passed on to colleagues, a bit like show and tell.

Jair Bolsonaro – all mine

Who ran his election campaign on ending corruption and enacting neoliberal reforms was controversial Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is also known as the ‘Trump of the tropics.’

One target in his crosshairs was Brazil’s environment ministry, which he had promised to mix with the agricultural ministry so as to appease the agricultural lobby. Although he eventually changed his mind, he appointed Ricardo Salles as environment minister, a person who had previously been found guilty of altering the environmental protection plans so it’d benefit mining companies.

Bolsonaro has also stated his intent to get rid of a number of the Amazon rainforest protections to use potential mining opportunities.

Viktor Orban – renewables renegade

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is known mostly for his hard-line stance on the refugee crisis, and his party has been accused of playing politics with energy and emissions.

The president together with fellow Fidelz party member Janos Adler, wrote a missive to the world’s top ten polluters in June 2016 urging them to try and do more to satisfy emissions targets set by the Paris Climate Agreement. This move presented him – a minimum of superficially – as a supporter of renewables and also the green energy transition.

However, critics of the Hungarian government have noted that Hungary’s energy mix is merely 8% renewables and 59% oil and gas. Hungary has not built any new windfarms since 2010, with Hungary’s capacity a comparatively small 329MW. The country is additionally predicted to own among rock bottom levels of renewables in Europe with just 11% by 2020.

 

Political views are individual opinions on how our government and politics should run.  It consists of a set of beliefs, opinions or ideas of certain groups that demonstrates how a society should run and offers a political layout for a certain social order.

There are three main types of government:

1. Democracy – Is a process in which several parties have its own leaders and own members and they compete for the vote of the public. The public then goes through the process of election. The leader who gets the most votes wins the election and leads for a specific time.
2. Authoritarianism – A system in which only one party controls the government. This party is the controlling system of a system.
3. Dictatorship – This is a form of government in which there is only one person who controls the government. This person solely has all the decision making power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Specific Political views that people in society have. Most people are either one of the following:

• Liberal – The Democrats are categorized under this group. Liberal politicians believe in the individual. They want all individuals in the society to succeed. Their goal is to help these individuals in the society.
• Conservative – In America the Republicans are categorized under this group. These group thinks more about the individual helping himself. They got their name from the word conserve. These group aims to keeping and continuing tradition and values. They mostly don’t want change.

We also here of the following terms. These are the spectrum of political views. These are the range of political views. Some people may be on the Left-wing, they are more with the liberal side.  Others on the right-wing, and they would be more of the conservative side.  We also have the centrist. Centrists generally lean a little bit to the left and a little bit to the right. They usually want a mix of both.

There are also different types of people in terms of how they want to make changes and interpret laws.

These people are categorized into the following:

1. Moderates – These people want moderate changes. They want a reasonable amount of government interference.
2. Radicals – Are a group of people who wants a major or big change or shift.
3. Extremists – Are also a group of people who are similar to the radical group. These group of people usually do not compromise.

To which group do you belong? You may also want to know your sexuality. Try this simple quiz to find out: https://quizlagoon.com/quiz/sexuality-quiz/

 

Race prejudice is one of the unseemly realities of the world. It’s an ugly truth that is happening in reality. In some societies they practice a class system according to skin color. Racial classification is a highly arbitrary enterprise. Men has that mentality that there is that superior race. They think that they are mandated to dominate the others. While the physical differences between peoples and individuals are real this shouldn’t be a reason to compare and become a racist.
Discrimination in all forms exists against any non-majority but its especially stunning when targeted at blacks. Why be prejudiced with people we’ve never been connected with? It is sad to realize that many people are prejudiced, even unashamedly so. Is there a truth that racism is politically motivated as well?

There is no magic pill to stop social prejudice. Prejudice is considered a social problem. It is often baseless showing an unfavorable approach to people. A prejudice person shows signs of anger, violence, hate and distrust.

Racism brings about Chaos. Such as the effect of the Apartheid in Africa. The Los Angeles riots came about because of racism. The frenzied mob, the burning buildings and the anger and frustration are all caused by racism. These riots are frightening but for different reason people understand the rage against the injustice. These riots did not prove that there are grounds to fear and hate a particular race. They merely proved that there are deep-seated problems that have been addressed inadequately. Our prejudices are barriers. They serve nothing but to keep us from where we have to go.

Perhaps it’s simple arrogance and ignorance. A lot of people may not know it is no longer correct to refer to blacks or African Americans as Negro, colored and especially not Nigger. People may not realize that its not proper to call people as “Gooks”, “monkeys” or ‘Chinks”. Racism is a vicious circle.

Prejudice is a baseless and often negative preconception or attitude toward members of a group. Prejudice can have a strong influence on how people behave and interact with others, particularly with those who are different from them, even unconsciously or without the person realizing they are under the influence of their internalized prejudices.