Kabuki theater is presentational, not representational. Audience members aren’t supposed to suspend disbelief, as with most Western theatrical formats, and immerse themselves in the story. Instead, Kabuki is all about staging, costumes, makeup, vocal intonations, and the actors’ well-practiced facial contortions.
It all looks spectacular!
Until it doesn’t.
As with Kabuki, the Biden administration doesn’t want us to look beyond what it has presented. And we also know what is coming: well-worn promises of wind farms, solar panels, and electric vehicles that will “end climate change.” Americans are being told our future is in renewables and that we must reduce our carbon emissions or endure a climate catastrophe.
But those of us who look deeper than the presentation see it as but a thin, phony, unsustainable veneer.
Biden’s “Build Back Better” bill is replete with incentives for us to purchase electric vehicles, millions of dollars in grants to build out charging stations, and mandates to generate electricity from renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
But there seems to be little consideration given to how to effect the changeover or how it will change daily life in the USA.
And just recently, the communist regime in China signed a 20-year deal with Venture Global LNG to supply 4 million tons of liquified natural gas (LNG) to China from its plant in Louisiana every year, with nary a whimper about climate change from the federal government. It appears that, for the Biden administration, “climate change” is limited only to the airspace immediately above the USA.
As with the struggle against the global pandemic, the challenge of reducing human-influenced climate change needs to be a global effort— a “moon shot” as it were, involving the development of collaborative clean energy technology among the most technologically advanced economies of Europe, the United States, and Asia. It’s not something the United States can fix by outsourcing carbon-based fuel consumption and environmentally devastating mining to other countries. Out of sight will not be out of mind.
The absurd Kabuki theater of Biden administration climate policy—made only for appearances to mollify the U.S. electorate while polluting much of the rest of the world—deeply offends American sensibilities. It’s a type of environmental imperialism that will, eventually, create troubled, volatile—even belligerent—relations with the nations we pollute and exploit while doing nothing to arrest the disastrous global effects of climate change.
Kabuki theater on climate policy by the United States will lead to a rocky climate horror show for us and the world.