There is nothing liberals will not take away from you, from the most essential (e.g., cars, electricity, toilets) to the most trivial, like individually wrapped cheese. If you want to see how absurdly repressive the whole country will soon be if Democrats further consolidate power, look to deep blue states like New York:

Individually wrapped cheese would be largely banned under a far-reaching bill getting pushed by New York environmentalists and politicians to reduce the use of plastics…

Plastic represents the greatest advance in materials science since the bronze age. It makes modern life possible. Applied to food, plastic benefits public health by preventing spoilage and contamination. But it is petroleum-based, so liberals regard plastic as ideologically unclean.

The state bill — called Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act — would require companies with net incomes over $1 million who sell or distribute food or products to reduce plastics and other packaging that ends in landfills or waterways by 50% over the next 12 years.

If the waterways are full of waste, New Yorkers should elect representatives who will clean them up, rather than banning anything that might conceivably end up as litter. But that’s not the approach the left-wing activists calling the shots prefer:

One leading environmentalist backing the bill confirmed that the goal is to eliminate single slices of cheese packaged in non-reusable plastic, as well as other wasteful packaging.

“We have to do something about the plastic crisis,” said Judith Enck, president of the group Beyond Plastics.

As it is submersed beneath a tsunami of needy illegal aliens and crime spirals out of control, New York has bigger crises than individually wrapped cheese slices. But the liberals who caused its problems have no interest in solving them. Their focus is on exerting power over every picayune aspect of life until the ultimate objective is achieved: a world in which everything that is not mandatory is forbidden.

On a tip from Wiggins.

If Joe Biden is fit to be President of the USA, then a pile of ice is more than qualified to be president of Iceland. So a glacier named Snæfellsjökull has entered the race:

“It suddenly just came to me. What if the glacier was president?” said [campaign organizer Angela] Rawlings. It was a seemingly unorthodox way to push forward a movement that was already swiftly advancing; Ecuador had enshrined legal rights for nature while Māori in New Zealand were working to secure legal personhood for the Whanganui River.

A campaign organization has been assembled:

[A] team of more than 50 people scrambles to secure Snæfellsjökull a spot on the ballot in the country’s upcoming election on 1 June.

According to leftist doctrine, glaciers will soon melt due to white people and capitalism, so they had better give serious thought to who will be VP.

Rawlings’s ambitions go beyond putting a piece of ice in charge of Iceland:

“Getting on the ballot itself would be a huge step for increasing awareness around the rights of nature movements internationally,” said Rawlings. “It would set an extraordinary precedent to be considering non-human entities for these kinds of positions.”

I used to expect that at any moment leftists would burst out laughing at countermoonbats for thinking they were serious. But no, they really are this crazy.

On a tip from Steve T.

Hard to imagine a story more illustrative of the consequences of putting liberals in charge than this one about the Mecca of Moonbattery pouring gargantuan amounts of sewage into San Francisco Bay:

San Francisco has long been at the forefront of all things progressive: it was one of the first locales to begin decriminalizing marijuana, which of course devolved into the druggie free-for-all it now is; home to pederasts like Harvey Milk, the LGBTQ++ community, no matter how obscene (Folsom Street Fair) is always celebrated; it’s home to social programs like GIFT, which isn’t just ordinary welfare, but a handout that can pay out as much as $21,600 per enrollee and is exclusively for “trans” people; and the city has an official “Poop Patrol” department to clean up all the human fecal matter plopped around the sidewalks thanks to the sizable vagrant population.

And predictably, all that progressivism only reaps total destruction, coming back to bite the city in the rear-end in grand fashion; a longstanding nonprofit committed to the environmental health of the bay filed a lawsuit against the city’s utility commission for 1.2 billion gallons per year of sewage and trash-filled runoff flowing into the San Francisco Bay.

The filth flowing out of San Franfreakshow is described to be rich in “fecal matter, plastics, syringes, and condoms,” as you might expect.

The same sanctimonious moonbats who run this seeping pustule of political correctness won’t let people have gas furnaces and water heaters, on the grounds that they are allegedly offensive to the environment.

Down the Left Coast, we see a similar phenomenon in Los Angeles, which has been flooding the country with comparable quantities of sewage via Tinseltown.

On a tip from R F. Hat tip: Selwyn Duke.

Environazis will even come after pizza in New York. In the absence of sufficient pushback, they are pressing forward with restrictions:

New York City has quietly approved a controversial green plan to require pizzerias and matzah bakeries using decades-old wood- and coal-fired stoves to cut their smoky pollutants by 75%.

Mayor Eric Adams’ Department of Environmental Protection said the fresh edict takes effect April 27, with some city businesses having already coughed up more than $600,000 for new smoke-eating systems in anticipation of the expected mandate.

Uundercapitalized businesses (to use a favorite Shrillary term) that can’t afford a $600,000 system to appease bureauweenies may have to go under — or make pizza that doesn’t taste as good.

New York is already the most expensive city in the country to buy pizza.

Why come after pizza? Because New Yorkers love their pizza. Their moonbat rulers are testing the limits of how much pointless repression they will docilely submit to.

On a tip from Chris Neilson.

Whatever people want, capitalism will provide — including opportunities for enviromoonbat virtue signaling. This is done through green-washing:

If you want to make the ultimate environmentally-friendly statement, you have to order an electric car with a vegan leather interior.

“Vegan leather” used to be known as vinyl or pleather.

One righteous moonbat is not fooled:

My annoyance stems from the sheer amount of greenwashing used to punt fake leather, now sold as an optional extra or the eco-friendly alternative. …

[J]ust because it’s vegan-friendly doesn’t mean it’s environmentally friendly. …

Basically, manufacturers are still using materials derived from good old-fashioned petroleum plastic.

Petroleum plastic — the greatest advance in materials science since bronze — is regarded as unclean in the moonbat religion.

Because cows will be killed anyway so we can eat them,

By opting for leather, you’re actually reducing global waste…

There is also this to consider:

I’m willing to bet a large percentage of people with eco-friendly interiors drive around in leather shoes.

That’s why everyone who truly believes in woke ideology goes barefoot.

Don’t be duped, moonbats! It is bad enough for the environment to foolishly buy an EV, let alone one with faux leather interior.

On a tip from Mike B.

Would you eat bugs to signal subservience to ecomoonbattery? Would you eat bugs fed on garbage? Would you pay money to have the federal government get you to eat bugs fed on garbage? The answer to the last question is yes, in light of this grant from the US Department of Agriculture:

The $130,000 grant supports research that “addresses the need for more cost-efficient production of crickets as a sustainable protein source,” according to the listing. Specifically, the grant will support research into using municipal landfill waste to feed crickets that will later be harvested for human consumption.

“Sustainable” is Liberalese for “compliant with our antihuman ideology.”

Here’s why we can’t eat food anymore:

“Conventional protein production poses a substantial strain on the ecosystem, requiring unsustainable quantities of water, land, and feed as inputs,” the grant description reads. The grant description also calls “conventional” farming a “significant source of greenhouse gas emissions.”

By “greenhouse gas emissions,” they usually mean beneficial CO2, which causes crops to grow. But we won’t be needing crops in liberal utopia, because our rulers want us to eat bugs fed on garbage.

On a tip from R F.

Even without the second Civil War, America is splitting apart into separate nations, with different and incompatible populations, customs, values, and laws. The everyday products people use are becoming different in parts of the country that have succumbed to liberal micromanagement. New Yorkers will have to make do with different laundry detergent:

New York City could soon ban Tide PODS and other laundry-detergent packs under the latest “green” push from lawmakers. …

Fines for selling the pods would start at $400, double for a second violation and top off at $1,200 for flouting the rules more than twice, if the bill becomes law. The bill would also require education and outreach to businesses on the ban for the first year.

At least this might keep social media from coaxing kids into taking the Tide pod challenge. Unfortunately, banning pods will not sate bureauweenies’ lust for control; other laundry detergent will inevitably follow. It is offensive to the planet.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Our enemies could do it the traditional way: with a bombing campaign. But that could provoke resistance. So they use a characteristically insidious tactic. They are destroying our infrastructure from within in the name of radical antihuman environmentalism and Cultural Marxism.

Moonbats are delighted at the ongoing project to destroy the dams many rely on to provide electricity:

Copco No. 2 was fully removed in October 2023, marking the first of four dam removals along the Klamath River. The other three dams on the Klamath River that are part of this project are slated to begin removal in January of 2024!

It is the largest dam destruction project in history.

For nearly 100 years, dams on the Klamath River have blocked salmon and steelhead trout from reaching more than 400 miles of habitat, encroached on indigenous culture, [yadda yadda yadda]. The time has finally come for the four dams – J.C. Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate – built between 1908 and 1962, to come down.

What takes generations to build, it takes moonbats no time at all to destroy.

Estimated cost of the demolition: $500 million. This will be split between taxpayers and utility company PacifiCorp, which will presumably raise rates on whatever electricity it still has to offer to pay for it. The cost in terms of increased energy prices are unknown.

Dam destruction is not limited to California’s Klamath River:

In Ohio, a dam that was built a century ago to power a mill on the East Branch of Rocky River was removed in 2020, which quickly led to a thriving habitat for fish and other wildlife as well as native plants.

Allowing a thriving habitat for people is not on the agenda.

In the United Kingdom, projects big and small are drawing rave reviews. In 2022, 325 dams, weirs, culverts, and levees were removed, and Dam Removal Europe hands out an annual award for the best endeavor.

Leftists tell us that they have to restrict our access to electricity because carbon emissions offend their weather gods. Yet they are just as hostile to emission-free hydroelectric and nuclear as they are to coal and clean-burning natural gas.

On tips from Barry A.

If men can marry each other on the grounds that they have perverse erotic relationships, then Sonja Semyonova can marry a tree. After all, she is ecosexual:

Semyonova, 45, claims she connected with the tree during her lonely, solo walks in the summer of 2021. Those walks began in 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. It was the same year that she moved to Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.

Her feelings toward the tree are not entirely platonic:

The feeling of being tiny and supported by something so solid. The feeling of not being able to fall,” she said, further describing her “erotic” experiences with this tree, although she said she does not have physical relations with the oak.

Maybe there is still morality among moonbats, and she is waiting until after marriage.

“I would lie against it. There was an eroticism with something so big and so old holding my back,” she continued, asserting that there are major misconceptions about ecosexuality, which the environmental group the Sierra Club describes as “unabashedly queer.”

The website Here Come the Ecosexuals! defines ecosexuality, in part, as “a person that finds nature romantic, sensual, and sexy.”

Where sexual depravity meets envirolunacy — there you will find the future of moonbattery.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.

According to Democrat dogma, gas stoves are offensive to the environment. That’s why the Biden Regime has been cracking down on them, as have authorities in places where Democrats have achieved single-party rule such as San Francisco and Berkeley. The objective, as with automobiles, is to incrementally make gas stoves unobtainable by hyperregulating those who provide them and driving up the price. Yet it appears that Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris might not regard the menace posed by gas stoves with appropriate gravity:

“From our family to yours, happy Thanksgiving,” Harris posted on X Thursday, including a photo of her next to second gentleman Doug Emhoff, a casserole and a gas stove.

Harris, 59, was roasted over the post, with many conservatives accusing her of “hypocrisy.”

“Wait…that’s a gas stove! The same kind Dems want to BAN you from owning,” Sen Ted Cruz (R-Texas) wrote on X.

Silly conservatives. Lifestyle restrictions are for little people, not the Liberal Elite.

New York State’s Kathy Hochul has moved to ban natural gas entirely because according to her ideology, it causes the climate to fluctuate, which is alleged to be problematic. She too cooks on a gas stove.

On tips from Barry A, Jack D, and Ed McAninch.

The USA has been falling under control by its enemies:

The entire universe envies the lush interior of the U.S. Increasingly empty, it is filled with a cornucopia of minerals, fiber, food, waters, extraordinarily fertile soil as well as well-ordered, educated, mostly docile people. Worth in the quadrillions, if one could monetize and trade it, financialize it, the way the market has financialized the future labor of Americans, well, it would be like golden coins raining from the sky.

On October 4th, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a proposed rule to create Natural Asset Companies (NACs). …

NACs will allow BlackRock, Bill Gates, and possibly even China to hold the ecosystem rights to the land, water, air, and natural processes of the properties enrolled in NACs.

Hard to say which of the three is most sinister. BlackRock has been instrumental in inflicting ESG through major corporations and pension plans. Bill Gates is a creepy villain out of some tongue-in-cheek spy movie. His malevolent schemes include polluting the atmosphere with chalk so that sunlight is reflected back into outer space and cutting down and burying forests. Alarmingly, he has been buying up farmland. China’s communist dictatorship intends to exploit our current weakness to defeat and dominate us.

Each NAC will hold “management authority” over the land. When we are issued carbon allowances, owners of said lands will be able to claim tax deductions and will be able to sell carbon allowances to businesses, families and townships. In the simplest of terms, that’s where the money will be made. WE peons will be renting air from the richest people on earth.

People like Gates, Xi Jinping, and the termites running BlackRock.

Here’s what they may take control of:

National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, Wilderness Areas, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, Conservation Areas on Private and Federal Lands, Endangered Species Critical Habitat, and the Conservation Reserve Program.

If we let them, they will steal our country out from under us.

On a tip from R F.

It used to be that paper products were unholy in the enviromoonbat religion. They entailed cutting down sacred trees. But now trees themselves are unholy, because they cause the climate to continue fluctuating the way it always has. Bill Gates has even devoted $millions to cutting down whole forests out of sheer environmental righteousness and burying them so that no carbon dioxide can escape to serve as a nutrient to other plants. Since they help save the climate from trees, paper products are now good. So say the papertarians:

Are you a papertarian? That is the focus of a new integrated advertising campaign aimed at informing how choosing paper-based products are a smart choice for our forests and the environment here in the U.S. and to encourage recycling. The campaign from the Paper and Packaging Board (P+PB) launched [in April] on streaming, traditional and cable TV, CTV, paid digital channels, magazines, podcasts and social media with celebrity Retta. She is a comedian and actress known for her roles on the Good Girls, Parks and Recreation and Ugliest House in America.

A papertarian is someone who lives a paper-based lifestyle. A Papertarian does right by the planet by making the choice to use products made from paper over other products because paper comes from trees, a sustainable, renewable resource not from fossil fuels.

In contrast, plastics are made from fossil fuels. That means they are bad. At least they are for people who produce and import paper packaging like the Paper and Packaging Board.

If the paper people put up enough money to buy the news media like Pfizer has, their propaganda campaign will get traction among weak-minded moonbats. Papertarians will exist outside the paper packaging industry. They will scream in your face if they see you buying something at the store that isn’t packaged in paper.

But then eventually paper will be bad again, just as the media will probably give up trying to make us afraid of nice weather and go back to shrieking about global cooling. As with all aspects of liberalism, there is no direct connection to objective reality. All that matters is to posture self-righteously.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Let’s hope Blinken’s son hauled in plenty of candy while trick-or-treating dressed as the King of the Moochers, because it may have to last forever. Halloween could face cancelation now that Yahoo has revealed it to be “an ecological disaster”:

All those candy wrappers have to go somewhere. So do all the plastic pumpkins, plastic vampire teeth, plastic Harry Potter wands.

And where they go, for the most part, is into landfills and waterways, where they contribute to a plastics problem that has become a global challenge.

Plastic — the miracle material that makes modern life possible — is a synthetic polymer derived from fossil fuels. It is regarded as unholy in the moonbat religion.

Halloween furthermore oppresses animals:

Fake spiderwebs stretched over hedges or fencing are a common Halloween decoration. They are also a danger for birds.

If mudpuddles have rights in Milwaukee, surely we can grant birds the right to a world free of fake spiderwebs.

That’s not all:

Earlier this year, a young deer in Michigan had to be rescued after its head became stuck in a plastic Halloween bucket…

Also, jack-o’-lanterns may end up rotting in landfills. We are told to believe this makes it be too hot outside, because decomposing vegetation produces methane, “a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.”

Clearly there can be no place for Halloween in liberal utopia.

On a tip from Lyle.

Leftists attack our fundamental rights directly, assailing the First Amendment in the name of “disinformation” and the Second Amendment during hysteria ginned up over the maniacs they allow to run loose. In addition, they wage a more insidious campaign against rights in general by diluting the concept to the point of meaninglessness. A town in California recently granted rights to elephants. Now Milwaukee County, Wisconsin has bestowed rights on water.

The “Rights of Nature” resolution passed on Friday, issuing specific protections for bodies of water in the county. The resolution originated from a greater indigenous-led movement to ensure that nature has the same legal protections as humans. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley said that the resolution was a means to both honor indigenous beliefs about nature and to more effectively execute conservation efforts.

It would be racist to oppose anything done to “honor indigenous beliefs” — i.e., out of politically correct obsequiousness toward the scarce descendants of the Stone Age savages who inhabited this continent a few centuries ago.

Like a lot of fundamentally depraved moonbattery, the notion that puddles have rights comparable to a person’s can be traced back to the UN:

The greater “rights of nature” movement believes that all of nature have the same rights as humans. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) — established in 2012 at the behest of the United Nations — describes the rights of nature as a means to achieve environmental protections by affording ecosystems the same legal protections as people and corporations.

Putting a red face on the foolishness makes it easier to impose:

The Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin originally enacted the “rights of nature” in a January 2020 resolution, which Milwaukee County cited as a model for this latest resolution.

The point is to suppress economic development:

The tribe declared that its resolution was enacted to thwart a proposed open-pit metallic sulfide mine, the Back Forty Mine.

When the Rights of Nature are sufficiently honored, mines and farms will no longer inflict oppression on nonliving entities. People can make do by running around in loincloths chasing bison.

The rights of the Menominee River, as proclaimed by Indians, are extensive:

The tribe declared that the river had a right to naturally exist, flourish, regenerate, evolve; the rights of restoration, recovery, and preservation; the right to abundant, pure, clean, and unpolluted water; the right to natural groundwater recharge and surface water recharge; the right to a healthy natural environment and natural biodiversity; the right to natural water flow; the right to carry out natural ecosystem functions; the right to be free of activities or practices, as well as obstructions, that interfere with or infringe upon these rights.

This won’t stop with rivers. Now that even nonliving entities can be bestowed rights at our expense, it is only a matter of time until everything you can name is granted rights.

Consider letters of the alphabet. Why should A always come first, enjoying unearned privilege over the other letters? All letters have a right to come first. To establish utopia requires overthrowing the tyranny of the alphabetical order.

Smells will have rights too. If certain people have a right not to be offended, why not certain smells? When Eric Swalwell lets rip during an interview, those nearby who pinch their noses in disgust will be taken to task for offending the smell by marginalizing it as offensive.

On tips from MrRightWingDave and Franco.