THE DEPRIVATION IS THE POINT.

I'm going to have to put more beer in the cooler.  The incompetents playing at the presidency decided, late on Friday last, to find the value proposition in leasing federal lands for oil exploration, and you'd think the veil of the temple had been torn and Hell had been harrowed.  "Activists condemned Friday's announcement by the Biden administration that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will resume oil and gas lease sales on public lands as yet another betrayal of President Joe Biden's promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle the climate emergency." Find yourself a cave to live in, Brett Wilkins, and take your sackcloth-and-ashes doomsday chorus with you.

The Western Environmental Law Center noted that "the communities most at risk from new fossil fuel extraction are primarily Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples, people of the global majority, and those on the frontlines of fossil fuel industry expansion. These are the same communities that turned out in record numbers to get Biden elected in 2020 and who have since been urging Biden to use his executive authority to fulfill his campaign promise and ban new federal fossil fuel projects."

Randi Spivak, public lands director at the Center for Biological Diversity, argued that "the Biden administration's claim that it must hold these lease sales is pure fiction and a reckless failure of climate leadership."

"It's as if they're ignoring the horror of firestorms, floods, and megadroughts, and accepting climate catastrophes as business as usual," she added. "These so-called reforms are 20 years too late and will only continue to fuel the climate emergency. These lease sales should be shelved and the climate-destroying federal fossil fuel programs brought to an end."

Collin Rees, U.S. program manager at Oil Change International, asserted that "in the midst of a climate emergency and a fossil-fueled war that has exposed the dangers of fossil fuel dependency, President Biden's decision to double down on leasing new public lands for fossil fuel development is a disastrous choice."

Shall we make the poverty of the "global majority" the norm everywhere?  The problem in environmentalist wacko circles appears to be their opposition to the continued tenure of Democrats in office.

Sunrise Movement's Prakash warned of electoral consequences for Biden's failure to fulfill his climate promises, which included a pledge that there would be "no more drilling on federal lands, period, period, period, period."

The president has already come under fire from climate and environmental campaigners for his plan to auction more than 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico to fossil fuel companies—an effort that was blocked by a federal judge in January.

"This is why young people are doubting the political process altogether," she said. "If Biden wants to solve for voter turnout in 2022, he should actually deliver on the things he promised, not move farther away from them. On November 8, 2022 we don't want to hear anyone asking why young people didn't vote. Biden is actively turning voters away. If we're going to combat fascism and win in 2022, he must be a leader and course-correct. This election and our futures depend on it."

Earth Day comes on Friday. I'm sure there will be more of this alarmist talk to come.

Meanwhile, that puts whoever is really running the Brandon Maladministration in a bad place.  A year and a half of using executive power to gut domestic energy production has antagonized the normies.  It's unlikely this close to the election that sufficient normies will see in what the Donks have done either an Act of Contrition or a meaningful policy shift.  Meanwhile the environmentalist wacko True Believers will punish any deviationism by not voting.