What’s interesting about all of this is that the Biden Administration truly believes that twenty thousand young people are just itching to sign up for jobs that involve …work. Outside. Hard work at that. Work that doesn’t involve prancing down streets, waving signs and chanting slogans.

No, clearing wetlands or fighting wildfires will involve getting hot, sweaty, and dirty. It will involve encounters with wild animals such as raccoons, snakes, porcupines, moose, elk and others that would rather attack you than be petted.

Given how a significant portion of today’s youth are, how many do you think will sign up for this kind of work? Not as many as they think will.

[I’d guess they could find 20,000 or so to do this, but environmentalists will likely block some or all of these initiatives. They don’t want anything that suggests that we can cope with the theoretical outcomes of climate change with common-sense policies like better forest management. They want to push the idea of an apocalypse so that the radicals can seize control of energy and production. — Ed]