ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN AND THE WILL TO GOVERN.

In the days after his inauguration, President Biden signed his name to many, many, documents. Among them was Executive Order 14008 

Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad

Which, without legislative authority, placed 40 percent of Federal climate, clean energy, and other benefits at the disposal of :

"disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution."  

 

 On April 1 2023,  Biden signed an extension of  environmental DEI into the future with  Executive Order 14096  

Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for Al

The precedent for Woke disaster relief and Green AI can be found in Obama's 2016 Executive  Order 13707, launched by Presidential Science Advisor and past Harvard Center for the Environment Director  John Holden to a hallelujah chorus of  tofu-fed wannabe policy wonks at a  West Wing  Humanist Revival meeting  worthy of a dystopic science fiction convention :

"As  President  Obama  noted  in  his  Executive  Order  13707, behavioral science insights can support a wide range of national priorities including ... accelerating the transition to a low carbon economy. 

That Executive Order, 13707, directs Federal agencies to apply behavioral science insights to their policies and programs, and it institutionalizes  the Social and Behavioral Science Team...The adminstration is releasing new guidance to agencies that supports continued implementation of 
The Behavioral Science Insights Executive Order. 

That guidance will help agencies identify promising opportunities to apply behavioral science insights to their programs and policies."

From it emerged a National Academy Sciences report:

The  "new guidance"  of  Executive  Order  13707  applies to every departments of government, and requires  the Department of Defense to report back to the newly institutionalized White House Social and Behavioral  Sciences Team at regular intervals, as to how the armed forces are being remodeled in accord with the executive guidance of that order, which, after all, was signed by their Commander In Chief.

Thus far  no NAS Precautionary Principle advocates have stepped forward  to tell us  why  it  ought not  to apply to the warning given by Yale  Professor  Roger  Sherman of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence: 

 “If the Executive can model the army, he    may set up an absolute government.” 

It is a fear George Washington echoed in his Farewell Address, when he  warned  the nation to:

avoid the necessity of those overgrown... establishments  which, under any form of government,  are inauspicious to liberty.