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Gavin Newsom and UK’s Ed Miliband aim to burn their nations on the altar of eco-lunacy

At first glance, Gavin Newsom and Ed Miliband would appear to have little in common.

Newsom is the 6’3” sun-kissed California governor who’s head over heels in love with himself.

Miliband, the climate secretary in Keir Starmer’s left-wing government in the United Kingdom, is an infamously nerdy politician.

Cartoonists liken him to Wallace from the British series “Wallace and Gromit”: With his nasal whine and bumbling demeanor, he’s unlikely ever to be seen catching rays on Venice Beach.

And yet there’s one thing that binds this Odd Couple: Both are followers of the death cult of eco-lunacy.

Both seem hellbent on sacrificing the economic health of their nations at the altar of “Saving the Planet.”

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Both are more interested in basking in the virtuous glow of “climate awareness” than they are in investing in the future.

Newsom has been swanning around Europe like a preening president-in-waiting.

He hit the soirees of the Munich Security Conference to rub shoulders with Europe’s great and good.

And he came to London to sign a “clean energy” deal with Miliband. The pact commits both sides to the protection of biodiversity.

President Donald Trump wasn’t pleased at the sight of........

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