It’s very much a David vs. Goliath kind of thing.

After years as a federal officer helping the Drug Enforcement Administration hunt drug lords across Central Asia, and years more teaching in Maryland classrooms, Robin Shaffer anticipated a quiet retirement watching the deep swells roll across the Atlantic and crash on to the broad Jersey Shore.

Instead, he finds himself embroiled in a fight. As a leader of a grassroots group, Protect Our Coast NJ, Shaffer, 53, is taking on an international company and politicians in Trenton backing Ocean Wind 1, a $10 billion proposal to line the Jersey Shore with 98 wind turbines whose 722-foot propeller whirls would dwarf the Washington Monument and Statue of Liberty.

It’s been an uphill battle, with the group “taking in nickels and dimes” and “selling T-shirts and magnets.” The local press seems indifferent to their cause, he said, noting that no outlets covered a public event he held at a pub, perhaps fittingly, with “Cheers” and “Frasier” actor Kelsey Grammer, one of Hollywood’s few prominent conservatives.

With the recent controversy over offshore windmills in New Jersey and the very high likelihood that the edifices are causing the deaths of whales, the roles have changed where Joe Biden has shoveled in tons of largess into so-called green energy projects and RCI reveals the result is a massive taxpayer funded apparatus of large companies, law firms that push to get projects built and even corporate sponsors to boot. Worst of all, as RCI points out, the money flows to people and entities that subscribe to human-caused climate change.

However, despite the insurmountable odds, there is a sliver of hope that can result in victory down the line. From Real Clear Investigations:

“It’s no longer just an ideological fight where one group of people may have the better view,” [Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of energy, climate and the environment at the Heritage Foundation] said. “This has become a matter of theological importance, they see this as a matter of good vs. evil.”

For now, the role of scrappy opponent, once held by environmentalists, has switched to opponents of massive “green” energy projects. Small players like Protect Our Coast NJ take some solace in the rising costs of such projects which has delayed the launch of Ocean 1 until 2026. The group drew more than 100 people – but only one reporter – to a recent event marred by a downpour. Shaffer, pointing to polling that shows support for the project has plummeted in New Jersey, vows to keep up the fight.

“Despite obvious attempts by the Fourth Estate to ignore the efforts of thousands of New Jerseyans to protect the marine ecosystem and the Jersey Shore, our message is getting out,” he said.

CO2 Coalition founder and emeritus physics professor at Princeton University William Happer says the opposition’s message will eventually prevail comparing what is occurring to what happened with the eugenics movement a century ago. Happer says the eugenics movement enjoyed wide public and academic support but was later undermined resulting from Nazi Germany institutionalizing it and using eugenics to carry out their efforts to erase certain groups of people like Jews, Slavs, Poles and gays.

Climate change used to be a matter of scientific debate, and the political right was seen as the establishment while the left were the rag-tag insurgents. But the sides have shifted and now climate change has grown into a massive money making industry. Big Green is the new establishment and Naomi Klein even observed ten years ago, environmental groups are worse than their opponents.

Climate change will be subjected to reality sooner or later when people have finally had enough and there’s no longer a desire on the part of supporters to continue because of intense opposition. Unfortunately, until then, a lot of bad people will make a lot of money and run while average people or those who object on principle can have their lives ruined.