' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/great-debate-over-
when-anthropocene-started/587194/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Trump Appoints Stephen Moore, ALEC’s Favorite Economist, to Fed
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2019/04/17/trump-appoints-stephen-moore-a
lecs-favorite-economist-fed/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=7e74d70e-2149-4666-a064-c06848541999
Republicans will never admit what's happening.
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As the seas rise, Republicans will deserve all the blame their grandchildren assign them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-the-seas-rise-republicans-w
ill-deserve-all-the-blame-their-grandchildren-assign-them/2019/04/12/de26f7ec-5c88-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.f1d0f733aaa3
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Our leaders are ignoring global warming to the point of criminal negligence. It's unforgivable
Humanity survived the cold war because no one pushed the button. On climate change, the button has been pushed again and again
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/20/our-leaders-are-ig
noring-global-warming-to-the-point-of-criminal-negligence-its-unforgivable
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When Did Moral Clarity Become Radical?
The Green New Deal has been called a political “loser.” But back in 1988, both parties saw climate legislation as sensible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-gr
een-new-deal.html
It was not so long ago that a young congresswoman proposed major climate legislation that would transform the national energy system and, with it, the economy. Speaking on the floor of the House, she lamented the tens of billions of dollars in federal handouts to the fossil fuel industry and the government’s failure to adopt its own scientists’ recommendations. She warned of the “very high risk of irreversible and catastrophic impact looming on the horizon” if the United States failed to act.
“We have the facts,” she said. “The crisis is here. The time to move from rhetoric into action is also here.”
The congresswoman was Claudine Schneider, a Republican from Rhode Island. The bill was the Global Warming Prevention Act of 1988.
Like the Green New Deal, the 1988 bills were calculated to shape the debate in the years to come. “I don’t believe it’s going to pass tomorrow,” Mr. Wirth said at the time. “You can throw up your hands and say, ‘Well, there’s no way we can do it,’ or you can dig in and whack away at it.” Ms. Schneider felt the same way. When she reintroduced the bill in 1989 it received more than a hundred additional sponsors, and ultimately several sections did pass, increasing the research and development budget for energy-efficiency programs by 30 percent.
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But by then the public debate had been derailed — by the oil and gas industry’s campaign to poison any effort to pass climate policy and to question the decade-old scientific consensus; by President George H.W. Bush’s economic council, which had come out in force against emissions reductions; and by right-wing congressional Republicans. Negotiations for a binding global treaty fell apart and the Persian Gulf war began.
In the years that followed, climate policy became an afterthought, then a partisan issue, then a casualty of the Republican Party’s delirious embrace of industry propaganda and self-delusion — until now, when it has become a matter of life and death.
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This marks a profound turning point, not only in political messaging but also in our understanding of the scale of what we’re up against. It is this message — not airplane bans or “farting cows” or a Stone Age redux — that terrifies the powerful and the complicit. It is moral clarity, in the United States of 2019, that passes as radical.
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Republicans Are Trying To BAN New Wind Power Projects
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Originally posted by reaverfan:
As the seas rise, Republicans will deserve all the blame their grandchildren assign them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-the-seas-rise-republicans-w
ill-deserve-all-the-blame-their-grandchildren-assign-them/2019/04/12/de26f7ec-5c88-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.f1d0f733aaa3
Show me a democrat in the current presidential field with climate change front and center. Show me Pelosi, Speaker of the House, crafting the needed climate change policies. Show me Schumer, Senate Minority Leader, stumping for a climate change focus.
What?? WHAT??? Do I hear anything over the democrats' din of TRUMP!TRUMP!TRUMP! ?
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nope
As I mentioned elsewhere, there are 2 things on my priority list
1 avoiding nuclear war
2 global climate change
And unless democrats at all levels make these a concern, I will not be voting 'democrat' again. Why the fuck do I want to vote for a bunch of useless, self-serving hypocrites?
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I already proved it, troll. Every effort by Democrats has been crushed by Republicans, every time.
The Rapid Decline Of The Natural World Is A Crisis Even Bigger Than Climate Change
A three-year UN-backed study from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has grim implications for the future of humanity.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nature-destruction-climate-chan
ge-world-biodiversity_n_5c49e78ce4b06ba6d3bb2d44?guccounter=1
Nature is in freefall and the planet’s support systems are so stretched that we face widespread species extinctions and mass human migration unless urgent action is taken. That’s the warning hundreds of scientists are preparing to give, and it’s stark.
The last year has seen a slew of brutal and terrifying warnings about the threat climate change poses to life. Far less talked about but just as dangerous, if not more so, is the rapid decline of the natural world. The felling of forests, the over-exploitation of seas and soils, and the pollution of air and water are together driving the living world to the brink, according to a huge three-year, U.N.-backed landmark study to be published in May.
The study from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), expected to run to over 8,000 pages, is being compiled by more than 500 experts in 50 countries. It is the greatest attempt yet to assess the state of life on Earth and will show how tens of thousands of species are at high risk of extinction, how countries are using nature at a rate that far exceeds its ability to renew itself, and how nature’s ability to contribute food and fresh water to a growing human population is being compromised in every region on earth.
This is why we're going to go extinct.
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Emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost may be 12 times higher than thought, scientists say
‘This needs to be taken more seriously than it is right now,’ says author of new study
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-greenhouse-ga
ses-emissions-arctic-alaska-a8874456.html?fbclid=IwAR1V24V8zEpJYvnwckxP8x4r1nsDQ6XXij7WP4a7CMVdkfKK_21zXTph_PA&utm_source=reddit.com
We're about to wipe out most life on earth, including ourselves.
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‘Death by a thousand cuts’: vast expanse of rainforest lost in 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/25/death-by-a-thousan
d-cuts-vast-expanse-rainforest-lost-in-2018
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