' The truth - We will go extinct, very soon.'
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Scientist who resisted censorship of climate report lost her job
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/scientist-who-resisted-censorship-of-c
limate-report-lost-her-job/
Caffrey’s career boom and bust exemplifies the difficult situation many scientists face as President Donald Trump’s administration tries to suppress research on topics that he doesn’t consider a priority. Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law has reported 194 examples of the federal government censoring, hindering or sidelining climate change science since Trump was elected.
All federal scientists are vulnerable, but scientists like Caffrey who work under federal contracts face particular risk because they can be fired easily and their funding can be pulled, said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which represents federal and state scientists in complaints against agencies.
In a January episode of Reveal, Caffrey spoke about the pressure she experienced during the editing of the parks report. She said supervisors at the park service yelled at her and threatened to kill the report or remove her name if she would not agree to the changes. Some told her they could lose their jobs or be transferred if she didn’t capitulate.
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I'm curious why you're so willing to impeach Trump with Pence waiting in the wings. You seem to have some magical thinking on that. Because Impeachment isn't going to save us. Pence isn't going to save us. And unless the democrats decide to be anything other than gibbering mouths, they aren't going to save us, either.
You need to be pushing the democratic party to do something other than hold a fig leaf of words over their naked inaction.
And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
tic tac
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
We're on the tracks and the freight train is closing fast.
Bur don't worry. Democrats think that when they impeach Trump, President Pence will rescue us.
That is the funniest thing about all of this. Nobody knows anything about Pence. All I knew about him was that he was governor of Indiana after Mitch Daniels, and that's still all I know about him.
But why wouldn't Democrats in 2019 want him to take over? They've already professed their adoration and respect for John McCain, they spent a year and a half praising Mueller who previously lied to us about WMD's in Iraq, they've become staunch defenders of alphabet agencies such as the FBI and IRS, and they look back fondly on the "good old days" of the GWB administration.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by reaverfan:
It's real easy to learn about Pence. Try google.
Well... that's quite an obtuse reply.
You do realize that if Trump is impeached and that results in somehow successfully removing him from office that Mike Pence will be our president, don't you?
If you didn't know that before, you do now.
So...
Why don't you tell me about Pence.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:By bowing out of TTP and TTIP, Trump freed potential USA action at ALL levels of government on climate shift (and GMOs, pesticides, food and drug safty etc) from being held hostage to "usual and customary profits" in trade tribunals. This has been discussed ad nauseum, even by people like Elizabeth Warren https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-la
So I'm going to reiterate ... yes, it's frustrating that Trump is an idiot when it comes to climate shift, but on the other hand you can thank your lucky stars that Trump has preserved the ability of the next President ... whoever she or he is ... to take whatever action she or he feels is necessary above and beyond the Paris Accord (which BTW was a joke) by bowing out of the TTP and TTIP. - SIGNY
Trump did not preserve anything. blah blah blah ... SECONDRATE
nguage-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html and only an idiot like you would fail to see its significance. Now that we are free to do better, let's figure out what the REAL barriers are besides Trump; Trump is not "the" cause of the problem therefore getting rid of him as President might be "necessary but not sufficient" to solving it.
So, what are the real barriers to getting on the right track with climate shift?
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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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EPA will allow use of pesticide harmful to bees
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/448970-epa-will-allow-us
e-of-pesticide-harmful-to-bees
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Monday it will allow states to use a pesticide that is harmful to bees.
The agency made an emergency exception for 11 states to use sulfoxafloron cotton and sorghum crops.
“The only emergency here is the Trump EPA’s reckless approval of this dangerous bee-killing pesticide,” Lori Ann Burd, environmental health director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement. “It’s sickening that even amid the current insect apocalypse, the EPA’s priority is protecting pesticide industry profits.”
A study published in Nature last year found sulfoxaflor inhibited bumblebee reproduction.
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the emergency declaration has been used for four consecutive years in most of the states.
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REAVERBOT, it's not just the pesticide industry's profits that are being protected, it's farmers' (including corporate farms). Unless you've farmed - or at least gardened intensively- you wouldn't know that growing produce is a never-ending fight against pests of all kinds ... weeds, bugs, fungus, bacteria and viruses.
Our steady adavance towards Armageddon is propelled by profit. Money from those profits hold politicians hostage, that means most Democrats and most Republicans ... and btw most politicians around the world.
And you can't get people to engage in the problem because they're entranced by profit-motivated media.
Suggestions???
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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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Just fwiw - years ago I concluded that 'we' wouldn't halt global warming. Sure the EU has already banned single-use plastics in a nod to protecting the environment, and Canada recently followed suit. And portions of the EU have vastly improved their carbon footprint over the last decade.
So it's not like 'people' are incapable of understanding that they're running to the edge of a cliff. Because some 'people' do, and some governments listen to their 'people'. This is not about 'people'.
But I thought that, globally, to even try to correct this problem with action to be taken RIGHT NOW, at the least the US would have to shutter its military with its energy-hog footprint (not to mention the military-industrial complex), and cripple the US petroleum, gas, and coal industries. And who did that? And who's going to do that? Not Bush. Not Clinton. Not Bush. Not Obama. Not Trump. And also not Bernie. Not Elizabeth. Not Joe. Not Nancy. Not a single democrat was, is, or will be, up to the challenge.
So I figured we wouldn't, because it hurts the corporations too much, and our politicians are hostage to the corporations.
But I kind of hoped we could, if we did eventually put our minds to it.
Knowing that the Arctic was 40F above normal pretty much put that idea in its grave. It used to be a train coming down the tracks, that we could have stopped. No longer. It's a runaway train.
So, to you folk younger than me, I have some advice: eat drink and be merry. And always have an exit plan.
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Meh...
We'll be fine. Or we won't.
I'm pretty sure that we're not the first civilization to destroy themselves before being able to travel space and colonize other planets and we won't be the last. In fact, it's been theorized that the chances that there would even be a species so advanced that they were able to travel to earth and be among us now is so small as to not even be worth really putting much thought into for this very reason.
And really, that's probably not a bad thing if we don't. If that's a test the universe gave us, we fail with flying colors. Collectively as a species, we haven't learned a single thing. Anybody who would argue that humans colonizing other planets would be a good thing for the new planets, and the wildlife, atmosphere and any potential sentient races living there, is absolutely insane.
The rich and the powerful would be the ones running that show, and they would run everything right into the ground just like they're doing here. Meanwhile, the whole of our race would keep on breeding like rabbits and spreading like a cancer through the universe.
I don't mean to be all Debby Downer here. Just saying it like it is.
In the mean time, I'm not going to lose a single second of sleep over it. If the world really is going to end soon, there's not a goddamned thing I can do about it. If it's not, well, I got enough shit to worry about and enough good things left in my life to keep me going.
I suggest you all take the same approach to this before it drives you crazy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Don't forget the exit plan.
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Well... I doubt any of us are ever getting off of this rock.
The afterlife is always an exit plan. Whether it's pearly gates in the clouds or The Nothing from the Neverending Story, makes no matter to me.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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