Elisabeth, I believe it will come a point when Republicans will not be able to withstand the powers of a Nature enraged by climate change. But I see your perspective, too: Republicans are dangerously PRECIPITATING the conditions that lead to that point—with consequences for all humanity.
With climate change we are playing with forces so thoroughly beyond our control if we push them far enough, and even now, and crucial to our survival. So that's the biggest threat. Meanwhile, follow the money. It's just nuts the degree (above and beyond the ordinary) we have allowed "the theory embraced by members of both parties between 1933 and 1981" to be replaced with Gilded Age plutocracy and corruption. It is mad the degree to which we now accept as normal, the press reports as normal, that wealthy lobbies routinely get to overrule the public will, and that we routinely vote for people who accept that. Even Democrats, more than is honorable or democratic, but the Republican Party is completely bought and paid for, and their response to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger shows where decency gets you in today's "GOP".
Pence pretends to be so worried about passing debt to our grandchildren yet denies climate change and how that will profoundly affect those grandchildren.
The greatest danger in my mind is people not standing up to the willful ignorance driving the Republican Party. Calling them names only fuels their resolve to do even worse things. Only by looking them in the eye, calling them out and making them defend the defenseless with put a stop to their sh*t.
They go hand and hand. Climate change will not skip over a state that denies Medicare to its citizens, allows unlimited gun carry, censors public school history lessons, scapegoats persons who exhibit a non pathological minority variant of the human condition, or in short--lest this list go on for pages--threatens the vengeance of a violent God made in their own image, I.e. bullying, petty, selfish, temperamental, full of fire and smoke that signifies nothing.
The greatest danger to this country is the imbecilc, retrograde republican party and climate change.
Deborah, that’s two things. I think the Repugnants are even MORE dangerous than climate change....
Elisabeth, I believe it will come a point when Republicans will not be able to withstand the powers of a Nature enraged by climate change. But I see your perspective, too: Republicans are dangerously PRECIPITATING the conditions that lead to that point—with consequences for all humanity.
You're right, I should have written "two dangers."
However, as destructive as "the Repugnants" are, climate has the ability to sweep everything before it away.
With climate change we are playing with forces so thoroughly beyond our control if we push them far enough, and even now, and crucial to our survival. So that's the biggest threat. Meanwhile, follow the money. It's just nuts the degree (above and beyond the ordinary) we have allowed "the theory embraced by members of both parties between 1933 and 1981" to be replaced with Gilded Age plutocracy and corruption. It is mad the degree to which we now accept as normal, the press reports as normal, that wealthy lobbies routinely get to overrule the public will, and that we routinely vote for people who accept that. Even Democrats, more than is honorable or democratic, but the Republican Party is completely bought and paid for, and their response to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger shows where decency gets you in today's "GOP".
Most people live detached from Nature these days and don't realize this truth. Fixing the RepubliCONs won't fix the planet.
Pence pretends to be so worried about passing debt to our grandchildren yet denies climate change and how that will profoundly affect those grandchildren.
I'm sure that part of his solution includes more tax cuts for the wealthy. First things first.
Never forget which over-populated, petroleum-using, capitalistic species caused climate change---
Yes. Climate change is science. The Repugnants are ignorance and hearsay.
Or ignorance & heresy.
What do you know about climate change? Prey tell? It’s an economy thing;) Here is an interview with the author of the GND. https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-chief-staff-admits-green-124408358.html
The greatest danger in my mind is people not standing up to the willful ignorance driving the Republican Party. Calling them names only fuels their resolve to do even worse things. Only by looking them in the eye, calling them out and making them defend the defenseless with put a stop to their sh*t.
They’ve achieved critical mass in terms of shamelessness. They’re aware, they just don’t care
It has not so far.
They go hand and hand. Climate change will not skip over a state that denies Medicare to its citizens, allows unlimited gun carry, censors public school history lessons, scapegoats persons who exhibit a non pathological minority variant of the human condition, or in short--lest this list go on for pages--threatens the vengeance of a violent God made in their own image, I.e. bullying, petty, selfish, temperamental, full of fire and smoke that signifies nothing.
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Thanks!
Preach it, sister.
Charlie, I am a licensed lay preacher in the Episcopal Church as it were. Probably preaching to the choir here.
and that WAR
I blame the unsmart voters that voted them in office.