RE: Were social justice warriors responsible for the election outcome?
November 17, 2016 at 11:18 am
(November 16, 2016 at 10:31 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Is this response just from emotion or do you really think that, back in the industrial age, when the coal industry began, when coal was the most abundant and available source of energy, that they stopped to think, "Hey I wonder if this will run out?" or "I wonder if we burn to much of this will it hurt us?".
Yeah, it's a left over, soon to be obsolete industry. It needs to be phased out. Thinking that it will go away tomorrow, next year, within 10 years, is not reality. We need a replacement for it and green energy at this point won't fill the bill. May never completely fill the bill.
No, I think today's politicians have convinced the electorate that they can build an economy on fucking coal. Which is fucking dying whether people fucking like it or not. And it's going away sooner than most people think. People want jobs, but apparently they need to be in coal or manufacturing, because flying zebras forbid that they have jobs that *gasp* might not HAVE to be there. You know... like just about everywhere else.
Putting it on life support is just going to fuck over future generations in terms of jobs and in terms of environment. But the politicians don't give a flying fuck because all most people give a damn about is 'me, me, me. Will this effect me?"
