RE: Climate Change and ecological collapse
August 3, 2017 at 1:55 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2017 at 1:58 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's an amusing balancing act to watch, wherein people are sought to..tongue in cheek, say that climate change isn't real, but also make it more subtly apparent that they aren't denying that the climate is changing, just insisting that their owners aren't responsible for it. It's just the sun, or "mother nature", or cow farts. Hey, you know, maybe it'll be a good thing? Sure, it'll be great when I can break into the coffee and chocolate business in S Central Florida, or when the prefeered peaches or onions are predominantly grown in my part of appalachia rather than georgia....but probably not great for the people who can't keep doing it anymore.
The funny thing about that song and dance is this...would it matter, would it matter whether or not their owners were responsible for it? Or whether or not it would be great for new markets? No, no it wouldn't - because those people it's currently affecting and the many more it will come to affect are fucked either way unless we do something about it.
Its an environmental issue, sure, but also a social issue, an economic issue...and a fairly serious national security issue. The army of doubt has some serious overlap with our current global crop of nationalists...where do they think all those icky browns go when their shitholes dry up..or get swallowed by the sea?
The funny thing about that song and dance is this...would it matter, would it matter whether or not their owners were responsible for it? Or whether or not it would be great for new markets? No, no it wouldn't - because those people it's currently affecting and the many more it will come to affect are fucked either way unless we do something about it.
Its an environmental issue, sure, but also a social issue, an economic issue...and a fairly serious national security issue. The army of doubt has some serious overlap with our current global crop of nationalists...where do they think all those icky browns go when their shitholes dry up..or get swallowed by the sea?
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