Koch polluter dead.......

[Jackie]

David Koch, who spent his live advocating for profits over our planet has died. Don't ask me to give him any sympathy.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/23/politics/...index.html

[onlinebiker]

Hate to cut your dancefest short - 

But he probably left a rather large bequest to the GOP....

Maybe even to the NRA..

[Jackie]

Koch Habit, By Brian37 (AKA Brian Jame Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)

Sevante got it right
In 1896 He sounded the alarm
Too much CO2
Would cause the planet great harm

But the Barons of fossil fuel
Have been greedy and cruel
Put profits above the planet
Most governments they do rule

The lungs of our planet
In the Amazon
20 percent of our oxygen production
Soon to be gone


It is a Shell game
All about profit
Bullshit short term thinking
That will cost our entire planet

We had solar technology
As early as the 1920s
But the polluters 
Bought up all the patents

And as a result
The weather more extreme
More floods, wild fires
And stronger hurricanes


More plastic in our oceans
Too much acid rain
Ocean levels rising
Coral reefs continually dying

Effecting food supplies
Flooding farmer's fields
On which 
The world relies

I really want to hope
Really want to believe
My species is not so selfish
To accept the emergency we face


We have to do better
Those at the top
To put our planet first
Instead of mere profit.
(end)


Poem inspired by this guy.

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-years-eart...e-gas.html

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And a Metallica song dealing with this very subject. I have to admit, although I liked the song when it first came out. I really did not understand the full impact and importance of it back then.

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Hate to cut your dancefest short - 

But he probably left a rather large bequest to the GOP....

Maybe even to the NRA..

I wouldn't expect less from such a giant douchebag.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Koch Habit, By Brian37 (AKA Brian Jame Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)

Sevante got it right
In 1896 He sounded the alarm
Too much CO2
Would cause the planet great harm

But the Barons of fossil fuel
Have been greedy and cruel
Put profits above the planet
Most governments they do rule

The lungs of our planet
In the Amazon
20 percent of our oxygen production
Soon to be gone


It is a Shell game
All about profit
Bullshit short term thinking
That will cost our entire planet

We had solar technology
As early as the 1920s
But the polluters 
Bought up all the patents

And as a result
The weather more extreme
More floods, wild fires
And stronger hurricanes


More plastic in our oceans
Too much acid rain
Ocean levels rising
Coral reefs continually dying

Effecting food supplies
Flooding farmer's fields
On which 
The world relies

I really want to hope
Really want to believe
My species is not so selfish
To accept the emergency we face


We have to do better
Those at the top
To put our planet first
Instead of mere profit.
(end)


Poem inspired by this guy.

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-years-eart...e-gas.html

---

And a Metallica song dealing with this very subject. I have to admit, although I liked the song when it first came out. I really did not understand the full impact and importance of it back then.

---

Hate to cut your dancefest short - 

But he probably left a rather large bequest to the GOP....

Maybe even to the NRA..

I wouldn't expect less from such a giant douchebag.

You know he also supported abortion rights, LGBT rights, and a citizenship path for illegal immigrants, right?  Why didn't you work that into your poem?

Boru

[onlinebiker]

According to Brian there' s two kind of people.

The good ones - who are just like him

And the NRA.


I guess he needs to keep things simple.

[Jackie]

Koch Habit, By Brian37 (AKA Brian Jame Rational Poet on FB and @brianrrs37 on twitter)

Sevante got it right
In 1896 He sounded the alarm
Too much CO2
Would cause the planet great harm

But the Barons of fossil fuel
Have been greedy and cruel
Put profits above the planet
Most governments they do rule

The lungs of our planet
In the Amazon
20 percent of our oxygen production
Soon to be gone


It is a Shell game
All about profit
Bullshit short term thinking
That will cost our entire planet

We had solar technology
As early as the 1920s
But the polluters 
Bought up all the patents

And as a result
The weather more extreme
More floods, wild fires
And stronger hurricanes


More plastic in our oceans
Too much acid rain
Ocean levels rising
Coral reefs continually dying

Effecting food supplies
Flooding farmer's fields
On which 
The world relies

I really want to hope
Really want to believe
My species is not so selfish
To accept the emergency we face


We have to do better
Those at the top
To put our planet first
Instead of mere profit.
(end)


Poem inspired by this guy.

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-years-eart...e-gas.html

---

And a Metallica song dealing with this very subject. I have to admit, although I liked the song when it first came out. I really did not understand the full impact and importance of it back then.

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I wouldn't expect less from such a giant douchebag.

You know he also supported abortion rights, LGBT rights, and a citizenship path for illegal immigrants, right?  Why didn't you work that into your poem?

Boru

So? A libertarian is merely someone who is willing to fuck over minorities . It means nothing to claim you value minorities if you still say "fuck you I got mine."

Libertarians get social issues correct, but economic stability has to go along with that. And the truth is pollution adversely affects poor communities at a far greater rate than the middle class and rich.

Even globally speaking, what America doesn't put into local landfills, we send to more poor countries who do not have the means to effectively manage the waste we send them.

Easy to pick on the poor when you have money.

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A Libertarian is someone willing to pay poverty wages to LGBT and Pot smokers.

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Martin Luther King Jr had the attitude that the better blacks did economically, the better everyone did.

It means nothing to support the things you listed, if economic stability does not go along with it.

None of our allies have the wealth gap we do to the degree we have it.

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It doesn't do LGBT, women, or blacks or Histpanics any damned good for you to say you value their rights if they don't have economic stability. It also does not do poor rural whites or suburban whites any damned good if "fuck you I got mine" "sink or swim" is your mantra.

None of what I typed above is a call for a nanny state. Nobody wants Stalin's Russia or Castro's Cuba.  But it is still classisism at a minimum, if your attitude is " fuck you I got mine."  The best way to value ANYONE of any rural, suburban or urban zip code, and the best way to create more independence is to pay livable wages, provide affordable health care. Long term that will make every zip code more stable, instead of what we do now, which is corporate welfare.

[downbeatplumb]

Hate to cut your dancefest short - 

But he probably left a rather large bequest to the GOP....

Maybe even to the NRA..

He's still dead though right?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Hate to cut your dancefest short - 

But he probably left a rather large bequest to the GOP....

Maybe even to the NRA..

He's still dead though right?

And likely to remain that way. 

Boru

[Jackie]

Hate to cut your dancefest short - 

But he probably left a rather large bequest to the GOP....

Maybe even to the NRA..

He's still dead though right?

The problem with religious and political ideologs is that they ignore both Shakespeare's MacBeth's ACT 5 SCENE 5 "Flurry Of Activity, signifying nothing" and Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot. "

I do shout and scream myself. But not because I want immortality, but because I see the good in my species, in that we are perfectly capable of problem solving while ditching tribalism and ego. 

I do fear however, our species tribalism will shorten our ride. I hope not though.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

He's still dead though right?

The problem with religious and political ideologs is that they ignore both Shakespeare's MacBeth's ACT 5 SCENE 5 "Flurry Of Activity, signifying nothing" and Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot. "

I do shout and scream myself. But not because I want immortality, but because I see the good in my species, in that we are perfectly capable of problem solving while ditching tribalism and ego. 

I do fear however, our species tribalism will shorten our ride. I hope not though.

'Sound and fury', not 'Flurry Of Activity'.

And I really, REALLY don't think you understand what MacBeth was saying in that scene.

Boru