“Right-to-life” just might get more people helping to fight abortion and the conditions which make it increase, if they showed ANY concern about those conditions.
And also, if they showed ANY interest in ALL of the other LIFE that is being extinguished and threatened every day by , things like, ya know, Climate Change (which is like an anathema to the right wing, so desperate they are to fit into their right wing political tribe that they have brainlessly denied all science and instead allow themselves to be deceived about its effects (head in the sand, I think it’s often called).
Climate Change and all its related consequences of our Ecologically destructive “growth”, is causing millions of deaths, and it is climbing. And not just human death. Species death. Ocean acidification. Loss of carbon sinks in massive deforestation. Sea level rise as ice sheets melt. We deny all this because we refuse to believe that humanity could actually grow ourselves to death.
It’s the most stark example of the Original Sin, the sin of pride and hubris, that we can dictate the terms of our own existence. God set that for us. We are seeing in the breakdown of the earth’s systems a very direct warning that we have crossed over and eaten of the forbidden fruit.
Anyway, that’s probably far too much science for the “audience” who needs to hear this. It’s become an article of faith for the right wing to consider science a conspiracy.
From a comment in reply to a UMNS theological troll on Friday, January 19, 2018 here
