“Of course it mattered to have FDR in power instead of Herbert Hoover, but it mattered even more to have an organized population which was flexing its muscles in every conceivable way in the 1930s—from sit-down strikes in auto plants, to shutting down the ports on the West Coast, to shutting down entire cities with general strikes. And it mattered Continue Reading
On the #GreenNewDeal: “It’s about understanding that we are in a time of multiple overlapping crises, and that we are on an incredibly tight deadline when it comes to lowering greenhouse-gas emissions in time to prevent truly catastrophic warming. In order to bring people along with these necessary changes, there have to be benefits in the here-and-now in terms of Continue Reading
There’s a CNN interview(linked below) with AOC that right wingers (and many “moderates”, like CNN) are touting as “showing how unrealistic AOC and the #GreenNewDeal is in terms of affordability” . But , as usual, a great deal of obfuscation is involved. This articles explains what we need : Which is more context and actual economics. ““[it is] deceptive .. Continue Reading
The following gem* stuck out for me in one of my friend and teacher’s extraordinary stories he has shared: ““During one visit to our apartment, Herman is excited to tell me about one of his discoveries. He was translating an Ethiopian Targum (Hebrew O.T. text translation into an ancient indigenous language) when he noted something important. The ancient scribe had Continue Reading
Another stinger from McKibben in his New Yorker article about the Feinstein debacle: “The irony is that, when Feinstein said she’s been “doing this for thirty years,” she described the precise time period during which we could have acted. James Hansen brought the climate question to widespread attention with his congressional testimony in 1988. If we’d moved thirty years ago, Continue Reading
“youth carry the moral authority here, and, at the very least, should be treated with the solicitousness due a generation that older ones have managed to screw over. ” McKibben in The New Yorker (linked earlier today)
“This video is so instructive in personifying what we’re up against. We are inexplicably attached to the idea that the current social (incl. the Church) and political structures and systems are the background within which we can deal with our problems, when they are, instead, the foreground of the problem itself. I’m starting to become resigned to the idea that Continue Reading
I get such a kick reading the first 10-12 tweet comments on @AOC tweets. She brings out the angst and being ignorant anger of the dumbest of the Trump supporters. Wait, that makes it sound like the sanity of Right wingers is super-human. That doesn’t quite work. Maybe they are like cheese in a maze, attracting the rats.
“Many perceive global warming as a sort of moral and economic debt, accumulated since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and now come due after several centuries. In fact, more than half of the carbon exhaled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been emitted in just the past three decades. Which means we have done as Continue Reading
In the below examples, one leaves it to the trained professionals. So why do we make an EXCEPTION where Climate Scientists are concerned? We all of a sudden become eager to say “leave it to God”. One could say that God gave us science to advance and understand life, and use it to heal and restore where needed, and to Continue Reading
“It’s very clear that conservatives have one plan for dealing with the popularity of the Green New Deal: scaring the hell out of people. And it’s very clear that they have one big problem: The hell they’re building through inaction is a lot scarier than “upgrading all existing buildings.” — Bill McKibben (in “Climate Change Is Scary—Not the Green New Continue Reading
“That better future doesn’t come for free—but it costs pennies on the dollar compared to the future Ebell and his Beltway ilk apparently accept, the one where you have to start moving all the residents of Miami, the one where fire season never stops, the one where growing wheat becomes a chancy proposition. And if you think these political conservatives Continue Reading
