Yes. A lot of people ignore reality. Welcome to America where half the people hate the VP and the other half don't know who she is. It is the product I think of small extremist groups in D.C. who got power and expanded.
It is also a product messaging. When catastrophes occur nobody calls 1st Responders to report "a climate change event ... do come when you can."
Poets know words matter. Political "operatives" know that. Fox News is willing to repeat benign events, constantly, in lurid terms. And people with no lives ... or maybe no souls ... believe them.
How do you get millions to ignore reality, and believe fantasy? Don't know -- but America has mastered that trick.
Yes, words matter. Christopher Rufo knows that too. He knew it when he set out his strategy of making CRT the enemy in March 15, 2021. He tweeted it (or should I say Xed it?). It is still out there with him as the proud author. Woke is the newer version of the same strategy. They are nothing more than placeholders for the latest outrage. As the expression goes: this is why we can’t have nice things. We are at the mercy of the outraged who are busy spending time, money and energy on non-problems and have declared “climate change” and “green energy” evil.
“The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” Christopher Rufo
For too long the US has been in thrall politically to people misusing the word ´freedom’. Stripped of the concept of responsibility it’s not a value, it’s a threat. So the nation won’t make a reasoned decision about necessary measures, but instead will allow disasters to wipe out the lives and livelihoods of those with modest means. Unfortunately the effects of not addressing this catastrophe don’t stop at the nation’s borders.
We saw something similar happen during the Covid pandemic. The FL governor didn’t support much less mandate the reasonable measures to slow down transmission of the disease. The data show the toll his decisions took in rates of hospitalisations and deaths. And yet, he says his do-nothing approach was wildly successful and his followers agree. The dead don’t get to vote.
So I hold little hope for the populace to come to agreement. The only hope is that enough people who care about others turn out to vote for legislators and executives who are prepared to address this unfolding catastrophe.
I would like to put the climate hoax and climate deniers in weather disaster areas to live so they can experience what it's like. I think in time they will change their minds...but maybe too late. Experience having to put their disaster plans in action. Watch continous weather coverage--will it make a sudden turn and miss us or is this a direct hit. Evacuate or not. Know the zones, become semi-weather expert. Also, at work (retired RN), either go to work and stay through the event, or go in immediately after and stay caring for injured.
Know what it's like to sweat it out every 5 years having to photograph your interior/exterior house to see if the homeowner policy will be renewed. Don't forget flood insurance. Watch yourself sinking. Like the beautiful islands of the Maryland and Virginia Eastern Shore.
It's going to be hard to come to some kind of agreement. We, as a people, don't seem to agree on anything now. And those who profit from putting more CO2 in the air are still in denial, and spending lots of money to block progress on emissions and climate change. I'd like to trade my old gas burner in for an electric, but the choices are limited, with most of the cars in the higher-cost range. I live in the Northwest. I expect to see migration from the southwest in coming years. It's going to get worse.
Yet another example of a very real problem facing our country that will require a, “national consensus” and “we as a people” approach to solve it. The question is; is consensus even possible? What would shake us out of our current state of paralysis, and bring all Americans together? Let's discuss that some time.
The GOP love state’s rights until their state is underwater, then they want the federal government to step in to help. When their state is not underwater, they could care less - see Ted Cruz not wanting to fund help after Hurricane Sandy because it happened to a blue state and not his state. Of course, he also bailed on his state but I digress. They want to defund the federal government so it can’t go after: big business, big Pharma, big oil, gazillionaires for taxes but still want what they want when they want it. They are digging their collective graves but of course, the American people will suffer the most - those who don’t care if it’s red or blue - just need help.
Both parties agree that planting more trees and giving tax breaks to industries that emit carbon into the air is a wise policy. The US is the second largest coal consumer in the world-11%.However, number one is China - 49%. Growing confrontation with China will not lead to agreements to improve air conditions. And of course, carbon is one of the main causes of climate change. Part of President Biden's economic policy is to use technology developed to remove it from the air. But will Republicans agree to fund it? trump supported coal miners, cut back on mining regulations that were in place. And of course, wind turbines cause cancer, don't you know.Therefore, people are led to believe him when he denies climate change, and to keep their vote, legislators who know better, go along. Thus, states like PA and WVA are red states. In many years past, my uncle in central PA, had a coal mine on his large property,could walk from his house to the mine in a matter of minutes. He provided coal to heat local schools and shoveled it down cellar windows in houses with coal furnaces. I went in the mine. It was spooky.
People love to live near the ocean. Yet, for instance, NC averages hurricane damage every three years. -How many times must we fund the rebuilding of expensive homes in the Outer Banks,? More than 41% of hurricanes in the US have hit Florida. Yet, 1,218 people a day - A DAY - move to Florida. Four years ago, my granddaughter's graduation class numbered 800 !! Believe me, those wooden benches were not fun while waiting for each student to be called up individually to receive a diploma.
You cannot go down any street that building is not taking place. There are still the dangerous trailer and RV parks, but now, a plethora of condos, townhouses and houses are appearing over night on every vacant piece of land. Homes so close one could hold hands with the neighbor out the side windows. State Road 64, a main highway through Bradenton area is turning into Route 17 in Paramus, NJ.. There are 3 car washes within a mile of each other. What will be a huge shopping area is going in at its intersection with interstate 75. Costco is already built.. Another shopping area with stores and restaurants is so large, there are 10 car lanes across the highway. There is yet one large tract of land upon which cows still graze. In the middle are three very tall white crosses, the largest in the middle, that are lighted at Christmas. So when the Cross and the cows are surrendered to the expansion of "progress," that selling family will have no financial worries for generations to come.
Yet people call it living in Paradise. Well, maybe for those who come down from Wisconsin for 3 months it is, but living here year around is not Paradise to me. For months with the heat, we stay inside, The traffic is horrific. So many SUVs but usually only one person in them. Car insurance is unaffordable. Yet, one day, if no changes are made, Miami will be underwater.
Texas is another hot state with weather problems and and a growing population problem. Thus do their governors bus immigrants to other cities.
Another climate change problem is the diminishing number of pollinating bees upon which food production depends. And birds. Even my mourning doves only eat the seeds that are in the shade.
I fear future generations will suffer. Perhaps we will have to have settlements on Mars !
Thanks, Steven, totally agree with this. There is a tremendous urgency to address climate change, both on an event by event basis, and also to address the causes of climate change to begin with. It is shameful that Republicans block climate measures but then take funding. Or voted against the BIL and IRA but then tout the funds that they brought home from Washington. Somehow, the Democrats need to find a way to continue to take the high road in their actions, while effectively calling the Republicans out on their bad behavior, in a way that at least impacts swing voters. It can't just be ignored
Yes. A lot of people ignore reality. Welcome to America where half the people hate the VP and the other half don't know who she is. It is the product I think of small extremist groups in D.C. who got power and expanded.
It is also a product messaging. When catastrophes occur nobody calls 1st Responders to report "a climate change event ... do come when you can."
Poets know words matter. Political "operatives" know that. Fox News is willing to repeat benign events, constantly, in lurid terms. And people with no lives ... or maybe no souls ... believe them.
How do you get millions to ignore reality, and believe fantasy? Don't know -- but America has mastered that trick.
Yes, words matter. Christopher Rufo knows that too. He knew it when he set out his strategy of making CRT the enemy in March 15, 2021. He tweeted it (or should I say Xed it?). It is still out there with him as the proud author. Woke is the newer version of the same strategy. They are nothing more than placeholders for the latest outrage. As the expression goes: this is why we can’t have nice things. We are at the mercy of the outraged who are busy spending time, money and energy on non-problems and have declared “climate change” and “green energy” evil.
“The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory." We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” Christopher Rufo
For too long the US has been in thrall politically to people misusing the word ´freedom’. Stripped of the concept of responsibility it’s not a value, it’s a threat. So the nation won’t make a reasoned decision about necessary measures, but instead will allow disasters to wipe out the lives and livelihoods of those with modest means. Unfortunately the effects of not addressing this catastrophe don’t stop at the nation’s borders.
We saw something similar happen during the Covid pandemic. The FL governor didn’t support much less mandate the reasonable measures to slow down transmission of the disease. The data show the toll his decisions took in rates of hospitalisations and deaths. And yet, he says his do-nothing approach was wildly successful and his followers agree. The dead don’t get to vote.
So I hold little hope for the populace to come to agreement. The only hope is that enough people who care about others turn out to vote for legislators and executives who are prepared to address this unfolding catastrophe.
I would like to put the climate hoax and climate deniers in weather disaster areas to live so they can experience what it's like. I think in time they will change their minds...but maybe too late. Experience having to put their disaster plans in action. Watch continous weather coverage--will it make a sudden turn and miss us or is this a direct hit. Evacuate or not. Know the zones, become semi-weather expert. Also, at work (retired RN), either go to work and stay through the event, or go in immediately after and stay caring for injured.
Know what it's like to sweat it out every 5 years having to photograph your interior/exterior house to see if the homeowner policy will be renewed. Don't forget flood insurance. Watch yourself sinking. Like the beautiful islands of the Maryland and Virginia Eastern Shore.
I've read a bunch lately about how monstrously expensive it will be to "re-tool" in response to climate change.
No matter what we do, the effects of climate change will be far greater. This simple reality seems to escape many people.
It's going to be hard to come to some kind of agreement. We, as a people, don't seem to agree on anything now. And those who profit from putting more CO2 in the air are still in denial, and spending lots of money to block progress on emissions and climate change. I'd like to trade my old gas burner in for an electric, but the choices are limited, with most of the cars in the higher-cost range. I live in the Northwest. I expect to see migration from the southwest in coming years. It's going to get worse.
Yet another example of a very real problem facing our country that will require a, “national consensus” and “we as a people” approach to solve it. The question is; is consensus even possible? What would shake us out of our current state of paralysis, and bring all Americans together? Let's discuss that some time.
The GOP love state’s rights until their state is underwater, then they want the federal government to step in to help. When their state is not underwater, they could care less - see Ted Cruz not wanting to fund help after Hurricane Sandy because it happened to a blue state and not his state. Of course, he also bailed on his state but I digress. They want to defund the federal government so it can’t go after: big business, big Pharma, big oil, gazillionaires for taxes but still want what they want when they want it. They are digging their collective graves but of course, the American people will suffer the most - those who don’t care if it’s red or blue - just need help.
Both parties agree that planting more trees and giving tax breaks to industries that emit carbon into the air is a wise policy. The US is the second largest coal consumer in the world-11%.However, number one is China - 49%. Growing confrontation with China will not lead to agreements to improve air conditions. And of course, carbon is one of the main causes of climate change. Part of President Biden's economic policy is to use technology developed to remove it from the air. But will Republicans agree to fund it? trump supported coal miners, cut back on mining regulations that were in place. And of course, wind turbines cause cancer, don't you know.Therefore, people are led to believe him when he denies climate change, and to keep their vote, legislators who know better, go along. Thus, states like PA and WVA are red states. In many years past, my uncle in central PA, had a coal mine on his large property,could walk from his house to the mine in a matter of minutes. He provided coal to heat local schools and shoveled it down cellar windows in houses with coal furnaces. I went in the mine. It was spooky.
People love to live near the ocean. Yet, for instance, NC averages hurricane damage every three years. -How many times must we fund the rebuilding of expensive homes in the Outer Banks,? More than 41% of hurricanes in the US have hit Florida. Yet, 1,218 people a day - A DAY - move to Florida. Four years ago, my granddaughter's graduation class numbered 800 !! Believe me, those wooden benches were not fun while waiting for each student to be called up individually to receive a diploma.
You cannot go down any street that building is not taking place. There are still the dangerous trailer and RV parks, but now, a plethora of condos, townhouses and houses are appearing over night on every vacant piece of land. Homes so close one could hold hands with the neighbor out the side windows. State Road 64, a main highway through Bradenton area is turning into Route 17 in Paramus, NJ.. There are 3 car washes within a mile of each other. What will be a huge shopping area is going in at its intersection with interstate 75. Costco is already built.. Another shopping area with stores and restaurants is so large, there are 10 car lanes across the highway. There is yet one large tract of land upon which cows still graze. In the middle are three very tall white crosses, the largest in the middle, that are lighted at Christmas. So when the Cross and the cows are surrendered to the expansion of "progress," that selling family will have no financial worries for generations to come.
Yet people call it living in Paradise. Well, maybe for those who come down from Wisconsin for 3 months it is, but living here year around is not Paradise to me. For months with the heat, we stay inside, The traffic is horrific. So many SUVs but usually only one person in them. Car insurance is unaffordable. Yet, one day, if no changes are made, Miami will be underwater.
Texas is another hot state with weather problems and and a growing population problem. Thus do their governors bus immigrants to other cities.
Another climate change problem is the diminishing number of pollinating bees upon which food production depends. And birds. Even my mourning doves only eat the seeds that are in the shade.
I fear future generations will suffer. Perhaps we will have to have settlements on Mars !
Thanks, Steven, totally agree with this. There is a tremendous urgency to address climate change, both on an event by event basis, and also to address the causes of climate change to begin with. It is shameful that Republicans block climate measures but then take funding. Or voted against the BIL and IRA but then tout the funds that they brought home from Washington. Somehow, the Democrats need to find a way to continue to take the high road in their actions, while effectively calling the Republicans out on their bad behavior, in a way that at least impacts swing voters. It can't just be ignored