Posted on 03/08/2022 4:43:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WILLIAMS, Calif. (AP) — Former California Gov. Jerry Brown is living off the grid in retirement, but he’s still deeply connected on two issues that captivated him while in office and now are center stage globally: climate change and the threat of nuclear war.
The 83-year-old Brown, who left office in 2019, serves as executive chairman of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which sets the Doomsday Clock measuring how close humanity is to self-destruction. He’s also on the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Brown commended President Joe Biden for not raising the U.S. nuclear threat level after Russian President Vladimir Putin made veiled threats to use his country’s nuclear arsenal amid its war in Ukraine. Brown also urged Biden to resist Republican calls to increase oil production as gasoline prices soar.
“It’s true that the Russians are earning money from oil and gas, but to compound that problem by accelerating oil and gas in America would go against the climate goals, and climate is like war: If we don’t handle it, people are going to die and they’re going to be suffering. Not immediately, but over time,” said Brown, a Democrat.
Sitting outside his home, Brown said he recently pondered what might have been had he won one of his three presidential campaigns, the last in 1992. He decided he’d much rather be in Colusa County.
“I’m very happy where I am — it’s a very amazing place. I can’t imagine being in a better place,” he said.
He then wondered aloud whether he could have avoided the same mistakes as those who became president. Then he quickly switched to considering why a hummingbird that caught his eye was moving so quickly from tree to tree.
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Climate change is a form of insanity.
Here’s one for ya Jerry. If you have nuclear war you’ll definitely get some local climate change of the warming variety.
I am starting to figure out that both the US and Russian elites are suffering the same problem - they are starting to believe their own propaganda!
And war is like a BLM/Aunt Teefah barbeque.
He would sing a different tune if he couldn’t afford to move from Detroit, Michigan to sunny and warm California.
Indeed it is. And we will not take this green crap much longer. The only thing “they” have wrong is who the war is with. And what we are going to do to the slime trying to drive us back two centuries.
Nah. Only their useful idiots believe it.
It’s just hard to tell which politicians or establishment media people are the useful idiots and which are the cynical insiders.
On my Florida street the nouveau affluent buying the houses are chopping down trees.
The trees kept temperatures down.
I thought Moonbeam was dead.
“He would sing a different tune if he couldn’t afford to move from Detroit, Michigan to sunny and warm California.”
Yup, he has his off-grid paradise, eff everyone else.
Realize that, for decades, liberals have been obsessed with a “moral equivalent of war.”
War on the people.
Only in the short term. After that comes nuclear winter.
“Climate change is like war, California’s Jerry Brown says”
Actually tyranny of government is war.
We’ve managed to go from wood to coal, and then from coal to oil without government mandates. The latter gave more energy, was more compact, and was generally cleaner burning than the former. The transition was relatively painless.Now we have a government that wants us to move from a fairly compact, very powerful energy source to one that requires huge installations which give less power.
I have a mental list of the people I hope will die before I do, so I can celebrate their death. As a California native, Jerry Brown is definitely on that list. The damage he did to this state in incalculable.
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