Posted on 09/17/2018 2:10:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Last weekend, Americans weathered a “once in a lifetime” storm for the fourth time in 13 months. After a summer of unprecedented wildfires in the West, hurricane season has (once again) brought “unprecedented” devastation to communities on the East Coast. Faced with such ecological upheaval, our primeval ancestors would be scrambling to discern what they’d done to provoke nature’s wrath.
We modern humans are a bit less confused, but much more complacent. We don’t need to ask a shaman why monsters like Florence are paying us such frequent visits. We don’t need burn a witch to find out what’s bringing heat waves to the Arctic. Everyone who (earnestly) wishes to know why this is happening knows the three-word answer: manmade climate change.
New research from Data for Progress (DFP) throws this point into sharp relief. To assess the political viability of a “Green New Deal” - which is to say, a program of massive public investment and government hiring aimed at reducing America’s carbon emissions including a federal “green jobs” guarantee.
There’s reason to think that a “Green New Deal” might be part of the answer. In its report, Data for Progress frames that policy as a means of not only achieving climate sustainability, but also, of providing living-wage jobs to underpaid workers; forcing private-sector employers to raise wages and improve benefits; and redressing racial injustice by reducing disparities in access to clean air, clean drinking water, and green recreational space.
Climate might not (yet) be highly salient to the average Democratic voter; but jobs and racial justice are. DFP’s polling suggests that Democratic politicians could rally voters around ambitious “intersectional” climate policies — if they can find the personal will.
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
Government is too big already.
Too many laws
Too many taxes
Who are these ‘voters’?
You STILL break me up.
Wildfires caused by illegal arsonists and/or underbrush not being cleared.
Hurricanes? Part of living on the east coast - always has been.
What about earthquakes, btw? How do we blame cars for that?
Category 1 hurricane. So many. So frequent.
This year has not been the ‘more active’ season they predicted.
This idiot doesn't even grasp the irony in that statement.
Hillary Clinton has a 95% chance of winning.
[Last weekend, Americans weathered a “once in a lifetime” storm for the fourth time in 13 months. After a summer of unprecedented wildfires in the West, hurricane season has (once again) brought “unprecedented” devastation to communities on the East Coast. Faced with such ecological upheaval, our primeval ancestors would be scrambling to discern what they’d done to provoke nature’s wrath. ]
What a pantload.
“This idiot doesn’t even grasp the irony in that statement.”
I know, really. I thought this was satire at first.
Buying into the Climate Change myth is supposed to get me a raise HOW, exactly?
Precisely
No. No we aren’t
Americans weathered a “once in a lifetime” storm for the fourth time in 13 months.
Holy smokes what BS.
The alarmists already claimed that “connection”:
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Yes, they need to find the “personal will”..for a “Triumph of the Will”, no doubt! And who were Nietzsche’s fanboys in Germany in the 1930’s? Folks, the Nazis are back, this time in GREEN!
Another eco-fascist, 50 IQ ape.
Write a book, you Nazi pig, on the optimum temperature for the Earth, the optimum cloud cover for Earth, the optimum precipitation for Earth and the optimum wind patterns. Then explain why.
So sick of Noo Yawk telling the rest of America what we are going to do. When do we start fighting back against these environmentalist communist plots?
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