You’re the one spouting nonsense, george. It is a simple fact that they did not have the votes. Period. And it’s long past time for you to recognize that and move on.
I am outraged, but I ain’t stuck.
Yeah, you are. You’ve been stuck for years and you have nothing new to say and nothing of value to offer. It’s the same old shit, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over… You spend more time attacking your potential allies than you do those who are actually causing harm. Not to mention that your rhetoric and your tactics are counter-productive, pissing off everyone who might otherwise be prepared to agree with you and/or work with you for a better outcome.
To clarify: By “we” I meant the entire human race is going to become extinct. And the un-contained nuclear fuel and waste that we will leave behind will make the surface of the planet uninhabitable for all DNA-based life forms for many millions of years.
If America had democratic Presidential Elections, then Al Gore would have been elected President in 2000. He seemed to be the only politician who had an understanding of the gravity of the situation.
I’m certain that The Green New Deal caucus (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-The Democrat Slayer, and a few disaffected Berners) will have a stale statement and a fresh protest ready to go before next Thursday!
And if those unwilling people were needed to provide information about global warming and the tactics to deal with it, then you might have a point. But since they aren’t, I’m afraid that you’re still striking out.
Extinction often gets conflated with a childish solipsistic fantasy (“Everybody else is screwed, but I’m prepped.”). Usually, the Rapture comes to mind, but the Silicon Valley Escape Plan is more representative of how hard-wired this is for some people. It follows many of the same elements of the Egyptian pharaohs’ Journey to the Afterlife, or Western Lands as Bill Burroughs called them. The Billionaire even takes his pilot’s family and servants with him, not to mention wife, children and mistresses. All to live in a hole.
Extinction rebellion is nothing like the wacky groups you mention. It is calling for a reduction in the temperature of our atmosphere by 2º and if we don’t reduce but continue to increase it, life on earth will die.
In 1971 I was doing grunt atmospheric measurement for the US Navy as part of its studies on climate disruption. The fact of warming was not so much the concern as the fact that even slight warming and changes in the composition of the atmosphere (we’re talking pre-CFC issues) would impact ocean currents, water chemistry, wind and precipitation patterns far sooner. By the time you got to a 2-degree increase in the average planetary temperature, you were more talking about venusification or something similarly radical. At that time, there still was a belief that science would prevail in US climate policy. It’s kind of rich to come along a half century later and say we have a problem. We are well into the current extinction event. On the bright side, life in earth is almost certain to survive. Bacteria colonies living 2 km below the surface in the bedrock will hardly notice the perturbations on the surface above. Life abides, earth abides. A species that pretends it can breed, consume, extract and pollute without limits may find it harder going.
Yep. Again, that was always inevitable. The earth’s rotation is slowing and will eventually become tidally locked to the orbit of the moon with days lasting a full lunar cycle. The sun is going to become a red giant; the earth will fall into it and be utterly destroyed. Nothing present-day humans can do would stop any of that. You never worried about it and I’ll bet you’ve seldom panicked over earth’s lack of an asteroid shield. Why? Because these inevitabilities were in the future.
For the same reason you never worried about managing the earth’s rotation or shielding it from asteroids – namely that it’s a future event and humans are evolved to discount future events – we can see clearly that humans have always been incapable of stopping human-caused global warming before planetary disaster occurs. Panicking when the disaster begins will also not stop it from happening. And that is what you’re doing. If you were on the plane with Sully, you’d be trying to break down the cabin door so you could throttle him.
You’re screaming about everything all at once and doing NOTHING CONSTRUCTIVE about any of it. Worse, any time someone does start to do something constructive you scream about that too. You scream about the past and do nothing at all to improve the future. And that is the problem.
Do you see the topic of this thread? It is not about me. It is about Nancy Pelosi and the current Democratic leaders’ utter incompetence to deal with the ongoing mass extinction.
Get it? It isn’t about me.
And the absurd comparison of the current ongoing mass extinction that threatens this generation as if it has anything to do with the inevitable physics of the solar system is just ignorant. The sixth mass extinction is being caused by mankind, and was wholly preventable.
Furthermore, I have been writing about the unfitness of Nancy “Pay-Go” Pelosi to be the Democratic Leader of the House for years amid a chorus of her propagandized cheerleaders. She is still unfit for the job. That isn’t the past, it is now.
But keep cheering for Nancy Pelosi, as if that is doing something constructive.
You posted a comment that hasn’t a single thing from @georgeh as an example of him being constructive??? Where in that linked comment do you see @georgeh doing something constructive?
Ad hominem attacks on me personally are as worthless as a bucket of warm spit. Which exactly what your post was:
Ad hominem (Latin for “to the person”), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.
