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āIn an energy-producing state, itās a concern to me that we are teaching
our kids potentially that we are doing immoral things here in order to
make a living in our state,ā Republican Del. Jim Butler said
Maybe you should be more concerned with actually doing such immoral things, instead of just teaching about it.
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ābut you could also twist that into all fossil fuels are bad.ā
Newsflash: all fossil fuels ARE bad, you reality-denying coal-money-addled methbilly.
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West Virginia - where we rather keep our kids dumb than offend the coal barons.
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Why should we deny our children the sweet and easy life of the coal miner?
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Similarly, students interested in a career in municipal planning will not be informed about the need for sewage treatment plants. Finding out their shit does in fact stink would be traumatic.
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/29/3685555/germany-sets-new-renewable-energy-record/
āDear Germany, I am an American citizen who doesnāt have a problem with socialism. What would I need to do to get German citizenship? I know there are going to be some conservative trolls who feel that I am a traitor, but personally I have two words for that lotā¦ā
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āWe need to make sure our science standards are actually teaching science and not pushing a political agenda.ā
āNow, Iām going to go get me a Mountain Dew and a sheet cake and when I get back I want to hear your ideas for making all of this go away.ā
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Didnāt this idiot just admit to being the big, bad wolf?
Quick. Call the Breakthrough Institute. These fellers have finally found a way to solve climate change!
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The only āpolitical agendaā seems to be how much money you are receiving to block educationā¦
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Well, fossil fuels, being inanimate objects, arenāt good or bad.
However, using and promoting the usage of fossil fuels over alternatives while denying the negative effects their usage have on the environment and will have on the future of our civilization is bad. And evil. And immoral.
Itās the WVa. house thatās bad.
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Hillbilly Lysenkoism at its capitalist finest.
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Several weeks ago I stumbled across a DOE table that showed the percentage of each stateās electricity generation coming from various sources. While I would have expected coalās proportion in West Virginiaās to be on the high side (oh, I dunnoā¦maybe 50% or so?), I was dumbstruck to see that it is 91%.
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Ignoring reality will make it go away.
Really, it will!
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āIn an energy-producing state, itās a concern to me that we are teaching our kids potentially that we are doing immoral things here in order to make a living in our state,ā
Perhaps he should direct his concerns at whether or not the state is doing what he says and not whether itās teaching folks about it. If this makes it into law the USA officially falls into a propaganda state. Heās asking folks to stick their heads in the sand and if they donāt want to heās going to make them do it.
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Since it snows every winter and it gets real cold where I live, there just cannot be any global warming/climate change. I also have yet to encounter roundness of earth that Liberals imposed on us.
Geez Louise. We need all brains on deck. Maybe one of the children in coal mining country can figure out how to save West Virginiaās role in energy production while also helping to slow down climate change. F**king binary thinking.
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āWe need to make sure our science standards are actually teaching science and not pushing a political agenda.ā
Oh, man. I donāt believe in God, but wouldnāt it be great if people were smited by a lighting shock when they said something so stupidly hypocritical? (not advocating death, just, you know, a little jolt that says, āBad human!ā)
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Iām not in a position to speak to the specifics of WVa.'s stupidity regarding fossil fuel generation and use, but it just seems to me that the further we get into the 21st C., the further behind states like WVa will be going. Many parts of this country are already utilizing renewable energy and while renewables may supplement fossil fuels now, it just hastens the day when we can stop a total dependence. But states like this will be just where they are now, which is where they were at the turn of the 20th C.
Seems to me that places like WVa are just creating fossil fuel gulags
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