(Proudly cross-posted at OC Progressive & My Silver State)
New Orleans may sink into the sea by 2100. Much of Florida may also be underwater by then. Drought will likely become the norm out West, meaning California could no longer provide the food we depend upon. Las Vegas may become downright inhabitable.
No, I’m not fabricating any of this. These will be the consequences of inaction if we continue to delay implementing the solutions we need to solve the coming climate crisis. But for some reason, may of our supposedly wise lawmakers in Capitol Hill are either willfully ignorant of the facts or downright lying about our future.
Seriously, we can’t allow any more of this.
The denialism and downright insanity that’s plaguing most Republicans and even some Democrats in Washington today may ultimately kill us tomorrow. This is why we barely passed a flawed and watered down bill in the House, and this is why we must act before we get an even worse bill out of the Senate.
What may be nearly as dangerous as the outright denial of climate change by the far right is the acceptance by the squishy centrists of half-baked, half-assed measures that don’t do enough. I know, I know, we always hear from these Washington Centrists that "this is what’s politically feasible". But frankly, I’m done with "political feasibility" today. That won’t matter one bit if we’re all dead tomorrow.
President Obama promised us swift and bold action. So did Democratic Congressional leaders. And while much of the blame for past inaction goes to the "Party of No" Republicans that would rather profit today than ensure human survival tomorrow, we need for Senate Democrats to stand up for real action to prevent any more weakening of the climate bill.
No matter where we are, we all need to speak up and contact our Senators now! Also make sure to leave a note for the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, letting them know that we will fully back their efforts to craft a strong bill. We can’t wait any longer to solve the climate crisis, and we can’t afford to settle for anything less than real solutions.
The people are on our side. Time, however, isn’t. We need to act now, before it’s too late.
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I agree. We are on the Titanic. We have a hole and only a limited time to fix it. We don’t have the luxury, or time, to play around with this, but that is exactly what is happening.
I like the nautical metaphor in principle. But let’s change it to a lifeboat.
The problem is that there is no ”we” in the boat. The canvas and the tar and the boat nails are at the end of the boat that doesn’t have the hole. So the people sitting up there don’t see why they should be expected to use ”their” tools and materials to fix ”our” hole? Oh, and by the way, ”our” sea water is ruining their Prada slippers–they expect us to pay to replace same once we have fixed ”our” problem.
So plugging holes is not our first order of business or even our second.
First we need to put some people over the side. Once the Prada-wearers are no longer wasting valuable displacement and generally being in the way, we can get on with repairs.
And good luck on THAT. As you well know by now, those of the tinfoil hat variety, like the John Birchers have been warning against “The Illuminati” for pretty much the last century and were dismissed as dingbats, of course.
Now, It’s becoming rather clear that our country has been turned over lock, stock and barrel to the elites.
Once Obama/Bush gave away all our $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
to the robber barons we became just what and where they want us: peons.
We are pretty much powerless now that the banksters have all our $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to the 10th generation. why should they listen to us?
I’m convinced that’s why Obama moved so very quickly in the first few months to “bail out the banks” which was absolutely counter-intuitive if he wanted to avoid a major depression…I don’t believe he did/does.
But, then, none dare call it conspiracy, do they?
Here’s some written down tinfoil hat stuff:
Dialectics, Rockefellers, and Population Control
I wonder what they thing THEY’LL do when they’ve killed the earth? Go to Mars??? Whatever, it’ll be on our backs and on our nickle.
If you REALLY want tinfoil, this is the definitive foil:
http://video.google.com/videop…..1843120756
I sometimes think the reason that not enough is being done is that the full effects of climate change are not going to be visible for awhile. But when they hit, it will be too late to do anything about them.
I have an 18 month old daughter, who I would hope will be living throughout this century. What kind of world will she have in the year 2100?