Dear Sabrina, Once in a while you write an article which makes a thud, boom in the human mind, that is what attracted me to you a year ago. This article was one such. Well done. Jeffrey McCabe
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The Big Oil and the RNC spent the last 50 years denying climate change and denigrating environmentalists. People like Sen. Pete Ricketts, who was placed into office by Charles Koch, the worst of the worst among Oil/dirty energy billionaires, continues with the obstruction. But now, the mother-fuckers of the RNC conveniently reassure their boiling frog constituents that this is all okay because it brings about evangelical wet-dreams for “end of time” mumbo-jumbo. The corruption is its own form of sewer gas upon the nation and the world.
"The intelligent adaptation to dead animals falling from the sky would be a transition to renewable energy as quickly as practicable, blending a graduated mix of alternative fuels with decreasing reliance on petrofuels."
This is reasonable. It is also imperative to the continuity of Life..
Thanks for that! As an armchair evolutionary biologist and formerly one of two "Evolutionary Psychiatrists" in MI, not to forget, proud owner of a First American Edition of the 1859 "Origin...", I can quibble with your biology, but not your take down of the willfully ignorant and corporate shilling GQP governors, but must add the GQP governor of WI, who removed all references to "Climate Change" from official docs. The one promise Darwin did not keep from the "Origin..." was to address "...limits to increase..." later. He never addressed our tendency to overpopulate or over consume the environment. Humans are incapable of "adapting" to surface air temps. above 109 degF, with 50% dew points, without dying. Anyone seriously interested in our rate of atmospheric/sea heating can go to copernicus.org and search for their "Climate Pulse" page, where they show the daily temps since 1950, the 1990-2020 averages and where we are now, and were in 2023. I have been tracking this daily now for over a month, only to see year to year increases of 0.39 to 0,00, but averaging new highs almost daily. Maybe we have noticed the effect of increasing sea temps, including the 1 trillion tons of sea water evaporating into water vapor daily, and returning in a 10 day cycle to the surface as rain, snow, hail, flooding. Ignoring, let alone denying, science will be the downfall of our species. Thank you, again, for an appropriately passionate essay!
thank you. if you have any suggestions for how to get the right to adopt climate change as their own, I’m all ears. i know plenty of republicans who are worried about the climate but the fact that the left cares so deeply makes maga morons dig in their heels against addressing it. i was hoping the bible thumpers would take this on, under stewardship; some have but not enough
Thank you, as well. I am a political Independent and moderate, a retired psychiatrist, and a climate neophyte. It's the 1.2 trillion tons of melting global ice annually, 3.3 billion per day, that caught my attention and turned me onto Copernicus.org and their fabulous website. America has nothing like it. The fossil fuel lobbies have muddied these waters for short-term gain and long-term national disaster. That's the truth and best I can do, every day, everywhere I can find a bloody pulpit.
in a couple years, calls for political violence wont just come from the right... i cant see young people putting up with this for much longer with dead animals falling out of the sky
There’s something to be said about an educated leadership, and when I say “educated,” I mean someone versed in the humanities and logic/critical thinking skills. . . People who can calculate repercussions beyond selfish/self interest. People with an internalized moral compass—that eliminates most billionaires. For example—look at Charles Koch or Elon Musk. They have a solid technical background; that does not provide the foundation for ethical leadership. As for the rest of Koch’s Gang of Fascists, greed and power drive them. Responsible leadership is nowhere to be found in Libertarian philosophy; it’s all a whitewash for greed and power, with a thick injection of Dominionist moral decay and hypocrisy from the Catholic Church. (Mary Beard holds that Rome never fell—it just morphed into the Catholic Church. I agree.)
You are in Austria—look up the Mount Pelerin “cadre” of Libertarian leadership (their Neo-nazi bent probably prevented them from meeting in Germany.)
I can entrust this question only to 2 people: Joyce Vance and Sabrina Haake, in whom I have confidence that they possess both the historic and professional knowledge and the philosophical wherewithal to respond to it responsibly.
Edmund Burke (18th century English philosopher) and Athenian democracy both loved and praised democracy but only in strictly limited terms, they reserved the big stuff for the upper classes. They may have been right. Their premises for their thesis were: lower classes are uneducated, frequently deluded, often enraged at fate’s mistreatment of them, therefore untrustworthy, they may not decide well. Despite these premises which I do not dispute, they do not necessarily lead to that conclusion, that democracy (basically, the selection of leaders via voting) is best kept out of their hands i.e. in the hands of the upper classes. That is the question. What is your answer?
Dear Sabrina, Once in a while you write an article which makes a thud, boom in the human mind, that is what attracted me to you a year ago. This article was one such. Well done. Jeffrey McCabe
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The Big Oil and the RNC spent the last 50 years denying climate change and denigrating environmentalists. People like Sen. Pete Ricketts, who was placed into office by Charles Koch, the worst of the worst among Oil/dirty energy billionaires, continues with the obstruction. But now, the mother-fuckers of the RNC conveniently reassure their boiling frog constituents that this is all okay because it brings about evangelical wet-dreams for “end of time” mumbo-jumbo. The corruption is its own form of sewer gas upon the nation and the world.
💯 %!
time for the left to get radicalized… get the fossil fuel funded jurists off the Supreme Court.
Lives are at stake.
"Culture of Life"
Nobody is putting it any better than Sabrina:
"The intelligent adaptation to dead animals falling from the sky would be a transition to renewable energy as quickly as practicable, blending a graduated mix of alternative fuels with decreasing reliance on petrofuels."
This is reasonable. It is also imperative to the continuity of Life..
Thanks for that! As an armchair evolutionary biologist and formerly one of two "Evolutionary Psychiatrists" in MI, not to forget, proud owner of a First American Edition of the 1859 "Origin...", I can quibble with your biology, but not your take down of the willfully ignorant and corporate shilling GQP governors, but must add the GQP governor of WI, who removed all references to "Climate Change" from official docs. The one promise Darwin did not keep from the "Origin..." was to address "...limits to increase..." later. He never addressed our tendency to overpopulate or over consume the environment. Humans are incapable of "adapting" to surface air temps. above 109 degF, with 50% dew points, without dying. Anyone seriously interested in our rate of atmospheric/sea heating can go to copernicus.org and search for their "Climate Pulse" page, where they show the daily temps since 1950, the 1990-2020 averages and where we are now, and were in 2023. I have been tracking this daily now for over a month, only to see year to year increases of 0.39 to 0,00, but averaging new highs almost daily. Maybe we have noticed the effect of increasing sea temps, including the 1 trillion tons of sea water evaporating into water vapor daily, and returning in a 10 day cycle to the surface as rain, snow, hail, flooding. Ignoring, let alone denying, science will be the downfall of our species. Thank you, again, for an appropriately passionate essay!
thank you. if you have any suggestions for how to get the right to adopt climate change as their own, I’m all ears. i know plenty of republicans who are worried about the climate but the fact that the left cares so deeply makes maga morons dig in their heels against addressing it. i was hoping the bible thumpers would take this on, under stewardship; some have but not enough
Thank you, as well. I am a political Independent and moderate, a retired psychiatrist, and a climate neophyte. It's the 1.2 trillion tons of melting global ice annually, 3.3 billion per day, that caught my attention and turned me onto Copernicus.org and their fabulous website. America has nothing like it. The fossil fuel lobbies have muddied these waters for short-term gain and long-term national disaster. That's the truth and best I can do, every day, everywhere I can find a bloody pulpit.
Thank you Sabrina. You give us hope. With writing such as yours we may yet banish the troglodytes.
in a couple years, calls for political violence wont just come from the right... i cant see young people putting up with this for much longer with dead animals falling out of the sky
There’s something to be said about an educated leadership, and when I say “educated,” I mean someone versed in the humanities and logic/critical thinking skills. . . People who can calculate repercussions beyond selfish/self interest. People with an internalized moral compass—that eliminates most billionaires. For example—look at Charles Koch or Elon Musk. They have a solid technical background; that does not provide the foundation for ethical leadership. As for the rest of Koch’s Gang of Fascists, greed and power drive them. Responsible leadership is nowhere to be found in Libertarian philosophy; it’s all a whitewash for greed and power, with a thick injection of Dominionist moral decay and hypocrisy from the Catholic Church. (Mary Beard holds that Rome never fell—it just morphed into the Catholic Church. I agree.)
You are in Austria—look up the Mount Pelerin “cadre” of Libertarian leadership (their Neo-nazi bent probably prevented them from meeting in Germany.)
I can entrust this question only to 2 people: Joyce Vance and Sabrina Haake, in whom I have confidence that they possess both the historic and professional knowledge and the philosophical wherewithal to respond to it responsibly.
Edmund Burke (18th century English philosopher) and Athenian democracy both loved and praised democracy but only in strictly limited terms, they reserved the big stuff for the upper classes. They may have been right. Their premises for their thesis were: lower classes are uneducated, frequently deluded, often enraged at fate’s mistreatment of them, therefore untrustworthy, they may not decide well. Despite these premises which I do not dispute, they do not necessarily lead to that conclusion, that democracy (basically, the selection of leaders via voting) is best kept out of their hands i.e. in the hands of the upper classes. That is the question. What is your answer?
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