Originally published at: As Biden Tours Ida Damage, Protesters Demand End to Fossil Fuels
“Democrats effort to advance climate policy,” who could give credibility to an author who writes such nonsense?
Democrats expanded drilling, and gave taxpayer funds to enhance oil profits in three out of the last three Democratic administrations.
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The world needs AIR, WATER and land for food. We don’t need any more oil, or coal, or short sighted and greedy corporations. Remember-----we have the ONE Planet----so don’t foul your own nest, Congress!!!
Dump the corporate fossisl with their dirty air, water and coal!!!
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this infrastructure bill is to save nuclear power that no private insurance company wants to touch—
why are we the tax payer cleaning up these toxic sites that private corporate power made $$$$???
this is climate change legislation ???
nothing for solar???
what is a green community???
400 billion for the care industry-----will the CEO’s pay now triple???
fires-floods–UI ends—people being evicted—children and seniors live on the streets----a pandemic rages----the bought supreme court is creating vigilante justice----the trump people are ready to storm the Capitol again because they know the truth but can’t put their finger on the real culprit—private corporate power-
------------------but hey the dems will be back from their two month vacation in a few weeks-----no rush!
-$15 -put it on a war funding bill!
-raise the base pay of social security to $1500. a month!
-public option–yes everyone should have vision-hearing-dental----single payer —cheap ass morons!
-public housing—green public starter homes!
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I worry this is a back door attempt by nuclear power advocates to get their foot in the door. Remember that the world’s worse oil spill can be remediated relatively easily compared to the multi 100,000 year periods it would take to clean up a radioactive mess.
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Whatever you do, or don’t do,
whoever helps, or hurts,
only plays out at the the diminishing line between what is already lost and what can be saved, if anything.
The magnitude of blowback our species has triggered in a geological blink, is nothing short of the grandeur of the supernova that is now visible to the naked eye, for those in the window, that look.
The question of how to correct this is irrelevant, WE can’t. The biosphere we are an element of, holds the power of life. Call it the web of life, Gaia, Pachimama, or the oooonnnnnllllyyyyy known location in an iteration of universes, that bears life, your life, every memory you have, comes from the team of living beings that makes your part possible. Life itself can accept levels far below the complexity required for our level of temporal existence, but most of us don’t want to loose that, although, there is a lot to be said for simpler existences.
I, for one, prefer to maintain a world that can support not only what I call higher thinking, but a link, the possibility of mUch higher thinking, extreme existing where/when Beauty is experienced above, far above, my current level of comprehension.
I cry tears of my life’s bodily fluids for the lost,
may the best of each of us be resurrected in the next iteration.
LOVE
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nailed it
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Yeah, let’s go for the 80-year extinction to save us from that 1000-year extinction. All the alarmist b.s. is in part what’s preventing a sane nuclear waste storage solution. The amount of documentation to get anything done in the nuclear industry stands directly in the way of getting anything accomplished at all, and certainly multiplies the human expense for any project.
Corporate Dims like Biden don’t double down, they buckle under.
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Article: “US Coast Guard investigating 350 reports of oil spills after Ida”
Quote from article: On Monday, the New Orleans-based NOLA news site reported the Coast Guard had begun setting up a pollution response team in Baton Rouge as a result of spills caused by Ida.
A little slow in the response, don’t you think? Ok, if they’re gonna drill in the Gulf or the Caribbean, the rigs should be storm-proof. Additionally, the rigs should be turned off and drained well before a storm. What gives?
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…and fold up
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I don’t eat anything that comes from the Gulf anymore
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A doctor told me years ago not to eat anything from the ocean…
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There’s ‘in action’ (which is where we need to be at every level) and ‘inaction’ (sort of where we are right now). We pulled out of Afghanistan (at last!), so why is the DoD budget going up ($785B next fiscal year, or less than 30 days away)? I advocate a DoD budget drop of 13% (about $100B) to help fund critically needed legislation in the throes of being transmogrified then weakly passed by a divided Congress. Do I need to die (flagrantly, and on all sorts of broadcast and social media) to attract sufficient attention (and for how long - 24 hours, maybe)? You
are not worth that, but wildlife of all sorts and human survivability in general is and I challenge you to promote such a vision, not relegate it to the heap of failed, foreshortened history! Get off your asses and contribute to real improvement of all kinds! Do nothing and you deserve what’s about to happen to you.
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To save nuclear power???
Jessica Corbett, why aren’t you talking about this?
Cut this part out and save the taxpayers some grief.
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Amen Phred. Ever since BP a large part of the bottom of of the gulf has been covered in a toxic slurry of the chemical BP dumped into the gulf to try and “break up” the oil, and the oil itself that sank to the bottom. Mixed with all the fertilizers and raw sewage that wash into the gulf every year and it’s a wonder that all the wildlife that remains doesn’t resemble Blinky, the three eyed fish from the Simpson’s.
Of course, unless you grow it yourself, we really have no idea what’s in most of the food we purchase.
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Why are we trying to save nuclear energy, oil,etc etc. Save the money and put it into solar, wind, etc. Then put some money into zero population growth.
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Just like corporate news ( especially Foxes BS! )rots your brain, corporate food rots your body because it is made for profit and full of harmful chemicals to enhance shelf life.
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