There's a 1 in 20 Chance of the Apocalypse. Shouldn't We Act Now?
By Thom Hartmann A...
A new study published in Science argues that we as a civilization need to move "rapidly" -- as in almost immediately -- towards a carbon emissions free future if we are to have any chance of holding off runaway global warming:
"Rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emission are needed to avoid dangerous climate change. This will necessitate low-carbon transitions across electricity, transport, heat, industrial, forestry, and agricultural systems. But despite recent rapid growth in renewable electricity generation, the rate of progress toward this wider goal of deep decarbonization remains slow."
This just a few weeks after another study concluded that there's a 1 in 20 chance that climate change wipes out the entire human race by the end of the century:
"The chance of 'catastrophic' climate change completely wiping out humanity by 2100 is now 1-in-20"
Dick Cheney once said we should go to war with a country if there was just a one percent chance that that country was helping terrorists get a nuclear bomb.
Shouldn't we apply that thinking to climate change?
A 1 in 20 chance of the apocalypse is insanely high...
Comments
#2
So that's the problem, you can't follow more than one topic very narrowly, or you have a brain sprain.
Sorry.
Your last statment was right on though He's a lot more fun that hanging here.
Good nite!
#3
Well, I hope so!
};--)))
G'nite.
#4
@#29
Quote from Mr. Ed,
"Progressives in our country are not, nor have they ever, advocated for socializing private providers, hospitals, clinics, medical equipment manufacturers, or any other private-sector business that provides some form of actual medical service -- "
Wrong oat breath.
Ever hear leftie/socialists bring up the success of the VA?
#5
Yes, óinseach, the VA is a wildly successful, originally bipartisan, completely socialized system that most veterans really love and appreciate.
The only complaints arise as a direct consequence of Republicans' habitual failure during the Obama years to sign legislation that would have adequately increased much needed funding for VA infrastructure and provider services -- ergo: a stressed out workforce and long wait times. That's mostly on Teapublican war/budget hawks, who are quick to war and slow to peace. They always seem to find plenty of money to fight and kill and die and destroy but not so much for peace, for rebuilding, for healing.
Obviously, the above quote was referring to our civilian healthcare system in the context of single-payer, Medicare-for-all insurance versus private, for-profit insurance -- not healthcare services and related infrastructure. Access to affordable care for everyone is what America's progressive healthcare debate is all about, even though wingers muddle it badly and try to change the subject. (They know that their give-to-the-rich positions are extremely politically unpopular, so all they have left are big lies, half truths, and last-gasp diversions.)
When problems arise, at least a publicly financed, single-payer insurance system has accountability built into it, thanks to our forefathers. If politicians screw it up, the People can vote them out of power. (That is, when and if we can eliminate persistent Republican election fraud so that all votes are counted!) Try that, you lowly peasants, with the greedy billionaires running a worthless private plan from the 99th floor of their unscalable skyscraper.
Or, do you not appreciate the spirit of democracy and the words of the first Republican president? "...that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
#6
You certainly a Bully deepspace...and nobody likes a Bully, except other bullies....I'm surprised none of the "door knobs" jumped into help you. Only the random brain ChangeX attempted.... I think..who knows what ChangeX is saying, I'm not even sure she knows.
#7
Yah, me "Bully."
So now you're playing the victim card? Ha! Such a snowflake! Can dish it out, but can't take it.
As usual, you have nothing of substance to offer -- just more name-calling, insults, and lies. A quick review of your posts demonstrates quite clearly that "bullying" progressives and liberals is no doubt the principal reason that you and Chelsea are on this blog in the first place, isn't it? (Hint: Neither of you is very good at it.)
Oh, but if someone calls out your bullsh*t, pointing out your despicable falsehoods, shameless hypocrisy, and general right-wing idiocies, well then it's, "Waaah! Mommy, the neighborhood bully is pickin' on poor lil' me again!"
BTW, if you don't like bullies, then why did you vote for Trump?
#8
Diane, the entire military is a socialist organization. One that you righties praise as efficient and patriotic. And its medical staff is socialistic.
#9
#29 deepspace - you are sooo right
Those mothers are desperate to destroy the UK health system and move in
Lobbying should and needs to be abolished
Money and influence should and must be removed from those who represent "we the people"
#10
a·poc·a·lypse: the complete final destruction of the world, especially as described in the biblical book of Revelation.
Is this what the evangelicals and other have been evangelizing about all their lives? Eagerly awaiting Jesus to come again, their excitement seems to build each year they grow older.
#11
Listen missy @6, go back to watching your Tricky *ick Nixon re-runs reminiscing your golden years.
@5 don't forget about The Federal Health Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives (IHS).
#12
Deepspace, I hope that those are irish oats on your breath you bully.
#13
I swear on the grave of me sin-seanáthair (great grandpappy) that it's only oats! But when it comes to swallyin with that crew, the oats being well fermented won't need forgivin' Sunday mornin'. God understands.
};--))
#14
Notice that hit and run Diane does not respond about her Righty/socialist military.
#15
That's because there is no good retort; socialism serves the right as well as the left. Even more so, when considering that publicly-financed military and police forces are neoliberalism/neoconservativism's dominate sub-themes in the Republican culture of one-party rule and full-spectrum dominance, based on fear and intimidation, i.e., fascism. Guns and bombs, killing and war, and authoritarian daddy figures ("my generals") are the stuff of rightie/socialist, pussy-grabbing wet dreams.
#16
Hear ye, hear ye, read all about it! Trump is a loser! Shocking news!
In just the last 24 hours, it has been breathlessly reported out that two more Republican senators broke ranks with their Party by again stating the simple truth in plain English -- an extremely rare, headline-grabbing event:
"When his term is over, the debasing of our nation, the constant non-truth-telling, just the name-calling, I think the debasement of our nation will be what he'll be remembered most for and that's regretful. ... His governing model is to divide and to attempt to bully and to use untruths." -- Sen. Bob Corker, R-TN.
"We must never regard as 'normal' the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals. We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country — the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions, the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve. None of these appalling features of our current politics should ever be regarded as normal." -- Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
#17
Sorry, I was hunting ducks but get Hartmann on your nonsense, he likes to twist the constitution to his way of thinking.
"Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution provides Congress authority to raise and support Armies and to provide and maintain a Navy."
When you figure out another way to do this get back to me.
Then you can work on that pesky second amendment that drives you malcontent leftie/socialists to become even more unhinged..
#18
After watching American Experience on Richard Nixon a while back I have a better understanding of why trump trolls are in such despair all the time.
#19
Aaand... STRIKE! Another point missed...
Who here except Diane is talking about how to "figure out another way to do" Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution? Unless mistaken, I believe the original context in this latest sub-discussion was not about whether or not to have a national standing military but about right-wing hypocrisy.
A chronic use (verbal tic?) of the general term socialism as a political label with a negative connotation, which in reality has a kaleidoscope of different meanings and flavors to satisfy just about any ideological palate, is a meaningless qualifier unless one is very specific as to what type of socialism.
One person's Godly socialism is another's seed of Satan.
#20
Thanks, changeX. Here's a link to the PBS video:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nixon/#part01
#21
#17 Private Military Contractors. Non socialist, but your wars will cost 10x more. What do you want socialism or capitalism?
#22
Thanks deepspace. There were so many good little tidbits that the right wing loons must still be savoring on them. Proof that human evolution progresses at an extremely slow pace.
#23
And those who do not stand to protect this beautiful planet expect Jesus to give them another new one.!?
I think not!!!!
Many will call him their Lord and savior and his response will be, I know you not
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Sure sounds like you are "setting the rules." Since you insist on personal attacks, rather than substance, I offer the following psychoanalysis for free:
You change the meaning of other people's words all the time, as you've done with mine throughout this thread, and then accuse others of your own "tactic." That's called "projection." You even change the meaning of your own words from post to post, sentence to sentence, as you flit around subjects like an annoying mosquito buzzing around the ear. That's called "scatter-brained."
How is it possible to have a meaningful conversation with someone who is both intellectually dishonest and disorganized? In truth, I suspect that in your case, as well as in Hotdog Lady's and Cantankerous Granny's, blind hypocrisy is an unintentional and uncontrollable affliction of chronic right-wingnuttery, caused from too much exposure to big corporate media.
Now go to bed, Honey, before your husband gets suspicious.