Cog wrote:.......
Sorry your girl lost Ghung. .......
The Republicans control the executive.....
careinke wrote:Cid_Yama wrote:Carinke, I voted for Nixon (Clean Air and Water, EPA, but subverted Johnson's peace talks, so a mixed bag), Ford (my favorite Republican President after Ike), Reagan, H.W. Bush, and Bob Dole. After which the Banana Republicans came to the fore and started acting like Brown Shirts, showing themselves to be Fascists, and started running real Republicans out of the party. There was no way I was going to support that crap.
I am a Progressive. Think Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life, and Mr. Smith goes to Washington and Gary Cooper in Meet John Doe and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Real Republican. Who we were before. All by Frank Capra, lifelong Republican. Those movies show what a real Republican is, before the Corporate Fascists stole the party. Seek your roots, find out what a real Republican is.
Banana Republicans like Cog deserve nothing but loathing.
CID thanks for your response. I followed you right up to H W Bush, then I discovered the Libertarian Party and voted for them up until the 2016 election. In 2016 the Libertarian party put up a Republican to run for President. After studying all Presidential candidates for 2016, I decided none were qualified, so I did not vote for President.
KaiserJeep wrote:OK, I read the article. It is a particularly grim sermon from someone who has abandonned all hope of redemption.
My views are different. I believe the entire purpose of the Earth's ecosystem was to function as a creche for the human species. That our numbers are in excess of 7.7 Billion indicates this has been achieved with rousing success. The further function of the planet is to die in a painful and prolonged process that drives the humans off the surface and into space, which has always been destined as our true home.
Likely, the death of the Earth will be incomplete. Pockets of humanity will persist in the more habitable zones, and likely the race will bifurcate into planet-bound and space-based. This will happen relatively quickly, the pace of change blindingly fast (at least when compared to natural evolution) and implemented with genetic engineering.
I don't believe I'll see TEOTWAWKI myself, but my grandkids or their grandkids might. My remaining function as a retired Grandfather is to teach them survival skills and attitudes and work ethics.
My basic message is: If there was a creator and I have correctly identified his objective for humans, then were are performing as planned and we are on track to achieve the eventual goal. The rest of you need to quit complaining that the Earth diverges from what it would be if humans were not present. After all, we are part of Nature and we are exactly performing the function we were created to perform.
...the 400 richest Americans (.00025 percent of our population) now own more wealth than the 150 million poorest Americans (60 percent of the population).
dohboi wrote:...the 400 richest Americans (.00025 percent of our population) now own more wealth than the 150 million poorest Americans (60 percent of the population).
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-envi ... -solutions
Ibon wrote:dohboi wrote:...the 400 richest Americans (.00025 percent of our population) now own more wealth than the 150 million poorest Americans (60 percent of the population).
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-envi ... -solutions
Let's not confuse owning wealth and consuming. All that disparity of wealth means that the very wealthy have locked up all that wealth that if evenly distributed would likely result in far more aggregate consumption.
The growing disparity of wealth, even if it is digital fake numbers, is actually positive for the environment. The middle class represents in aggregate the biggest consumers. Restricting the wealth of this segment is one of the best ways to reduce per capita consumption on the planet.
Serfdom here we come.
onlooker wrote:Maybe what Dohboi, is trying to get at, is we ALL should live more frugally. The Billionaires should not get a pass by virtue that only a relatively few of them exist. And because one's possessions are protected by law.
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