tinydancer
Diamond Member
I said a few weeks ago the Pope is a socialist. His speech to Congress left little doubt.Here's HuffPo disavowing Naomi Klein: Naomi Klein's Own Form of Climate Change Denial: Blame Capitalism
She mercilessly savages moderate environmental NGOs for accepting funding from major polluters and working with industry to pursue incremental approaches and technological fixes to an existential threat that requires, above all, one radical solution: leaving most of the world's known carbon reserves in the ground, forever.
And then Naomi Klein blows it.
For the next three hundred plus pages, she drags the reader along on a syrupy tour of the entire new age kitsch pantheon, from the "brave" climate warriors who chain themselves to bulldozers over "a lone Mi'kmaq mother kneeling in the middle of the highway before a line of riot police, holding up a single eagle feather" to the goat herding yogi who "can feel the earth breathe," before finishing up by literally dolloping out wisdom from her womb.
Having thus alienated mainstream readers - exactly the people the climate change movement most urgently needs to reach out to and bring on board - Klein then blocks meaningful debate among the already converted:
"Meeting science-based [carbon] targets will mean forcing some of the most profitable companies on the planet to forfeit trillions of dollars of future earnings by leaving the vast majority of fossil fuel reserves in the ground. It will also require coming up with trillions more to pay for zero-carbon, disaster-ready societal transformations... if climate justice carries the day, the economic costs to our elites will be real."
Get real, Ms. Klein.
It wouldn't be to bad except the damn flat earth pope invites the nut bag to the Vatican
Pope Francis recruits Naomi Klein in climate change battle
As for climate change, there is nothing wrong with being skeptical, but there is a big difference between being a skeptic and a denier. The Right is bogged down by deniers.
If global warming is real, and if it is caused by humans, my problem starts with the Left's "solutions" to global warming. I've often said the climate change movement is the 1970s Old Left socialism with a new party dress on, but no amount of bling can hide the wrinkles on that old familiar face.
I don't trust the Left to solve problems, and never have.
It's one thing to think the Left couldn't solve a problem, it's another thing entirely to deny the problem exists.
I am more and more convinced the problem exists.
Yea I know, I don't disagree that the climate is changing but how much is man contributing?
The ultra left always thinks pollution =climate change.
Plus I always bitch about lack of records/data and I have been hearing the fear mongering ever since I had my first subscription to popular science and popular mechanix since the early 70's...We all know who took over green peace/the environment movement~the liberal radicals of the 60`s
We know the CO2 in the atmosphere that is causing Global Warming is from fossil fuels burned by man because the isotope in those is different than the isotope of naturally occurring CO2.
Then why hasn't there been any global warming. Look the IPCC admitted this.
This and the rest of the science was settled 15+ years ago. There is no debate.
Global Warming is real and accelerating and the entire human race is about to get a horrific up-close education on reality soon.