Historians Will Be Baffled by Our Times

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/06/01/historians-will-baffled-times/

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Ezra Klein: “The world is currently on track for catastrophic levels of global warming. Destroying one of our last best chances to set a different path might prove Trump’s most consequential, and disastrous, legacy.”

“If it does, historians living in the altered climate of 2050 will look back on the 2016 campaign in horror. As they read the coverage, they will find a polity that knew of the danger and importance of climate change, but preferred to talk about Hillary Clinton’s emails instead. Indeed, as Media Matters documents, there was less coverage of climate change in the 2016 election than in the 2014, 2012, or 2010 elections… Meanwhile, networks’ flagship news shows devoted more coverage to Clinton’s emails than to every policy issue combined.”

“We often look back on past generations and wonder about their cruelty, their blithe dismissal of actions that seems to us, now, to be obviously moral, obviously right. But imagine how future generations will look back on us. We knew all we needed to know about how climate change would likely affect our descendants, and we decided to let it happen anyway.”


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[femmocrat]

1. Not just historians.

Many of us do not understand what is happening or why any of it is possible. It's like being in an episode of "The Twilight Zone" that never ends.

[lpbk2713]

2. Fifty years from now everyone will curse the name Trump.

And they will curse us for letting him rise to power.

That is, if anyone is still here fifty years from now.

[luvMIdog]

3. I'm hoping it's not like this...

[C_U_L8R]

4. Definitely an orange stain on our legacy

[wishstar]

5. We seem to be only country in world controlled by a political party and Pres. in such denial

Even Russia is in the Paris Accord despite their more positive attitude to global warming since it will give them more oil drilling territory and more hospitable Siberian climate.

Our Republican right wingers are so brainwashed that they refuse to accept the overwhelming evidence that burning fossil fuels has had an impact on climate and most of them want to roll back environmental regulations and safeguards protecting our air and water, animal and plant life for short term profits.

Whenever I read an online article from mainstream news sources mentioning climate change, I am shocked how the majority of comments consist of such disturbingly hateful and nasty attacks from global warming deniers.

[democratisphere]

6. Hitler, Mousseline and drumpf.