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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Why? Half of the work that can be done against climate change requires the co-operation of the executive branch, and the other half is filtered through state governments anyway.
Plus democrats are less science-phobic and inclined to do something about it anyway.
But people tend not to make votes based on what's going to happen thirty years down the line, so you don't campaign on it (look at the general success rate of green parties)
Given that the GOP outright refuses to do anything about it, having flipped a bunch of Governorships is the best option to fight climate change for now.
Well, the best available.
well, according to Poll s the Greens are ATM the 2nd most popular party in Germany...
Edited by 3of4 on Nov 20th 2018 at 6:21:37 PM
"You can reply to this Message!"The impression I have is that climate change can become an important issue only if a) there is nothing else to talk about (e.g Switzerland right now) or b) if it is having a substantial impact (hypothetical example: if California next year is hit by a major hurricane).
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think a lot of Green parties have a problem with being a single issue party. I mean, it is great to having something everyone can get behind at the start - and nobody really argues that the environment is important - but the first concern every voter has is always more personal. The Greens in Germany are currently running on a pro-EU, pro-Immigration platform, and they have worked hard to get away from the image as the "party which forbids everything" to one which is looking for actual solutions.
In the US, any Party which isn't Republican or Democratic doesn't really have a chance, though.
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kind of, in that I gave you the answer before reading your question.
Edited by Swanpride on Nov 20th 2018 at 9:43:54 AM
x4 But our queen stepped down in 2013, we have a ki... Oooh, I see!
Edited by Robrecht on Nov 20th 2018 at 6:45:54 PM
Angry gets shit done.It did? Ocasio-Cortez just did a demonstration at Pelosi's place that was kneejerk-reported as a protest over transitioning to renewable energy. Renewable energy is a climate change issue.
In my state, part of our platform during canvassing was talking about the same thing: moving Colorado in the direction of 100% renewable energy and ending the stranglehold that the oil and gas industry has on our state. And we knocked it out of the park (trifecta state!).
The candidates might not be campaigning on the specific platform of "WE'RE ALL GOING TO F*CKING DIE, EVERYONE PANIC!!!" but that doesn't mean that climate change wasn't on the ballot.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Kentucky is considered part of the South. Not to mention that West Virginia is as well, in spite of its own mining history. There's also the fact that Kentucky was perhaps the most important of the border states in the U.S. Civil War, because the Confederacy really wanted to add Kentucky.
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."Regarding genocide: Words have meaning, so we shouldn't be misusing them. We don't even use genocide to refer to the Cultural Revolution's actual attempt to murder an entire class, you know?
Mass negligent manslaughter works for me.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Frankly, while I get the reasoning that the word "genocide" loses meaning if you use it for everything, the flip side is that government ordered mass killing sound kind of benign because at least is isn't genocide, right? The end-result is more or less the same, though, a bunch of people dying.
Maybe we need a word for the targeted killing of the poor which sounds just as terrifying as genocide.
Edited by Swanpride on Nov 20th 2018 at 1:16:47 AM
Democide is probably the most accurate term — the organized killing of a group of people or a demographic.
I don't think the economic crisis in Appalachia can really be considered "genocide," though. Criminal negligence and chronic mismanagement, yes, but there probably isn't a standing kill order for the poor. Unless we're willing to label every economic conservative as a genocidaire, we really shouldn't be bandying any -cide term.
Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Nov 20th 2018 at 4:25:43 AM
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."This is a kind of weird comparison considering that I don't think anyone here has done the latter.
The Boston Massacre was always a heavily propagandized name, and I for one wouldn't consider the former to be a genocide and the latter to be a massacre.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangFrankly, that a whole lot of people are dying or malnourished and that no one in power gives a damn about them is vile. What you call it is important, sure, but also small fries.
Honestly, I'm just sad. Disappointed. I'd hoped I wouldn't see that kind of callous neglect in America, of all the places. Where I'm from, sure - but not in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth.
Just shows, I suppose, of how much I've still to learn.
I hold the secrets of the machine.So Trump is openly supporting the Saudi prince who at this point is almost certain ordered the murder of Khashoggi. No sanctions, no denouncement, nothing. Thus giving the green light to every tinpot dictator and despot out there that they can feel free to off their political opponents with no repercussions from us. Even if said political opponents were nominally under our protection. Coupled with the fact that the next head of Interpol is gonna be a Russian stooge, life is about to get very hard, and sadly likely very short, for political dissidents the world over.

That and Matt Bevin (Kentucky's current governor) is a piece of work himself.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman