It’s The Environment, Stupid

It’s My Planet, And I’ll Cry If I Want To

March 20, 2020

On the first day of Spring 2020, let us take a moment to step aside from the ongoing coronavirus onslaught to talk about the infinitely bigger and more deadly – albeit in much slower motion – threat to human and other life on Earth.  Anyone remember Climate Crisis?  Global climate crisis has arguably already resulted in many more deaths than COVID-19, and will continue to do so long after the latest virus gets bored and fades into the mayfly-like memories of most people.

There is only one of these in our vicinity

 

It was somewhat heartening to see most of the Democratic presidential candidates willing to stress the importance of dealing with the ongoing climate crisis.  Donald Chrump and the Republicant’s continue to keep their heads buried in their asses, which in turn are buried in the sand.  They will never pull them out, so we need a new regime to keep us from burning to a crisp or being chased from our homes by the ocean, or whatever else the already-well-under-way climate disaster has in store for us.

When unrelenting climate activist Greta Thunberg was asked what she would have said to Chrump if she had a chance to speak with the unspeakable orange nightmare, Thunberg said: “Honestly, I don't think I would have said anything because obviously he's not listening to scientists and experts, so why would he listen to me?”

Lest we forget, before he was forced to be distracted by COVID-19, Chrump busily working to decimate clean water standards by undoing 50 years of painstaking progress to protect our water.  Chrump claimed his latest attempt at environmental destruction will benefit farmers by allowing them to more easily pollute nearby federally protected creeks.  Oddly enough, a government report showed that the real beneficiaries of real estate developer/IMPEACHED-president Chrump’s massive reversal of the Clean Water Act will be – wait for it…real estate developers not farmers.  Remember, Chrump is also the guy who whined that he had to flush his toilet 15 times and run his dishwasher 10 times to clean his dishes – as if he has ever in his life had anything to do with washing a dish or flushing his own toilet. 

Don’t Be Best, Be Real

If you have children and are not committed to reversing climate crisis by taking some degree of personal responsibility and giving up a few creature comforts, then you might as well be beating your children.  In fact, you are beating the living crap out of them…non-stop…in super-slow-motion.

Climate activists (from left) Vanessa Nakate (originally cropped out of the photo by
the Associated Press news agency), Luisa Neubauer, Greta Thunberg, Isabelle Axelsson
and Loukina Tille arrive for a news conference in Davos, January 2020.

Thankfully the “children” are not just laying down and taking it.  This is their world, we are borrowing it from them as has always been the case, whether the “adults” have chosen to recognize this or not. 

Undaunted by anything not feeding his insatiable greed, Steve Mnuchin, Chrump’s Treasury Secretary and former foreclosure king went after climate activist Greta Thunberg at the Davos World Economic Forum in January.

Mnuchin made a name for himself by overseeing more than 36,000 foreclosures, tossing former homeowners onto the street without hesitation or pity by any – not always legal – means necessary.  Those having their homes yanked out from under them included active duty military servicemen and women, the elderly and of course, the financially disadvantaged.  Mnuchin did not do this simply out of malice.  Naturally, there was greed involved; his actions netted him some $200M.  Now, he is in charge of our nation’s treasury. 

Mnuchin had this to say about the 17-year-old Thunberg: “Is she the chief economist, or who is she?  I'm confused.  It's a joke.  After she goes and studies economics in college she can come back and explain that to us.”  Yes, but will she, or anyone, ever be able to explain you to us?

Even Mnuchin’s wife was not willing to be such a disgusting pig (this time).  A post on her verified Instagram account read, “I stand with Greta on this issue. (I don't have a degree in economics either) We need to drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels. Keep up the fight @gretathunberg.”  The post has since been deleted.  Looks like someone might end up sleeping in the guest mansion for a while.

Mnuchin and the Mrs. in happier times

Native Americans have long contended that all decisions must take into account their potential impact on the seventh generation yet to come.  Purposeful idiots like Donald Chrump and Steve Mnuchin do not even care about what happens seven minutes from now, while they insist on not learning from the past.  One must wonder if they even know where they are at this very moment.  They are certainly, to paraphrase the recently departed Richard “Baba Ram Das” Alpert, Not Here Now.  Wherever they might happen to be, they need to go away.

Kansas - Death Of Mother Nature Suite

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