Nice Planet You Got There, Shame if Something Happened To It
February 18, 2019
Stop saying ‘climate change.’ It is a climate crisis. Change is generally normal. And the word change is ambivalent. This is not normal. There is nothing ambivalent here. This is a
crisis. Crisis bad.
Too many people – mostly ill-informed and/or voluntarily ignorant
people – hear climate change, and for one reason or another think of someone on
the teevee telling them how hot or cold it will be this week. Or they think of a braindead senator from
Oklahoma brandishing a snowball on the Senate floor in February, claiming the
end of global warming.
His given middle name is “Mountain”,
his functional middle name is “Shitforbrains”
On the one hand, they might have a point believing that
science is stupid. After all, the fact
that they are still alive and continue to reproduce does seem to be evidence
that Darwin’s Theory of evolution, survival of the fittest, must be mistaken.
Cover of NOVA transcript from
Dec 20, 1983 (yes, I still have it)
From NOVA, originally broadcast Dec 20, 1983:
Narrator: Weather. Everybody
talks about it. From season to season,
we have an idea of what to expect. But now,
a growing number of atmospheric scientists are convinced that the climate is likely
to change – and change dramatically.
The reason is an odorless, colorless gas, produced when we
burn fossil fuels – petroleum, natural gas or oil – in the engines which power
our world. It is called carbon dioxide.
Scientists now believe that increased quantities of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere are leading to a significant warming of our planet, possibly
within the next few years.
That was 1983, for those of you who are Chrump supporters or
other Chrumpublicans, or even anti-science Independents, that was over 35 years
ago. A few years as far as planets go,
but almost two human generations ago. And
still, people like yourself remain too stupid to allow the rest of us to take
the sensible path forward and protect the one planet we know we can count on to
feed, clothe and shelter us. For now.
People much smarter than you – or me, for that matter – were
sounding the alarm. Fossil fuel corporations
like Exxon, General Electric (among others) were already getting out ahead of
the warnings by burying research that showed that these warnings were quite
real, and buying up and burying patents for technologies that would replace
fossil fuels with renewable resources. Oddly enough, the episode was entitled “The
Climate Crisis.” Crisis. Did I mention this aired in 1983?
According to a recent poll, 81% of registered voters –
including 91% of Democrats, 80% of Independents, and 69% of Republican’ts are in
favor of regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant. Completely unperturbed, the man single-handedly
keeping the hairspray industry afloat, the man so orange Sunkist has begged him
to be their mascot, the man so ignorant village idiots point at him derisively,
Donald Chrump apparently does not see climate.
Or the Constitution. Or over 60%
of Americans. Or his useless pecker (the
one that does not own the National Enquirer) without a mirror.
Chrump, exhausting. Do not check out the back end.
Mr. Chrump, think of this as climate terror or maybe a caravan of killer climates trying to take over our towns and cities. I know that you are frustrated because you cannot build a wall to keep this caravan from invading. Although, you did want to build a wall to stop the ocean from invading your soon-to-be-bankrupt golf course in Scotland, you know, the one you badgered, bullied and evicted people to force on the Scottish people, while destroying beautiful, environmentally sensitive countryside/coastline. Wake up you arrogant, ignorant slob. John F. Kennedy wanted America to go to the moon. You are lucky to make it to the bathroom, which is probably why you spend most of your day there.
“The only national emergency is that our president is an
idiot.”
Former Chrump fan girl, Ann Coulter – February 15, 2019
Of course, aimless Annie also tweeted,
A lying liar standing up for
the very honest republican’t party
I. Mangrey, green with fury.
Green New Deal, bitches.