The GOP is the party of death - Alternet.org

[Janet O'Connell]

Wow, this list is long and horrifying
https://www.alternet.org/gop-is-party-of-death/


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[Patricia Dahlman]

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> On Mar 19, 2023, at 8:34 AM, Janet O'Connell <jocon...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Wow, this list is long and horrifying

> https://www.alternet.org/gop-is-party-of-death/
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[Dan La Vigne]

They are the party of death on climate policy alone!   Death, destruction, and despair!  And it is unfair that they should drag us down with them!

If we had the means, we could offer them a trip to Venus so they could live in the greenhouse gases that they are so adamant about  creating.

We could give them ALL of their beloved money, but take away all science and technology and see how they cope with food, shelter, and transportation.

We could separate their children from their families and put them in schools that teach critical thinking, science, and data based solutions to worldly problems.  Thereby reducing the infestation of ignorance, hubris, and greed in our civilization.

We could ….  ….

BUT we won’t do any of that!  Because that is not who we are.

And yet, I still think it is unfair that they, a minority in numbers, can create such grief and pain for the whole of creation.

There must be a way!

from the writer Arundhati Roy

"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew.  [COVID-19] is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.  We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us.  Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world.  And ready to fight for it."        I found this quoted in the Catalyst, from the Union of Concerned Scientists.   Surely not an answer, but a perspective worth contemplating.   

 

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