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Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump's election will accelerate global warming and humanity's 'race to disaster'
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Steve Hayes
Nov 16, 2016, 11:56:07 PM11/16/16
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Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump's election will accelerate global warming
and humanity's 'race to disaster'
The US Republican Party is now 'the most dangerous organisation in
world history', US academic says
Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent
Tuesday 15 November 2016 13:03 BST
The renowned American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky has warned
the US Republican party is now “the most dangerous organisation in
world history” because of the denial of climate change by
President-elect Donald Trump and other leading figures.
Following the US elections, Professor Chomsky said it appeared humans
planned to answer what he called “the most important question in their
history … by accelerating the race to disaster”.
Mr Trump has already appointed a prominent climate change denier to
run his transition team covering the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), and other advisers include people with close links to the
fossil fuel industry.
He has also pledged to scrap the United States’ ratification of the
Paris Agreement on climate change, which President Barack Obama has
hailed as “the moment that we finally decided to save our planet”.
Leading climate scientists have expressed dismay and concern about Mr
Trump’s election, suggesting it could be an “unmitigated disaster for
the planet”.
Speaking to the Truthout website, Professor Chomsky pointed to a
report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which said the
past five years had been the hottest on record and reported rising sea
levels, unexpectedly rapid melting of ice and other effects of climate
change.
The election on 8 November had given the Republicans total control of
the US government and this meant they had now become "the most
dangerous organisation in world history”, he said.
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“The last phrase may seem outlandish, even outrageous. But is it? The
facts suggest otherwise. The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly
as possible to destruction of organised human life. There is no
historical precedent for such a stand,” Professor Chomsky said.
“It is hard to find words to capture the fact that humans are facing
the most important question in their history — whether organised human
life will survive in anything like the form we know — and are
answering it by accelerating the race to disaster.”
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Steve Hayes
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and humanity's 'race to disaster'
The US Republican Party is now 'the most dangerous organisation in
world history', US academic says
Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent
Tuesday 15 November 2016 13:03 BST
The renowned American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky has warned
the US Republican party is now “the most dangerous organisation in
world history” because of the denial of climate change by
President-elect Donald Trump and other leading figures.
Following the US elections, Professor Chomsky said it appeared humans
planned to answer what he called “the most important question in their
history … by accelerating the race to disaster”.
Mr Trump has already appointed a prominent climate change denier to
run his transition team covering the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), and other advisers include people with close links to the
fossil fuel industry.
He has also pledged to scrap the United States’ ratification of the
Paris Agreement on climate change, which President Barack Obama has
hailed as “the moment that we finally decided to save our planet”.
Leading climate scientists have expressed dismay and concern about Mr
Trump’s election, suggesting it could be an “unmitigated disaster for
the planet”.
Speaking to the Truthout website, Professor Chomsky pointed to a
report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which said the
past five years had been the hottest on record and reported rising sea
levels, unexpectedly rapid melting of ice and other effects of climate
change.
The election on 8 November had given the Republicans total control of
the US government and this meant they had now become "the most
dangerous organisation in world history”, he said.
Read more
'Emergency' campaign to persuade Trump climate change is real
Nature may need ‘human-assisted evolution’ to cope with climate
change
Trump's views on climate change mean he’s a danger to us all
World facing apocalyptic future of famine, war and disease, UN
warns
“The last phrase may seem outlandish, even outrageous. But is it? The
facts suggest otherwise. The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly
as possible to destruction of organised human life. There is no
historical precedent for such a stand,” Professor Chomsky said.
“It is hard to find words to capture the fact that humans are facing
the most important question in their history — whether organised human
life will survive in anything like the form we know — and are
answering it by accelerating the race to disaster.”
http://tinyurl.com/zmaq9mg
--
Steve Hayes
http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
http://khanya.wordpress.com
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