Morgan, at “Inside the Movement,” writes: This year’s COP Conference has been hard to watch. Between the record number of oil lobbyists attending and the COP President (an oil CEO) who doesn’t believe phasing out fossil fuels will reduce global heating, we can’t lose sight of the urgency and action that is needed for our planet.
I remember attending a conference on alternative fuels whose keynote address was delivered by the president of the American Petroleum Institute. She pointed out that she was a soccer mom and needed a reliable way to get her kids to and from practices and games, as if only an internal combustion engine could deliver the dependability.
I found the organizer of the event and pointed out the absurdity, but he didn’t see the issue at all.
“If this represents the best of our capacity to think, conferences like these are really pointless, aren’t they?” I asked, as I turned and walked away.
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At left we see the words of the Premier of British Columbia, expressing his sorrow for the incredible pace at which the United States has destroyed its relationships with its allies.
Of course, this is no big deal to Trump supporters, many of whom couldn’t find British Columbia on a map.
It’s easy to blame Trump for his lies and criminality.
It’s harder to accept the fact that many of the people of the United States are willing believe essentially anything, regardless of how preposterous, that comes out of the president’s mouth.
The Republicans seem to have coalesced around the anti-communism/socialism narrative, setting aside all other messaging re: the economy, affordable groceries and gasoline, jobs, allowing Iran to build a nuclear weapon, etc.
We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out.
In a nation that has, to a large degree, lost its ability to think, it’s possible that voters, especially the most unintelligent among them, can be convinced that the Democrats are leading the United States in the direction of China, North Korea, or the former Soviet Union.
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