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    Margaret Kimberley - Freedom Rider: Democrats’ Climate Change Lies Archived Message

    Posted by sashimi on September 16, 2020, 9:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Media Lens : Trump must lose"

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    16 Sept 2020

    It is easy to blame Donald Trump, who among other things famously
    withdrew from the 2015 Paris climate accords. Although it must be
    pointed out that the agreement is an honor system based declaration of
    intent and not a requirement to take action. Signatory nations chose
    goals for themselves while also allowing temperature increases that
    are deadly for people living in the global south. The agreement
    specifically states that industrialized nations don't have to pay
    compensation for the damage they do to the rest of the world. Trump's
    stunt gives the impression that Democrats are serious about fighting
    climate change but the facts prove otherwise.

    ...

    The Democratic National Committee (DNC) removed language from its
    platform which called for ending government subsidies to fossil fuel
    companies. That betrayal was just as well, because the Democrats'
    record on the environment is nothing like the image they project on
    social media. Obama was joined by California's Democratic governor
    Gavin Newsom who used some of the same photos and offered the same
    platitudes with capital letters for extra emphasis. "Climate change is
    REAL. So please VOTE."

    Obama and Newsom are both liars. This is what Obama said in a March
    22, 2012 speech. "Now, under my administration, America is producing
    more oil today than at any time in the last eight years. That's
    important to know. Over the last three years, I've directed my
    administration to open up millions of acres for gas and oil
    exploration across 23 different states. We're opening up more than 75
    percent of our potential oil resources offshore. We've quadrupled the
    number of operating rigs to a record high. We've added enough new oil
    and gas pipeline to encircle the Earth and then some." Newsom is no
    better. Despite the social media rhetoric his administration continues
    to give fracking and other drilling permits. In fact, the state of
    California has given more fracking permits in the first six months of
    2020 than it did in the same period the year before.

    Neither of the two capitalist parties is in any position to stop the
    planet from heating up. That is because both do the bidding of the
    corporations causing the record breaking temperatures to occur. One
    party lies about the damage it is causing and promotes easily
    dismissed quackery to defend itself. As usual, the Democrats sneer and
    pretend to act differently when at every opportunity they do the very
    same things that are killing the planet.

    Our lives do depend on bringing about change but that won't happen if
    Biden is the man in the White House. Supposedly progressive Democrats
    stole the language of the Green Party, the party they otherwise scorn,
    and claim they will institute a Green New Deal. But the Democrats who
    promote a watered down version are openly thwarted by their
    leadership. Their progressive wing is not serious and the
    establishment doesn't even pretend until the west coast is ablaze and
    then pretense is all they have.

    Climate change did not begin after Donald Trump was inaugurated. The
    damage was done by Democrats and Republicans, by the United States and
    by every industrialized nation that bowed to the dictates of
    capital. Obama and Newsom and all the rest hope we aren't paying
    attention when their handiwork produces a natural disaster. Pretending
    that one wing of the duopoly will behave differently than it has in
    the past is adding insult to one's own injury. The least we can do is
    call out the scoundrels when they tell us lies as the sky turns red.
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    -- https://blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-democrats-climate-change-lies

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