Passionate Progressive

and they can’t pass a fracking ban or enact medicare for all….

We can’t engineer our way out of the eco-crises…that’s the same thing as putting those who created the problems in charge of fixing them.

What happens when all of the plastic is consumed – are the enzymes that do this job discreet and incapable of not consuming beneficial substances?

Why isn’t the core problem of over consumption addressed?

labels of ‘Republicans’ and ‘Democrats’ though still utilized are passe – both parties are essentially identical in mission…There will always be outliers but they are meaningless.

And this is the other flaw of his argument…………The Toad will be gone one day, as will its septuagenarian toadies in Congress. All is not lost quite yet.   There…[Read more]

Unlike some I’ve recently been reading in Counterpunch that ramble on and on and on.

What about the so-called beneficiaries of our liberation(s)?

Having said that – utilization of the depleted uranium weapons are just as toxic for the environment and invaders as those people whom we invade and liberate….Depleted uranium weapons – a by-product/waste of the nuclear energy industry — has ramifications for those exposed to the…[Read more]

that got us into the planetary crisis….

as if  ‘merikuns or Bill McKibben cared about saving anything but the bottom line…..As if ‘merikuns are the only country with scientists or ideologies that offer anything but quantifiable solutions to the issues that demand more than yes or no or quantifiable answers…..As if any solutions can address…[Read more]

from a NH neighbor!

and because I didn’t see the link in the source thread, I’ll post it here.

Why Liberals Hate Leftists

@sadoldgirl

I can’t understand why people would think that Russia would waste the resources when they can just as easily watch as we shoot ourselves in our feet so to speak.

https://www.sealevel.info/1988_Hansen_Senate_Testimony.html

with appreciation @segami

https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-26/what-politicians-debating-global-warming-will-look-soon

Not just the fossil fuel industry which has destroyed Oklahoma, the state I grew up in, the other corporate rulers (health and pharmaceutical, military) are destroying the planet for their own profits.  They are in control and will not give up.  The rest of the planet will collapse around them…and they will watch the rest of us suffer before t…[Read more]

@hasslecat

The dye is pretty much cast and both political administrations have positives and negatives for Russia…The Russian foreign ministry is adept enough and has proven capable of dealing with a variety of scenarios as they proved with Bush II…Condoleeza Rice and neocons like Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz and under their guidance…[Read more]