(#4699) Climate change is real and coming for us!

      As we continue to put capitalism above democracy and our very real survival as a species, the effects of man made climate change will not be denied. We can wish or hope that climate change is not that bad but as we found out over the weekend, with devastation wreaked upon our nations mid west states, it is bad and it is getting worse. Yet we have a political party, republicans, who keep defending dirty energy production, in spite of all the devastating evidence to the contrary. So much so republicans are defending dirty energy continuation that they are unable to argue or debate on the merits of their stance. It makes for a conundrum for them so they obfuscate, lie, and misdirect when having to face the reality of the grave folly they are thrusting upon us.
     I have been for several months banging on the gong about voting rights protections and that is correct for me to do so. However, I am not unaware of the effects of climate change and just how fast these effects are coming to a dangerous conclusion. The need to protect our voting rights so that the responsible ones of us in all political parties can vote to elect leaders who are not in the pocket of dirty energy and other greedy organizations that put their addiction to profit above safety and survival is needed now more than ever. Thinking about how the workers in that candle plant were told that either work or be fired during a tornado puts into perspective just how much greed and profit are embedded into the fabric of our lives.
     When the safety of folks is a lesser concern than meeting a quota for profit, we know that capitalism is not working as a tool for enlightenment nor modernity. The lust of greed and selfishness is not a value worth attaining. The cost of such behavior is unequal and destructive solely for some benefit that is worthless when life is lost and our environment is further degraded. Like Nero fiddling while Rome burned, the disassociation of denying climate change while natural disasters continue to unfold is eerily similar. Every day some outlandish climate event is happening yet we cannot seem to decide to do something together as a species to stop it. The effects of climate change may be the ELE, extinction level event, that ends our species.