To Hell With The Grandkids
by digby
Kevin Drum's piece on the coming mega-drought reminds me once again how great it would be if all the people who have been brainwashed into believing that social security is going to bankrupt their grandchildren would understand that this is the real crisis those kids are going to face:
Here are a few recent data points for you: (1) The New York Times reports that "skepticism and outright denial of global warming are among the articles of faith of the Tea Party movement." (2) In the National Journal, Ron Brownstein notes that "The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones....Of the 20 serious GOP Senate challengers who have taken a position, 19 have declared that the science of climate change is inconclusive or flat-out incorrect." (3) It's not just Senate candidates. ThinkProgress notes that an analysis by Wonk Room "finds that 22 of the 37 Republican candidates for governor this November are deniers of the scientific consensus on global warming pollution."
Read on for the full catastrophe.
Of course all the teabagging old duffers my age and older will be dead by the time the real ramifications of climate change hit so perhaps the truth is that most of them are just posturing to make a point and don't really care about their grandkids at all. That would be my guess.
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