• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    8 hours ago

    I grew up on Cleveland (left 20+ years ago), and not once in my life did we ever have trouble from Canadian wildfires. It’s wet up there, how does stuff even burn, but now it does.

    Obviously, things are changing and getting worse. I just read that we have been judging Climate Change based on the lowest C02 level estimates back in the 70s. Now we know that throughout all those years, we should have been using the HIGHEST estimates to measure, and that means that things have advanced twice as far as we have actually thought.

    It’s hot as Hell out there, the weather is getting more insane in a daily basis, and it gets noticeably worse every year.

    But don’t talk about it.

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    19 hours ago

    A mistake? It’s a fucking catastrophe having neither of the two major shitass political parties discussing THE most prevalent issue of the century.

    It’s beyond despicable the state the world has been allowed to devolve into … all for the profits of a handful of some self-entitled creatures once thought human.

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    JFC. When are Democrats going to realize that they need to stand for something? They are just constantly too afraid to advocate for a point of view. Stop with the consultant-brained 5 dimensional chess bullshit and just make an argument. Persuade people of the merit of your worldview. In other words, lead.

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      23 hours ago

      Aha! The solution to the CO2 problem is so very simple. Scientists only need to follow these very simple instructions:

      It’s a truly genius plan. Amazing scientists haven’t implemented it yet.

  • hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Covering up a core issue to appease dyed-in-the-wool right-wing voters is a centrist strategy that will fail. At this point, only the minority of hardcore MAGA are going to continue to vote for MAGA candidates. Those MAGA voters also tend to be climate change deniers.

    70% of Americans believe climate change is a pressing issue.

    There’s enough voters on the left to defeat the right, you just have to get them to vote. Progressive policies are popular on the left, and when you don’t put them at the front of your campaign, you’re not going to motivate all potential voters to vote, or they’ll vote third-party.

    The Dems need to stop being pussies and instead proudly be leftists that don’t back down from a fight.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s not just right voter’s that they’re trying to impress it’s their donors and corporations too. Democrats care more about these groups than their base.

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      22 hours ago

      You nailed it. I really don’t understand what is complicated about this either. I tend to believe a lot of older corporate Dems are intentionally keeping popular policies out of the mainstream but there appear to be quite a few well meaning Dems that can’t seem to figure this out. It is baffling to me.