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Jan. 13th, 2012 12:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foolsguineahttp://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/01/12/403261/tom-donohue-pushes-civilization-ending-pollution-agenda-in-chamber-of-commerce-annual-address/
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John F Meshna · Owner at Dirt Works
Sadder still is the huge number of people who will read and hear this address and agree with it because they are so ignorant of environmental education they really do think that people can live on earth without a fully functioning ecosystem to sustain us and others who think that none of that matters because we need to bring on the rapture as soon as possible. I have news for all of them. I will work the rest of my life to defeat their negative, life threatening ideas so that my son can live on this earth and enjoy his life and be healthy well after I am gone along with the rest of his generation. He's 21 months and I'm already teaching him kindness and empathy and lessons on environmental stewardship and he will continue my work long after I'm gone. I hope all those who read will do the same.
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My thought: Leading the world into ruin because you're crossing your fingers and hoping the best scientists in the world got it wrong? This guy should be locked up. Or strung up. Time is too short to humor these guys anymore.
This morning, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue argued that “free enterprise” requires a future of accelerated, unending global warming. Supporting expanded fracking, shale oil, and tar sands development including the Keystone XL pipeline, Donohue said that the United States should burn hundreds of billions of tons of fossil fuels for hundreds of years:We have 1.4 trillion barrels of oil, enough to last at least 200 years. We have 2.7 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough to last 120 years. We have 486 billion tons of coal, enough to last more than 450 years—and we need to use more of this strategic resource cleanly and wisely here at home while selling it around the world.
Burning that amount of fossil fuel would generate 444 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from the oil, 135 billion tons from the natural gas, and 1.258 trillion tons from the coal. To maintain a climate compatible with civilization all of humanity needs to limit future greenhouse pollution to less than 650 billion tons.
Far from “keeping the American Dream alive for generation after generation,” as Donohue claims, his promotion of catastrophic global warming would grant a diminished, deadly world to future generations.
I love this response through facebook:
John F Meshna · Owner at Dirt Works
Sadder still is the huge number of people who will read and hear this address and agree with it because they are so ignorant of environmental education they really do think that people can live on earth without a fully functioning ecosystem to sustain us and others who think that none of that matters because we need to bring on the rapture as soon as possible. I have news for all of them. I will work the rest of my life to defeat their negative, life threatening ideas so that my son can live on this earth and enjoy his life and be healthy well after I am gone along with the rest of his generation. He's 21 months and I'm already teaching him kindness and empathy and lessons on environmental stewardship and he will continue my work long after I'm gone. I hope all those who read will do the same.
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My thought: Leading the world into ruin because you're crossing your fingers and hoping the best scientists in the world got it wrong? This guy should be locked up. Or strung up. Time is too short to humor these guys anymore.
