This is an odious comparison, but one could make the same argument about joining the Nazi party in 1930s Germany. Furthermore, considering the Republican stance on climate change, I’m not actually sure which would be worse.
400 years from now, there are only two things today’s US government has great power over that will have mattered; whether there is a large scale nuclear war, and whether there was devastating climate change. The Republican party is directly making the second problem much worse.
Civilization recovered from the Black Plague, World War II, and the Mongol invasions (which killed about as many people as World War II when the world’s population was a lot smaller). I do not know if it can recover from severe climate change caused by either nuclear winter or greenhouse gas emissions.
The worst case scenario for climate change is worse than you think—it’s not simply massive famines, millions of refugees, and geopolitical instability. It’s a replay of the Great Dying, the biggest mass extinction in Earth’s history. And it was caused by greenhouse gases released by volcanoes and the burning of underground carbon deposits caused by those same volcanoes. Warming temperatures caused the ocean circulation that brings oxygen from the ocean’s surface to its depths to slow down, creating the conditions for anerobic bacteria to thrive: anerobic bacteria that produce the poisonous gas hydrogen sulfide, and they produced enough to make the entire atmosphere lethally toxic. The worst possible climate change scenario doesn’t just mean there’s not enough food for everyone, it means taking off your gas mask will kill you.
When it comes right down to it, I’d vote for Hitler over a climate change denialist—and I’m Jewish!
100% agree. I just wanted to add that insofar as Donald Trump both killed the Iran nuclear deal, and said he didn’t care if Saudi-Arabia got nukes it seems like the republican party is also substantially worse on nuclear war.(while Biden failing to reestablish the deal is a failure, not a comparable failing) Additionally, Donald Trump claimed he’d threaten nuclear war with Putin over Ukraine, so we might genuinely all be dead right now if he’d won in 2020.
This is an odious comparison, but one could make the same argument about joining the Nazi party in 1930s Germany. Furthermore, considering the Republican stance on climate change, I’m not actually sure which would be worse.
400 years from now, there are only two things today’s US government has great power over that will have mattered; whether there is a large scale nuclear war, and whether there was devastating climate change. The Republican party is directly making the second problem much worse.
Civilization recovered from the Black Plague, World War II, and the Mongol invasions (which killed about as many people as World War II when the world’s population was a lot smaller). I do not know if it can recover from severe climate change caused by either nuclear winter or greenhouse gas emissions.
The worst case scenario for climate change is worse than you think—it’s not simply massive famines, millions of refugees, and geopolitical instability. It’s a replay of the Great Dying, the biggest mass extinction in Earth’s history. And it was caused by greenhouse gases released by volcanoes and the burning of underground carbon deposits caused by those same volcanoes. Warming temperatures caused the ocean circulation that brings oxygen from the ocean’s surface to its depths to slow down, creating the conditions for anerobic bacteria to thrive: anerobic bacteria that produce the poisonous gas hydrogen sulfide, and they produced enough to make the entire atmosphere lethally toxic. The worst possible climate change scenario doesn’t just mean there’s not enough food for everyone, it means taking off your gas mask will kill you.
When it comes right down to it, I’d vote for Hitler over a climate change denialist—and I’m Jewish!
100% agree. I just wanted to add that insofar as Donald Trump both killed the Iran nuclear deal, and said he didn’t care if Saudi-Arabia got nukes it seems like the republican party is also substantially worse on nuclear war.(while Biden failing to reestablish the deal is a failure, not a comparable failing) Additionally, Donald Trump claimed he’d threaten nuclear war with Putin over Ukraine, so we might genuinely all be dead right now if he’d won in 2020.