of it s stunning to me. so is it, you know, just delusions of grandeur from bannon and navarro to think that they had it all set up? or is it right that actually, the mob attack on the capitol may have safed the election certification? that was the goal. the goal was for us to not to be able to certify the election. and that s because, jonathan, this is a party that is so disaligned with where americans are. so if we just vote, they re anti-choice, anti-voter, anti-climate, anti-gun safety agenda is not going to work. and so they re shifting now to using violent rhetoric, threats against lawmakers to try and wield power. that s all they have. but they re coming. and if we re not ready, we re going to see when they rule in 2023 that a woman s right to make her own health care decisions, gone.
violence, they re now trying to demonize that. i love your assessment on this. because reading that is sort of it s stunning to me. so is it, you know, just delusions of grandeur from bannon and navarro to think that they had it all set up? or is it right that actually, the mob attack on the capitol may have saved the election certification? that was the goal. the goal was for us to not to be able to certify the election. and that s because, jonathan, this is a party that is so disaligned with where americans are. so if we just vote, they re anti-choice, anti-voter, anti-climate, anti-gun safety agenda is not going to work. and so they re shifting now to using violent rhetoric, threats against lawmakers to try and wield power. that s all they have. but they re coming.
The harrowing stories out of Texas last month are a stark reminder that climate-induced chaos is no respecter of party affiliation. Cushioning the blow of these impacts and building resiliency against future catastrophe is going to take something extraordinary in today’s political climate: working together.
Many will wave this away as impossibly naive. Views regarding the reality of climate change are simply too polarized. Among those who accept the reality of a changing climate, the distance between those advocating for a Green New Deal and those in favor of market-driven, innovation-based solutions is too far to bridge.
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Yet the distance may be closer than most people think. Since 2012, more than 3 million self-described pro-life evangelicals motivated to defend the unborn and to honor the Bible’s call to care for the Earth have called for 100 percent clean electricity by 2030, five years earlier than President Biden’s current target.
anti-climate denying being a climate denier. but it was far from being a vick it will of negative press. i said before that many days there were headlines from the white house that pushed scott pruitt off our run down. you did a much better job staying folk used on the story than a lot of others. he was far from a victim of bad headlines. he was a victim of his own corruption. two things have to be said here. first of all, that many of the complaints and much of the information we learned came from people at the upper echelons of e palomino, epa who were not civil servants, who were political appointees of the united states and trump supporters who shared the agenda, probably shared the denial of the climate crisis and watched this person conduct himself in such a abjectly horrifying way that this he were basically duty bound to talk to people about it. it was clearly shocking and abhorrent to everyone around