A couple family members and a friend that owns a shop I frequent have poopooed state and local decarbonization efforts. They say we can’t afford it. Makes me want to slap them and rub their noses in all the mass extinction event findings.
I told the shop owner, “You know what I worry we can’t afford? Food once we’ve duqed the ecosystem we get our food from.”. I think it made him think a bit, we haven’t talked about climate since, tho. We still have pleasant and real conversations about about other topics, sometimes getting political; so that’s a good sign.
I wish when the family member that joked that they’d be dead by the time there were consequences I’d retorted, “please don’t say that joke to your grandkids; I want them to love you;” but I didn’t have the wit to think of that fast enough. I think they realized the joke wasn’t funny as soon as they said it. We don’t talk climate much, though we did have a brief talk about how tragic this hurricane was. It almost hit my parent’s town so she asked if they were okay and then we went on about how vast the damage up north was for a while. I think it’s a good sign too.
I hope these boomers vote for Harris. We can’t afford another round of Trump. Hell, we can’t really afford another dem either, but at least it’ll be a turn in the right direction. I voted Nader as a Floridian in 2000 and severely regretted it. When the Bush’s stole the election I chuckled, “Eh, 4 years of the same ahit.” I was so wrong. SUV wasn’t a term before W Bush era loonies created it to dodge clean air targets. Wiretapping was something nobody accepted before the amazingly broad “War on Terror” got everyone okay with the NSA and CIA keeping tabs on everyone… can’t wait for the US Hitler to get the new SS on that When the Saudi Royal’s black sheep nephew, Bin Laden organized and executed the 9-11 attacks Bush got all the Saudi Royals out of the country and let Rumsfeld and Cheney declare a bullshit war on Iraq. Thousands of US soldiers, half a million Iraqis and trillions of taxpayer dollars burned for nothing beyond Haliburton’s profits. The Afghanistan front was understaffed and thousands of US veterans lives ended or ruined in exchange for radicalizing Afghani youth against the US. US education was worsened with a so-called “No child left behind” policy that really just meant public schools needed to teach kids how to test or lose funding… And these new charter schools that could deny children with disabilities now steal public school funding. Corporations were given the right to patent DNA. Climate Change became a bad word. The US postal service budgeting requirements were changed so they needed to cover all benefits to all employees immediately at hire; meaning the postal service immediately stopped posting profits…leading to an effort to privatize the USPS. I realized us millennials were not going to wrest control from these Reaganite boomers for some time. Anyway, I’m sure the DNC will get the message I sent them with my protest vote any day now. /S
It’d be great if we could get Republicans calling out Dems for being poor stewards of this beautiful planet God blessed us with. Hell, get those sootheads at Shell to claim they’ve been green the whole time I don’t care. We just need to decarbonize. I feel once their boomer chairmen die they’d be happy to work with us so long as the oild subsidy money didn’t stop. We should just pay them to plug wells, bury dead trees and expand their car charging and solar operations or whatever net-zero tech they want to pivot into… Even though I’d rather guillotine the CEOs and place their heads on spikes; I’d be willing to compromise with them not frookung my family’s future.
Already impacted. Unprecedented fires. Unprecedented floods. My home insurance is 5x what it was only five years ago.
