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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

New Republican US House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Denies Climate Concerns

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New Republican US House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Denies Climate Concerns

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New House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Dismisses Climate Concerns
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Representative Mike Johnson comes from Louisiana oil country and has said he does not believe burning fossil fuels is changing the climate.
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      The Bible specifically requires that Man be good stewards of the gifts. So they are intentionally ignoring it to reach that selfishness.

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        Q: What do you call people who don’t follow the Bible?

        A: Christians

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      It seems that American Nationalist Christians in particular are embracing a strangely nihilistic worldview - it appears that a lot of them, and most of the politicians who identify as such - are actively trying to accelerate and exacerbate destructive situations in our societies and the world in general, because they want to get raptured. As in: they’re pushing policies that they know will be wildly destructive and harmful, and the destructiveness is the point.

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        Christian dominionists. They’re absolutely fucking insane… Pence is actually one of them too :/

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      You’re forgetting that god gave Adam dominion over the beasts or some such bullshit. That really happened. Check the bible.

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        Don’t forget that it comes with the stipulation that Man must be good stewards.

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    The average temperature in New Orleans was 71 degrees in 1820. It is 78 degrees now. Change is impossible to ignore

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      https://earth.org/data_visualization/louisiana-shrinking-coastline/

      Most of what you think of as the sole of the boot of Louisiana is a lie. It’s largely been reclaimed by the sea, and just some wispy bits of land remain. But we don’t update the political map because… well, politics.

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        The familiar boot shape of Louisiana would look very different if maps depicted only its solid land, highlighting how much of the state is in a precarious position between watery ground and open ocean (below) (ref. 4).

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          Maybe we should all go coal rolling so the entire state is just ocean? Louisiana can’t be a state if nobody lives there.

          I am joking, for the record.

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      I disagree, the GOP seems to be doing a wonderful job at ignoring it.

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    There is a reason all the republicans rallied behind this guy so quickly.

    Once you look at all his bill history, If Fox news took the form of a human being. This guy would be the primetime special.

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    Can you point out any other #GOP #fascists that don’t do the same?

    Also, #MAGA already hates him because one of his kids is black.

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    At this point I can’t even tell if people like these are complete assholes or if they are genuinely this dumb

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      As someone with a lot of relatives like this, both.

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