This would all be funnier if the implications weren't so deadly serious. That's what's so frustrating about this situation. Trump and his cronies aren't serious people, but they've been given the keys to the car, so we need to reckon with the damage they can do. It's like a toddler putting a colander on his head like a helmet and laughing at him...until you realize that the toddler is somehow holding a loaded handgun. Suddenly, the silly child being silly isn't a joke anymore.
Your writing is excellent and tackles serious issues so it's not often that I read one of your newsletters and end up smiling. But the way this one wrapped-up caused me to chuckle. "Look, I understand the urge to call things a scam when they’re slightly complicated and hard to understand. But when you’re the president, you have to do hard things." I pictured his Mom talking to him softly and patting him on the head while he's sitting at the kitchen table crying because he's so frustrated . . .
Emily, Thank you so much for this spot on piece. Your logo is more relevant and timely than ever. After listening to the crap that the felon spewed at the UN, I feel the heat. This world means too much to all of its life for us to give up or be lost to such a creatures as now occupy the WH. We all must push back with all the science, politics, resistance, understanding, love and empathy we have to make the change this world needs for the good of us all. Not just some. Thanks for doing your part in this. Onward!
With Trump’s attacks on Tylenol, other countries are openly telling the public to ignore Trump. In the UK, the health secretary said people should not “pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine”. The same holds for climate change, or really anything.
It’s clear the rest of the world will move on without America, who will rapidly decline to a large and isolated backwater.
The rest of the world will do better - and some day, maybe, Americans will look up from their navels and realise they are screw ups
You also know how deeply, deeply opposed I am to bringing back nuclear power, which Massachusetts is trying to do, even though MA has a law forbidding that.
On climate-change knowledge from long ago, here's an additional quote:
"Scientists had theorized about the possibility that increasing quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could lead to climate change as far back as 1899."
Source: A Short History of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-2009, published in October 2010 by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, NUREG/BR-0175, Rev. 2, page 95.
Two fantasy images alternate in my head, where all the other delegates either . . . 1) start booing and hooting and clapping to drown out his BS until he's forced off the stage, or 2) simply stand en masse and walk out to get a coffee.
Donald Trump just proved to the world what a fool he is. Maybe he has dementia, as some people are saying? Whatever the reason for that stupid tirade at the U.N., it isn't funny. The fact that this old man believes this stuff and has the keys to the gun cabinet should scare everyone across the planet.
Let's continue to point out that Trump and his handlers are climate change cheerleaders, promoting global warming at every opportunity by increasing carbon emissions whenever possible through their policies and trade deals in order to continue to line their own pockets at the expense of the the health of the planet.
Yeah, a "tirade" for sure. There is good reason that Mar-a-Lago is named "Casa Bellicosa" in Carl Hiaasen's wonderful satire "Squeeze Me." His latest, book has a nifty ending where a few lefty "dirty tricks" unseat the stupid corrupt right wing blow hard Representative from upstate Florida.
I think that most of the world understands that ten minute rant is just part of what the FF biz bought for $500M and counting.
I'm just afraid the damage to decarbonization in the USA by this administration and local allies may have only begun. First they came for the offshore wind turbines...
Hopefully the rest of the world stays the course, but bellicose reactionaries here elsewhere are also incorporating this messaging. Like the "moral case for fossil fuels." I mean if God would pick an energy source, wouldn't he pick the one from Heaven and not from holes to Hell?
Something I really hate is the complete disrespect Trump and basically all Republicans have for the scientists at an institution like the National Academy of Sciences. Not that Trump cares or probably even knows it exists, but imagine you are President and can ask possibly the greatest scientists on the planet anything you want and they would give an answer. It just shows the complete decay that Trump has brought to this country.
Also it is almost word for word what I hear from some relatives so as much as I hate it, it is effective this kind of speech. It is why I try to not focus on more grand messaging about the fate of the planet and just more just about pollution and it's effects like asthma or fuel prices.
All true, but the question is at what point does Trump descend to a level of utter disregard for the truth that even the MAGA faithful can no longer nod in agreement. I wish I could say his UN speech was that threshold, but never overestimate the ability of MAGA to believe Trump's absurdities.
This would all be funnier if the implications weren't so deadly serious. That's what's so frustrating about this situation. Trump and his cronies aren't serious people, but they've been given the keys to the car, so we need to reckon with the damage they can do. It's like a toddler putting a colander on his head like a helmet and laughing at him...until you realize that the toddler is somehow holding a loaded handgun. Suddenly, the silly child being silly isn't a joke anymore.
Thank you for addressing Trump’s ridiculous comments in such a timely manner.
If Fossil Capital could talk this is precisely the BS it would spew out.
Thank you for such a succinct and devastating put-down.
Your writing is excellent and tackles serious issues so it's not often that I read one of your newsletters and end up smiling. But the way this one wrapped-up caused me to chuckle. "Look, I understand the urge to call things a scam when they’re slightly complicated and hard to understand. But when you’re the president, you have to do hard things." I pictured his Mom talking to him softly and patting him on the head while he's sitting at the kitchen table crying because he's so frustrated . . .
Emily, Thank you so much for this spot on piece. Your logo is more relevant and timely than ever. After listening to the crap that the felon spewed at the UN, I feel the heat. This world means too much to all of its life for us to give up or be lost to such a creatures as now occupy the WH. We all must push back with all the science, politics, resistance, understanding, love and empathy we have to make the change this world needs for the good of us all. Not just some. Thanks for doing your part in this. Onward!
With Trump’s attacks on Tylenol, other countries are openly telling the public to ignore Trump. In the UK, the health secretary said people should not “pay any attention whatsoever to what Donald Trump says about medicine”. The same holds for climate change, or really anything.
It’s clear the rest of the world will move on without America, who will rapidly decline to a large and isolated backwater.
The rest of the world will do better - and some day, maybe, Americans will look up from their navels and realise they are screw ups
Emily, you have hit another home run.
You also know how deeply, deeply opposed I am to bringing back nuclear power, which Massachusetts is trying to do, even though MA has a law forbidding that.
On climate-change knowledge from long ago, here's an additional quote:
"Scientists had theorized about the possibility that increasing quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could lead to climate change as far back as 1899."
Source: A Short History of Nuclear Regulation, 1946-2009, published in October 2010 by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission, NUREG/BR-0175, Rev. 2, page 95.
Two fantasy images alternate in my head, where all the other delegates either . . . 1) start booing and hooting and clapping to drown out his BS until he's forced off the stage, or 2) simply stand en masse and walk out to get a coffee.
Donald Trump just proved to the world what a fool he is. Maybe he has dementia, as some people are saying? Whatever the reason for that stupid tirade at the U.N., it isn't funny. The fact that this old man believes this stuff and has the keys to the gun cabinet should scare everyone across the planet.
This was straight out of a 1984 parody
Let's continue to point out that Trump and his handlers are climate change cheerleaders, promoting global warming at every opportunity by increasing carbon emissions whenever possible through their policies and trade deals in order to continue to line their own pockets at the expense of the the health of the planet.
I watched Trump's speech. Is it me, or did the climate change denial part seem like it was 3 hours long? It was not unlike getting a cavity drilled.
Yeah, a "tirade" for sure. There is good reason that Mar-a-Lago is named "Casa Bellicosa" in Carl Hiaasen's wonderful satire "Squeeze Me." His latest, book has a nifty ending where a few lefty "dirty tricks" unseat the stupid corrupt right wing blow hard Representative from upstate Florida.
I think that most of the world understands that ten minute rant is just part of what the FF biz bought for $500M and counting.
I'm just afraid the damage to decarbonization in the USA by this administration and local allies may have only begun. First they came for the offshore wind turbines...
Hopefully the rest of the world stays the course, but bellicose reactionaries here elsewhere are also incorporating this messaging. Like the "moral case for fossil fuels." I mean if God would pick an energy source, wouldn't he pick the one from Heaven and not from holes to Hell?
Something I really hate is the complete disrespect Trump and basically all Republicans have for the scientists at an institution like the National Academy of Sciences. Not that Trump cares or probably even knows it exists, but imagine you are President and can ask possibly the greatest scientists on the planet anything you want and they would give an answer. It just shows the complete decay that Trump has brought to this country.
Also it is almost word for word what I hear from some relatives so as much as I hate it, it is effective this kind of speech. It is why I try to not focus on more grand messaging about the fate of the planet and just more just about pollution and it's effects like asthma or fuel prices.
All true, but the question is at what point does Trump descend to a level of utter disregard for the truth that even the MAGA faithful can no longer nod in agreement. I wish I could say his UN speech was that threshold, but never overestimate the ability of MAGA to believe Trump's absurdities.