Delay as the New Denial: The Latest Republican Tactic to Block Climate Action
But on Capitol Hill this week, Republicans were warning against rash action in response to the burning planet.
“I don’t want to be lectured about what we need to do to destroy our economy in the name of climate change,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.
One Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, last week blocked what could have been the country’s most far-reaching American response to climate change. But lost in the recriminations and finger-pointing is the other side of the aisle: All 50 Republicans in the Senate have been as opposed to decisive action to confront planetary warming.
Few Republicans in Congress now outwardly dismiss the scientific evidence that human activities — the burning of oil, gas and coal — have produced gases that are dangerously heating the Earth.
But for many, denial of the cause of global temperature rise has been replaced by an insistence that the solution — replacing fossil fuels over time with wind, solar and other nonpolluting energy sources — will hurt the economy.
On the one hand, it is encouraging that America’s fascist, staunchly pro-pollution, pro-global warming Republican Party no longer outwardly dismisses the scientific evidence that human-generated pollution is causing the planet to burn up. That's a good thing. Progress has been made! Not long ago, they all denied that climate change was real and that humans had little or nothing to do with it. Some very powerful Republicans publicly claimed it was God’s will and humans should not and/or could not interfere with his plans.
But on the other hand, the fascists are hell-bent on not doing a damn thing about it. They will continue to successfully block all efforts to try. There is just too much damn money and power in not doing anything about it.
As usual, fascist Republican demagoguery relies on the same propaganda and lies tactics that got us into this mess. They ignore the cost of not doing anything, an intentional lie of omission. They claim trying to do anything about it will destroy the economy, a lie of commission.
As a reminder this is short blast of blithering nonsense the only thing that fascist Republican elites had to say about climate in the lying crackpot Rick Scott’s 11 point plan to wreck America:
The weather is always changing.[1] We take climate change seriously, but not hysterically. We will not adopt nutty policies that harm our economy or our jobs.
That’s it. That is literally all the GOP has to say about it. That’s worse than pathetic. It’s evil.
For the pro-pollution party, there is honest seriousness about climate change. The seriousness is about blocking efforts to do anything about it. That would be hysterical. That is exactly what Scott, the rest of the GOP elites, wealthy pro-pollution Republican Party donors and their propagandists are saying to the American people. There is no subtlety about this. The GOP and big polluters are hell bent on turning Earth into literal hell as best they can because they are making a hell of a lot of money doing it. With that money comes serious power.
This is all about money and power for corrupt, callous fascist elites and nothing but money and power.
Footnote:
1. Weather is not climate. Weather reflects climate. Fascist polluters put that statement in there to con people into a belief that even if it is real, climate change is no big deal. This is called propaganda. It is intended to deceive, distract and confuse the public.
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