(President Jimmy) Carter: 'Nutcases' are stopping climate action

[steve2470]

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/215027-carter-nutcases-are-stopping-climate-action

Former President Carter says climate skeptics are the "biggest handicap" for the U.S. when it comes to acting on global warming.

“I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don’t believe in global warming,” Carter said Tuesday during the American Renewable Energy Day summit in Aspen, Colo.

“I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there," he added.

The 39th president expressed frustration with the administration and Congress on their lack of efforts to mitigate climate change, arguing that the U.S. is lagging behind other countries on the issue, the Aspen Times reports.

[bananas]

1. k&r! nt

[Uncle Joe]

2. "Nutcases" and greed.

Carter said the U.S. should be a leader on climate change in the same way it is militarily, claiming aggressive leadership on global warming would put the country in the position of a real superpower.

“I think that we’re going to begin to realize that being a major superpower on Earth is not just who dominates economics and military,” he said. “I would say that one of the characteristics of a superpower is to take leadership on issues that could afflict the rest of the world, and I say climate change is one of those symbolic, but very tangibly important issues that would put the United States in the role of a true superpower.”

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I'm convinced the "leadership" of the fossil fuel industries know global warming is for real but they're no more concerned about that than tobacco companies' knowing tobacco causes cancer, even when they were denying it, because all they're concerned about is making money whether it kills people or not.

Thanks for the thread, steve.

[steve2470]

5. My pleasure, Uncle Joe ! nt

[joeybee12]

3. Nutcases with money...knr

[conservaphobe]

4. Indeed they are, Mr. President. nt

[hifiguy]

6. Jimmy Carter nails it again.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

7. I wish

Jimmy Carter was 30 years younger - boy, do we need him a whole, whole lot.

[lpbk2713]

8. Yes sir, Mister President.

We may be too late to do anything but I hope not.

[rickyhall]

9. Carter saw it when he was president and started doing something about it

But Raygun, being in Big Oil's back pocket, and Bush being up the Saudi Royal's ass, erased all that. We were in the lead, now we're 30+ years behind and if the repugs win in November we'll lose another decade. The repugs keep harping about the next generations but they're the ones screwing them for short term profits.

[hootinholler]

10. I hope we can change how we talk about this

Science isn't something to be believed in per se but something that is demonstratably repeatable. Saying people don't believe in it gives it a religious aspect that shouldn't be there.

[Prophet 451]

11. Thank you, Mr President

I read recently that something like a quarter of Americans are climate change deniers.

[Peace Patriot]

12. I wish he'd nail ES&S/Diebold for s/electing a so-called Congress that...

...now has a SEVEN PERCENT (7%) approval rating!

7%!!!!!!!!!

They represent virtually no one! How did this happen?

You could blame big bad money. You could blame big bad media. And you would be partly right. But the following facts are the actual mechanism for this coup d'etat: About 75% of the voting machines in this country--all run on 'TRADE SECRET' code; code that the public is forbidden to review--are controlled by ONE, PRIVATE, FAR RIGHTWING-CONNECTED CORPORATION--ES&S, which bought out Diebold--with half the states doing NO AUDIT AT ALL of the electronic results (no paper ballots to compare them to) and the other half doing only a very inadequate 1% audit.

Result: A Congress full of NUTCASES! Well, actually, I don't agree with Carter that the lack of desperately needed action on global warming is due to the nutcases who 'deny' climate change; it is due, instead, to those cynical, lying bastard, corporate profiteers who USE the few nutcases in our country to keep their earth-killing pollution industries going. They magnify these idiots and fascists in the corporate media to make them seem like they constitute more than 7%! Then they s/elect a Congress to act in their cynical, lying bastard, corporate profiteer interests with those selectees spouting the nutcase views of the artificially magnified 7%.

Carter is famous for helping to establish honest, transparent election systems in South America. Those honest, transparent election systems are WHY South Americans have far, far more representative governments than we do, with leftist, "New Deal"-like governments elected in Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay and Argentina (and with U.S. "free trade for the rich"-shackled leftists elected in Peru, El Salvador and Nicaragua, and a leftist elected in Honduras but thrown out in a U.S.-supported coup d'etat).

It is astonishing to me that Carter has said little or nothing about our OBVIOUSLY dishonest, non-transparent, anti-democratic, corporate 'TRADE SECRET'-run vote counting. He is a man of very great courage, or I would say that it looks like fear. Actually, it does look like fear but I find it hard to believe that of him.