Climate Denial Is Corruption, and the GOP Is Captured By It

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Climate Denial Is Corruption, and the GOP Is Captured By It

by Dave Johnson at the Campaign For America's Future

http://ourfuture.org/20150908/a-political-party-owned-by-a-corrupt-industry

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While the world warms, the climate deniers are out in force, trying not only to sabotage American efforts to fight climate change but also to undermine international talks.

We are witnessing a spectacle of corruption, and the stakes literally could not be higher. It is an astonishing spectacle. The Republican party is working to sabotage efforts to fight climate change and is doing this because the fossil-fuel industry – and billionaires whose fortunes came from that industry – funds so much of their messaging and campaign infrastructure, and their candidates. This is not ideology; it is flat-out corruption.

Republicans are working to undermine President Obama’s – and the world’s – climate agenda. Obviously Republicans have been working to obstruct efforts to control carbon output through legislation and regulation, to block government efforts to trigger new technologies like electric cars, to kill tax incentives that promote alternative energy sources such as solar and wind – and to literally derail efforts to build U.S. high-speed rail routes. Not as obviously, they are working to derail international climate talks as well.

Republicans are approaching other countries before the upcoming Paris climate talks, telling them it will do no good to come to an agreement because they will kill anything that comes before the Senate and any future Republican president. And they are working on strategies to get courts to require that any agreement does come before the Senate.


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1. K&R

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2. Indeed.

Of course, science denial is corruption, period. Unfortunately, we are dealing with science denial on our side of the aisle, as well.

Ugh.