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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Tells Greenpeace Activist She's ‘Sick of the Sanders Campaign Lying About Me’ [View all]NNadir
(38,377 posts)...Sanders is it.
He lives in the only State in the Union that did not release carbon dioxide to generate electricity.
With Sanders support, they shut their nuclear plant, which generated more than 70% of their electricity. They now import electricity from the same damn states that rely on fracked gas to generate theirs.
So all of the faux outrage from the Sanders squad is a little disingenuous. I don't think that they even know what the truth is, and thus are not consciously lying so much as muttering ignorantly on subjects they know nothing about.
Now Sanders would like to destroy the intellectual and physical infrastructure of the rest of the US nuclear plants. Apparently he is entirely unaware that nuclear energy has saved 1.8 million human lives that would have been lost to air pollution, and has prevented the dumping of more than 60 billion tons of carbon dioxide.
This data doesn't come from the Clinton campaign, but rather can be found in a scientific paper in one of the world's premier Environmental journals, by one of the world's leading climate scientists, Jim Hansen.
None of this is a lie, but from what I hear here, it would seem that the people who support Senator Sanders are unequipped to adjudge what is and what is not true, since they are uninterested in finding things out.
The fact is, if Sanders is elected, it will mean that this country's fastest growing energy source, dangerous natural gas, will grow even faster, and every single child born after 2016, and many born before it as well, will pay for the willful ignorance of Americans in elected such a poorly educated man President.
If that tiresome fool, Sanders, is elected President of the United States, it will be an unprecedented disaster for the environment, given that he will have assumed the highest office of the country in the World with the highest per capita energy consumption.
The people who will win, will be the gas companies.
So I would suggest that the Sanderites should quit their bitching. Their candidate's rhetoric must have the fossil fuel industries salivating, whether they give that fool money or not.