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ZERO DAYS TO WASTE: Most know Trump is an illegitimate president* aided into office by Russian military attacks; some think he’s great, for reasons too dull to get into.
But where all Americans should agree if we want any future on this planet: we’ve got to bury the GOP.
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But where all Americans should agree if we want any future on this planet: we’ve got to bury the GOP.
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1/ The GOP under Trump has been trying to relive the “greed is good” ‘80s from the moment he illegitimately took power.
The ‘80s, however, are gone with the wind.
Please follow the tragedy.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ @NatGeo
The ‘80s, however, are gone with the wind.
Please follow the tragedy.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ @NatGeo
2/ GREAT DANGER: As the theatre of distractions plays on, we can never forget what’s at stake.
Stephen Hawking warned us in 2017: “Trump stance could damage earth.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40461726 @BBCNews
Stephen Hawking warned us in 2017: “Trump stance could damage earth.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40461726 @BBCNews
3/ 
”The Paris Agreement tried to encourage every nation to cut carbon pollution simultaneously—like a group of children who grab one another’s hands..Trump has significantly diminished this virtuous commitment to fighting climate change.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-withdraws-paris-agreement/579733/ @TheAtlantic
”The Paris Agreement tried to encourage every nation to cut carbon pollution simultaneously—like a group of children who grab one another’s hands..Trump has significantly diminished this virtuous commitment to fighting climate change.”https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-withdraws-paris-agreement/579733/ @TheAtlantic
4/ ANOINTED BY BIG OIL: “Conservative groups, funded by fossil fuel magnates, spend approximately one billion dollars every year interfering with public understanding of what is actually happening to our world.”
https://splinternews.com/how-fossil-fuel-money-made-climate-denial-the-word-of-g-1797466298 @splinter_news
https://splinternews.com/how-fossil-fuel-money-made-climate-denial-the-word-of-g-1797466298 @splinter_news
5/ Whales can’t save themselves. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1068923959314276353?s=21
6/ Recall when we thought Trump appointees couldn’t get any worse.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/opinions/andrew-wheeler-bad-choice-epa-kimmell/index.html @CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/15/opinions/andrew-wheeler-bad-choice-epa-kimmell/index.html @CNN
7/ It’s the environment, stupid. https://twitter.com/millenpolitics/status/1038955670555508736?s=21
8/ GOP likes to make environmental regulations the domain of “libtards”, but you can’t create jobs on a dead planet.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/runaway-climate-change-2030-report_n_5b8ecba3e4b0162f4727a09f @HuffPost
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/runaway-climate-change-2030-report_n_5b8ecba3e4b0162f4727a09f @HuffPost
9/ Before churchy billionaires of the fossilized set made disbelief in climate change the word of god (see #4), former GOP presidents made historic progress on environmental protections. Hell, Nixon gave us the EPA.
https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa @EPA
https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa @EPA
10/ And then there’s George H. W. Bush.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-can-breathe-easier--literally--thanks-to-george-hw-bush/2018/12/02/e7a2acbe-f66a-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html @washingtonpost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-can-breathe-easier--literally--thanks-to-george-hw-bush/2018/12/02/e7a2acbe-f66a-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html @washingtonpost
11/ But under Trump, the GOP plays dirty.
A few headlines.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ @NatGeo
A few headlines.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ @NatGeo
12/ Environmentalists will take the wins where we can get them.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ @NatGeo
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ @NatGeo
13/ But overall, Trump’s GOP is a big environmental fail.
https://www.lcv.org/trumpyearone/ @LCVoters
https://www.lcv.org/trumpyearone/ @LCVoters
14/ FAIL: “To simply award Trump an ‘F’ does not come close to capturing both the depth of his administration’s assault on environmental protections..all to provide favors to the wealthiest corporate polluters. The totality of anti-environmental offenses is absolutely staggering”
15/ Climate change is happening and climate change is human caused. So Trump stacks his administration* with deniers.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/emails-reveal-trump-official-consulted-climate-change-deniers-n1017526 @NBCNews
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/emails-reveal-trump-official-consulted-climate-change-deniers-n1017526 @NBCNews
16/ Trump is using inelegant tactics.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/donald-trump-stalinist-techniques-climate-science @guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/donald-trump-stalinist-techniques-climate-science @guardian
17/ Trump’s tactics are predictable when considering his pals and their common interests. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1128011323416014848?s=21
18/ And why think of such things as the future habitability of this planet when you can just stay perpetually outraged. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1142071543616299008?s=21
19/ "We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump's action could push Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, and raining sulphuric acid," Stephen Hawking.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/stephen-hawking-predictions-human-extinction-to-global-warming.html @cnbc
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/stephen-hawking-predictions-human-extinction-to-global-warming.html @cnbc
20/ “Trump's Dept of Agriculture buries climate-change studies because if you don't talk about it, it's not happening.
Human Race:
Born—2.8 million B.C.
Died—Sooner Than It Should Have
C.O.D.—Greed and Stupidity (Deliberate).”- @CharlesPPierce
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28173165/president-trump-agriculture-department-bury-climate-change-studies/ @esquire
Human Race:
Born—2.8 million B.C.
Died—Sooner Than It Should Have
C.O.D.—Greed and Stupidity (Deliberate).”- @CharlesPPierce
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28173165/president-trump-agriculture-department-bury-climate-change-studies/ @esquire
21/ Let’s zoom out and go back to the beginning. Russia waged military cyber attacks to get Trump elected. For reference, here are the cliff notes: https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1121689602782183425?s=21
22/ So why would a nuclear-armed wreck of a nation put money behind a reality tv bozo.
“There’s no way to understand Trump’s relationship with Russia without oil and climate politics—they’re likely colluding to destroy our planet’s climate system”
https://grist.org/article/trump-and-putin-are-clearly-in-cahoots-over-propping-up-fossil-fuels/ @grist
“There’s no way to understand Trump’s relationship with Russia without oil and climate politics—they’re likely colluding to destroy our planet’s climate system”
https://grist.org/article/trump-and-putin-are-clearly-in-cahoots-over-propping-up-fossil-fuels/ @grist
23/ CLIMATE APARTHEID: “Climate change is a human rights issue precisely because of the impact it’s having on people..A state that fails to take steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is violating their human rights obligations.”- @ashfaqkhalfan
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/25/climate-apartheid-united-nations-expert-says-human-rights-may-not-survive-crisis @guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/25/climate-apartheid-united-nations-expert-says-human-rights-may-not-survive-crisis @guardian
24/ Oh my.
“Climate change is a problem where nothing short of dramatic structural change in the way capitalism works can deliver the 2030 target of a 45% cut in carbon emissions..we are unlikely to recognise it as capitalism”- @paulmasonnews
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2019/06/tackling-climate-crisis-means-end-capitalism-we-know-it @NewStatesman
“Climate change is a problem where nothing short of dramatic structural change in the way capitalism works can deliver the 2030 target of a 45% cut in carbon emissions..we are unlikely to recognise it as capitalism”- @paulmasonnews
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2019/06/tackling-climate-crisis-means-end-capitalism-we-know-it @NewStatesman
25/ Even the @DalaiLama says Trump is evading global responsibility.
https://time.com/5616623/dalai-lama-president-donald-trump-lack-moral-principle/ @TIME
https://time.com/5616623/dalai-lama-president-donald-trump-lack-moral-principle/ @TIME
26/ Fear of a dead planet.
“We have given our planet the disastrous gift of climate change..there is no new world, no utopia around the corner. We are running out of space, and the only places to go to are other worlds.”-Stephen Hawking
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/20/15836426/stephen-hawking-colonize-other-planets @voxdotcom
“We have given our planet the disastrous gift of climate change..there is no new world, no utopia around the corner. We are running out of space, and the only places to go to are other worlds.”-Stephen Hawking
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/6/20/15836426/stephen-hawking-colonize-other-planets @voxdotcom
27/ We don’t have another planet and we’d muck it up anyway. So it’s critical we make it work here. But who holds GOP accountable.
“Exxon’s Arctic dreams fell apart in 2014 after Obama administration slapped sanctions on Russia’s oil industry”
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/12/14/13940866/trump-rex-tillerson-sanctions-russia @voxdotcom
“Exxon’s Arctic dreams fell apart in 2014 after Obama administration slapped sanctions on Russia’s oil industry”
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/12/14/13940866/trump-rex-tillerson-sanctions-russia @voxdotcom
28/ The more I investigated Trump-Russia, the more it came back to the oil-war economies. So I got rid of my car. It was one small thing I could do. Not all can do that but what are you willing to do, what sacrifices would you make.
https://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-climate-change-predictions-progress-20190626-story.html
@latimes @ScienceJulia
https://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-climate-change-predictions-progress-20190626-story.html
@latimes @ScienceJulia
29/ Remember when it took decades to put a warning label on cigarettes because Big Tobacco had a seat at the table. We don’t have time to dither on thwarting climate change and yet...we dither.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-interests-have-outspent-environmental-advocates-101-on-climate-lobbying @YaleE360
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-interests-have-outspent-environmental-advocates-101-on-climate-lobbying @YaleE360
30/ That time polluter-backed Republican senators from Oregon ran away.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/oregon-climate-battle-gop-walkout-violence-852643/ @RollingStone
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/oregon-climate-battle-gop-walkout-violence-852643/ @RollingStone
31/ It seems inconceivable but in the not so distant past, believing in science wasn’t a partisan thing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/06/02/support-for-the-clean-air-act-has-changed-a-lot-since-1970/ @washingtonpost 2014 archives
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/06/02/support-for-the-clean-air-act-has-changed-a-lot-since-1970/ @washingtonpost 2014 archives
32/ And then Trump happened. An illegitimately elected president* (see #21) calls climate change a “hoax”, MSM parrots his every phonus ballonus utterance confusing the easily bamboozled, casting doubt where there should be none. GOP deny cuz $
.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html @nytimes
.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html @nytimes
33/ Here’s what’s not a hoax. Climate change is a health emergency.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/06/24/health-emergency-medical-groups-call-climate-change-commitments/1544956001/ @USATODAY
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/06/24/health-emergency-medical-groups-call-climate-change-commitments/1544956001/ @USATODAY
34/ Here’s what’s not a hoax. Climate change is a matter of national security.
https://unfccc.int/news/climate-change-threatens-national-security-says-pentagon
@UNFCCC
https://unfccc.int/news/climate-change-threatens-national-security-says-pentagon
@UNFCCC
35/ Here’s what’s not a hoax. There are only 400 North Atlantic Right Whales left in existence. Five just died.
“New research points to another possible culprit: climate change.”
https://www.capeandislands.org/post/climate-change-forcing-north-atlantic-right-whales-search-food @NPR
“New research points to another possible culprit: climate change.”
https://www.capeandislands.org/post/climate-change-forcing-north-atlantic-right-whales-search-food @NPR
36/ Not a hoax: polar bears are starving.
“Climate change has been damaging polar bears' habitats, forcing them to scavenge for food on land.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-48680630 @BBCNews
“Climate change has been damaging polar bears' habitats, forcing them to scavenge for food on land.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-48680630 @BBCNews
37/ Not a hoax.
“Human-caused climate change and habitat loss are now threatening North American monarch butterflies with extinction. Increasing carbon dioxide levels may be making milkweed—the only food monarch caterpillars will eat—too toxic.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/12/monarch-butterflies-risk-extinction-climate-change/ @NatGeo
“Human-caused climate change and habitat loss are now threatening North American monarch butterflies with extinction. Increasing carbon dioxide levels may be making milkweed—the only food monarch caterpillars will eat—too toxic.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/12/monarch-butterflies-risk-extinction-climate-change/ @NatGeo
38/
“Around the world, sea level has risen by almost eight inches..a rate unparalleled in the last 6,000 years..This small mammal is therefore only the first of many species that face significant risk due to a warming climate, the authors warn.”
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/first-mammal-extinct-climate-change-bramble-cay-melomys/ @NatGeo
“Around the world, sea level has risen by almost eight inches..a rate unparalleled in the last 6,000 years..This small mammal is therefore only the first of many species that face significant risk due to a warming climate, the authors warn.”
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/first-mammal-extinct-climate-change-bramble-cay-melomys/ @NatGeo
39/ Dunno about you, but I like a planet populated by all things great and small. I’ve seen orcas off the coast of Washington and marveled at a monarch born on my milkweed plant. The doomsday clock can be reversed or slowed but not with this GOP.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html @nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html @nytimes
40/ Hmmm
. Let’s see: who else with oil interests thinks climate change is a hoax. Da, this guy.
https://www.france24.com/en/20170331-russian-president-vladimir-putin-says-humans-not-responsible-climate-change @FRANCE24
. Let’s see: who else with oil interests thinks climate change is a hoax. Da, this guy. https://www.france24.com/en/20170331-russian-president-vladimir-putin-says-humans-not-responsible-climate-change @FRANCE24
41/ Censoring truth: how very autocratic.
“Trump administration officials sought to cut several pages of the document on the grounds that its description of climate science did not mesh with the administration’s official stance.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/06/08/white-house-blocked-intelligence-aides-written-testimony-saying-human-caused-climate-change-could-be-possibly-catastrophic/ @washingtonpost
“Trump administration officials sought to cut several pages of the document on the grounds that its description of climate science did not mesh with the administration’s official stance.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2019/06/08/white-house-blocked-intelligence-aides-written-testimony-saying-human-caused-climate-change-could-be-possibly-catastrophic/ @washingtonpost
42/ Many stories in this thread would’ve buried any other administration. But with all the money propping up reality tv bozo, real news is avalanched all too often by puff pieces. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1133614554183680000?s=21
43/ I get it. Oil in its various forms used to win wars. Now, it causes cause wars, and cancer, and climate change and extinction. And it has another ill side-effect: it spawns dictators.
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/10/5601062/oil-curse-explained @voxdotcom
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/10/5601062/oil-curse-explained @voxdotcom
44/ Gee I know it’s hard to fathom tuning out the consume/obey marketeers on the boob tube for the past sixty years. But pulling up a lawn chair and watching our planet burn has little curb appeal. The GOP has done a hella job misdirecting truth.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/07/trump-climate-change-deniers-443533 @politico
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/07/trump-climate-change-deniers-443533 @politico
45/ So with all the money—foreign and domestic—propping up a real fake president* and his science denier hacks—useful idiots for energy interests—what’s our strategy to give em the boot. The cult of TrumPutin will not go gently into that dark night.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-trump_n_574cf2cae4b055bb11729103
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stephen-hawking-trump_n_574cf2cae4b055bb11729103
46/ Perhaps one way to bury the GOP is to find something to unite over. Maybe if we rise above the theatre of distraction by bad actors clinging to antiquated plotlines and find something to all fall in love with. Something that needs our help.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-appearances/why-the-polar-bear-is-the-undisputed-image-of-climate-change @NewYorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-appearances/why-the-polar-bear-is-the-undisputed-image-of-climate-change @NewYorker
47/ Remember that time in the ‘70s when we had a President who was an environmentalist who’s narrative of truth was crushed by the Greed-80s. Ya, me too. President Carter knows the score. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1144640753215238146?s=21
https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1144640753215238146?s=21
48/ So we can allow the GOP to illegitimately remain in power, scripting false narratives for Big Oil—and bury the last whale, the last polar bear, and witness the last monarch take flight—or we can bury the GOP. The future is unwritten.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/trump-offshore-drilling-regulations @VanityFair
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/trump-offshore-drilling-regulations @VanityFair
50/ CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR A LIVING PLANET: “We have not come here to beg world leaders to care..We are running out of time. We have come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like it or not. The real power belongs to the people”- @GretaThunberg
Photo @anderspangpang
Photo @anderspangpang
51/ GOP IS INFORMED ITS DENIALISM IS A FAIL: “In a memo circulated Wednesday to Republican congressional offices, the polling firm of longtime GOP strategist Frank Luntz warned that climate change was ‘a GOP vulnerability.’”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-republican-lawmakers-break-with-party-on-climate-change-11560337010 @WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-republican-lawmakers-break-with-party-on-climate-change-11560337010 @WSJ
52/ RISE ABOVE: Now that you have the facts, clearly we can’t leave the planet’s future to a party that is immoral, kompromised, bot by oil, in denial and only pays lip service to climate change when pollsters tell them to. RIP GOP—you won’t be missed.
https://qz.com/1632364/kids-suing-the-us-over-climate-change-are-getting-global-support/ @qz
https://qz.com/1632364/kids-suing-the-us-over-climate-change-are-getting-global-support/ @qz
53/ CODA:
“They took all the trees
And put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half to seem 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
They paved paradise...”
Courtesy @JoniMitchellcom
“They took all the trees
And put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half to seem 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
They paved paradise...”
Courtesy @JoniMitchellcom
54/ FOR THE RECORD:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/june-hottest-month-ever-earth-2019-weather-heatwave-hot-a8984691.html @Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/june-hottest-month-ever-earth-2019-weather-heatwave-hot-a8984691.html @Independent
56/ It’s on us. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1159521663123247107?s=21
57/ More of this please.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-agriculture/2019/08/05/usda-scientist-departs-in-protest-705867 @politico @USDA #LewisZiska
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-agriculture/2019/08/05/usda-scientist-departs-in-protest-705867 @politico @USDA #LewisZiska
58/ To grasp why the Trump administration* would set us back decades in environmental protections, consider his bosses: two villains who stole our data to steal the election, both climate change “deniers” who by installing Trump served themselves billions. https://twitter.com/heidi_cuda/status/1157428193583755264?s=21
59/ And the heat goes on.
https://twitter.com/barbrastreisand/status/1160963265247272960?s=21 #BuryTheGop
https://twitter.com/barbrastreisand/status/1160963265247272960?s=21 #BuryTheGop
60/ Nixon gave us the EPA and protections for endangered species. But that was then.
We’ve got #ZeroDaysToWaste to demand #ClimateJustice for all.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1160931874245623809?s=21 @nytimes
We’ve got #ZeroDaysToWaste to demand #ClimateJustice for all.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1160931874245623809?s=21 @nytimes
61/ THE POETRY OF A FROG: A special I wrote and produced with a brilliant team of scientists on the importance of rain forests. Seems somehow fitting
. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/techknow/2016/01/costa-rica-journey-jungle-160131083204156.html
. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/techknow/2016/01/costa-rica-journey-jungle-160131083204156.html
62/ CHOKEHOLD: Another special I wrote and produced with a brilliant group of scientists. Ya, throwaway living is dumb. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/techknow/2016/02/choking-planet-problem-plastic-160207112522231.html
64/ Hope is the thing with feathers. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1174748549889843201?s=21
