10-05-2021, 11:44 AM
(10-04-2021, 02:43 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The time is up to put the anthropocene in order. We are on the edge of tipping points to hothouse Earth. Two senators stand in the way. Email them! The USA is the worst offender, and inequality and the neoliberal growth/predatory capitalism ideology behind it drives us to disaster.
Let's be honest aout this.
Joe Manchin started and his son still runs a coal company that pays him ~$500,000 a year. His daughter runs a generic pharaceutical company. Is he persuadable? No.
Kyrsten Sinema was a radical Lefty who found a spotlight to stand in, and is now a total flake. Is she persuadable? No.
Persuassion is out. Threats need to be used or the entire enterprise is lost or so compormised that the difference is trivial.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.