The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(04-22-2020, 11:24 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: In case you aren't aware, we have a compound crisis that's going on right now. I think we are all aware that COVID19 exists and the threat that it represents to the lives of some people. The liberals seem to be stuck on the COVID19 crisis and not paying as much attention to the growing economic related crisis that's going to financially cripple some states and cause all kinds of problems. Personally, I don't care if you go to your graves with your blindfolds on and blame us with your final breaths.

According to science, the State of Minnesota was covered by a thick sheet of glacial ice at one time. According to science, the deserts of Africa and the Middle East were fertile plains at one time and portions of sunken ancient cities were above water at one time too. According to science, the continents used to be one gigantic land mass at one time as well. I referred to the issue of global warming as climate change before climate change became the issue. Also, according to science, China is still twice as bad as us right now. You can't blame us for China.

Yep.  Plant life took carbon out of the atmosphere, and thus greenhouse gasses, made oil and gas, and made things cooler as a byproduct.  It took a long time to get from global jungle to engaging the Milankovitch cycle ice ages to now.  We just put a lot of those gasses back in the atmosphere, and are thus looking to return to the jungle pattern and dinosaur compatible sea levels.  Mind you, you have jumbled a lot of eras together in the above review.

You want to make the change instantly with no planning?  We have built cities on a lot of places that were once underwater.  You want to drown them?

I’ll nitpick science saying China is twice as bad.  That is a moral judgement, and science is bad at those.  If S&H and the arrow of progress could be considered sciences, maybe.  I don’t know that we are there yet.  But, yes, on the arrow of progress, China is still autocratic and elite centric, closer to the old ways, so saying twice as bad is reasonable.

I would also question that we are all aware that COVID 19 exists.  Some reds are denying that too, treating it as a hoax or fake news at Trump's direction.  Same as you with global warming.