Democrats organize to fight back

[Eric the Green]

(11-15-2016, 09:22 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Standing up to Trump is not an environmental position, it's a partisan political decision.  That's the whole problem:  these groups are happy to take political positions favoring the Democrats, but don't bother with actual environmental positions any more.

The EDF and NRDC also opposed the Washington state carbon tax.

The World Wildlife Fund, which I continue to donate to, doesn't worry about global warming.  Neither does the Nature Conservancy, as far as I know.

Yes they do worry about global warming, I get their literature. No environmental organization would NOT "worry" about that most basic critical issue, or not pay attention to the science about it.

Standing up to Trump, as these organizations know, is now the top priority for environmentalists. To care about the environment, is of course to oppose Trump. Democrats provide government policies that protect the environment. The voting record is clear on that; look up the League of Conservation Voters and see the record on that; it's 90% to below 10%. I have posted this here umteen times. Favoring Democrats IS to take an environmental position. Libertarians might not agree with that, but that's just ideological. Government is necessary, and we need more of it, not less. Pollution and global warming and destruction of habitat are not caused by environmental laws. Business is the main cause of those things. It needs to be regulated and taxed. Or the environment gets destroyed. We go back to before the 60s and live in a garbage heap, then, without the environmental laws and political activism that libertarians oppose. Libertarian economics (trickle-down, free market, classical liberalism, social darwinism, rugged individualism; supply side, Reaganomics; it goes by many names) is the chief problem in our society today, and the principle cause of all our problems. It needs to be ditched, and I hope someday it will be. It justifies non-action by the government, and without government, we destroy ourselves.

If some environmental organizations were mistaken on the carbon tax, I agree with you; but you can't conclude from that one mistake that they don't care about the environment. And they all do non-political work too, and partner with some businesses who are willing to cooperate. That's all available for you to see on the links I posted, and that's just a few of the many great environmental organizations. Now there's some people I am "positive" about. Cheers for these people, and I wish I did more to help them myself.

To resist Trump, supporting the environment is the best path you can take, because that's Trump's number one target: our environment. He and Ryan have declared war on the Earth we depend on for life, and they won't stop until they've turned every last bit of it into money for themselves.

Pray for our Earth; pray for the people to wake up, pray for the ones not breathing.....

And I pray too, for all the millions of folks still hooked on Reaganomics, to wake up........