Global warming

[JasonBlack]

(11-09-2022, 07:36 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: You are forgetting a lot because you put your prejudices (calling those who don't hold them "woke") ahead of policies that actually help the people avoid disasters. Or you believe neoliberal trickle-down economics that says the government should not restrain greedy owners with rent controls, or believe conspiracy theories or slogans that deny that health measures needed to be imposed collectively and not just individually in order to stop the spread of an extremely dangerous, contagious disease. No right winger could possibly enable an environmentalist movement. Neoliberalism precludes any collective action and puts all responsibility on each one of 7 billion individuals to make a decision to go against what is convenient to buy.

And you call the coasts, and not your own southern swamplands, "disaster zones", even though those Dixie swamp lands are the least developed and most prejudiced, poor, backward, deceived region in the entire developed world, and more backward even than many regions of the less-developed world. And people there vote for this. It costs more money to live in the coastal blue states because it is the most desirable and lucrative place to be in the USA, so housing prices rise and homelessness has to be dealt with. These areas are desirable largely because we vote correctly, and your area does not.

Keep in mind it was right wingers who brought us the Environmental Protection Agency. Business conservatives do not make up the entirety or even the majority of the right, and even among those, a good percentage are skeptical of corporate overreach and would support various measures to curb lobbying, provide grants or financial relief for small businesses or close tax loopholes exploited by larger corporations.

A lot of those poverty statistics don't mean much to me, because they tend to use a single threshold income, rather than considering the ratio of income to local cost of living. Ex: many people get by just fine on $20,000 a year in Georgia, when people in California often make over twice that much and still live in crippling poverty on account of rents, food prices, etc