Reasons to stop global warming

Bloomberg

All efforts to stop the deadly impact of global warming will ultimately fail. Yes, fail. Our leaders are destroying us from within. Blame GOP, conservatives, Big Oil, capitalist billionaires, Koch Bros. Also the president. Harper’s quotes John Podesta, Obama’s senior adviser, warning: “History will judge Obama’s climate-change efforts as sadly insufficient.”

America’s leaders are failing us, will never act, till it’s too late to plan for an economic catastrophe. We have lost our soul.

There are four big reasons our leaders will not act in time: First. Overwhelming opposition by the GOP, conservatives and capitalists ... Second. Our blind failure to see our planet cannot feed the 10 billion people predicted by 2050. Third. Our addiction to “more is never enough” consumption ... Fourth. The irrational, unscientific and ultimately self-destructive belief of capitalism in perpetual economic growth, on a planet of finite resources.

We know most will continue believing in all four, trapped in denial. Eventually reality will expose our fantasies, but not soon enough. Global warming will continue causing irreparable damage, destroying our world, pushing us past the point of no return and driving us into a “chaotic era” where few humans will survive.

Here are the details, the four reasons why we’re now an addicted nation that can’t stop self-destructing as we’ve reached a critical mass that’s sabotaging all efforts to stop global warming:

1. Relentless opposition of conservative capitalists to climate science

Conservative opposition is everywhere, emanating from the economic fears of the energy industry, Big Oil, coal, gas, other polluters. They fear regulation and taxation of carbon emissions will have a major negative impact on their corporate earnings, shareholder dividends and will increase production costs, limit access to resources.

They spend hundreds of millions lobbying politicians and it works. California Gov. Jerry Brown says there’s “virtually no Republican” in Washington that accepts climate science and most GOP governors “openly deny climate science, ” despite widespread scientific evidence.

Worldwide, conservative leaders like Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott celebrated the repeal of his country’s carbon-emission tax, despite the increasing damage to his country’s environment and over the unanimous objections from Anglican Church leaders opposing repeal .

In fact, even as the new U.S. EPA regulations were announced, Abbott was touring the world to create a “conservative alliance among ‘like-minded’ countries, aiming to dismantle global moves to introduce carbon pricing and undermine a push by America to push the case for action through forums such as the G20.”

Conservatives are getting even stronger, neutralizing efforts by power-players like Michael Bloomberg, Hank Paulson, billionaire Tom Steyner and their “RiskyBusiness.org” project intended to educate businesses and politicians on the real costs and “economic risks from the impacts of a changing climate.” Intense opposition from conservative capitalists like the Koch Bros. is also there to blunt Risky Business and similar climate-science advocates.

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