A series of recent events, most notably Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton, but also many other warnings of the escalating Global Warming/Climate Change crisis, is making the environment a growing political controversy!
The Republican Party en masse has long ignored the issue, favoring the oil and gas industries, and working against any efforts to combat the problem.
Donald Trump ridicules the concept of Global Warming/Climate Change, and if he is elected, the nation will be in ever greater crisis.
But even Republican members of Congress, and Republican governors, most notably Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, have chosen to ignore the problem, and in Florida, DeSantis has followed former Governor and now Senator Rick Scott, in removing any mention or actions in state law to deal with Global Warming/Climate Change.
A long term disaster seems certain, and clearly there is no concern about the effect it will have against poor people, who always end up affected more by actions taken to benefit the powerful and wealthy corporate interests.
Man Evolves Into Extinction
By F. Wayne Johnson
Man will evolve into extinction,
Destruction of his own kind.
All in the name of progress,
With promises that all will be fine.
Corporations are leading the way,
Too much money to be made.
Marketing and misleading facts,
Are tools of their trade.
To set up manufacturing facilities
On foreign countries’ shores.
All this takes a lot of money,
Multi-nationals need tax breaks galore,
The facts of responsible citizenship,
Will just have to be ignored.
So funding of the tax burden,
Is all just dumped on the poor.
You start by buying elected governments,
And sponsor media shows.
Touting slanted information to the public,
Their reality is all you are to know.
Soon you hear the mindless say,
“I’m a Conservative,” while sucking down a beer.
Sitting there watching TV in a tee shirt,
Paying their entire medical, on $35,000 per year.
Are the masses too dumb to recognize,
They are listening to infomercial shows?
Over dominate, obnoxious, gas bags,
On blowhard radio.
There is no global warming,
As you watch the ice sheets flow?
Chunks the size of a large land mass,
Into the ocean they go.
Don’t try for alternative energy,
Just keep drilling into the ground.
Keep the servitude grip on the public,
There is always more oil to be found.
If your armaments sales are sloping down,
Your purchased government can start a war.
It’s the little people’s sons and daughters,
Death and mutilation, it’s their burden for sure.
So the temperature is rising,
Never have the levels been this high.
Big deal, we are loosing record species,
Who gives a damn, let them die.
So long as CEO’s record salaries,
Are based on numbers neither fact nor true.
Twenty thousand times a working man’s wage,
Reality is what they’ll decide for you.
Brilliant, Wayne! You are so talented! 🙂 Thanks!
US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/11/meteorologists-death-threats-hurricane-conspiracies-misinformation
MAGA Republicans are causing threats to FEMA workers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/10/13/federal-officials-nc-temporarily-relocated-amid-report-armed-militia-email-shows/
An update regarding the FEMA threats.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/us/fema-what-we-know-north-carolina/index.html
The system that moves water around the Earth is off balance for the first time in human history.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/climate/global-water-cycle-off-balance-food-production/index.html