The Elephant in the Room
November 8th, 2007
The elephant in the room is the real GOP. It’s the real George Bush. Why are we acting like the Republican leadership has decided on a sane course of action for this country that we just happen to disagree with? There are plenty of legitimate choices to be made about how government should run, how foreign policy should be conducted. But let’s stop pretending Republicans offer one of those choices. Let’s ditch the ludicrous notion that the only kind of politics we need is a coin with a D on one side and an R on the other.
The elephant in the room is the real Global Warming. The gradual warming that might eventually put our children at greater risk for skin cancer was 30 years ago. The one we’re facing now is more serious. At this late stage in the game, we shouldn’t still be talking about drafting a bill to send a hand-written thank you card to every company that voluntarily decides to cut CO2 emissions.
And why isn’t anyone talking about the elephant? Because the Bush Administration denies the existence of elephants. And the Bill of Rights that protects the freedoms of people who mention elephants.
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1. Mark Stamas | November 8th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Elephant in the room IS the room.
Don’t forget that if this human race became carbon neutral today the climate change we face will be reduced only in scope, say from several hundred years culminating in the end of the human race, to maybe a century culminating in death to 3/4s of the human race. Prepare for both.
What we need is to increase the organic matter (carbon) content of the earth’s soils, for starters.
Too little, too late.
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