Climate change talk takes a right turn
While the military and intelligence communities analyze global warming’s impact, and politicians debate how to address it, one thing is clear: increasing numbers of conservatives believe in it.
Last year, an intelligence forecast that was prepared for President Bush predicted a decline in U.S. dominance, and that global warming would be part of the problem. A little earlier in the year, the president himself stated outright that global warming was real. Newt Gingrich has written a book that focuses on climate change among other environmental issues. Finally, just this August, The New York Times reported on a number of ways in which the military is incorporating global warming into its strategic planning.
Of course, many conservatives don’t agree with progressives about how to combat global warming, but it’s a start.
Here’s the scoop on greening conservatism…
The ideology that paved the way for the crisis we face as a species, is that humans are “top of the food chain” and entitled to exploit every inch of our earth as a “resource” for our pleasure and economics.
I see that we truly are a one party civilization, capitalism, which reduces every living being, including humans, to a value of production.
If politics were moral, global governments would focus urgently on controlling human populations( and not with war and disease) rather than spending billions on controlling species that interfere with animal agribusiness or the sea food industry.
We’ve become a global slaughterhouse for farmed animals (all once wild) and this system of agriculture contributes to famine(we feed 60 BILLION farmed animals 70% of ALL crops grown)18 whopping % of Co2 emissions, and skyrocketing rates of degenerative diseases.
We should be overhauling the USDA and global agriculture to ONLY produce healthy nutrient dense foods for humans….
This IS the most urgent fix for climate change and NEVER discussed.
It is amoral to feed cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, etc….while people starve and animal protein causes organ failure.
http://www.plantbasednutrition.org
http://www.heartattackproof.com
Changing our diets would do FAR MORE to solve the many issues we face and the food security than changing bulbs.