Steve Breen for October 09, 2018

WARNING: Carbon-driven climate change can be hazardous to your health.

Hey trumpster! If you are going to screw up (snerK), screw up in favor of your great grand children. Oh! Never mind. Screw up in favor of my great grand children.

Good thing denying reality will save us from all those terrible consequences! /s

What is that between the cigarette and his lips?

Planetary survival? WHO CARES?? There’s PROFIT to be made!!!

Use more coal until Florida is covered with water, is the Republican plan.

I heard a staunch Republican say :“It doesn’t matter how we screw up (the climate), we will find a way to fix it when we need to. We Always have in the past!” I asked him what if we can’t? He said “We always have!” I asked him if there couldn’t possibly be a first time when we can’t fix it? He ignored the question.

There must be plans in place for the wealthy to survive – perhaps underground bunkers or they have heavily invested in private companies working on space travel. I find it hard to believe that they truly don’t understand the damage being done by fossil fuels and deregulation. Even if they themselves will be dead when it becomes catastrophic, they must care at least a little about their families.

The dying coral reefs are the canary in the coal mine. It won’t matter how rich any human is by the time the biological disaster hits. In the Permian Great Dying, ~95% of species went extinct. That record may be matched again.

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/03/21/why-is-so-much-of-the-worlds-coral-dying

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/03/21/why-is-so-much-of-the-worlds-coral-dying

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/04/12/why-dead-coral-reefs-stir-fears-of-dangerous-climate-change/

Until you / we / everyone.. is willing to give up all those luxurious things we take as our right to have and use.. all the hand wringing will do nothing. There just too many people all wanting.. roads and cars and clean water and food and nice clothes and vacations and ……………………

…and they all want to produce more people who will want the same things,

unless cultural values change.

I can’t help but wonder if, a couple of generations from now, when our great-grandchildren are hunting alligators in the swamps of Maine, they will stop to curse the Conservatives for their short-sighted ‘defense’ of the coal and oil industry?

^ Yeah, I don’t understand that science stuff either.

It is actually a metaphor of Us humans puffing poison into our only source of life, Big oil, Big pharma, Big Lumber industry, They all are using us to enrich themselves and to help us dig our graves (And their too!)

The cartoon makes it look as if the carbon dioxide is being blow out into space. “Unfortunately”, that’s not the case.

I put “unfortunately” in quotes, because if that were happening, it would create other problems.