Radio_Signal

razorpit said:

fastasleep said:

razorpit said:

Oh, I see — another Breitbart-educated commenter. Literally nobody in reality actually equates contemporary "progressive" political views with oppressive Communist/totalitarian regimes of the past. What utter ridiculousness.

On another note, I find the idea that interest in environmental concerns are somehow a partisan issue that only "progressives" care about to be terribly depressing. Ever heard of any of these things:

• National Environmental Policy Act
• The Environmental Protection Agency
• Clean Air Act Extension 
• Marine Mammal Protection Act
• Safe Drinking Water Act 
• Endangered Species Act 

These all happened under fucking Nixon of all Presidents.  Guess what's happening to all of them now?

What’s your point? Overreaching progressive programs are bad no matter what president they were enacted under. Progressives couldn’t care less about the environment. All of these programs sound awesome but get ugly fast when you look past their name. 

It's about control. Everyone is stone dead quiet about the two worst polluters on the planet, China and India. Yet everyone freaks out when the States removed themselves from that joke of a climate accord.

"progressive programs are bad" "progressives couldn't care less about the environment" "everyone is stone dead quiet"

Bullshit. Either you work in some industry that prefers we loosen protections against pollution and conserving biodiversity for your own personal gains, or you're just parroting the right-wing talking points being pedaled to further those ideas and divide the populace.

There's plenty of quality, in-depth journalism about worldwide pollution concerns. People are most definitely talking about those two countries, however when it comes to the Paris Agreement, China, India, and the US are all signatories. The US can't withdraw until 2020, if it gives notice at its first opportunity on Nov 4 of this year, which seems to be the intent. And yeah, everyone freaked out because guess what, China and India are still in without us if we leave. Not to mention, people tend to concern themselves with their own nation's politics more than that of other nations, considering they have an influence in one and not the other. 

To use a left-wing talking point I’m for dirty air and dirty water. Don’t tell anyone but I have a secret stash of the clean stuff hidden away from everyone else... 

Radio_Signal said:

"Everyone is stone dead quiet about the two worst polluters on the planet, China and India."

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2166542/air-pollution-killing-1-million-people-and-costing-chinese
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/world/asia/china-air-pollution-miscarriages-study.html
https://allthatsinteresting.com/pollution-in-china-photographs
https://chinapower.csis.org/air-quality/
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/countingthecost/2019/08/cost-india-deadly-air-pollution-190828125544254.html
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/images-from-nasa-reveal-crop-burning-the-reason-behind-increase-in-delhi-pollution-1609023-2019-10-14
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/8/17316978/india-pollution-levels-air-delhi-health
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49729291
http://aqicn.org/map/india/

When you say, "everyone," could you expound on that?

Kudos to you. You managed to bookmark the few articles calling them out. 

coolfactor said:

This info is coming out today for the first time? Were they trying to avoid bad press in advance?