Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first time since records began

Re:Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first tim... by mrguyorama on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:11PM (#20306534)

Do those same farmers still vote highly in favor of the one (american, I've made an assumption here) political party that denies global warming is real?

I come from a agricultural small town in the north, and up there you'd think Trump was a god. This despite every single farm up there depending on illegal migrant workers to basically survive.

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Re:Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first tim... by AngryData on Saturday June 29, 2019 @01:50AM (#20310990)

In my area of the midwest, not at all, the farmers are more likely to be democrats because democrats promote stable and predictable crop markets. However, even in the extremely rural areas here farmers are still a minority of the population.

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Re:Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first tim... by fillskills on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:18PM (#20307300)

Sadly they do. Somehow other issues are more important to them than this.

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Re:Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first tim... by Fjolsvith on Sunday June 30, 2019 @02:20AM (#20316682)

Farmers are typically fairly wealthy, and hate paying taxes, mainly because they pay about 10% of their land value in property taxes each year.

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Re:Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first tim... by Fjolsvith on Sunday June 30, 2019 @12:51PM (#20319088)

So no one going to comment how those Democrat politicians could scale back their taxing agenda and pull in those farmer votes?

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Re:Temperatures in France cross 45°C threshold for first tim... by lonelappde on Saturday June 29, 2019 @06:13PM (#20315114)

20% of US population is in rural countries. It's not the farmers electing the Republican Party

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