Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t...
by rayiner on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:49PM
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AOC: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019...
> 'The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Ocasio-Cortez says
Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t...
by scythe on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:03PM
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Right, so that generally falls into the category I identified in the first comment: stuff that people on the left say in the heat of the moment, but don't stick to. She was, at the time, being interviewed by the notoriously fiery Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's kind of like comparing Elon Musk smoking weed on Joe Rogan to someone who smokes weed at work every day.
I really doubt AOC actually believed at any time that the world would end in 2030 (cf. Paris Agreement's 2030 Agenda).
Re:The divide between political parties is smaller than we t...
by zests on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:24PM
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That's quite the stretch. We can lawyer our way out of anything if we try hard enough.
I would say the key difference about the left is that the supporters of these kinds of movements rarely get much support at the top. Even Bernie Sanders and AOC have stepped back from supporting certain movements after criticism (I'm thinking of Venezuela), while such contrition on the right is rare (until the Capitol sedition).
>Members of Congress who think that climate change will destroy the world within 10 years?
Who, precisely? And what did they say?