It’s
not just Exxon’s researchers who knew decades ago. And like Big
Tobacco, the fossil fuel industry campaigned to fuel doubt and denial of
their own fundings. I’ve also learned from the Juliana vs U.S. case that every single President since Kennedy knew of the coming and now
current human caused climate crisis and failed to act. This has been how
insidious and deadly the power the fossil fuel industry and that of the
most powerful has been.
It also needs to be highlighted
that the consequences of this failure to act to protect lives is
greater than that of the tobacco industry because this evil threatens
all life on Earth. And they know it.
This is what late stage addiction looks like — the addiction is so powerful that there is a complete disregard for life itself.
This
also illustrates again and again and again the utter necessity of
intervention — of stopping the madness of these addictions of the
powerful to power and control, brainwashing and propaganda, endless wars
and violence, greed and the extreme redistribution of wealth upwards,
the continued burning of fossil fuels and rape of our Earth Mother, and
on and on.
Now
we’re facing this end stage of a terminal illness that began long, long
ago. Just ask Indigenous Peoples how long this violence against people
and the planet has been going on. So now we’re facing our own death —
unless we intervene and unite, mobilize, and millions of us in America
and worldwide wake up, rise up, and fight back to dismantle this deadly
power of the powerful and birth a New Story and New World.
Many
believe Trump is The Problem. And he is indeed the most devastatingly
dangerous president our nation has ever known. He is also a symptom of a
much greater disease which has long infected our country and the world.
There is an imperative to treat and transform the roots of this disease
and our national and planetary peril. Otherwise we leave the disease
intact and the intervention will be a failure and even if Trump is
ousted. Because he is a symptom.
Let
us choose to evolve and embrace the radical courage, consciousness, and
changes that is asked of us at this time in our human history. This is
the only path forward that gives our children and grandchildren and all
beings everywhere the potential that their futures will include a
livable planet. Everything we love and cherish is at stake. — Molly
From Democracy Now! —
Leaders
of the coal industry knew as early as the mid-1960s that burning
fossil fuels causes climate change. That’s according to a recently
discovered 1966 copy of the magazine Mining Congress Journal, in
which the head of a now defunct mining research company wrote that
the combustion of fossil fuels was increasing carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere, causing global temperature increases. He continued,
writing, “Such changes in temperature will cause melting of the
polar icecaps, which, in turn, would result in the inundation of many
coastal cities, including New York and London.” The recently
discovered article now provides evidence that both the coal and oil
industries have known about catastrophic climate change for decades,
yet worked to cover up the evidence in order to continue burning
fossil fuels.
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