tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post184195955149621959..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: Fiddling While Oregon BurnsJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-70402110961166069042020-09-23T15:23:30.493-04:002020-09-23T15:23:30.493-04:00"Some of the people interviewed by the Times ...<i>"Some of the people interviewed by the Times were optimistic that the terrible fires will drive the legislature to adopt at least some of these measures, but on the other hand, who knows. There's an election around the corner."</i><br /><br />Not gonna happen. Here's why.<br /><br /><i>"Within weeks, though, the plans were dead. <b>Republican</b> lawmakers staged a walkout on the cap-and-trade proposal, and the bills that would have provided millions of dollars to prevent and suppress wildfires were left on the table."</i><br /><br />The Republicans don't believe in climate change. They don't believe in the need for reform in land management. They don't believe in reality. And they have the power to walk out and unilaterally shut down any proposal to fix things.<br /><br />That's why nothing will change. The fires will burn needlessly, innocent people will suffer needlessly, and the Republicans will do absolutely nothing about it. Why? Because while they're not yet delusional enough to insist the fires aren't real and aren't happening, they absolutely <b>are</b> delusional enough to insist that they're not happening <b>for the actual reasons</b> that they're happening.<br /><br />They'll make up reasons for the fires, blame them on their political opponents, and use them to justify totally unrelated measures that give them more power. They don't give a damn about Oregon burning, because it gives them the opportunity to fiddle to an audience who will make them richer and more powerful.<br /><br />They will happily sacrifice others to enrich themselves. They've made that abundantly clear. They cheerfully rally behind a conman president who thinks the solution to wildfires is to rake the forest floor, and brazenly claims that's what Finland does to manage their forests. They don't care about reality, they prefer their world of imagination and insanity.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com