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pnwmom

(110,265 posts)
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 11:08 PM Jul 2023

What kind of environmentalist opposes the EPA and dismisses the reality of climate change?

The kind of environmentalist RFK Jr claims to be.

https://legal-planet.org/2023/07/10/rfk-jr-and-climate-change/

Let’s begin with his deep distrust of EPA, which rivals that of the Republicans who want to abolish it although the reasons are quite different. Here’s what he has said about the agency: “I’ve spent 40 years litigating against the agencies, the regulatory agencies in the United States, so I can tell you that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is effectively run by the oil industry, the coal industry and the pesticide industry.”

What about climate regulation? This, too, seems to be suspect in his eyes. Kennedy has said that “climate issues and pollution issues are being exploited by, you know, the World Economic Forum and Bill Gates and all of these big, you know, mega-billionaires, the same way that Covid was exploited, to use it as an excuse to clamp down top-down totalitarian controls on society.”

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What kind of environmentalist opposes the EPA and dismisses the reality of climate change? (Original Post) pnwmom Jul 2023 OP
Even if he's right in those things, he's chosen a war he can't win. TreasonousBastard Jul 2023 #1
Uggggggghhhhhh....I kinda agree with him here Showbizkid Jul 2023 #2
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. haele Jul 2023 #3
The kind that is "Floating tulsi gabbard Cha Jul 2023 #4
And has Dennis Kucinich for a campaign manager. nt pnwmom Jul 2023 #6
It's Surreal.. I can't even Cha Jul 2023 #8
RFK's siblings must be sick to see this. nt pnwmom Jul 2023 #9
Well, the EPA is a joke leftstreet Jul 2023 #5
He should have listened to his Uncle Teddy, who spoke often pnwmom Jul 2023 #7
+1 betsuni Jul 2023 #10
 

Showbizkid

(118 posts)
2. Uggggggghhhhhh....I kinda agree with him here
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 11:38 PM
Jul 2023

Under no circumstances would I ever ever vote for him for anything. And his vaccine nonsense has a body count. He’s a monster.

But the EPA part rings true, and on climate change, there is certainly an element of elites making rules for plebes involved.

He’s a lunatic who is generally left in his ideologies. I’m going to agree with some things.

I hate myself.

haele

(15,420 posts)
3. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 11:48 PM
Jul 2023

I wouldn't be too upset with the basis of one of his many ramblings possibly being similar to one's own politics or opinions.

Pity, he sounded almost same back in the 2000's on Air America back in the day. Ego will always win out in the end with people who end up being celebrities; it's just a matter of what type of Ego they have - does it drive them into a selfish crazy town, or does it drive them to be better people?
I can take a guess as to where Jr. went.

Haele

Cha

(319,265 posts)
8. It's Surreal.. I can't even
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 02:45 AM
Jul 2023

fathom how bizarre this all sounds.

Read Bannon encouraged him to run on the Dem ticket, too.

Not sure how we're suppose to believe this isn't all Not pure fuckery?

leftstreet

(40,887 posts)
5. Well, the EPA is a joke
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 11:55 PM
Jul 2023

He's so out-there though, no one is going to take him seriously on serious issues

pnwmom

(110,265 posts)
7. He should have listened to his Uncle Teddy, who spoke often
Thu Jul 13, 2023, 02:08 AM
Jul 2023

about the danger of letting the prefect be the enemy of the good.

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