Pruitt To CNN: Talking About Climate Change Is 'Insensitive' To Floridians
Source: Talking Points Memo
By MATT SHUHAM Published SEPTEMBER 8, 2017 10:16 AM
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said Thursday that talking about climate change while a hurricane sliced through the Caribbean on its way to Florida was very, very insensitive to the people of Florida.
Heres the issue, Scott Pruitt told CNN. To have any kind of focus on the cause and effect of the storm; versus helping people, or actually facing the effect of the storm, is misplaced.
To discuss the cause and effect of these storms, theres the
place (and time) to do that, its not now, he said. Pruitt, the fossil fuel-friendly EPA administrator who sued the agency more than a dozen times before leading it, similarly said in the aftermath of Hurricane Harveys landfall in Texas that it was opportunistic and misplaced to talk about climate change.
He added to CNN: Congress should address that at some point. And Congress hasnt. All Im saying to you is, to use time and effort to address it at this point is very, very insensitive to this [sic] people in Florida.
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ExciteBike66
(2,357 posts)How dare they tell me how climate change might make Irma worse! Don't they know that ignorance is bliss!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)fires on the West Coast, droughts in the west, etc this year that I think of is:
President Trump is an unrepentant whoremonger, and the religious leaders, the Speaker of the House, and the Senate Majority Leader all condone it. That puts all of USA at risk of God's wrath.
Trump, all Republicans in government, and all religious leaders should resign now.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)determined to face the truth, and set out to educate themselves long ago. If it takes Mother Nature to smack them upside the head and wiser people to explain the lesson, so be it. Way past time.
ananda
(28,859 posts)Go blow it out your ass, Pruitt.
Climate change is here in a big way now.
You *can* still deny it, but you will still
have to face it every damm day now.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)lark
(23,099 posts)What's insensitive is his administration wanting to cut FEMA by 14%, actually that's stealing from victims of killer storms to give oligarchs millions of dollars in tax cuts. That's what he was personally trying to implement just days before Harvey. Once all the attention has died down, bet they put FEMA back on the chopping block again, the freaking idiots.
cp
(6,626 posts)Hey asshole, it's your JOB to deal with climate change and you FAIL.
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)damn good time to talk about climate change because whether we talk about it or not, it's here. Pruitt is an evil little weasel who hopes we will forget about it once the storm passes. Not bloody likely. Now is the time to address it because, sad as this is, some buildings are going to be destroyed and we need to have a serious conversation about whether or not they should be rebuilt. If Harvey and Irma are omens of things to come, and I believe they are, we can't afford not to have that conversation.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)SMMFH
padfun
(1,786 posts)They all seem to think that a one thought mind is normal.
They also seem to use projection a lot.
irisblue
(32,973 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)He literally said now is not the time to discuss the effect of the storms? So is he suggesting CNN and the many other news groups should not be reporting on what is going on right now?
So if he came upon a woman being beaten by her partner would he say "Now is not the time to discuss the violent nature of the person beating you"?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republican lies about climate change must stop. Now. Americans know republicans don't want to talk about the lies they have been spewing - but it is way past time to do it. Pruitt and the other republican liars need to just STFU and let Americans deal with reality.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Heaven help us if the sheeple happen to look up
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Fucking moron.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Pruitt is surely in Nirvana!
May he rot in hell!
Squinty eyed bastard.
He just looks like an evil asshole every time I see him.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)niyad
(113,293 posts)Kleveland
(1,257 posts)I'll tell you what is insensitive, YOU, you moronic self interested asshole!
Enjoy all that money that you have acquired from those who love to line your pockets!
Denying reality, does not change it.
You will have hell to pay.
What goes around, comes around.
There is no hope for you, or any of your kind, because that requires self awareness, and compassion.
You are devoid of both.
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!
heaven05
(18,124 posts)STFU!!!!! Goddamn RW bullshit. All trump has shown me is how many backward, stupid and ignorant people ameriKKKa has at ALL levels of this society.
chaking53
(76 posts)denying climate change is insesitive to humanity as a whole
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)to not just Floridians, but to the entire world
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Nitram
(22,794 posts)thbobby
(1,474 posts)NRA says the same after gun atrocities.
The putrid fuckwads (NRA, Pruitt) know that the proliferation of guns and US murder rate AND climate change are dangerous and destructive to people. They just love money more than people or our planet.
My contempt for them is beyond what I can verbalize.
Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)+1000.
DFW
(54,370 posts)Yeah, we'll pull him from the wreckage, but the fact remains that he could have prevented his accident if he had thought about keeping his car inspected and getting it fixed up in the first place.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)end-of-the world fiction? Where asses like him always get their comeuppance? From Mother Nature, or God.
marybourg
(12,631 posts)of him to waste our money defending against his more than a dozen suits against the EPA for doing its job.
vkkv
(3,384 posts)You're right Scott ScrewUP, it's insensitive to insult those fucking pro-GOP voting idiots!
underpants
(182,791 posts)Oh we've moved on.
There no 100% scientific evidence.
That's already been decided.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)...that all the antediluvian Floridians are quite ready to discuss and address climate change.
haveahart
(905 posts)them is costing lives and property and taxes.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)he actually knows climate change is real, but just keeps lying and lying to keep the petrochemical $$$ rolling into puke coffers.
The worst kind of propagandist--one who knows he is spewing BS and does it anyway.
A pox on all their houses (NOT said humorously--may they all rot in hell).
Delmette2.0
(4,164 posts)You know the ones that are burning up with wildfires? I live in Montana and we have lost over a MILLION acres of grass land and forests to fires. My sister is close to three fires. My brother and niece are on either side of a fire in Washington. I can't wish for the wind to blow in one direction or another because someone I love will be in danger. WTF! Now, is the time to scream and yell about climate change.
Nay
(12,051 posts)derail any talk about what the RWers don't want to talk about at all -- climate change.
God, I hate these people.
scarletlib
(3,411 posts)niyad
(113,293 posts)haele
(12,650 posts)The Floridians you and your fellow travelers have been lying to for decades - "don't worry, God will take care of you and as long as you're with us, nothing will happen to you?"
The Floridians you and your ilk been scaring with tales about how "the Liberals" were cheating you out of your "American Heritage", taking money and stuff you worked hard for all your lives, and giving all the natural resources to "Lazy Godless Dirty Hippy Slactivists" and "Those People" instead of sharing?
Or the Floridians working fossil fuel jobs, or the rich cheaters and paper-shuffler Conservative think tank types worked to cut regulations in some Randriod fit of greed and selfishness, who are now reaping the pain of all the ignorance and avoidance of responsible actions they've been indulging in?
The average Floridian that I've met would rather have been properly informed as to the risks facing them and be given the appropriate tools and infrastructure to deal with the climate change that is affecting them right now than be told "Don't worry, we're praying for you in this unexpected catastrophe" and then watch as Jose follows Irma - along with whatever else might be developing over the Sahara that can hit them later in October or November...
Prayers do very little other than make you maybe feel a little bit better when you're stuck with your family on the Interstate with thousands of other drivers and a CAT 4 barreling down on you, because the only place you could afford to live in was a doublewide or an older house that wasn't retrofitted to Hurricane standards in a floodplain, and neither would be expected to survive a direct hit. In fact, in such cases, I think prayers by themselves are rather insensitive...
Irma wasn't "unexpected". There were warnings about storms like Irma for the past decade and longer...But it never seemed to be the time to address that inconvenient climate change, right?
Haele
ancianita
(36,053 posts)I've been fussing about these old folks in my retirement community being exactly how you describe, and how you can't politely talk sense into any of them.
haele
(12,650 posts)You're welcome to use it as you wish.
Haele
ancianita
(36,053 posts)lostnfound
(16,178 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,386 posts)These Republican a$$holes all need an Irma enema up their butts.
And I apologize if anyone is offended by my language. I am so angry that these fu*king Republicans have lied and denied
and bullshitted around for the last 20 years when this country could have--and should have--been leading the world in
developing ways to reverse the folly of our love for fossil fuels.
PatSeg
(47,421 posts)is insensitive to Floridians and pretty much anyone on the planet.
This reminds me of the gun nuts who get bent out of shape whenever gun regulations come up after a horrific mass shooting.
weissmam
(905 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)... to point out that God is fucking Republican states straight in the ass this year.
As I have pointed out already a couple of times this year, Jesus makes reference to a thing called "unforgivable sin." Saint Augustine defines it as "resistance to the known truth." Human-caused climate change is only denied by those who have a profit-stake in delaying a proper response, and those fools they can dupe into going along with them.
It is a "known truth." God knows it, and those who pretend otherwise are going straight to Hell, no appeal. Now God is coming straight at 'em, too. That's wrath, and condemnation. You redneck yahoos lurking out there better take this observation straight to your religious leaders.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)forbid the use of those two words.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)to environmental problems in his Bible. He is committed to squeezing every dollar possible from petroleum and coal deposits. He and his kind will permit no reduction in fossil energy mining until unregulated capitalism determines that those industries can no longer be exported, even when protected with subsidies. Science accelerated the USA into the technology leader of the world. Pruitt and his cohorts are pulling us back to the 18th century.
All Americans are being given an environmental science lesson this summer and beyond. There will be a test at the the 2018 election. Vote DEM to restore science as the basis for government policies to provide a healthy and safe environment, jobs, and prosperity. Votes for GOP will strengthen ignorance and speed our decline to a 3rd world existence. The time to discuss the global climate change issues was in the 1970s, when we could have made meaningful improvements through "no regret" policies, which were improvements that would be beneficial even if scientists were wrong in their future scenarios of adverse impacts. Energy resource owners prevented that. Now is the time to get a grand science-based strategy on the table, get a consensus for action, and commit to it.
A side note that should be considered. When the USA's economy is humbled and can't rebuild, be assured that the 1% will still have the wealth to relocate to comfortable places on planet Earth, and they are not taking us with them. We will be fighting for life, each year, declining in ability to provide shelter, crops, and industries. This end point is what Scott Pruitt doesn't want you to discuss. What might happen and how to change the course.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)you scream as climate change kicks your ass.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)"...theres the
place (and time) to do that, its not now"
And then it turns to never.
IronLionZion
(45,434 posts)asshole
LisaM
(27,808 posts)that point of view has always, and will always continue, to floor me.
That's the EXACT time to talk about it. It doesn't mean you can't help the victims.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Evidently Pruitt cannot.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)... is an insult to humanity! Of all the Dumpster appointees, this ignorant cretin takes the cake for absurdity.
JoJo
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)Climate change!!!"
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)... right after another massacre? Hypocrites
Skittles
(153,160 posts)Corvo Bianco
(1,148 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)There. I fixed it.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)he doesn't live there.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Oneironaut
(5,493 posts)This is a slimy diversionary tactic - nothing more.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)some people that they cant have more than one thought in their head at a time. Doing one thing does not preclude doing the other.
Besides - unnderstanding cause and fixing it *IS* helping people.