'This Is The Most Important Election In Human History, And Joe Biden Finally Gets Why'
'This Is The Most Important Election In Human History And Joe Biden Finally Gets Why.' By Joe Conason / Creators Syndicate July 17, 2020. AlterNet.
One of the worst failings of political journalism in our time was just illustrated again. When Joe Biden delivered a path-breaking address on climate change, he drew less media coverage than a rumored shakeup in the Trump campaign. Do you care more about the fate of Republican grifters — or the fate of the Earth?
Even reporters who prefer process over substance could find an angle in Biden’s speech, because it represented such a clear break with his own past positioning on the climate issue. In a radical departure from his “moderate” stance during the Democratic primaries, the former vice president is proposing a far more intense program, on a faster schedule that will cost a lot more money. Suddenly, he sounds like a leader who actually comprehends the desperate position of our planet after decades of denial and delay. The failure to deal with the climate threat isn’t the fault of his Democratic predecessors. Nearly a quarter-century ago, Bill Clinton and his farsighted vice president, Al Gore, negotiated the Kyoto climate agreement that would have set the world on a path toward sustainability — and watched as that treaty fell to Senate opposition from both parties. Barack Obama and Biden tried to advance international cooperation with the Paris climate accord.
Even if those agreements were inadequate to the danger, they represented progress — and were stymied in this country by oil-soaked Republicans at every level. From the oil-soaked Bush and Trump presidencies to the climate deniers in Congress who think snowballs prove that science isn’t real, Republicans have pretended not to notice the worsening tropical storms, the fiery conflagrations, the agricultural ruin and all the other terrifying evidence that the crisis is now. That attitude of moronic nonchalance closely resembles the current Republican approach to the coronavirus. The disastrous consequences of doing nothing useful to cope with the pandemic represent yet another warning to the rest of us. It may be the last warning we get.
So if the planet is to be saved for our children and their children, the Republicans must go, not just Trump and his pack of lobbyists, grifters and ideologues but their Senate majority and as many of their House members as possible. When someone says this is the most important election in our lifetime, they’re downplaying the stakes. This is the most important election in human history.
Now Biden has told us he knows what we are facing — and what he plans to do about it. He may or may not call it the Green New Deal, but that’s precisely what it is. His new climate program would invest vast sums in renewable energy and green infrastructure, with the aim of achieving carbon-free power generation within 15 years — a goal he had originally set for 30 years from today. He would accomplish this ambitious objective with major improvements to the U.S. energy grid, accelerated development of electric batteries, clean refrigeration, solar power and, yes, advanced nuclear plants...
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any "finally" about it. 
Actually, 2016's election was more important than this one; too many just didn't "get" that. I will NEVER forget NOR forgive that.
It will take more than one Dem term even to begin to address the damage that has already been done by this disaster of a WH Occupant.
But, if by any scenario Trump "wins," this election may indeed be the LAST one for the US as a nation. 
So vote BLUE at every level as if your life depends upon it. Because it does.
