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hatrack

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Sat Oct 24, 2020, 09:36 AM Oct 2020

Shitstain's Shiny, Happy World Of Crystal-Clear Water And Clean Coal A Farcical Fantasy

In Donald Trump’s world – laid bare during Thursday night’s final presidential debate with his Democratic rival Joe Biden in Nashville – fossil fuels are “very clean”, the US has the best air and water despite his administration’s extensive regulatory rollbacks, and the country can fix climate change by planting trees. But according to the harsh realities being laid out by climate scientists, Trump’s world does not exist.

Humanity has just eight years to figure out how to get climate change under control before the future starts to look drastically worse – multiple-degree temperature increases, global sea-level rise, and increasingly disastrous wildfires, hurricanes, floods and droughts. Doing so will mean that unless there is a technological miracle, humans will at some point have to stop burning oil, gas and coal. “We’re told by all the leading scientists in the world we don’t have much time,” Biden said. “We’re going to pass the point of no return within the next eight to 10 years. Four more years of this man … will put us in a position where we’ll be in real trouble,” the former vice-president said.

Much of the media coverage of the exchange – which as usual didn’t come until the end of the debate as time was running out – will probably focus on Trump’s attacks on Biden. He called his plan job-killing, argued it would cost $100tn and not $6tn, and accused Biden of flip-flopping on fracking. The drilling method has fueled a natural gas boom in swing states such as Pennsylvania, which both candidates see as critically important to winning the election. At one point, Biden dared Trump to publish evidence of him ever saying he would end fracking, and Trump promised he would.

Stories might quote Trump, who has denied the human-made climate crisis in a variety of strange ways, telling Biden “I know more about wind than you,” despite previously wrongly claiming wind power causes cancer. “They want to take buildings down because they want to make bigger windows into smaller windows. As far as they’re concerned if you had no window it would be a lovely thing,” Trump accused in another tangent. “This is the craziest plan that anyone has ever seen. It wasn’t done by smart people. Frankly, I don’t know how it could be good politically.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/23/joe-biden-transition-from-oil-industry-rowing-back

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Shitstain's Shiny, Happy World Of Crystal-Clear Water And Clean Coal A Farcical Fantasy (Original Post) hatrack Oct 2020 OP
I honestly think that Donny believes his own fairy-tale magical thinking bullshit Blue Owl Oct 2020 #1
Every time Trump mentions water it's either "crystal...cleeeeen...water," or it doesn't have sop Oct 2020 #2

Blue Owl

(49,906 posts)
1. I honestly think that Donny believes his own fairy-tale magical thinking bullshit
Sat Oct 24, 2020, 09:40 AM
Oct 2020

That if he just thinks there will be sparkly clean water it will just magically happen, and that he'll really plant 1 trillion trees (um, you might want to get on Donny that because it takes a hell of a lot of time and labor to plant 1 trillion trees).

That fucker lives in a fantasy world.

sop

(9,945 posts)
2. Every time Trump mentions water it's either "crystal...cleeeeen...water," or it doesn't have
Sat Oct 24, 2020, 09:45 AM
Oct 2020

enough pressure.

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