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Environment & Energy

Rhiannon12866

(218,186 posts) Thu Sep 12, 2024, 11:10 PM Sep 12

Time to Wake Up 294: Told Ya So - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse [View all]

September 11 - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) delivers his 294th speech urging his colleagues to wake up to the threat of climate change. Whitehouse discusses how climate change is already inflicting large economic damages in a variety of ways, as predicted across almost 20 Budget Committee hearings over the last 18 months.

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Time to Wake Up 294: Told Ya So - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse [View all] Rhiannon12866 Sep 12 OP

It's so frustrating that Haggard Celine Sep 12 #1

I couldn't agree more! Rhiannon12866 Sep 12 #2

Seriously? OKIsItJustMe Sep 12 #3

I was surprised since I think of him as being pretty well known - and I'm in New York Rhiannon12866 Sep 12 #5

Apolitical people are hard to rea Haggard Celine Sep 12 #4

I know someone else like that, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised Rhiannon12866 Sep 13 #6

Except all the "non-partisan" elections which are many: municipal (mayor, city council), progree Sep 13 #7

I know, back in the day before 9/11 woke me up, my research was reading the League of Women Voters pamphlet Rhiannon12866 Sep 13 #8

Back then, about all I did on these "non-partisan" races was vote for the incumbent progree Sep 13 #9