NEW INFRASTRUCTURE IN A WARMING WORLD

REDUCING HARM V. WASTED TAX DOLLARS BY “DENIAL” POLITICIANS

Each passing day the Trump Administration (elect) makes it clearer that their energy policies, strongly supported by the Republican Party, will contribute to warming and rising seas, etc., rather than slowing warming and all its harmful impacts. 

Also, it appears certain that there will be proposed Republican  “infrastructure investment” legislation. However, since the Republican Party rejects the settled science on global warming, the Republican infrastructure legislation will  be the traditional “boondoggle” legislation: fixing unsafe bridges, repairing roads etc.

Such legislation would throw away our tax dollars on construction investments (and other investments) that are out of date or will shortly be out of date in a world that is continuously warming and climate is, therefore, continuously changing. Accordingly, the Democratic Senatorial minority must use the filibuster to prevent the waste of our tax dollars and make clear in Democratic legislative proposals that reducing harm to the American people is the first test of new infrastructure legislation.

By WORKING WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES AT THE LOCAL LEVEL, we will help plan changes to best PROTECT our communities AND WE WILL ENCOURAGE & SUPPORT DEMOCRATIC PARTY:

1. RESISTANCE TO WORTHLESS INFRASTRUCTURE LEGISLATION 
2. EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ON TRULY WORTHWHILE INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES IN A WARMING WORLD

A first step is to contact city government and ask them about plans for infrastructure that help protect against and withstand severe weather events.

Be an activist! #resist all global warming denial!

Work Together!

PLANNING NEW INFRASTRUCTURE in an unstable world of GLOBAL WARMING!

Global warming is publicly treated by many GOP leaders as a hoax or as only a minor issue of concern!

The new Republican Administration has made it clear that it:

1. will not pursue policies to slow global warming
2. will seek to REVERSE EXISTING POLICIES that would reduce warming gas emissions
3. will not PURSUE NEW INFRASTRUCTURE POLICIES to protect us from the ravages of continued warming and increasingly harmful climatic changes

Hurricane Sandy - Rockaway damage

Even though it is obvious to coastal communities around the world that sea level IS rising and threatening lives and the existence of entire communities - there will be MINIMAL ad-hoc support from the Republican administration to help those communities prepare for the warming future. Localities are on their own as far as planning for infrastructural changes required in a "warming" world.

Therefore, WORKING WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES at the grass-roots level, we will help plan infrastructural changes to best protect our lives and our quality of life in a "warming" world.

WORKING TOGETHER!

#resist

NEEDED: New ACTIVISM! New GLOBAL WARMING DIRECTION!

Global warming is already having significant and costly effects on our communities, our health, and our climate.

"Unless we take immediate action to reduce global warming emissions, these impacts will continue to intensify, grow ever more costly and damaging, and increasingly affect the entire planet — including you, your community, and your family." From the Union of Concerned Scientists. Read more...

Since the election, it has become clear that the Trump Administration will be guided by the denial policies on global warming and the illiberal value policies that were espoused during the campaign.

Donald J. Trump Verified account

@realDonaldTrumpThe concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at his election night rally in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Trump promised to “cancel” the Paris deal on the campaign trail, and Republican lawmakers have vowed to make sure it’s never implemented.

GLOBAL WARMING WILL CONTINUE 

TO INCREASE OVER MANY HUMAN LIFETIMES! 

Therefore, with regard to global warming, I will begin to pay attention to how communities can pursue rational adaptation planning for a future of continuous warming and climate change. 

TAXES SPENT ON INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS THAT IGNORE WARMING ARE MONIES WASTED AND FAIL TO BETTER PROTECT COMMUNITIES FROM WARMING DRIVEN HARM.


At the same time - we MUST continue to be actively involved, resisting what is inherently WRONG, remembering that this new, incoming administration's ideologies and intentions are NOT GOOD, NOT NORMAL!

Only an ENTIRELY NEW LEVEL OF ACTIVISM 

CAN EXERT ENOUGH PRESSURE TO BREAK: 

(1)THE MEDIA SILENCE ON GLOBAL WARMING &

(2)THE REPUBLICAN REFUSAL 

TO PROTECT HUMANITY FROM GREATER HARM.

Furthermore, only an ENTIRELY NEW LEVEL OF ACTIVISM, by members of the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHO REJECTED THE VALUES AND POLICIES OF THE INCOMING ADMINISTRATION, CAN BLUNT THE VIRULENT ASSAULT UPON FUNDAMENTAL, WELL-ESTABLISHED AMERICAN VALUES  AND PROGRESS THAT THE IN-COMING ADMINISTRATION IS DETERMINED TO PURSUE.  

WE WILL NOT GIVE UP OR GIVE IN! 

WE WILL NOT GO ALONG SILENTLY 

OR MEEKLY WITH WHAT IS WRONG. 

WRONG IS NOT NORMAL. 

THE "RIGHT" IS WRONG!

Entirely NEW LEVEL OF ACTIVISIM NEEDED!

CRISIS ISSUE:
GLOBAL WARMING IS INCREASING!

           

WHAT CAN WE DO?

ONLY AN ENTIRELY NEW LEVEL OF ACTIVISM 

CAN EXERT ENOUGH PRESSURE TO:

1. BREAK THE MEDIA SILENCE ON GLOBAL WARMING AND 
2. BREAK THE REPUBLICAN REFUSAL TO PROTECT HUMANITY FROM HARM

With the stunningly unexpected victory of a Trump Administration that regards global warming as a hoax, WE CANNOT EXPECT NATIONAL POLICY TO SLOW GLOBAL WARMING – (UNLESS CATASTROPHIC CLIMATIC EVENTS BREAK THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIES’ CONTROL OF REPUBLICAN POLICY). 

We can, however, try to breach the denial of science BY A VERY BROAD BASED AND HEIGHTENED LEVEL OF ACTIVISM TO MAKE THE PASSAGE OF ESSENTIAL LEGISLATION POSSIBLE.

Knowing the positions and priorities of the in-coming Presidential Administration and Congressional majorities, PROACTIVE organizing to break the media silence on and Republican Party denial of global warming must begin NOW.

Further, we must build an activist movement that cuts across specific organizational priority issues. Since we are all vulnerable to the increasing harm of global warming, single issue politics (like gun control, LGBT rights, Black Lives Matter, etc.) must come together in coalitions that draw upon uniquely broad based activism.

More than half of the electorate voted for Hillary Clinton and sensible global warming policy. A very large majority of Americans acknowledges global warming as real. WE ARE ALL ACTIVISTS. If we can FLOOD the local media, our local House members and our Senators – in person, with email, with calls, with letters, we can make our views much more difficult to deny and, hopefully, promote the essential global warming legislation. 

CLIMATE CHANGE. Democratic Senator from Oregon Jeff Merkley (L) corrects a sign that reads 'Congress Wake Up to Climate Change', beside Democratic Senator from Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse (C) and Democratic Senator from California and Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Barbara Boxer (R), at a news conference held to announce members of a newly formed Senate Climate Action Task Force, on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, USA, 14 January 2014. File Photo by Michael Reynolds/EPA

VOTE BLUE - WE MUST WIN!

We are down to the wire in the MOST 

FATEFUL ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION!

FATEFUL because TOO RAPIDLY INCREASING GLOBAL WARMING THREATENS HUMANITY!

(Trump wants to dismantle the Paris Climate Agreement. GOP denies global warming is real.)

Pro-Trump billionaires pour money into last-minute bid for swing states

Not surprisingly, the consequence of the legally indefensible Supreme Court Citizens United decision, is the UNTHINKABLY VAST AMOUNTS OF MONEY paying for the superabundance of the Republican attacks ads in the Presidential swing states and, even more so, in the Senatorial swing states – which have made the races much closer than anyone anticipated six months ago.

Remember in November 

just how much the American people have been lied to by Trump! 

Do NOT FORGET THIS.

We have one day left to try to convince others - via Facebook, Twitter, phone calls, texting, door-to-door - 

2 VOTE 4 THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES!

1. Vote. 
2. Encourage OTHERS 2 VOTE!
3. HELP OTHERS GET TO THE POLLS to cast their votes (in spite of the obstacles that the Republican state parties have created to disenfranchise significantly many Democratic voters). 
4. Convince others to vote rather than sit out the election. 
5. Convince others to not throw away a vote on a third party candidate. This is no time for a protest vote. 
6. VOTE BLUE because the real interests that the Republican candidates represent are the very rich and the powerful multinational corporations.

VOTE BLUE FOR THE SAKE OUR CHILDREN...

 

...AND FOR THE WELL-BEING OF ALL AMERICANS!

#FlipItDem

Be an ACTIVIST: HELP GET THE (BLUE) VOTE OUT!

We've been underestimating sea level rise this whole time, say scientists from Science Alert (Nov. 2, 2016)

Our chance at slowing global warming so that humanity
can adapt the warming world with the least death and destruction is NOW.

The primary importance of the 2016 election is for the U.S. to be able to pass appropriate, effective warming gas emissions reductions as rapidly as possible. The annual average CO2 level is now above 400ppm and increasing – a level not seen since approximately 3 million years ago when sea level was about 80 feet higher. 

In the remaining days before the election, we can still volunteer to help in the effort to get out the BLUE vote: 

1. Go to campaign websites OR websites like Rock the Vote. Rock the Vote shows how you can help! 
2. You can volunteer to help nonpartisan groups to protect voting rights – groups like the Election Protection Coalition. 
3. Make your plan to vote and talk to friends and family to encourage them to do likewise – post your plans and ask others to respond. 
4. Text or call relatives in swing states and districts and do the same. 
5. Talk across the aisle, difficult as it is this election.

The Trump candidacy and those still endorsing Trump: 

• deny the need to address global warming
• stand for an America which values the kinds of discrimination and nativism etc. that existed before our civil war  
• share an attraction to a proto-fascist leader/society  

BEFORE THE FLOOD Trailer (2016) Leonardo DiCaprio

A Democratic Presidential and Senatorial victory are ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL –
JUST AS IS A HOUSE THAT WILL FINALLY 

PASS THE LAST HOPE GLOBAL WARMING LEGISLATION.

These people are going to vote.

Are YOU?

This is the ELECTION OF and FOR YOUR LIFE!

VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT!

VOTE BLUE! - its the Home Stretch and we can WIN BIG!

We are in the last phase
of the 2016 national election. 

THE FUTURE IS AT STAKE
AS AT NO TIME BEFORE.

That's right...Donald Trump is NOT who we are. And that includes his TrumpTrain of weak-kneed GOP followers that created their candidate and that are afraid to stand up their candidate.

VOTE THEM OUT! 

NO MORE OBSTRUCTION!

Right now, we have to do everything we can think of to help the Democrats to gain the House majority in order TO PASS THE ESSENTIAL LEGISLATION TO AVOID RUNAWAY GLOBAL WARMING. 

Here are some basic things almost anyone CAN DO:

1. Sign up to volunteer to give as much time as possible to the local Democratic campaign organizations 
2. Where registration to vote is still possible, get involved  
3. Next, increased voter turn-out is A KEY TO VICTORY – spread the word as widely as possible, every BLUE vote is important; explain that 3rd Party votes and NOT VOTING = Trump votes! 
4. On election day, help in whatever way you can – make calls, driving voters to their polling places, etc.

I’m very hopeful that we will have a Democratic President elected with an unquestionable MANDATE.

I’m also hopeful that we will have a Democratic majority Senate, in spite of the vast dark money supporting Republican candidates by the Koch network and others.

IF we get a Democratic Majority in the Senate, it is very likely that a Supreme Court, with at least one new member approved during the next Congress, will reverse the utterly partisan decisions and general direction of the Scalia Court. Perhaps the Court can take unlimited individual and corporate donations and spending out of the American political process!

VOTE FOR THOSE WHO ARE ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED TO PASS POLICIES 

ESSENTIAL TO SUFFICIENTLY SLOW GLOBAL WARMING.

THE FUTUTRE IS AT STAKE. 

BE AN ACTIVIST. 

GIVE AS MUCH TIME AS YOU CAN.

ELECTION RIGGING MUST BE DENIED OR USA LOSES TRUST & PRESTIGE

Although, as expected, the frightening threat of runaway global warming is virtually nowhere in the media, the importance of a Democratic victory in 2016 remains.  The ability to pass and implement polices to slow global warming as rapidly and as much as possible can only happen with a Democratic victory.

From the Los Angeles Times..."If Trump continues to tell his followers that the election system is ‘rigged’ ... the result could be months of chaos and years of bitterness."

THE ISSUES ARE: 

1. Not only the change in U.S. policies and reduction of our warming gas emissions
2. But ALSO our acceptance as the world leader in slowing global warming. 

We MUST HAVE the ability to act effectively with the community of nations to reduce worldwide warming gas emissions rapidly and radically. We CAN HAVE this ability with our Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, and equally important, a Democratic Congressional Majority!

To put it another way, the prestige of the U.S. must be great enough to make possible almost unthinkable radical worldwide energy changes. OUR PRESTIGE RESTS UPON our proven reliability, intelligence, trustworthiness, respectfulness, success, and achievement. 

Proven…until this election year with the Presidential nomination of a PROFOUNDLY inadequate and frightening Republican candidate, Donald Trump.

With this in mind, the Republican Presidential candidate and the Republican Party leadership are undermining the possibility of U.S. leadership in the eyes of the international community of nations BY NOT EXPLICITLY, UNEQUIVOCALLY REJECTING THE IDEA THAT THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM IS UNTRUSTWORTHY; “RIGGED” IN SOME WAY BY THE MEDIA AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (L)
meets with Japanese Pime Minister Shinzo Abe

The perception of the trustworthiness of our electoral system is not only crucial to the post election reactions in the U.S.,BUT ALSO TO THE POST ELECTION REACTIONS INTERNATIONALLY. That is, not only is the legitimacy of the election at issue but also the LEADERSHIP LEGITIMACY OF THE U.S. IN THE WORLD AT A TIME WHEN THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY IS AT STAKE!

BE AN ACTIVIST FOR THE SAKE OF THE FUTURE.

BE AN ACTIVIST HELPING DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN POSSIBLE “SWING” SENATE RACES – where the billionaire and corporate networks are spending billions of dollars of dark money to save the Citizens United decision and their ability to “own” candidates and policy!

BE AN ACTIVIST HELPING DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN POSSIBLE “SWING” HOUSE SEATS – where fossil fuel billionaires and corporation networks are spending billions of dollars of dark money to protect their short-term profits and risk RUNAWAY GLOBAL WARMING!