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Such legislation would throw away our tax dollars on construction investments (and other investments) that are out of date or will shortly be out of date in a world that is continuously warming and climate is, therefore, continuously changing.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!

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!

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!