In a way it's a play right out of Chavez/Maduro's book. Blame international NGO's and accuse the international community of some kind of neo-colonialism. (View Post)

Disagree. There's plenty we can do. We can for one, stop repeating fossil fuel industry misinformation about climate change. We can stop reading partisan news outlets that back those lies. And we can… (View Post)

It's really not a morality play though. Whether you like it or not, the places that will be hurt first and worst by climate change in our hemisphere are the Caribbean and Central America. And the pla… (View Post)

I think this is also a failure to understand how evolution by natural selection works. Or more precisely, over what time scale it works. The extinction event now is happening much more precipitously … (View Post)

Agreed and just want to piggyback on a point here. I think the most salient comparison here is nuclear war fears during the Cold War. You could, superficially, look back and say that these fears were… (View Post)