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30 years ago scientists warned Congress on global warming. What they said sounds eerily familiar
It was such a different time — and yet, the message was so similar. Thirty years ago, on June 10 and 11 of 1986, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works commenced two days of hearings, convened by Sen. John H. Chafee (R-R.I.), on the subject of “Ozone Depletion, the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change.” “This is not a matter of Chicken Little telling us the sky is falling,” Chafee said at the hearing. “The scientific evidence … is telling us we have a problem, a serious problem.”
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Telling congress about scientific facts is like telling a toddler about quantum chromodynamics. The basic problem is that democracy is a broken system.
It's morphed into a plutocracy.
Which is the natural result if you make stupid people's votes count the same as smart people's. It becomes a game of manipulation, and the rich have the resources to play it better.
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