Republicans and climate change

I've been reading some Rolling Stone articles. It's mind-boggling stuff.

This one
The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here
didn't really surprise me, but it led me back to this one, which I hadn't read before.

The Pentagon & Climate Change: How Deniers Put National Security at Risk

Quote :

Even McCain, now firmly in the denial camp, didn't hesitate to draw the connection between climate change and national security. "If the scientists are right and temperatures continue to rise," he said on the Senate floor in 2007, "we could face environmental, economic and national-security consequences far beyond our ability to imagine."

This kind of talk vanished from the party after 2008, when the GOP turned into a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Since then, Republicans have worked hard to undermine any connection between climate and national security.

Quote :

The scale of military assets that are at risk due to our rapidly changing climate is mind-boggling. The Pentagon manages more than 555,000 facilities and 28 million acres of land — virtually all of which will be impacted by climate change in some way.

Nearly every naval and Air Force base on the East Coast is vulnerable to sea-level rise and storm surges, including Eglin Air Force Base, the largest Air Force base in the United States, which is on the low-lying Florida Panhandle, and Patrick Air Force Base on Florida's Atlantic Coast. In the West, the problem is often drought and flash flooding. Fort Irwin, a seven-square-mile Army base in Southern California, on the edge of the Mojave Desert, has troubles with both. California's epic drought has put the base's long-term water supply into question. Fort Irwin is one of the only bases in the U.S. with the space and the isolation to allow full-scale mock tank warfare. At the same time, the base has been pounded by extreme rain events. In August 2013, when a year's worth of rain fell in 80 minutes, flooding caused $64 million in damages on the base.

etc etc. Norfolk naval base is going to be rendered useless in less than fifty years (maybe much less), and the Virginia state government won't even admit that the sea level is rising. Crazy.

It's all part of the master plan, hasten the End Times so Jebus comes back and takes the righteous to heben.

Interesting. We have a massive defense establishment, designed to protect the capitalists. Now the actions of the capitalists put the defense structures at risk. What a bonus! Now the taxpayers will have to build more installations to protect the capitalists from something that they deny exists, enriching them even more.

Capitalists 1. People 0.

Hmm. The score hasn't changed.