Europe 19,000 BC, during the height of the last ice age. The Black Sea was a lake, Ireland and France shared a coastline, and Scandinavia was buried under hundreds of meters of ice.
Activists around the world are calling for serious action. Measures that the Biden administration is aiming for are designed to placate the growing anger, but everything proposed by the White House so far falls short of the dramatic changes needed even to limit the worst consequences of global warming.
In big capitalist countries, particularly the U.S., powerful corporations dominate policies no matter who gets elected. Imperialism – an inherent feature of late-stage capitalism – is far and away the biggest cause of climate change and the greatest obstacle to solving it.
U.S. military forces have killed millions of people in direct warfare. The Pentagon is also the biggest polluter on the planet, and brutally enforces underdevelopment the world over, which exacerbates CO2 emissions.
“Among many of the critics of McEnany was PolitiFact, which has a scorecard for the former White House staffer showing most of their checks showed her lying most of the time. In fact, 56 percent of her statements were mostly false, false, or ‘pants on fire’ false. Just 14 percent were 'half true,’ and 28 percent 'mostly true.’ She got 0 percent of her comments reviewed that were 'true.’
A quick and easy guide for how to tell when this batshit Karen and “people” like her are telling a lie: Is she saying something?
