Not enough uncontaminated fresh water, and too much salt water, which is also getting too warm and too dirty to sustain marine life as we have known it during the last few centuries.

Knowing us, we'll wait until Cape Hatteras, Miami Beach and Nantucket become underwater marine sanctuaries before seriously looking at why.

And more about the protest than the summit.

I don't understand why the right wing still denies global warming.is happening. There's no doubt about it and I don't believe for a second they don't know this.

Obviously, profit is more important than anything to them. More important than women's lives. More important than civil rights and human rights. More important than civil liberties. Worse, more important than leaving a habitable planet to their kids and grandkids.
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It won't be too far in the future that all the guns in this country will be used to protect fresh water on someone's property and to steal that water. People are already killing each other for fresh water in Yemen and a few other places. The Syrian refugees are due, not just because of ISIS but to the fact that farmers can't use the land any longer.

Over population will continue, which will cause even a greater shortage of natural resources and will increase the rate of global warming.

We do something now or it will be too late. If it isn't already

Behold and realize just how hard we're fucking ourselves.

It's fine, though! Kind of not our problem!

Our kids and grandkids though . . .

(Although, we have a lot of "By 2050 . . ." going on, and I'll probably be afoot then. Oh well, whatever!)

272 dead so far.

With a thin patina of solar panels on top, of course!

including fundamentalist ideologies.

or thereabouts. Way worse than California, and not nearly the infrastructure.

Droughts cause unrest, migrations, and wars. The Anasazi collapse was due to severe drought. Not only can it happen here, it has happened here.

The more that stand with Wall St, the less that stand with Main St.

There are realities that are bad for long range profits. Those realities are ignored, marginalized or dismissed on behalf of shareholders, thanks to the financial backing of the shareholder and the John Hancock of the shareholder which grants the corporations fiduciary responsibility in their name. Carte blanche to rape, pillage, pollute and lie to us all, in return for wealth for themselves.

It is no secret, it is just the way it is. And nothing will get better until people grow up, stop supporting avarice with all their soul and start supporting a habitable future for all, not just the wealthiest.

We live in the most reality, the most change, the most progress, the most peace, Wall St investors will allow the rest of us.

Corporations are the sugar daddies of the right. Politicians on the right don't care if the planet is habitable for their heirs as long as they can generate a buck for the corporations and fill their campaign coffers. The main objective is to keep the bank accounts of big corporations filled to the gills and politicians safe in their cushy jobs. Anything related to the well being of the citizens of the country is secondary.

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But my local paper? Small stories, not prominently placed. And on the eve of the talks, they ran an op-ed by climate change denier Alex Epstein.

Democracy Now is covering it. Amy Goodman broadcast from Paris all this week.Clips are posted at democracynow.org.

the transportation bill would look very different.

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and lethal .

and it was all guns guns guns. Guns will not matter if we do not do something about climate change.

except maybe access to dry land and clean water.

I've started another thread that tries to do more of the same.