Biodiversity, Latent Energy, unique genomes, endangered species, these are all environmental banks that are super stressed right now. The planet is willing to loan and share from this bank as long as it is allowed to reproduce and diversify. Unfortunately, one species keeps drawing loans without any intention to pay off its debts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson

I suspect E.O. Wilson would welcome Bernie's interpretation.

Sure as shit some idiot(s) will attempt to "fact-check" this.

Most likely the "expert" who scored Bush 100% on.his climate change comments.

Always good to see him coming out swinging. He gave Clinton an excellent opportunity to act like an adult early on, and she fucked it up. Wait for fresh hair-on-fire screeches about "attacks."

Someone on Bernie's staff simply stole it to pretend he said it.

this isn't Saturday night at the Comedy Store.

It is really winning hearts and minds?

.... As some brilliant quote by Bernie. Anyone can tweet out an Internet meme. What cracks me up is that he tweeted like he thought of it.

The brilliance of that quote comes from being consistent with his stance and his campaign... not from being new or unique.

"he tweeted like he thought of it" - No, you interpreted it that way. I'm certain there's not even a hint of suggestion that he claims it to be his original idea. But feel free to provide whatever proof you have to the contrary.

link or slink

And we need him SOON. Before it's too late.

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The reason for the attack dogs from the campaign on here..

Go Bernie
We are going to win this thing !!!!

Would it help to make this an OP & X-Post in the MD-DC-VA Groups here? WJLA/ABC really needs quick feedback about this before Thursday. They really screwed up.

The shared resources for all species on earth ... It should never be wasted or squandered ...

Some think our children need a debt free, financially secure future which they say they can achieve by massive, thoughtless, pointless growth and more tax cuts.

I just think they want one with food and semi-dependable growing seasons. You know, those things that allowed us to evolve over millions of years into the glorious testament to progress we are and the one thing more thoughtless growth will assure they never experience.

YES HE DID

BERNIE 2016

Yeah, I get it. Bank, environment, hahaha. Clever, cheap, ineffective.

The TARP program, bank bailouts, etc. SAVED THE ECONOMY. PERIOD. FULL STOP.

THE PROGRAM MADE MONEY!

It is Keseyan economics in effect. How many of you Sandernistas are too ignorant to realize that the bailout is exactly what you want, but your deep seated hatred for banks and business have you completely blinded?

Tarp made $13.5 Billion dollars, paid back to the US treasury.

The EPA budget in the meantime has been $56 Billion.

We spent more saving the environment than bailing out banks.

Logic and math win again.

I wish there had been more programs for the rest of us that lost jobs, homes, half of their life's savings, not just the banks. Sure, the govt made money. That hasn't restored my beaten down 401(k).

Yes, more money has been spent on the EPA. And yet we are still losing species, dealing with corps avoiding responsibility for poisoning us, etc. We're killing the planet. Maybe we need to give it at least the same priority as the economy. That's what the tweet, by whomever whenever, speaks too.

The middle class was on their own and the poor would just continue to grow in ranks and starve. No middle class homeowners got NOTHING. So the economy was never saved. The middle class and poor continued to struggle. A new crash is coming and it's because the rest of us never got a bailout. Bankruptcy is still at record highs. People still have underwater mortgages and only crappy jobs are available for college grads.

And your argument is really weird. So people don't make money off the environment? Factory farmers and Monsanto are Not making money? Those banksters would not be alive to grab up all our tax dollars if Not for the environment. So how exactly are they going to turn all that money they were given into breathable air, drinkable water and livable weather conditions?

Yeah right the economy was saved, more like the banks and capital were saved. The rest of us were left to struggle through as best we could WITHOUT BAILOUTS.

there were protections in place to prevent the whole damn thing from collapsing in the first place. Bill Clinton signed the nail in the coffin when glass-steagall was repealed.

it's not about whether or not TARP made the government money. It's about the damn principle that the economy should never have been gambled with in the first place, and the elite are doing the same thing with the environment.

again, no one gives a rats ass if the government made money or not. we should have never been in that position in the first place, and we should not be in that position now with the environment.

The TARP program and bank bailouts should never have been needed in the first place. Yes, they helped avert the economic destruction that they're responsible for in the first place... but at a significant cost to the taxpayer. The overwhelming majority of banks saw the program as a no-strings-attached windfall that could be used to pay down debt, acquire other businesses or invest for the future. In other words, the banks used the money to continue their corruption rather than clean up their books.

Add to that... the TARP program is still being used today!

Thanks for the thread, kpete.