Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi trashed the ‘Pro-Pollution Supreme Court’ Thursday after the Justices struck a crippling blow to Joe Biden’s climate-change agenda; accusing the judges of working to “burn our planet.”
“Today’s ruling by a radical, pro-pollution Supreme Court strikes a severe blow to the @EPA’s authority to do its duty: to protect the environment. In doing so, the Court has bowed to polluters who seek to poison the air our children breathe & the water they drink with impunity,” posted Pelosi on Twitter hours after the ruling.
This decision is the latest in the efforts by extremist Republican-appointed Justices to take a wrecking ball to health, liberty & security.
The Court has acted to erase reproductive health freedom, flood our public places with more deadly weapons & now, to let our planet burn.— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) June 30, 2022
As a radical Republican Party and their henchmen on the Supreme Court continue their all-out assault on our rights and freedoms, @HouseDemocrats will not yield in our fight For The Children, For The Planet and For The People. Read my full statement here: https://t.co/dE8UDRqvot
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) June 30, 2022
“This decision is the latest in the efforts by extremist Republican-appointed Justices to take a wrecking ball to health, liberty & security. The Court has acted to erase reproductive health freedom, flood our public places with more deadly weapons & now, to let our planet burn,” she added.
“As a radical Republican Party and their henchmen on the Supreme Court continue their all-out assault on our rights and freedoms, @HouseDemocrats will not yield in our fight For The Children, For The Planet and For The People,” concluded the Speaker.
In 1896, the first scientific paper that predicted changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature of the Earth through the greenhouse effect was written. The first scientific paper that connected carbon dioxide increases in Earth’s atmosphere to global warming was written in 1938. Documents reveal that big oil knew about the science of climate change since at least the 1960s (and probably before that). The current scientific consensus is that human activity is contributing to climate change.
We have known for almost a hundred years that burning fossil fuels will lead to a warmer globe. A warmer globe leads to reduced crop yields, droughts (due to increased water evaporation), higher rates of insect-borne infectious disease, erratic climate patterns, the acidification of the oceans… This is not conducive to human life. The more we warm the planet, the more we experience a positive feedback loop, which warms the planet even more. We are slowly committing suicide on a global scale.
So, thanks for that Nancy. Too little, too late. Even with EPA regulation, there is not nearly enough political will to make the changes that are needed to bring the carbon cycle back into balance. We are too dependent on oil and gas and coal to make our society run in the comfortable way that we are all used to. And we have to contend with humanity all over the globe making the same mistake that we are making. Human-driven climate change may not make the planet completely unsuitable for human life, but it will lead to mass human suffering, the next mass extinction, and likely the collapse of civilization as we know it.
All of that, and I forgot to mention that, yes, the supreme court is now actively conspiring with polluters to destroy the environment. Science denial will be the bane of humanity.
Yup, and “the sky is falling! The sky is falling!”
Enjoy your pathetic Fairyland existence.
Yup, and “the sky is falling! The sky is falling!”