Republican Death Star plan
samedi 12 août 2023 à 12:47*Republican Death Star Plan to Kill the Planet.* To vote for any Republican in 2024 is to vote for an across-the-board attack on climate defense for the sake of polluting businesses.
The comparison with the Death Star is not strictly valid. As people have pointed out, global climate disaster will not destroy the planet Earth itself. It will wipe out most species but surely not all life. I expect that some humans will survive, albeit in low-technology societies and with short life spans. In a million years, life will diversify again.
But the disaster could easily wipe out technological civilization and cause the permanent loss of history and culture. Carefully printed books may survive if people recopy them every few hundred years, but what could they write on? And who would have time to spare for this?
Another background issue on which I disagree: Freedom can be taken away either by selective enforcement of rules that protect it, or by replacing them with rules that oppress. To ask which method is the more dangerous today is a foolish question; Republicans use both. They are practiced and adept at combining the two methods: they change rules and laws to facilitate oppressive selective enforcement. They have done this for voter suppression, for preventing prosecution of uniformed thugs while prosecuting poor people at every opportunity, and for censorship of schools and libraries.
The overall point of the article is valid notwithstanding these side points.