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Someone want to argue he is wrong? lol I love this because Chomsky doesn't avoid the obvious, they are indeed fucking crazy.There is NO other planet to move to once they destroy this one.
Of the myriad disturbing reports that Donald Trumps presidency has generated over the past 22 months, from its woeful recovery efforts in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria to its sadistic child separation policy, few were as viscerally upsetting as The Washington Posts findings from September of this year. According to a new environmental impact statement, administration officials privately acknowledge that we are on course for a cataclysmic temperature increase of 7 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. Whats worse, the White House appears entirely resigned to the planets fate, even opening up the Arctic for offshore drilling.
For this reason alone, Noam Chomsky considers the president and his Republican enablers to be criminally insane.
In a new interview with Scientific American, the celebrated linguist and political theorist opines on a range of topics including classical liberalism, Trumps presidency and his own vision of a better world. He also further clarifies why he considers the Republican Party to be the most dangerous organization in human history.
Here are just a few of his more memorable remarks:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomsky-trump-and-his-enablers-are-criminally-insane/
On the failings of Western civilization
triron
(22,020 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)peacebuzzard
(5,182 posts)I admire him greatly for his practical and piercing realism.
My good friend in Brazil who admires him as well was stunned when I told her Chomsky is married to a Brazilian librarian and has traveled to the interior of Brazil where she is from. (Minas Gerais)
Takket
(21,625 posts)history (if anyone survives) will look upon those that turned a blind eye in the 90s and 00s when we still could have stopped this as the greatest monsters in History. The modern GOP will be looked upon as even worse than Hitler for lying and suppressing climate science and policy eventually leading to the literal inability of the planet to support life as we know it today. All for their own greed and gain. The question isn't whether this will kill people and force wildlife out of existence, the question is only "how many" will perish.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)they presumably love their children and grandchildren yet they have doomed their future too.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)including members of their family...except
a good looking daughter who's father euphemistically said he'd like to 'date' her.
He euphemistically 'dated' Stormy
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Kath2
(3,089 posts)As per the usual.