{"id":39526,"date":"2018-10-22T06:39:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39526"},"modified":"2018-10-22T06:39:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:39:16","slug":"aspirational-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39526","title":{"rendered":"Aspirational Goals \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aspirational Goals \u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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It was great to hear, from the mouth of Congressional savant Gerry Connolly, (D-VA) that substantive Democratic actions confronting climate change are \u201caspirational goals\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0It makes survival sound like such an elective pleasure:\u00a0 as in should I order the hardtack or the filet mignon?\u00a0 Can I afford to survive? What will this do to my credit rating?\u00a0 The next generation will have to solve our mess.<\/p>\n

This member of the so-called Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalitionpronounced that political expediency and political reality dictate only feeble incremental window dressing actions on the part of Democratic lawmakers, leaving the bulk of decision making to the whims of our flatulent Administration\u2019s minions and the seemingly irresistible rolling momentum of our capitalist Behemoth.\u00a0A Behemoth that suckles those who feed it best, while it organizes itself for a final push to eat the world.<\/p>\n

Now, I can understand that any real action directed at actually doing anything to \u2018save the world and lose our precious spot in our hegemonic comfort zone\u2019 might piss off GOP (that\u2019s Gosh Offal Politicos) and Dumbo-cratic mainliners and give the shrilly bleating pundit class plenty to yatter about, to worry and peck at a lot of skeptical folks ears\u2026 especially since it would disrupt our collective myopic view of reality\u2026BUT!<\/p>\n

How could anyone with the intelligence of a fruit fly, (sorry, fruit flys.\u00a0 It\u2019s not personal) or even just 2 linked neurons, fail to perceive the short circuiting of ambition such blather imposes on us?\u00a0 Almost everyone on Earth except the MSM knows the world is getting hotter and changing in unexpected ways, at a rate freighted with enough pervasive insidiousness to rival ANYTHING the human world has experienced, ever.\u00a0 Hello weird plagues, giant storms and social disruption!\u00a0Goodbye frogs! Goodbye bugs! Goodbye ice!\u00a0 Hey! \u00a0Goodbye winter!\u00a0 Goodbye food.\u00a0 Goodbye humans\u2026<\/p>\n

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Aspirational Goals \u00a0 It was great to hear, from the mouth of Congressional savant Gerry Connolly, (D-VA) that substantive Democratic actions confronting climate change are \u201caspirational goals\u201d.\u00a0 \u00a0It makes survival sound like such an elective pleasure:\u00a0 as in should I order the hardtack or the filet mignon?\u00a0 Can I afford to survive? What will this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,5493,22494,22495,496,22496],"class_list":["post-39526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-counterpunch","tag-dan-carey","tag-gerry-connolly","tag-mainstream-media","tag-sustainable-energy-and-environment-coalition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39527,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526\/revisions\/39527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}