PS ... some Good Stuff, some utterly-devastating but Plite disembowelment of The Orange One and ... his waning-base and ..what that-all ==THE DAILY DISTRACTIONS ... ... is COSTING US..

"In order to fix our climate we have to fix our democracy ...We'd been hacked long before Putin" ... etc. etc.
Comment on the New Pay-walls: restricted access to LOTS of Govt. info, except to the (oh you knlow.)

And so it goes,( but no Vonnegut to write a simple Short Story demolishing a billion cubic metres of Hot Gases)

re BIg Industry around Climate Denial: principal product == Doubt; financed by Usual Suspects ... though (per Gore) they're losing this battle == We're the ONLY major power:

"When you see a turtle atop a fence post, you know it didn't get there by itself

Who: (I paraphrase: ..is this FUCKED) His new video, An Inconvenient Sequel
(Jeez was the first way-back in 20067? :-/

"But all of the (even new) efforts don't (yet) lead to.. [too-many-words; try] 'enough!'".

He really NEEDS T.R.'s quote re Catastrophe == we Don't Learn from Experience. How do I tell him?
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The decline of 'reasoned discourse': ~ '62 when Tee Vee [$-sponsored) ads exceeded all previous sources of political (communication?)

That's enough; get the d/l at Fresh Air or don't.