Still, is it fair to call climate denial a form of treason? Isn\u2019t it politics as usual?Yes, it is \u2014 and that\u2019s why it\u2019s unforgivable.<\/p>\n
Do you remember the days when Bush administration officials claimed that terrorism posed an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to America, a threat in whose face normal rules no longer applied? That was hyperbole \u2014 but the existential threat from climate change is all too real.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yet the deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future generations of Americans in grave danger, simply because it\u2019s in their political interest to pretend that there\u2019s nothing to worry about. If that\u2019s not betrayal, I don\u2019t know what is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m only being mildly hyperbolic when I wonder if we’ll see show trials by 2016, should Obama\u00a0 win another term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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