From the “anything goes when the media regurgitates every word you say” department comes this latest insanity from a woman who isn’t making any points among thinking people. Of course, we’ve heard these sorts of doomsday forecasts before, notably from doomster Al Gore who also said we have 12 years.
Excerpt transcript and video follows.
OCASIO-CORTEZ:
“And I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in gen z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. You’re biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our world war II.
And I think for younger people looking at this are more like, how are we saying let’s take it easy when 3000 Americans died last year, how are we saying let’s take it easy when the end person died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system? How are we saying take it easy, the America that we’re living in today is dystopian with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without healthcare and we’re told to settle down. It’s a fundamental separation between that fierce urgency of now, the why we can’t wait that King spoke of.
That at some point this chronic reality do reach a breaking point and I think for our generation it reached that, I wished I didn’t have to be doing every post, but sometimes I just feel like people aren’t being held accountable. Until, we start pitching in and holding people accountable, I’m just gonna let them have it.”
Source: https://grabien.com/story.php?id=218167
Yeah, whatever.
UPDATE:
The world ended 20 years ago. This was announced by the UN in 1989, a few months before @AOC was born. pic.twitter.com/qlcFYAexzd
— Tony Heller (@Tony__Heller) January 22, 2019
Pretty face, very ugly mind, in with the political elite = very dangerous.
I would love for Ted Cruz to ask her a few questions !!!
Or even me – like what % of the atmosphere is co2, and is co2 pollution, and a bunch of stuff about hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, wild fires, sea level rise, etc……actual data…
Just sayin. . .
%
I would bet that she knows about the 97 percent!!!
Facts and Data don’t matter to her. What matters is being “morally correct”, as such the ends justify the means in her world.
She is Obama II. Remember how he would change America. People really want the same sh.t again? But he was such a nice guy.
“clean and articulate and a nice crease in his slacks” Only Crazy Uncle Joe could get away with that one!
At least Obama was entertaining she is so incredibly……..boring.
But, but, but, the Pentagon in a 2004 report already stated “Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world. The planet will be at the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies”…
We only have 8 years left, not 12! Repent you sinners! AOC will have you converted even sooner to the one and only true religion: socialism.
Look at her eeyes. That scary blindness of idealism. She is a dangerous woman.
My thought exactly – every time I see her face “shining” like an evangelist.
I find her genuinely scary.
AGW is a religion and she is a proselytizing acolyte.
She’s dangerous.
As long as AOC argues the extreme socialist perspective and dismantling the carbon fuel sector with additional carbon taxes and stupid wealth transfer schemes, the Dems will suffer from lack of support from the centralist voter who would not advocate voting into power this leftist mind set. IMHO, even if they are life long middle of the road Democrats. I know several fairly hard line Democrats who are very uncomfortable with AOC, and her immature approach to politics.
In that regard, she is a gift to Republicans. Let her keep speaking and the Democratic base will shrink enough that DJT has an excellent chance of winning a second term. Especially if the Mueller investigation continues to look like a never ending Democratic witch hunt with no real case other than entrapment of several fringe players that don’t have a lot to do with any Russian collusion. The case against Trump becomes weaker every month that this goes on, and unless there is some outrageous smoking gun and not some hype about DJT’s tax returns, I think that this will just make the case we are better off with Trump for another 4 years, because we know he isn’t going to sell out the American economy.
The other positive attribute that AOC brings is the X factor that this socialistic mindset has been addressed and there is no pent up demand that would come out of the woodwork in any surprise support for extreme socialism. Other than for Bernie Sanders, but then he is just a perhaps milder version of AOC. And unless he hands over the extreme left leadership to AOC and her younger demographic, I would think there might be some friction between those two camps, as BS is still just an old white man. And Jewish at that. I doubt BS could have won the 2016 presidential election, just because Socialism is a dirty word in most USA politics. AOC makes it even less appealable to the majority of 40+ age voters, because she comes across as the extremist leftist socialist Marxist red liberal, which the majority of mature voters knows is dangerous to the country, policies and economies. In that regard, let’s hope that AOC digs in her heels, and preaches the bizzare socialistic leftist Marxist politics, and that will drive even more people to stick with the devil we know, which by the way has had a booming economy. Who wants to upset that apple cart?
In my opinion, the problem is that too many in the US, who get most of their information from late night comedy shows, never look below the headline or the Facebook meme of the day. Even on this post we are discussing energy sources. A portion of AOC’s New Green Deal does talk about energy sources and distribution, but PART B (from the Select Committee for a Green New Deal) should scare middle America including most Democrats, but they will never read it This section says:
i. provide all members of our society, across all regions and all communities, the opportunity, training and education to be a full and equal participant in the transition, including through a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one;
ii. diversify local and regional economies, with a particular focus on communities where the fossil fuel industry holds significant control over the labor market, to ensure workers have the necessary tools, opportunities, and economic assistance to succeed during the energy transition; what the heck does that mean?
iii. require strong enforcement of labor, workplace safety, and wage standards that recognize the rights of workers to organize and unionize free of coercion, intimidation, and harassment, and creation of meaningful, quality, career employment;
iv. ensure a ‘just transition’ for all workers, low-income communities, communities of color, indigenous communities, rural and urban communities and the front-line communities most affected by climate change, pollution and other environmental harm including by ensuring that local implementation of the transition is led from the community level and by prioritizing solutions that end the harms faced by front-line communities from climate change and environmental pollution;
v. protect and enforce sovereign rights and land rights of tribal nations i.e. w/r/t pipelines presumably;
vi. mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth (including, without limitation, ensuring that federal and other investment will be equitably distributed to historically impoverished, low income, deindustrialized or other marginalized communities in such a way that builds wealth and ownership at the community level);
vii. include additional measures such as basic income programs, universal health care programs and any others as the select committee may deem appropriate to promote economic security, labor market flexibility and entrepreneurism; and
viii. deeply involve national and local labor unions to take a leadership role in the process of job training and worker deployment.
How much of the above has anything to do with, like, warming of the atmosphere? A cynic like me would assume those pushing this legislation don’t really believe that they have a chance of achieving much of the items in Part A, but want the authority to enact everything in Part B.
What we need is an immigration deal where countries with centrally planned economies will accept any liberal idealog who wants to live under that kind of a system. For every 10 socialist citizens they accept from us, we’ll send them four Superbowl tickets.
(And yes, I do know how to spell ideologue…)
Good proposal!(and as I explain from time to time, if I misspell words or use incorrect grammar it is because I INTENDED TO, not a mistake. As the saxophone player said”Those lights are off on purpose!”)
Like how old is this woman like, I mean like! Also where are the questions around this absurd “in 12 years we are doined” come from. Where are the questions, the challenges? Pure adolescent emotion
She speaks like an adolescent as well. Listen to her say the word “important” as “impor-int”. Uneducated.
does this mean she won’t reproduce?
More likely it means she’ll reproduce way too much.
World is doomed to end at 10 pm tonight! News at 11…
Why would it now end in 12 years? It certainly hasn’t in the 49 years of doom-and-gloom predictions by all the dingbats since the first Earth Day in 1970.
Don’t any of these people check their history or is it just too complex for them?
So only 12 years left. Quickly we must close down both India and China.
MJE
Where would SJW get their Apples?
Mr. Ed called…he wants his teeth back.
Well that settles it. If AOC says the world will end in 12 years, it must be true!
So when you’re young you have no future. And then you wonder why suicides go up.
I was wondering if it’s going to be morning or afternoon.
“And I think for younger people looking at this are more like, how are we saying let’s take it easy when 3000 Americans died last year, how are we saying let’s take it easy when the end person died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system? How are we saying take it easy, the America that we’re living in today is dystopian with people sleeping in their cars so they can work a second job without healthcare and we’re told to settle down. It’s a fundamental separation between that fierce urgency of now, the why we can’t wait that King spoke of.”
Erudite, succinct and most important of all, coherent………….
All together now…
Iffff……. bullsh*t was music we’d have a brass band…..
“That at some point this chronic reality do reach a breaking point and I think for our generation it reached that, I wished I didn’t have to be doing every post, but sometimes I just feel like people aren’t being held accountable. Until, we start pitching in and holding people accountable, I’m just gonna let them have it.”
Can anyone translate this word salad into something approaching actual American English?
It would be handy if someone could translate it into British English, especially for those of us on the right side of the pond (supposing we are facing North) ;¬)
As long as you don’t translate in to English English (Austin Powers movie).
I thought it was American English ( just being naughty from OZ)
You are just using the wrong translating App there, Thomho.
I found one that managed to translate her into Australian for ya;
“So yeah, you have a gander at all the young sprogs and they are all jeez mate, we are completely rooted before the 2030 Grand Final if we don’t stop gas bagging and deal with this climate stuff. And fair suck of the sauce bottle but who is going to cough up the cash on this bugger? I mean crikey, we’re all buggered, there are no flies on me mate and we all need to consider what role Tony Abbott is playing in all of this. Yeah.”
See? Bonza. Much easier to understand.
Australian: The Universal Language.
Is that like the Starfleet Universal Translator, eh?
“Can anyone translate this word salad into something approaching actual American English?”
No. I’m an expert on American English and her statement is judged to be incoherent.
It is worth seeing how the polar vortex is broken in the middle of the stratosphere.
The temperature felt in New York reached yesterday -29 degrees C.
Here’s the missing heat from NY-
http://www.bom.gov.au/sa/forecasts/adelaide.shtml
Relax, the drought will not be. No El Niño.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&prod=ausf×pan=24hrs&anim=html5#
Considering that it cost around $250 billion a year over ten years to achieve 1% of world energy from wind and solar, simple arithmetic says it would cost $21 trillion a year to achieve 100% reliance on wind and solar in 12 years. That about equals the GDP of the United States, and ten times the GDP of the entire continent of Africa.
Could we afford this? No is the only sane answer.
Getting rid of fossil fuels and using windmills and solar as a substitute is completely unrealistic and will not happen. Not in 12 years and not in 50 years.
Does she have any education in the complex world of ‘climate’ ? Or is she just scared by ‘what people say’?
The first tell-tale sign of a scam is when the salesman insists on the extreme urgency to seize this absolutely unique once in a lifetime opportunity, right now at this very moment.
Which is precisely what warmists do.
“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” — Harvard biologist George Wald. 1st Earth Day, 1970
Wald lived long enough to see his predictions falsified. Did he ever explain how he got things so wrong?
Is it just me or are just about all the latest climate alarm prognostications aiming at the end of the world by 2030-ish? Just a sheer coincidence I’m sure that the UN Agenda 21 is also aiming to replace Democracy with Global Communism by the same date…..
Meanwhile at peak wisdom when you’ve lived through the Holocene it’s not hard to recognise the Anthropocene when you see it (unless it’s the Andropocene which Apple is no doubt disputing)-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/david-attenborough-tells-davos-the-garden-of-eden-is-no-more/ar-BBSzeQ6
The Apple comment was a bit tongue in cheek you know but it seems a bit of Nostradamus runs in the family-
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/company-news/apple-predicts-climate-change-disasters-could-increase-demand-for-iphones/ar-BBSBNH0
God help us, people applauded.
In Al Gore’s 2006 “An Inconvenient Truth“, he told us we had 10 years.
Ironically, his sequel, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” was made in 2017.
Perhaps a note of optimism is appropriate.
With people like this strange woman Ocasio Cortez at the head of the populist Climate Change Movement within the Democrat Party we can relax. No group of activists headed by such an ignorant and ill informed leader who doesn’t even possess oratorical skill, has ever managed to overcome the sound common sense of the people.
Past tyrants at least has a smattering of knowledge about the world.
AOC has become the poster child for the H. L. Menken quote
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
You can’t really believe that AOC is the actual leader of her own “candidacy”!?!
Next you’ll tell us that she wrote that “New Deal” manifesto herself :).
(or that BHO wrote is own memoirs.)
Just like BHO, AOC didn’t miraculously appear on the scene at just the right moment; Obama was backed by a cadre of committed “progressives” (to be kind) in Chicago that go back generations including the Jarretts, the Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis and his own grandparents the Dunhams (who just coincidentally met Frank Marshall Davis again in Hawaii; and then asked Frank to mentor young Barack when his Kenyan father left.)
AOC will be carefully mentored by her handlers. She’s “raising Cain” right now within the party and that’s exactly what’s expected of her.
If you start from the premise that politicians are hookers, then you go look at real live hookers and ask who their clients are, then you ask whether the hooker’s words during client sessions are the truth or what the clients want to hear…….
Nothing surprising if you assume AOC is a high class hooker: she is telling her clients what they want to hear, so they keep coming back and asking for another session….