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Oh hi Sunday News Shows! Enough surreal and insane business as usual.
It's time for you to start talking about the #ClimateEmergency and the #SixthExtinction.
We are in danger.
No more excuses.
@ThisWeekABC We'll start with you.
Ready?
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It's time for you to start talking about the #ClimateEmergency and the #SixthExtinction.
We are in danger.
No more excuses.
@ThisWeekABC We'll start with you.
Ready?
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.@jonkarl You asked @SenBooker about his gun policy & Medicare for All. Why didn't you ask him where his climate policy is?
Don't you know that we have 12 years to halve and 30 years to end CO2 pollution in order to have merely a > 66% chance to halt warming at 2C?
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Don't you know that we have 12 years to halve and 30 years to end CO2 pollution in order to have merely a > 66% chance to halt warming at 2C?
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Don't you know that a billion people will lose their marine sources of food even at 2C? (nytimes.com/interactive/20…)
Don't you have a professional & moral responsibility to be informed about both the greatest threat we've ever faced and the fact that we are out of time?
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Don't you have a professional & moral responsibility to be informed about both the greatest threat we've ever faced and the fact that we are out of time?
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Oh and @GStephanopoulos, the UN released a report this week warning that human survival is threatened by the extinction crisis produced by our economic activity.
Why didn't you discuss the fact that the human species is in danger?
@maejoo
nytimes.com/2019/05/06/cli…
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Why didn't you discuss the fact that the human species is in danger?
@maejoo
nytimes.com/2019/05/06/cli…
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On @FaceTheNation, @margbrennan asked her guests foreign policy questions, esp. about tariffs against China.
Why did she never ask about the role of tariffs in enforcing emissions standards and how they might be used to enable to world to decarbonize its economy by 2050?
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Why did she never ask about the role of tariffs in enforcing emissions standards and how they might be used to enable to world to decarbonize its economy by 2050?
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Doesn't she know that we have 12 years to halve and 30 years to end CO2 pollution entirely to have a > 66% chance to halt warming at 2C?
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And the UN reported this week that human survival is threatened by the extinction crisis produced by our economic activity.
nytimes.com/2019/05/06/cli…
Why didn't she discuss that the human species is in danger?
@reynoldscat
@WJakeMiller
@JillianBHughes
@eliz_hinson
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nytimes.com/2019/05/06/cli…
Why didn't she discuss that the human species is in danger?
@reynoldscat
@WJakeMiller
@JillianBHughes
@eliz_hinson
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And over on @CNNSotu, @JakeTapper asked @KamalaHarris about NAFTA & international trade, and Harris cogently noted that "the climate crisis" must now be prioritized in our thinking about trade. (Brava Senator Harris!)
But....
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But....
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Instead of asking a follow-up question, Tapper disappointingly segued into a question about guns.
Dude, come on! A candidate INTRODUCED climate change into your program and you let it drop like a lead balloon!
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Dude, come on! A candidate INTRODUCED climate change into your program and you let it drop like a lead balloon!
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And the UN reported this week that human survival is threatened by the extinction crisis produced by our economic activity.
nytimes.com/2019/05/06/cli…
Why didn't you discuss that the human species is in danger?
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nytimes.com/2019/05/06/cli…
Why didn't you discuss that the human species is in danger?
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@MeetThePress was pre-empted by sports, so we don't have anything to say about them this week.
But never fear! We will be back next week, & every week after that, until the twin climate & extinction emergencies get the sustained media coverage our survival deserves.
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But never fear! We will be back next week, & every week after that, until the twin climate & extinction emergencies get the sustained media coverage our survival deserves.
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