Joe Biden says climate change deniers are "Neanderthals" — that's not fair to Neanderthals
“I’ve been [in] helicopters in the West, in the Southwest and Northwest, flown over more land burned to the ground, all the vegetation gone, than the entire state of Maryland,” Biden told his audience, partly referring to the wildfires now raging in Texas. “The idea there’s no such thing as climate change, I love that, man," the president added with evident sarcasm. "I love some of my Neanderthal friends who still think there’s no climate change.”
The root cause is well known - greenhouse gases, largely from extracting and burning fossil fuels:
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/01/joe-biden-says-climate-change-deniers-are-neanderthals--thats-not-fair-to-neanderthals/Open linkView original on slrpnk.net129
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Fox News gets offended by Dijon mustard. Their hissy fits aren't worth acknowledging.
Their fit over it is a sign that the name-calling made an important point
and tan suits. tan suits are the mark of the beast.
Totally un-Presidential. Disgusting display.
That article is hardly worth reading though. Salon comments on an inaccuracy in a half sentence of a Biden speech that is the subject of enraged Fox News coverage for other reasons.
I'm usually empathetic about name-calling. And yes, Neanderthals may indeed have been superior to we 'moderns' (hardy-har, look at the record) in multiple ways.
He could have chosen some other perjorative, but most can apply to the living. The least damage for the best purpose; I can live with this one. While we keep making 'Climate-deniers' the worst pejorative.
Neanderthals (as we understand them) are extinct. We are not extinct...... yet.
Challenge accepted?
Challenge in progress
It matters that US greenhouse gas emissions have been falling and that he helped pass legislation to accelerate that fall, has also taken steps under existing regulatory authority to cut them, and has appointed judges likely to uphold those laws and regulations
A number of smaller countries have higher per-capita emissions