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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Washington State They Voted Against The Carbon Tax - Burn Baby Burn - Sorry Cal / WA
Sorry folks, it truly is hopeless.
Oceans = Dead
Seas = 10 to 200 Feet Higher
Temperature = 10 Degrees Hotter
Welcome to the future.
Hothouse Earth
https://www.livescience.com/63267-hothouse-earth-dangerously-close.html
We just gotta drive everywhere. Walking, biking, and taking trains and buses is way too much trouble!
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WA-03 Democrat
(3,070 posts)Approximately $30m spent by the petroleum oligarchs and it was effective in confusing the shit out of people. It should have been clear that this was to fight climate change and the tax would be on the companies to help peopl navigate our way through this change. There was a ton of great things in the bill, lots to learn and not much time.
Both adults in our household did. The oil money bought too many ads.
SWBTATTReg
(22,399 posts)to kick off/take hold.
gblady
(3,541 posts)Funded by big oil played over and over. There was one by Inslee in favor of the bill, but it was not played nearly as often as the con ads. The con ones were lie after lie after lie. It was disgusting.
BBG
(2,589 posts)But we (King county) cant always offset the ignorant and misinformed when facing the oil industry and their focused dollars.