Thom Hartmann: Time to Hold the Climate Change Perpetrators to Account

[Kid Berwyn]

A great idea from Thom Hartmann: MAKE THEM PAY.



Time to Hold the Climate Change Perpetrators to Account and Make Them Pay

By Thom Hartmann
January 3, 2022

Most recently, 100 mph winds swept grass-fires through Colorado, leaving thousands homeless. It was 116 degrees here in Portland last summer, as wildfires and drought ravage the West. The Gulf Coast, South and Eastern Seaboard are now annually torn apart by superstorms, while the Midwest faces mile-wide tornadoes never before seen with this ferocity and frequency.

Climate change has gone from the theoretical to slapping us in the face.

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In this case, we have corporations and individuals who intentionally lied to us for half a century about the impact of their fossil fuels on global warming just to enrich themselves.

Now they’re standing back with their hands in their pockets shrugging and whistling while people die and our homes are frozen, flooded or destroyed by tornadoes.

Those who perpetrated the lies that led to this must be held to account, both financially and with the force of criminal law.

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https://buzzflash.com/articles/thom-hartmann-time-to-hold-the-climate-change-perpetrators-to-account-and-make-them-pay

[msongs]

1. so does thommy boy drive a gas car, use gas or electric heat, ride in airplanes and buy plastic? nt

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Good point. We all must do our part.

Hartmann explained how Big Oil and the Ownership Class in the process of getting, literally, filthy rich have gone unnoticed, thanks to affiliated Corporate Media and bought Big Science, and almost never held to account, thanks to captive Government.

His big point is we should have them who’ve profited pay for destroying the planet, our health and safety, and our future.