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royable

(1,264 posts)
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 06:03 AM Feb 2019

Harrison Ford knocks Trump, others who 'denigrate science'

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Source: Associated Press

By JON GAMBRELL

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Actor Harrison Ford offered an emphatic plea on Tuesday for protecting the world’s oceans, calling out President Donald Trump and others who “deny or denigrate science.”

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“Around the world, elements of leadership — including in my own country — to preserve their state and the status quo, deny or denigrate science,” Ford said. “They are on the wrong side of history.”

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Trump repeatedly has criticized the idea of climate change, despite it being supported by the vast majority of peer-reviewed studies, science organizations and scientists. Just Monday, Trump tweeted that Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, announced her presidential run “talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures.”

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“We are faced (with), what I believe, is the greatest moral crisis of our time,” Ford said. “That those least responsible for nature’s destruction will suffer the greatest consequences.”



Read more: https://www.apnews.com/ba65cc27861e484bb9179f32a0aa30a6

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Harrison Ford knocks Trump, others who 'denigrate science' (Original Post) royable Feb 2019 OP
Give 'em hell, Harrison! Dennis Donovan Feb 2019 #1
Ford 2020 LakeSuperiorView Feb 2019 #2
He would make such a handsome prez! Bayard Feb 2019 #4
The Dictator Two-Step Roy Rolling Feb 2019 #3
Locking... DonViejo Feb 2019 #5

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
1. Give 'em hell, Harrison!
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 08:14 AM
Feb 2019


 

LakeSuperiorView

(1,533 posts)
2. Ford 2020
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:28 AM
Feb 2019

Hey, he isn't Trump, so it would have to be better...

Bayard

(22,048 posts)
4. He would make such a handsome prez!
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 11:05 AM
Feb 2019

He already has practice against Russians, and he can fly his own helicopter.

Roy Rolling

(6,911 posts)
3. The Dictator Two-Step
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:31 AM
Feb 2019

1. Destroy public education and the value of science creating empty heads
2. Fill those now-empty heads with bullshit Trump propaganda

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
5. Locking...
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 11:58 AM
Feb 2019

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