My rule for animal/insect life is that you are all safe from me if you stay outside, but unless you're chipping in on the mortgage or specifically invited, if you come in the house you're getting your ass handed to you.

 

I had no idea what a swamp cooler was either. Glad I wasn’t the only one but I learned something!

 

I had one get his ass handed to him all by itself a couple months ago. Lol

I was sitting in the living room watching tv and I noticed this big round black thing on the wall slowly making his way up to the ceiling and he was too far up to reach. So I kept eyeing him and after about 30 minutes he was almost to the top and then all of a sudden he committed suicide.

fell all the way to the floor and TINK!!! (No pun intended) he hit the base of the lamp. Dead. I didn’t have to do a damn thing. Lolololol

 

Even if he reworded it, what he was saying is that even if the US did its best, it wasn’t going to solve the problem BY ITSELF. We have to work with other nations to not only influence them but to put larger pressure on Russia, China and India. We cant do it alone. We have to put up a unified front. Leaving the climate accord eased pressure on Russia. Thats why Putin convinced trump to pull out.


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He knew what would happen if you caught him. He committed seppuku.


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That, plus he may have been alluding to the fact that China will always lag behind because they’re willing to sacrifice clean air and the health of the planet for a leg up on manufacturing. Short sighted at best and dangerous for everyone else which requires our leadership and example to show how it’s done and as you say, pressure to force them to conform to what’s right for life here on Earth.

More than likely he failed to complete the sentence as in, “It won’t matter... if we can’t get China to do their fair share.” He might have thought the last part was obvious.

 

Exactly.


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The children cant pay for it if their lungs are shriveled up like raisins. Us paying for it isn’t the only option and sanctions are a commonly used option. Its more powerful when Nations do it in unison which is what the climate accord is about. Not just for the Nations that joined but to pressure the Nations that didn’t.


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“Here, let me use math. Except for the part I’m throwing out, it totally supports my argument”. Lol. If 60% are white that means everyone else combined is only 40%. 100% of any minority is going to fewer people than a significant percentage of the white population. We have laws banning discrimination because some people ARE being discriminatory. We back legislation to create equality because we don’t have it.“The guy I voted against won twice, so I cant be racist”. What? You know almost half the country didn’t vote for that black president. The biggest impediment to eradicating racism is pretending there isn’t any.


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What a childish approach. If they won’t pay then we won’t either.
Regardless of what they are or are not currently doing, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t attempt to make our air and water cleaner for our own citizens.

It remains to be seen what the countries in the climate accord can achieve now that we’re back in the game. Don’t buy Chinese products? How reasonable is that since most everything we use is either made in China or with Chinese parts. Tariffs imposed by the former president didn’t wean us off Chinese goods and brought corresponding repercussions. It’s “success” was questionable.

https://www.brookings.edu/policy202...nefit-american-workers-and-national-security/

Since China is known to pirate technological property maybe they’ll steal some clean energy technology and put it to good use.

 

It has everything to do with what you just quoted. Because the article you were using as 'proof' referred to median income, which means they took the income of everyone in the group and added it together, then divided that by how many people were included. So if you have a massive group, the median likely gets skewed far more than you would see for a smaller group. That's how medians work.

It does not mean that all white people are rich.

Additionally, that isn't the only indication of discrimination anyway.

 

This is a simplistic argument to a complicated issue.

First off, within each race there are varying degrees of prosperity. For every wealthy person there with be many more who aren’t. For most they’ll be in that sweet middle class range but some will be left behind due to a number of different factors.

Political power and race don’t always equate or are accessible to everyone. Up until recently in our history, power was held by white males. Slowly but surely, individuals from other races are getting a place at the table and you can include women in that group of all races. However, we have some systemic racist institutions that must be changed to insure everyone actually has an equitable chance for success.

Third it’s unfair to compare recent immigrants from all countries with Blacks that have been here since they were first imported as slaves waaaay back starting in the Jamestown colony. Their challenges have been unique and victories hard won despite white America trying to hold them back historically since they were emancipated. Having a Black President, Supreme Court justices, inventors, scientists, educators, entertainment and sports stars, etc. show that as a race they are as intelligent and productive as any other.

I’m sure there are other factors that could be considered that I can’t think of at the moment. Attacking the root causes of why some of those of every race are not moving ahead benefits everyone though, IMO. Trying to point out that this group makes more money than that group doesn’t solve anything or even make much sense to me.

 

I must be missing the point. How are we “paying” for China directly? As for tariffs. What do you have in your house that was either made in China or has elements that we’re made in China. We’re damn consumer addicts so don’t even talk to me of stronger tariffs....and I don’t even have to worry about selling my agricultural products to a country that most assuredly will buy those products elsewhere in retaliation. It’s a nightmare that I can only hope some of the top economists might be able to come up with a working strategy. I think it would take every country in the accord to levy the same tariffs simultaneously for it to have much effect but they’re probably as entwined as we are and would they be willing considering.