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highplainsdem

(49,125 posts)
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 07:23 PM Nov 2017

Harrison Ford: 'We've got people in charge of important shit who don't believe in science'

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/358799-harrison-ford-weve-got-people-in-charge-of-important-shit-who

Actor Harrison Ford took a swipe at Washington on Friday, blasting lawmakers and leaders who deny climate change.

During a speech to the environmental group Conservation International in Culver City, Calif., where he was receiving an award, Ford said the biggest threat to the United States is leaders that don't understand or accept evidence that human activity driving rapid climate change.

"We face an unprecedented moment in this country. Today’s greatest threat is not climate change, not pollution, not flood or fire," Ford said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "It’s that we’ve got people in charge of important shit who don’t believe in science."

Ford, an outspoken and longtime advocate for environmental causes, cast the threat posed by climate change as a dire one in his speech, arguing that unless it is addressed quickly, "nothing else will matter."

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Harrison Ford: 'We've got people in charge of important shit who don't believe in science' (Original Post) highplainsdem Nov 2017 OP
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Nov 2017 #1
Some will tell you the world began 4,000 years ago. lpbk2713 Nov 2017 #2
Trump humpers and Bible thumpers leftofcool Nov 2017 #6
I have a former aunt, by marriage, Hayduke Bomgarte Nov 2017 #13
K&R Solly Mack Nov 2017 #3
The Flat Earth society is growing. Be afraid. Be Very Afraid... n/m bagelsforbreakfast Nov 2017 #4
Who needs science? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 #5
Darth Vader has been put in charge of the Jedis. sandensea Nov 2017 #7
Pity the younglings TeamPooka Nov 2017 #8
'Live in interesting times, may you' sandensea Nov 2017 #15
They believe. Iggo Nov 2017 #9
+1 hibbing Nov 2017 #11
Thank you Harrison Ford njhoneybadger Nov 2017 #10
When u look at their GOP Math,,,,,,, Cryptoad Nov 2017 #12
They can't count above 45 ProudLib72 Nov 2017 #14
As "The Rock" so aptly said in his WWE days, "It doesn't matter what you think" world wide wally Nov 2017 #16
There is a substantial train of thought that insists that BobTheSubgenius Nov 2017 #17
Oh, I think there's agreement - faster is better, but let's not talk about it . . . hatrack Nov 2017 #19
I heard that whole thing in my head in his liquid, baritonal rumble. Aristus Nov 2017 #18
We've got people in charge of important shit who only believe in the Almighty Dollar. edbermac Nov 2017 #20

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
13. I have a former aunt, by marriage,
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 10:27 PM
Nov 2017

Who believes and constantly preaches that load of manure. Thinks carbon dating and archaeology are tricks of the devil.

My divorce cut me loose from that lunatic.

njhoneybadger

(3,910 posts)
10. Thank you Harrison Ford
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 10:02 PM
Nov 2017

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Isaac Asimov, Column in Newsweek (21 January 1980)

world wide wally

(21,762 posts)
16. As "The Rock" so aptly said in his WWE days, "It doesn't matter what you think"
Sat Nov 4, 2017, 11:17 PM
Nov 2017

So STFU when it comes to Science.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,580 posts)
17. There is a substantial train of thought that insists that
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 03:11 PM
Nov 2017

"addressed quickly" means 20 or 30 years ago, and what remains is to try to somewhat mitigate an inevitable catastrophe.

As now, however, TPTB can't even agree on lessening the rate of increase of greenhouse emissions.

hatrack

(59,606 posts)
19. Oh, I think there's agreement - faster is better, but let's not talk about it . . .
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 03:15 PM
Nov 2017

Let's act like we're acting in a manner commensurate with the scale of the problem.

Oh, yum, good old-fashioned economic growth! Tasty, isn't it?

edbermac

(15,952 posts)
20. We've got people in charge of important shit who only believe in the Almighty Dollar.
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 07:16 PM
Nov 2017

And how much they can stuff into their offshore bank accounts.

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