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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHarrison 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-whoDuring 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. Todays greatest threat is not climate change, not pollution, not flood or fire," Ford said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "Its that weve got people in charge of important shit who dont 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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malaise
(269,328 posts)Rec
lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)And that is some scary shit.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)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.
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,485 posts)When ya got Gawd
sandensea
(21,720 posts)Or rather, Jabba the Hutt.
TeamPooka
(24,304 posts)sandensea
(21,720 posts)Iggo
(47,599 posts)They just don't care.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)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)
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)it not hard to believe they have no concept of any science,,,,,,,,,,
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)At which point the world ends.
world wide wally
(21,762 posts)So STFU when it comes to Science.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,580 posts)"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)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?
Aristus
(66,530 posts)I'm glad he's on our side.
edbermac
(15,952 posts)And how much they can stuff into their offshore bank accounts.