I'm watching the Amy Coney Barrett hearings and getting sick. Not one word of human over-population screwing up the entire planet. Instead praise and adulation for a woman with seven kids. And she's into Christian cults! How the heck did this lawyer class get so much power?
How many kids she has is irrelevant. I'd vote for a eunuch or an inanimate rock if did its job.
We'll see how irrelevant it is when the human population exceeds 8 billion, then 9 and 10. Are you familiar with the Anthropocene Extinction?
Guess the population a hundred years ago, at the start of WWI. It's was 1.5 billion. Now it's 7.5 in spite of great wars and pandemics -- a quadrupling in a hundred years.
@Aristippus well I was saying it was irrelevant as a positive factor, sorry if that was not clear. For sure you could construe it as a negative as a responsible adult but in terms of her ability to be an effective supreme court justice... probably not IMO.
I'm as sickened as you are, but my list of reasons are more towards the bald-faced power grab.
Well one bald faced power grab by the minority deserves an appropriate response.
A stuffing I will go, a stuffing I will go...
Absolutely
IMHO Exploitation of humans and the planet is the threat. Extraction of natural and human resources. In other words, capitalism, which respects profit over people.
Amy Coney Barrett is anathema to the value that all humans have a right live in dignity. Whether we are 6 billion or 10 billion strong. Our planet can sustain us all, if we let it.
It's not about the lawyer class getting too much power, it's about the white evangelicals getting so much clout with the Repubs on judicial appointments and abortion policy. The Repubs are glad to at least give them rhetoric and judicial appointments in exchange for their votes and money because it doesn't cost their corporate and fat cat donors anything at all to do so. Those donors don't give a damn about abortion policy or having judges that are religious nuts because their women and daughters will always be able to get abortions.
She, her ilk - and her promoters make me sick. They’re devouring our planet with the pretense of a ‘holy mandate.’ As the good relaxed - evil accelerated..
It is a living Hell to witness, especially for those of us having spent our time, energy and resources countering this Industrial Religious assault on the nation and planet. But as we deserve better -- we’re stuck here with those who let it happen..
Thanks for the understanding reply. I'm a retired bio teacher that brokenhearted over the extinction on the animals and what these brainwashed people are doing to the planet.
@Aristippus Their anti-intellectualism is riding high, for the moment..
"Not one word of human over-population screwing up the entire planet. "
Why would they mention this?
Because we'll be lucky to be alive ten years from now.
@Aristippus I agree our planet needs much help but these hearings aren't the correct forum.
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