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AOC says millennials like her believe 'the world is gonna end in 12 YEARS' if climate change is ignored

[Mail] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Monday that ’the world is gonna end in 12 years’ if laws aren’t passed to address climate change and that it was ’immoral’ for billionaires to exist in the same country where people struggled to make ends meet.

During an interview with journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates at Riverside Church in Manhattan on Monday, the New York Congresswoman said she and other millennials view climate change as ’our World War II’

Coates invited Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic socialist, to the special forum honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-22 03:40|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Very true...idiots like her.

Posted by Jim Cramer6666666 2019-01-22 04:27|| 2019-01-22 04:27|| Front Page Top

#2 And its not immoral for elected officials from modest means leave office as millionaires?

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" - Matthew 7:3

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-22 07:17|| 2019-01-22 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Might end sooner if the dems get someone intent on starting WW III into the White House.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-22 08:32|| 2019-01-22 08:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, "Occasional" you can start your WW II against climate change by not putting all the hot air into the environment. If you really want to do something useful, you might start your war by setting a good example by picking up trash people have tossed into the environment (no orange jump suit is required).

Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-22 09:03|| 2019-01-22 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 ...if laws aren’t passed to address climate change and that it was ’immoral’ for billionaires to exist in the same country where people struggled to make ends meet.

And there is the driving force behind "Climate Change".

Little more than wealth seizure by another name.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-01-22 09:27|| 2019-01-22 09:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Problem is, to most of the left - corporate jet = AOK. Your wood burning stove or fire place = crime against the planet...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-22 09:31|| 2019-01-22 09:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Here's a question / challenge to all these douchenozzles who constantly hype the 'dangers' of global cooling / warming / 'Climate Change' - name me one prediction (like Al Gore saying ten years ago that the Artic would be ice free in ten years, etc.) that came true. Just one.

Posted by Raj 2019-01-22 09:53|| 2019-01-22 09:53|| Front Page Top

#8 So when it doesn't end in 12 years will she finally STFU?

Didn't think so :(.

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-01-22 10:09|| 2019-01-22 10:09|| Front Page Top

#9 There is never a shortage of the profoundly gullible.

Posted by Cesare 2019-01-22 10:24|| 2019-01-22 10:24|| Front Page Top

#10 When I was a kid we feared the world would end in a nuclear holocaust, which is still far more likely than the global warming scenario. One guy I knew didn't believe he'd live past the age of 30 and so he lived his life that way. When he reached that age he didn't know what to do and he still doesn't except that he'd probably vote for the Cortex lady.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-22 10:39|| 2019-01-22 10:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Keep pushing and your world will.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-22 10:52|| 2019-01-22 10:52|| Front Page Top

#12 She is the new Kardashian. She is going to make a shit ton of money from politics.

Wait till she starts dating. Then you will see her 24/7

Posted by Penguin_of_the_Desert 2019-01-22 11:04|| 2019-01-22 11:04|| Front Page Top

#13 For really interesting reading, go back to the Club of Rome's book "The Limits of Growth," which prophesied all sorts of doom and gloom (with specific dates, all well into the past century) due to global cooling. Didn't happen then--and those of us who are old enough to remember say, "Fool me once, shame on you...fool me twice, shame on me."

Posted by Tom 2019-01-22 11:51|| 2019-01-22 11:51|| Front Page Top

#14 IMO, the best enviro invention ever was polywater. Closely followed by the Ozone depletion.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-22 11:54|| 2019-01-22 11:54|| Front Page Top

#15 She is the new Kardashian. She is going to make a shit ton of money from politics.
Wait till she starts dating. Then you will see her 24/7

Just wait until her sex tape leaks!

Posted by DarthVader 2019-01-22 12:02|| 2019-01-22 12:02|| Front Page Top

#16 Every time I see pictures of Cortex, I am reminded of a braying donkey. I suppose that's fitting for a Democrat.

If I were a cartoonist, I'd draw a picture of her with donkey ears, hooves and a tail. That'd sure be fun.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-22 12:24|| 2019-01-22 12:24|| Front Page Top

#17 There you go Abu

Posted by Beavis 2019-01-22 12:31|| 2019-01-22 12:31|| Front Page Top

#18 In a world upside down, Secretariat
And Big Red capture you with a lariat,
To be sorted by pace,
Capability, race,
And haul asses around in a chariot.

Posted by Shomomp Poodle8636 2019-01-22 12:58|| 2019-01-22 12:58|| Front Page Top

#19 Thank you, Beavis! That is exactly what I had in mind.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-22 13:45|| 2019-01-22 13:45|| Front Page Top

#20 Her followers,
'What is world war aye aye?'

(seriously though, what does that even mean)

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-01-22 20:59|| 2019-01-22 20:59|| Front Page Top

#21 the Club of Rome's book "The Limits of Growth," which prophesied all sorts of doom and gloom

I read this back when I was learning FORTRAN and was enchanting with the awesomeness of computer modeling.
tl;dr: Some guys made a model of Earth and its people, and their resource consumption - food, water, oil, minerals, the whole nine yards. When they ran it, things looked grim. We ran out of *everything* except people. Waaay to many of those. Bottom line: over-population, famine, severe shortages of everything. Pretty scary, but it fit in with the general gloom & doom of the time.

The cool thing about a good model is it lets you play "What If?" and explore various scenarios. In an appendix, the Club of Rome guys did just that. What if we twiddle the parameters? - population control, green energy, limited economies? No dice. Whatever we did, we were boned and there was no way around it. That made me suspicious. I don't think "attractor basin" was a word yet, but it sounded to me like the model was stuck. Think of a marble in a bucket. You can swirl it around, but it can't jump out unless you give it a big kick.

I hate to spoil the ending, but none of the gloom & doom happened. Maybe the model lacked "predictive skill", maybe there were things the model didn't include like Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution or improved energy production. In any case, that was back in the '70s and we ain't dead yet. Like the man said, it's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Posted by SteveS 2019-01-22 22:04|| 2019-01-22 22:04|| Front Page Top

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