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When A Man Points, the Idiot Stares at the Finger

Ray Katz
3 min readApr 23, 2023

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The ongoing failure of business and political “leaders” to focus on and DO SOMETHING MEANINGFUL about the climate crisis.

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People are protesting because our “leaders” and the ridiculous failed systems that support those leaders (generally plutocracy) continue to ignore or pretend to address the climate crisis.

What the authorities fail to do is what the climate scientists repeatedly warn them is necessary — including the obviously critical step of ending fossil fuels. You can say, hey that’s hard — a favorite excuse — but considering that the first major direct warning came in 1988, from James Hansen’s testifying before Congress, there is no excuse for C02 emissions to be at record levels and still increasing.

Here’s one video describing the situation and the repeated warnings. This video is FIVE YEARS OLD and still no meaningful action by our “leaders.”

And here’s what we are hearing NOW:

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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