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Title: Beto O'Rourke starts presidential campaign by claiming the world faces 'catastrophe' and warns 'hundreds of millions' of climate refugees will overwhelm borders and humanity could go EXTINCT unless we fix the planet in 12 years
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Daily Mail
URL Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar ... es-running-president-2020.html
Published: Mar 14, 2019
Author: David Martosko
Post Date: 2019-03-14 18:04:21 by IbJensen
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Views: 2495
Comments: 23
O'Rourke, 46, released a video alongside wife Amy announcing his candidacy In it, he talks about 'interconnected crises in our democracy, economy and climate' and promises to 'unleash the genius of the U.S.' to fix them First visit ever to Iowa starts with apocalyptic threats about global warming: Beto warns large parts of the world will soon be uninhabitable Downplays illegal immigration, says mass migration of climate 'refugees' will send 'tens or hundreds of millions' of people to the U.S. border O'Rourke praises 'Green New Deal' as the best proposal to address 'singular crisis we face, a crisis that could at its worst lead to extinction' Website has merchandise and fundraising buttons but no issues or positions Months of speculation followed O'Rourke's U.S. Senate race against Ted Cruz where he narrowly lost to the Republican in a deeply red state 'If immigration is a problem, it's the best possible problem for this country to have,' O'Rourke said in his video President Trump vented in the opposite direction on Twitter, calling Democrats 'Border Deniers' who ignore 'Death, Crime, Drugs and Human Trafficking' Conservative 'Club For Growth' is running ads describing O'Rourke as a rich culture-appropriator who isn't actually Hispanic: 'Barack Obama, but white' President Trump mocked O'Rourke's 'hand movements' Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke warned Thursday in his first presidential campaign stop that parts of the planet will soon become uninhabitable, driving a massive wave of climate 'refugees' across the U.S. border, if America's government doesn't adopt emergency measures within the next 12 years. O'Rourke, 46, had formally announced an hour earlier that he will seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, ending months of speculation over whether he would try to translate his newfound political celebrity into a White House bid. In the southwestern Iowa town of Keokuk, a sweater-clad Beto told a smallish crowd that by the time his 12-year-old son is his age 'we may not be able to live in cities that we call home today, like El Paso, Texas. We may not be able to grow our own food and fiber, feed and clothe ourselves in this country.' And in a silent nod to his differences with President Donald Trump on immigration issues, he downplayed the present national security threat of ever- larger seas of humanity crossing into the U.S. from Mexico and nations further to the south. It will get worse unless the planet heals, he warned. 'If you think 300,000 immigrants and asylum-seekers apprehended on the southern border is a problem – and I don't necessarily think that it is,' he said, 'the kind of migration and refugee flows that we will see when entire bands of this world are no longer habitable will be a crisis of a different magnitude altogether.' 'We face catastrophe and crisis on this planet,' he insisted in a dour note, 'even if we were to stop emitting carbon today right now at this moment.' Democrats on their party's far left wing have proposed a 'Green New Deal' that would spend tens of trillions of dollars to reshape the U.S. economy along environmental lines, eliminating air travel and gasoline-powered cars and replacing countless buildings with greener versions. O'Rourke didn't formally endorse the proposal on Thursday but said it's the best proposal he's heard. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6808207/Beto-ORourke-announces- running-president-2020.html#v-2043549092872867733 'Some will criticize the Green New Deal for being too bold or being unmanageable. I tell you what: I haven't seen anything better that addresses this singular crisis we face, a crisis that could at its worst lead to extinction,' he said. 'Literally, not to be melodramatic, but the future of the world depends on us, right now, here where we are.' He painted an apocalyptic picture of America's future, claiming global warming will unleash 'massive migration of tens or hundreds of millions of people from countries that are literally uninhabitable or under water, that are above the sea right now.' 'Let us all be well aware that life is going to be a lot tougher for the generations that follow us, no matter what we do. It is only a matter of degrees,' he said. 'And along this current trajectory there will be people who can no longer live in the cities that they call home today. There is food grown in the country that will no longer prosper in these soils. There is going to be massive migration of tens or hundreds of millions of people from countries that are literally uninhabitable or under water, that are above the sea right now. This is our final chance. The scientists are absolutely unanimous on this, that we have no more than 12 years to take incredibly bold action on this crisis.' At the White House, President Donald Trump's reaction was based on what he saw, not what he heard. 'I think he's got a lot of hand movement. I've never seen so much hand movement,' he told reporters during an Oval Office photo-op. 'I said, "Is he crazy? Or is that just the way he acts?' On the White House's favored TV network, the Fox News Channel, deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley needled O'Rourke, reacting to the host's question about 'Beto' by saying: 'You pronounced it wrong. It’s "Robert Francis".' Those are O'Rourke's given names, reflecting his Anglo ancestry. Gidley's given first name is John. O'Rourke's online campaign began Thursday with announcements emailed in English and Spanish. An interview with CBS News will air Friday morning. And he will head to Iowa for three days of hand-to-hand campaigning. But in a head- scratching political move, the liberal media darling won't have an official launch speech until March 30. And while his campaign website was heavy on merchandise and fundraising buttons as he announced his candidacy, there was no sign at all of policies, political positions or his video — only a photo of a sweat-dripping Beto with microphone in hand. The much-anticipated O'Rourke rollout was marked by a clumsy lack of coordination that left his supporters looking for a launch video for an hour before his campaign organization posted it on Twitter. O'Rourke's hometown newspaper, the El Paso Times, had it ahead of time, but no other news organization. And he confirmed his plans in a text message to an El Paso television station Wednesday night, leaving reporters across the country wondering whether they had missed the big reveal. Thursday's video features an up-and-down bobbing O'Rourke speaking as his wife Amy holds his arm and smiles. Tapping into the marquee issue that defines border zones like his native El Paso, Texas, he declares that 'if immigration is a problem, it's the best possible problem for this country to have.' 'We should ensure that there are lawful paths to work, to be with family and to flee persecution.' O'Rourke's quick embrace of the Democratic immigration policies that defined his main difference with Cruz came as Trump vented in the opposite direction on Twitter. 'The Democrats are “Border Deniers”,' Trump tweeted Thursday morning. 'They refuse to see or acknowledge the Death, Crime, Drugs and Human Traffictougking at our Southern Border!' Others on the right began earnestly targeting O'Rourke this week. The conservative Club For Growth purchased TV time in Iowa for an ad blasting the Texas Democrat as an entitled son-in-law of a rich real estate developer who is guilty of cultural appropriation because he downplays his Irish and Welsh ancestry in favor of 'pretending' to be Hispanic. 'He's Barack Obama, but white,' the ad claims, parroting a description once offered in a Politico story. O'Rourke's wife, Amy, is the daughter of Bill Sanders, a real-estate mogul whose net worth Forbes magazine estimates at about $500 million. BETO O'ROURKE Age on Inauguration Day: 47 Entered race: March 14, 2019 Career: Born Robert Frances O'Rourke. Boarding-school educated Columbia grad who lived in a New York loft, playing in a punk band and doing desultory jobs and setting up an internet firm. Ran for El Paso city council in 2005, winning re-election and serving until 2012. Ran for Congress in 2012, defeating eight- term Democratic incumbent in primary. Gave up seat to run for Senate against Ted Cruz in 2018, losing 51-48 Family: Married to wife Amy Sanders, nine years his junior, with sons Ulysses and Henry, and daughter Molly. Father Pat was long-time El Paso politician who switched from Democrat to Republican; mom Melissa ran family-owned store in city until selling it after IRS probe. Melissa's stepfather Fred Korth was one of JFK's secretaries of the Navy. Father-in-law William Saunders is real estate developer estimated to be worth $500 million (unfortunately there's much more at the link)
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#16. To: IbJensen (#0)
Too little, too late... And "climate change" (regardless of whether or not you think it is man-made) is only part of it... We're doomed by overpopulation... and global pollution... Back when I was a kid, there was almost 4 billion people in the world... Now there's almost TWICE as many... And they all damage the environment, cutting down the rainforests, polluting the oceans, destroying habitat for the food chain with excessive fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, chemicals & other crap, not to mention plastics and other garbage... The "civilized" world is becoming a festering cesspit, ripe for pandemic disease & starvation... And dumbass Beto's "Green New Deal" ain't gonna stop it... And neither is the "Free Market"... Frankly, it makes me happy that I'm old, crippled & suffer diabetes & heart disease...
Seriously? Half the World Lives on 1% of Its Land, Mapped In the simple map above lies a stark spatial imbalance: half the people in the world cram into just 1 percent of the Earth’s surface (in yellow), and the other half sprawl across the remaining 99 percent (in black). Back when I was a kid, there was almost 4 billion people in the world... Now there's almost TWICE as many... The Myth of Overpopulation: It Wasn’t the End of the World as We Knew It
And how much of that is uninhabitable... or unsuitable for agrarian purposes due to extreme terrain, climate or lack of water? Or destroying the ocean fisheries through overfishing & pollution? Got news for you: Pollution isn't confined to just the 1% of the places that you want to call "overcrowded"... It overflows & spills out everywhere, contaminating the whole goddam planet & turning it into a giant cesspit.
There must be a tree near by you, for huggin.
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with a little luck, I'll croak before the shit hits the fan...
#17. To: Willie Green (#16)
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We're doomed by overpopulation...
#19. To: Deckard (#17)
and the other half sprawl across the remaining 99 percent (in black).
#20. To: Willie Green (#19)
Pollution isn't confined to just the 1% of the places that you want to call "overcrowded"... It overflows & spills out everywhere, contaminating the whole goddam planet & turning it into a giant cesspit.
#23. To: GrandIsland (#20)
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