Yet they think they are the mainstream of the public.

[Carl]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026093612

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 12:57 PM

edhopper (12,040 posts)

What do you think are the two biggest issues facing us.
For me it is Global Climate Change, (as today's report shows, is worse than we thought)
And income inequity, which is destroying most of us.
Of course these are issues that are under reported by the Media. A little lip service here and there, but no where comparable to the size of the threats. Why report this when there is Ebola, ISIS or a missing teen.

List the two or three issues you think are the most important.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 12:58 PM

AgingAmerican (4,597 posts)
2. Climate change

...and climate change. Soon, nothing else is going to matter much.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:01 PM

Star Member La Lioness Priyanka (48,314 posts)
5. climate change and inequality (not just income, but racial and gender inequalities).

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:05 PM

immoderate (17,953 posts)
10. I'm in concordance.



--imm

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:03 PM

randys1 (5,191 posts)
7. If that guy from the EPA is right, most of us or our kids wont be around to worry

about any of this other shit in less than 50 years.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:11 PM

Cleita (71,558 posts)
11. GCC is also top of my list along with the environmental damages

that help cause it. Next is ending lassez faire Capitalism that is very destructive to society and the environment as we already see. Yes we need some well regulated capitalism, but not the destructive monster it is today.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:21 PM

abelenkpe (8,680 posts)
15. Climate change and inequality

Third: corruption.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:31 PM

Star Member longship (25,620 posts)
22. Science illiteracy and ideological blindness.

Of course, these overlap, but they are responsible for many world problems including many of those mentioned here.

For instance, climate change denial is both from science illiteracy and/or ideological blindness. I don't know whether Inhoff is ignorant or outright deceptive. I cannot see into his brain. But it is certainly one of the two.

I might add that religious fundamentalism is a problem we are all likely going to have to deal with, but that is tied into ideological blindness.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:34 PM

Star Member Tierra_y_Libertad (42,891 posts)
24. Climate change. Capitalism. Common human decency.

Capitalism causes the first and inhibits the third.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:35 PM

Star Member Autumn (19,288 posts)
25. Income inequity, Global Climate Change, politicians that are willing to look out for

the poor, the elderly and those in need instead of putting corporations first.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:40 PM

Star Member Warpy (80,930 posts)
30. OK....

Climate change

Resource depletion

Pollution of air, sea, land (especially arable land), and decrease in potable water

Wealth concentration away from labor

Institutional power driving all of the above

Yeah, that's five but they're all interrelated and it was hard to get them down that far.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:41 PM

tabbycat31 (6,188 posts)
32. Economy and climate change

The biggest problem I see is that the younger generation can't get ahead in the same way that their parents were able to.

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:04 PM

Star Member hunter (20,725 posts)
49. One side of a coin, Global Climate Change, the other side of the coin Consumerism.

In many religions and philosophies "consumerism" is called "materialism" and similar such, philosophies which tell us to take care of our earth and leave it a better place, and to love and respect our neighbors.

Overpopulation is the other issue. Sex education and birth control ought to be a universal human right, but try telling that to the fundamentalists, or people living in societies where the more kids you have increases your status in the community and may insure someone will be around to take care of you when your old body starts to fall apart.

My parents, and my wife's parents had a mess of kids, at least partly because it was expected and celebrated in their communities. My mom's told us she'd been aiming for at least nine kids, maybe a dozen, once she'd decided she wasn't going to be a nun. My artist mom, once she'd met my artist dad, knew she wasn't cut out to be celibate. She liked sex, and she liked having babies.

But as our parents saw the world and their homes becoming more crowded they eventually became religious heretics and advocates of birth control. Not one couple among my siblings or my wife's siblings decided to become baby making machines. From what I see in my Catholic Community, and other Catholic Communities across the U.S.A., many couples are either avoiding sex altogether, or not relying entirely upon "natural" family planning methods. (You do the math...) One of my brothers and his wife tried those "natural" methods and two kids later realized it wasn't going to work for them.

Among my siblings, and my wife's siblings, we are below (and at this point will remain) by average fewer than two biological kids per couple.

Then of course there is what normal people are concerned with.

http://www.people-press.org/2015/01/15/publics-policy-priorities-reflect-changing-conditions-at-home-and-abroad/

[thundley4]

abelenkpe (8,680 posts)
15. Climate change and inequality

Third: corruption.

Corruption? Like Obama funneling taxpayer monies to "green companies" owned by donors?

Corruption? Like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson shaking down companies to line their own pockets while doing nothing to actually help minorities?

Inequality very seldom happens in the real world in this country.  Blacks are not targeted by LEOs or the courts. They just commit more crimes.

[dixierose]

It does not surprise me that the majority of the answers named Climate Change, while it is at the bottom of the Pew research poll.

DUmmies live in their little world and actually believe that they are "mainstream". Nothing could be further from the truth (thank goodness).

[franksolich]

One of them's of course.....income inequality.

Desk-sitting governmental bureaucrats getting far, far better pay and benefits than their counterparts in private enterprise.  That's pretty unequal.

And the various social services gravy trains, people who don't work, contributing to society, getting paid for lazing around.

[Carl]

It does not surprise me that the majority of the answers named Climate Change, while it is at the bottom of the Pew research poll.

DUmmies live in their little world and actually believe that they are "mainstream". Nothing could be further from the truth (thank goodness).

It is an unsettlingly devout cult.
They get themselves all worked up over issues of the day being the great dawning of the socialist utopia where they have all their wants met while they smoke dope and stone out but those are fleeting.
GloBULL warming is "the" vehicle they have hitched their fantasies to.

[DumbAss Tanker]

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Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:03 PM

randys1 (5,191 posts)
7. If that guy from the EPA is right, most of us or our kids wont be around to worry

about any of this other shit in less than 50 years.

Even if he is, it's a self-correcting problem.

[Ptarmigan]

Keep deluding yourself DUmmies. 

Dude, they are so out of touch with reality. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

Yeah, alert to DUmmies and the left.  No one cares about this so called "climate change".  It changes every flipping day, regardless of what us humans do.