New York families are already dealing with the impacts of climate change. I think about New York’s coastal communities, which could face sea levels up to 2.5 feet higher by 2050. Or about more families facing Lyme disease as climate change encourages the spread of ticks.
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The first step to tackling the problems facing our planet is by standing together and raising our voices. We will not be ignored. This
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Oh they see it. They're playing the short game to their money interests. They don't give a rat's butt about future gens.
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Those in the Trump administration that don’t see the, “scientific evidence” for climate change, is because they are profiting from their blindness. The particulates in the air from diesel fuel (not to mention coal and heavy oils #6 and #4)
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Gilibrand continued - where it is used. For example, Hunts Point NY has a very large food distribution center where many thousands of fleet vehicles move through a low income community to fill their delivery trucks. Local residents whose homes are in route and can’t escape...
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Gilibrand continued- and can’t escape the daily impacts of these fumes, suffer asthma rates that are not just significantly higher but are multiples higher than national averages. This is not limited to Hunts Point, but most major urban areas. Take coal slurry and shale...
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Gilibrand continued- coal slurry and hydraulic drilling waste fluids from shale drilling... These items contain chemicals and naturally occurring products such as arsenic and heavy metals that are being dumped into surface waters untreated. It saves those doing the dumping...
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Gilibrand continued- doing the dumping the cost of properly disposing of these waste but have significant costs and negative lifelong health impacts for those downstream that are ingesting these chemicals in their drinking water and swimming in it. This doesn’t even begin...
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Gilibrand continued- begin to address chemical and other manufacturers from dumping untreated toxins into water and or landfills things that will leach into nearby aquifers...These sorts regulatory shams supported by the House speaker and and senate leader are taking...
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Gilibrand continued- are taking responsibility for these costs from these polluters “increasing their profits” and shifting them onto the poor and low income communities in-path who ingest and inhale this stuff and develop life long health issues and cancer... Oh yeah, ....
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Gilibrand continued- Oh yeah, and in the minds of the speaker and the leader... these in-path “human beings” should bear the costs of their own health issues as you can’t specifically cite the cause and effect of which chemical caused whic cancer, at least no yet...
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Its not a refusal to acknowledge a change in weather pattern. Its a challenge to what you consider the cause is and what your party suggests as a solution.
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Solutions are the responsibility of policy makers - scientists have demonstrated the climate is changing, identified the mechanism, and are increasingly understanding the consequences. All the policy makers have to do is stop denying the science and start figuring out policy
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You're an idiot! The climate has changed since the planet was formed and will continue to change until it is destroyed. EVERY computer model by climate scientist has been wrong, yet you continue to believe them.
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They see it. They are purposefully denying it for their own prosperity. How can we expect anything different when our country is now run by lobbyist? Should be called United corporations of america.
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