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Michael Bloomberg to ‘Insist’ -- Spoken Like a True Plutocrat
by jane Thursday, Dec 27 2018, 8:54pm
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But it’s not all bad as this plutocrat is aware that climate change impact is bad for business.

If disdain and 'superiority' win elections, this guy is a certainty

Indeed, finally, after decades of denial by the fossil fuel and coal industry lobby, the latest scientific report on climate change impact has hit home to at least one plutocrat, who has also threatened to make a presidential run, which is unlikely as plutocrats and oligarchs traditionally rule from the shadows, there’s simply too much focus and interference on presidents to make office appealing to the real rulers of the world.

Nevertheless, media moguls make a difference, as evil Rupert Murdoch proves again and again, though in the negative realm. So if Bloomberg, for whatever reason, gets behind the push to end the acceleration of climate change, that move, with precautionary advice, is good. Now see what you can do with Rupert, Michael, as the unfortunate media-lobotomised masses continue to be led by the nose by the mass media.

News of this change of mind, published by Politico, is peppered with some interesting statements by Bloomberg, especially his ‘insistence’ that all future presidential candidates have a coherent plan to combat runaway climate change, though it’s a little late in the day for any real effect. Indeed, corporate polluters know this, so after screwing the WORLD with pollution in pursuit of short term profits, they now choose to avoid, rather than deny, based on the runaway effect; in other words it will happen and there’s very little we can do about it -- indeed, we the masses, should have intervened in the 70‘s when reputable scientific reports (CSIRO) made it all clear for the first time, but that would have been like like asking a blind dog to lead the human blind, the masses are a dead loss regarding independent volition, they have proven countless times, they MUST be LED. So do your best Mr Bloomberg, though it’s too little too late, and so the lemmings plunging off the precipice would continue their fall, but it’s not the fall that kills -- it’s the impact, you dumb useless fuck’s, you have only yourselves to blame. In Oz we have a derogatory expression to denote uselessness, “he couldn’t even feed himself!” Though it falls short of an accurate description of the uselessness of the media-lobotomised masses today.

Juicy stuff

Bloomberg: “I think that any candidate for federal office better darn well have a plan to deal with the problem that the Trump science advisers say could basically end this world.." Well, here, here, for that, and we won’t gloat on, we told you so.

No doubt this move from Bloomberg would gain instant popular support and populism is the way of politics today, I’m sad to say. He may just run for office after all.

Now consider a cynical approach. A great effort to reduce the effects of global climate change would leave some, very few, global regions habitable for a few humans, or should I say, elites? While of course leaving the vast majority to slowly perish from the climatic effects of APATHY.

Short Politico article follows:

Bloomberg says he'll insist presidential candidates have climate change plans
by Rebecca Morin

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is considering a presidential run, but he said he'll also pressure other potential candidates to craft plans to combat climate change following a grim and pessimistic federal report published last month.

“I think that any candidate for federal office better darn well have a plan to deal with the problem that the Trump science advisers say could basically end this world," he said in an interview with NBC's “Meet the Press," which will air on Sunday. A partial transcript was released Thursday.

The National Climate Assessment, which was put together by federal scientists, in November predicted economic losses due to climate change, warning that a number of projected effects are irreversible. President Donald Trump has dismissed the report.

Bloomberg, who said he has yet to make his decision on a 2020 run, has appeared in Iowa, where he also focused on climate change and going up against the coal industry.

"I can tell you one thing, I don't know whether I'm going to run or not, but I will be out there demanding that anybody that's running has a plan," he said in the “Meet the Press" interview. "And I want to hear the plan, and I want everybody to look at it and say whether it's doable."

Murdoch -- if the CFR orders it, you will be forced to comply, Rupie; though it might kill you.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/23/us-climate-report-warns-of-dire-changes-by-2050-1012628