CULTURAL RIFFS: Obama’s Great Con—the wages of induced mass imbecility

Very interesting Obama didn’t mention what is happening to the parks in his hometown of Chicago to build his presidential library.

The library is being built on 19.3 acres of wooded public parkland in Jackson Park, a historic urban park on the National Register of Historic Places. To build it, one thousand trees would be cut down and migratory birds would be harmed. The environmental impact of the library would not be felt if it was built near a suggested location, Washington Park. When citizens attempted to raise these concerns at open town hall meetings, they were shut down.

 

Outside of his vanity project, Obama didn’t seem to make the viewers aware of his complicity in destroying the planet we inhabit. It was the former community organizer who approved drilling in the Arctic, showed little interest in his first term in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, bragged America had become the biggest producer of fossil fuels under his watch and who did nothing to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline. As protestors were being beaten for their opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline on indigenous land, Obama was approving two additional pipelines to Mexico.

 

Then, there is one of the greatest pollutants Obama unleashed upon the earth. One all his predecessors unleashed upon the world: war. Under Obama, the Pentagon continued to emit more greenhouse gases than entire nations. His uptick in drone strikes, imperialist interventions and $1 trillion “investment” in upgrading America’s nuclear arsenal harmed the environment of America and dozens of other nations. It’s disgraceful more environmentalists can’t make the connection that war is a destructive force to the stability and future of earth.

 

Giving Obama an Emmy is a joke. It’s no different than giving him a Nobel Peace Prize. In our culture, a war criminal can be seen as a symbol of peace and a man who destroys the planet can be seen as an environmental champion.

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