Post by dsi1Post by BrucePost by ItsJoanNotJoAnnI haven't voted at my regular polling place which is two
blocks from my house in at least 10 years. It is sooooo
damned cramped in there whereas the library is quite
spacious.
I vote at home. Nice to be able to read everything, check out a
candidate you may not have heard of, check it off and mail it in.
Can you also add a candidate yourself? Could you vote for cshenkie,
for instance?
Indeed, I voted for "Shelby Pikachu Billionaire."
Just bought up a section I Lahaina I hear tell...
Hawaii = same as North Caroline when rich folks need t move the little
guys out...
https://www.infowars.com/posts/nc-gov-roy-cooper-confirms-govt-buying-out-entire-communities-affected-by-climate-change/
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) confirmed the government won’t help
to rebuild areas of the state devastated by Hurricane Helene last month,
and will instead opt to buy out the land.
Cooper claimed during a New York Times climate forum earlier this month
that climate change was causing more frequent hurricanes and because of
that, government land grabs were a more prudent approach to rebuilding.
“North Carolina had two ‘500-year storms’ within 20 months of each other
in the same place. We just had a ‘thousand-year’ storm event. We know
that that’s not true anymore. We know that these events are becoming
more and more intense,” Cooper said.
“We’ve spent a lot of time being smart about the way we approach
rebuilding. We go into communities, we work with them, we have plans for
local governments. In some areas, you just shouldn’t build back.”
“And we’ve been able to convince certain communities and people that
buyouts are better. And you create green space that soaks up flood water
that comes and protects surrounding areas,” he continued.
“When you do build back, you have to invest more in order for property
to be more resilient. But when it is elevated, we even saw in some of
the storm’s subsequent that those properties were unaffected because we
had made them more resilient.”
Cooper also said he was able to convince some Republicans to go along
with the Democrat “Build Back Better” agenda to fight climate change.
“So those are the challenges that we’re facing every day. And it’s one
of the reasons why we’ve been able to get a number of Republican local
officials, particularly on the coast who said, OK, guys, climate change
is here,” he said.
“We know that we have to do something about it. We know that the United
States is the leader in the world [that] needs to set an example, North
Carolina needs to set an example. And so we’ve gotten a number of them
on board.”
“There’s still a lot of climate denialists out there,” Cooper added.
Like with Hurricane Helene, the media was quick to blame climate change
for the wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, that decimated the entire area
last year and killed over 112 people.
Hawaii Governor Josh Green (D) soon after announced that his
administration was looking into acquiring the destroyed Lahaina properties.
“I’m already thinking about ways for the state to acquire that land so
we can put it into workforce housing, to put it back into families, or
to make it open spaces in perpetuity as a memorial to people who were
lost,” he said.
“We don’t want this to become a clear space where then, yes, people from
overseas just come and decide they’re going to take it. The state will
take it and preserve it first.”
GOT LITHIUM?