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Sorry, Louis --- I agree 100% with the argument in this letter. Working for the Green Party Is taking the gamble that Trump is SO LITTLE "worse" than the Democratic opponent (and let's grant the worst case scenario that BIDEN --- or -- gasp (!!) BLOOMBERG --- is the Democratic nominee) would not make the difference in terms of long term destruction of the planet via global warming --- Let's assume that there is a 1% chance that Trump vs. generic Dem will make the difference between the survival of the planet and some (better than nothiing) amelioration -- A 1% chance of an INFINITE damage (do the simple math) is still INFINITE damage --- (you can turn that 1% probability into any low number, even .000001% and the result is still INFINITE damage --- that's what the concept of infinity means) Since it is IMPOSSIBLE to be 100% sure about the future, I think all of us alive today (except young people who will live through disasters in the next 50 years ALREADY BAKED IN no matter what is done in the next 10 - 20) are being very selfishly arrogant about our predictability skills ---- since we won;t live to see the damage we are inflicting on our grandchildren (and young people all over the world) --- I think at least having SOME humility about our ability to predict the different futures created by a BIDEN (BLOOMBERG?) vs. TRUMP presidency -- (I won't even mention a Sanders or Warren presidency which I believe would be a qualitatively positive difference ....) requires us to err on the side of caution and that means NO ONE should take any steps that will make a second Trump term even a TINY BIT more probable -- The letter from these folks in this context makes cogent strong points and they have certainly convinced me --- (I am writing this assuming that Louis was referring to the letter signers as "a bunch of idiots" rather than Green Party people contemplating running in all states) > (What a bunch of idiots.) > > > > > We offer this open letter in hopes of prodding discussion of the issues > raised > > Noam Chomsky, Bill Fletcher, Barbara Ehrenreich, Kathy Kelly, Ron > Daniels, Leslie Cagan, Norman Solomon, Cynthia Peters, and Michael Albert > > <https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/an-open-letter-to-the-green-party-about-2020-election-strategy/> > <http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm> > <https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mameerop%40gmail.com> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
