Note to Chris Hayes: The reason there’s zero interest in global warming this election cycle is because most people now see it as a bunch of bullshit.
Via Mediaite:
“The only historical analog for the amount of money that’s on the line – in terms of the fossil fuel industry – is the sum total value that the slaves represented in the civil war. That is the analogy you have to go back to when you think of the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books of the current fossil fuel companies. The last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the civil war.”
