Who are the dictators you are saying trump has accommodated. Putin (yeh attack russia) xin someone.(yeh attack china). How stupid a statement can get has just been proven. Democracy in the usa will end if trump loses. I hope you will come on and tell us how wrong you were for backing the dems.

There are issues where we are all entitled to hold different opinions and remain respected.

There are others on which we don't have enough expertise to reach an informed opinion, and therefore need to trust the scientific consensus.

Climate change is one of the latter. When the overwhelming view of the specialist scientific community is that man-made global warming is real and, unless addressed, will cause the future generations immense harm we have a duty to act now.

Objecting to that, and maintaining respect, is not possible. There is no time left for more long-winded debates and prevarication. There is no room for those who put today's economy and/or their personal political future above the need to act.

As Churchill used to scrawl on his briefing papers "Action Today".

There is no time to lose.

I think we should butt out of the US presidential debate. WTF has it got to do with us? If we all looked at it that way life would be much simpler.

If you can’t vote, there’s no point in bitching about it. Wasted breath.

What are you on about now?

We won't stop climate change by just stopping eating meat will we? As I explained to you before I don't regard a vegan, or even a vegetarian, diet as being healthy for everyone, so we need to proceed with caution.

Reducing our meat consumption, particularly of red meats, and consequently lowering the number of farm animals could make a contribution, as well as promoting more efficient land use. So I am not against that at all.

My argument is that we need to follow the science and adapt our lifestyles in a variety of ways.

The alternative isn't to attack anyone! It's using diplomacy, internationally co-ordinated pressure and economic sanctions to gradually encourage the people to establish democracy for themselves.

Putin and Kim Jong-un are certainly the obvious dictators, but there are many others. Lots in the middle east and Africa as well as Erdogan in Turkey. Some would deny it of course but they are effectively dictators who crush any opposition.

Of course democracy won't end when Biden gets elected. It will be enhanced. I have no problem with the real Republican party. Only with Trump and the Republican party he has created. So once Trump is out of the way democracy can be restored, primarily via the Republican's reclaiming their soul. It will doubtless be a battle, but if ever they hope to govern again, they must win. Then democracy itself will be the winner.

Edited by Wisbech Eagle (10 Oct 2020 9.56pm)

I try to keep out of this US stuff, but I do read it and keep up. However, I feel the need to correct the assertation that "using diplomacy, internationally co-ordinated pressure and economic sanctions to gradually encourage the people to establish democracy for themselves" works. It has been tried in the past and failed.

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