Garen YegparianSeptember 6, 2017Last Updated: September 6, 2017
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Flooding in Texas on Aug. 31 (Photo: SC National Guard)
Some two weeks shy of 12 years ago, I referred to hurricane Katrina for the first time. It was, unsurprisingly, in the context of environmental negligence and destructiveness with which we have behaved.
Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he damn well pleases to write about that he can remotely tie in to things Armenian. He's got a checkered past: principal of an Armenian school, project manager on a housing development, ANC-WR Executive Director, AYF Field worker (again on the left coast), Operations Director for a telecom startup, and a City of LA employee most recently (in three different departments so far). Plus, he's got delusions of breaking into electoral politics, meanwhile participating in other aspects of it and making sure to stay in trouble. His is a weekly column that appears originally in Asbarez, but has been republished to the Armenian Weekly for many years.
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The proposition that denialists do not understand the climate change and human activity as its cause is simply laughable IMO. People who make money do have intellectual ability to understand numbers and interpret trends. The reality is that the climate change is a big opportunity for them – economic and social. Economic, because it is disruptive and stimulates demand in general. Social, because it increases inequality. This is the real reason for ‘denial’. The ‘doesn’t exit, is naturally occurring, is still unproven’ mantra is simply BS they feed to their electorate.
The proposition that denialists do not understand the climate change and human activity as its cause is simply laughable IMO. People who make money do have intellectual ability to understand numbers and interpret trends. The reality is that the climate change is a big opportunity for them – economic and social. Economic, because it is disruptive and stimulates demand in general. Social, because it increases inequality. This is the real reason for ‘denial’. The ‘doesn’t exit, is naturally occurring, is still unproven’ mantra is simply BS they feed to their electorate.