The 'smart one', Jeb Bush, has declared his interest in becoming US president and has assembled an exploratory committee to determine his viability.
The title of 'the smart one' seems to have gone to his head. Anyone who aligns himself with the corrupt plutocrats who are on track to destroy our civilization is living a pipe dream.
Guardian UK
Jeb doesn’t just want to keep burning fossil fuels while the planet burns. He’s an out-and-out flat-earther – just like the other Republicans seen as leading contenders in the 2016 presidential race – and he’s been on the record denying climate science for years.
“I think global warming may be real,” Jeb Bush said in 2011, in what seemed like a promising start to the subject in a Fox interview. But he followed it up with the false statement that there is some kind of dispute among scientists about the causes of climate change – which there is not:
"It is not unanimous among scientists that it is disproportionately manmade. What I get a little tired of on the left is this idea that somehow science has decided all this so you can’t have a view."
Those comments put Jeb Bush in lock-step with the other climate deniers in the Republican party – and now that he has become the party’s first (almost) declared candidate, they should help set early battle lines for climate change as a major campaign issue.
Do the plutocrats really think that they and their families will be exempt from the worst effects of climate change? Their disconnect shows how powerful greed can be in destroying the ability to recognize reality.