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The Center for American Progress reports:
Obama is famously low key. That's why on the hit Comedy Central show "Key & Peele", Keegan-Michael Key plays "Luther, President Obama's anger translator". The [annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner], however, is a rare place where the President can cut loose--as long as he uses humor.
In a hilarious admission that he has been too low key to convey the moral outrage justified by humanity's myopic march toward self-destruction--and by the brazen denial of climate science by many conservatives--Obama brought out "Luther" to express that outrage. And then, in an ingenious twist, Obama became so outraged that he didn't need Luther and in fact Luther himself couldn't take the genuinely angry Obama, who says of denial, "What kind of stupid, shortsighted, irresponsible, bull-"
Here's a video of the event.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday April 29 2015, @03:21AM
Hate to be rude to you AC, but that's a load of quasi-religious crap. Nature isn't an anthropomorphic sentient force with a plan and a will that cannot be denied. It's the culmination of many and various cause-and-effect physical processes. If we can understand those processes, we can manipulate them to our own ends and achieve things far beyond the realms of "nature". In fact, we've been doing exactly that for the last ten thousand years or more. It's called "technology".
We have proven to be capable of manipulating those processes far more than we can claim to understand them. Humanity's history is full of advances for humankind with disastrous consequences for many of the rest of its inhabitants. Several times those consequences have included local humans. We are still to this day driving other living organisms into extinction at an incredible rate, we are still altering ecosystems to what we think is our benefit (we have often found to great cost, that it was not), we are changing our climate with likely unforeseen results, and so on. Most of these things are happening not for the benefit of humanity, but for the benefit of a very small part of humanity, and that probably not for the long term. Tipping point? We will likely reach several. Whether they tip for the benefit of humanity and the planet (two things that are probably closely interwoven), or towards a series of disasters that will greatly affect our cultures, is something that remains to be seen. I'm not confident, we rarely see action on any issue until it reaches a crisis.