{"id":46549,"date":"2017-05-06T13:11:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T17:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=46549"},"modified":"2017-05-10T09:55:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T13:55:56","slug":"wrong-side-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/wrong-side-history\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Wrong Side Of History &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vmv3NAO9sRc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What happened with people who sided with Hitler and the Nazis in their quest to murder countless humans?\u00a0As their crowd rose to the heights of power and prestige, many people who\u00a0supported them must have thought their futures were looking up and they were setting up some kind of positive family reputation for future generations. To look at things from the perspective of today, it is\u00a0mind-boggling how those people could have thought that they were going in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of Nazis look back at their family history in horror, in shame, and wishing they could just leave the tainted associations off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But something at the time got\u00a0large portions of the population to believe that murdering\u00a0other types of people was somehow okay, noble,\u00a0intelligent, and not totally insane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, the signs are obvious \u2014 more than obvious.\u00a0We are steering all of human society into a disastrous future that will lead to much, much more premature death \u2014 death from malnutrition (from <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceheathen.com\/2013\/01\/21\/climate-change-global-effects-large-wars-migrations-disease-outbreaks-desertification-agricultural-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crop failures and lack of food<\/a>), death from <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2010\/05\/05\/future-temperatures-could-exceed-human-liveability\/\">heat<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2010\/10\/20\/much-of-the-globe-threatened-with-drought\/\">drought<\/a>, death from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2009\/06\/07\/global-warming-effects-and-causes-a-top-10-list\/\">superstorms<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2009\/06\/07\/global-warming-effects-and-causes-a-top-10-list\/\">flooding<\/a>, death from <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceheathen.com\/2013\/01\/21\/climate-change-global-effects-large-wars-migrations-disease-outbreaks-desertification-agricultural-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diseases<\/a>, death from <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2016\/08\/23\/2-critical-climate-change-problems-people-dont-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">migration and war<\/a>, and death from <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2016\/09\/06\/economic-benefits-electric-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">air pollution<\/a> as well, by the way. We may make our entire climate <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/2010\/05\/05\/future-temperatures-could-exceed-human-liveability\/\">unlivable for humans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Action_vs_Inaction_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28845\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Action_vs_Inaction_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Action_vs_Inaction_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/planetsave.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Action_vs_Inaction_500-270x203.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How will future generations of\u00a0science-denying pollution pushers feel about their parents and grandparents \u2014 about <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/tag\/rick-perry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rick Perry<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/tag\/Scott-Pruitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Pruitt<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/tag\/koch-brothers\/\">Koch Brothers<\/a>, etc. Of course, it&#8217;s not just about the Hitlers of the world \u2014 it&#8217;s also about all of the people who support them. If you are the ancestor of a Hitler-era Nazi, you probably don&#8217;t feel too cool about your DNA lineage.\u00a0People who\u00a0support climate-destroying pollution politicians will be viewed in a similar way. Perhaps they didn&#8217;t support the directly killing of other humans (though, that is also going on to some extent), but the indirect demolition of human society and our climate&#8217;s livability for humans is not something you will want your name attached to in a handful of years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, no one should want their name tied to that today, but hey, it apparently takes a lot of people a long time to learn the difference between right and wrong, or compassionate life and heartless death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Donald Trump and his cronies will be on the wrong side of history.\u00a0Well, they will be on various topics \u2014 democratic society vs dictatorial corruption, human rights vs inhumane and animalistic aggression,\u00a0economic development vs economic collapse, healthcare for all vs subsidies for the super rich. But I think the most obvious way they will be on the wrong side of history is with their push to pollute more, to turn our Earth&#8217;s climate into that of a greenhouse gone murderous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not super optimistic that we will transition away from polluting habits and technologies quickly enough to avert ludicrously unprecedented\u00a0destruction and human death. When that becomes more obvious and the challenges more immediate, people fighting climate action\u00a0anytime after the 1990s will wear a deep stain on their name and historical reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happened with people who sided with Hitler and the Nazis in their quest to murder countless humans?\u00a0As their crowd rose to the heights of power and prestige, many people who\u00a0supported them must have thought their futures were looking up and they were setting up some kind of positive family reputation for future generations. 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