Letters to the Editor
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Well you can watch the movie "Jesus Camp"
and watch evangelicals specifically mention global warming as yet another fake Devil Drivn Liberal 'science' lies like evolution and stem cells. No, seriously check it out. They put global warming in the same category and worthy of the same fight.
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It's Nothing ...
...more than Bush, Republican, Rovian bullshit rhetoric. There will be no real change the US Chamber of Congress would never allow it because it might hurt business quartetly profits, no matter what happens to the world. When we know for a fact that climate change will destroy business but sine business and the rethugs have no soul they care not one whit.
Neither do the other supporters of republicanism, the neocons and their wars for power and death, nor do the evangelicval Fundamentalist religions which are the Catholic and protestant evangelicals.
NCLB and family values are nothing but phony rhetoric to get votes and win elections and keep power.
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Perhaps a small step in the rigth direction?
With James Inhofe out of his position as the Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the platform for him bringing discredited contrarians in to "debate" global warming has been severely limited. FYI, Barbara Boxer is now the chairman of the Senate EPWC and her agenda is nearly opposite of his.
So, that along with the (grudging) admission of the problem by the Bush administration, may be baby-steps, but they are steps in the right direction.
I am quite intersted in the sudden intrest in industry in wanting regulations... my suspicious nature makes me think that they realize that regulations will eventually happen and so they want to put in their influence as soon as they can. That and/or they intend to use the regulatory process as a weapon against their competitors.
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"Right" I meant the "right" direction-
- without an automatic spell check I am lsot.
I meant "lost"...
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SR
I think I dislike agreeing with you, but I've seeen it, and you are absolutely correct. Very scary for many reasons
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rearguard action
It is probably trivialized by being so obvious, but Bush, Cheney, the entire Bush family..they are all creatures of the oil business. The oil business has been--and still is--fighting a savage rearguard action against any caps on carbon emissions.
The money involved is truly cosmic in scale...billions upon billions in profits for oil companies that sell oil at high prices. Those profits go into someone's pockets..and those someones are almost certainly close to those who rule us. And if we think those who profit from the sale of oil will forego those profits out of altruism for the rest of us...we are sadly mistaken.
This is a simple fight of greed against the commons. And in our system, greed almost always wins. Shrub and the shrubbery around him are going to do the oil industry's bidding until they leave office, and those who follow will, doubtless, get a strong lesson in oil-industry power should they choose to fight for strong carbon caps.
This industry fights dirty, is nearly boundlessly powerful in a political and monetary sense, and, in a way, will rule the entire world in their interest until the oil is gone.
Cynical, I know, but, on the evidence of our politics, and an increasingly unstable global climate, what other conclusion is there?
Human beings are, for the most part, stupid and short-sighted, the consequence of our genetics. It takes leaders with extraordinary vision and altruism to lead us to right actions. Leaders like the ones we have now, who reinforce our worse impulses as a species, should be strung up by their nuts and left there until they drop to the ground. Shrub and Cheney and their masters in the oil industry are not just greedy bastards, they are traitors to our species.