Sierra Club helps promote Pickens plan on debate night 5

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   randino Posted 9:27 pm
   08 Oct 2008

   Tycoon FeverPeople in the environmental movement and in the general populace need to get over this slobbering, boot licking obsequiousness about our various moguls, tycoons, and robber barons. Opps! I am sorry. That is old speak. I mean our entrepreneurs.
   These are the people who have made a shambles of our economy and our environment, and why we should expect salvation from them beggars the imagination.
   It looks like the financial fiasco we are in the midst of would inspire us to quit our groveling before Mamon, but I guess we need to get hit over the head a few more times before we do an attitude change.
   Once again and listen. These people would strip mine their mother's grave site if it would make them a buck. They only care about profit. If they can get it by being environmentally responsible - fine. But if they could do it by permanently screwing the earth - that would be fine too.
   It is time for us children to grow up.
   Randy Cunningham
   
   Cleveland, OH
   
   Randy Cunningham

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   LGT Posted 12:08 am
   09 Oct 2008

   "It is time for us children to grow up"Randy - It makes me feel good echoing what you said, especially since I'd be 73 in a few weeks!
   Mr Buffett whose net worth is $62 billion
   
   produced 12.62 MMT of CO2 in 2007. [Not counting his interest and bias in maintaining the economic status quo!]
   http://msrb.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/the-billionaires-con ...
   Rumor has it that T Bone has a net worth of $3.0billion which means he produced about 3/62 of Mr Buffet's CO2 inventory in 2007.
   Even if Mr Pickens made all of his money generating renewqbles, he would still be responsible for producing the same amount of CO2 so far as "the carbon dioxide emission for each dollar of GDP" remains the same.
   It's time we grew up and looked at the dark side of our dollars and net worth!
   
   

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   johnmcc793 Posted 12:14 am
   09 Oct 2008

   Following the green(back)Anyone following US politics during the past 10 years knows the role Boone Pickens played (is playing) in electing the most destructive Administration in modern memory.
   Pickens is as responsible for the Iraq war and its human cost as anyone in the White House.
   That Carl Pope follows him around and gives the Pickens plan all the exposure Sierra Club can muster tells me it is more about kickack than kick out.
   We environmentalists are not so desparate to get our messages out that we must coddle to the likes of Pickens and his politics.
   Where are our priorities and sense of common sense?
   John McCormick
   
   

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   Whiskerfish Posted 7:21 pm
   09 Oct 2008

   gotta wonder about Popejust a few years ago he was pushing biofuels, too.
   Whiskerfish

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   KO Posted 11:00 pm
   09 Oct 2008

   The Sierra Club-Clorox PartnershipIt was just a short while ago that that the Sierra Club went into business with the polluting Clorox company.
   See ~
   The Clorox debacle continues: Sierra Club removes leadership of its Florida Chapter
   
   By Peter Montague
   
   http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/27/154642/778
   The Clorox Coup: Scandal at the Sierra Club
   
   By Karen Orr and Betsy Roberts
   
   http://www.counterpunch.org/orr03312008.html
   Clorox's Don Knauss & Sierra Club's Carl Pope celebrate the the Sierra Club-Clorox
   
   partnership, kick off Earth Week at the New York Stock Exchange
   
   http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS143327+21 ...
   Sierra Club Northern Michigan Group quits over Sierra Club-Clorox partnership:
   
   Stays true to principles
   
   http://www.record-eagle.com/opinion/local_story_204094543 ...
   For the Sierra Club to promote the Pickens plan isn't surprising in light of the Sierra Club's history over the last 10 years or so.
   Karen Orr
   
   Florida

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