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  AMen, BioD

  As usual, Biodiversistivist (ack!) hits it on the head:

  Will the Dems EVER push for 80% by 2020 when they have no real pressure to do so??On Tim Kaine burns national ambitions in coal furnace posted 1 year, 9 months ago 4 Responses

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  I Should Add

  That in essence I'm disappointed the Norwegians didn't choose this overly ripe moment to create a nonpartisan global leader for the movement. There are many candidates out there who would have instantly become nearly as recognizable as Gore, but with a wider potential reach.

  The non-Gore winner would have had instant access to every global head of state, every media outlet. The Norwegians did the planet a disservice by missing the moment to craft powerful climate change leadership.On Al Gore and the IPCC jointly win peace prize posted 2 years, 1 month ago 56 Responses

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  Gore Win A Blow to Environmental Movement

   Al Gore picks up a Nobel prize for providing commentary in a movie that wasn't his idea. Why not give the Nobel to the person who created the film-activist Laurie David?

  The Norwegians who awarded this prize were simply trying to make a political statement aimed at Bush, nothing more. And in doing so, they've created a global climate change leader who alienates 50% of the U.S. population. This is just horrific. What we desperately need is climate change leadership who can bring into the fold 100% of the population.

  Mind you, I'm not bashing Gore. He's a perfect politician. But, as a leader of the global environmental movement, he's absolutely ill-suited. He will never be viewed by half the population with anything less than distrust. The platforms he espouses will be ignored, brushed aside. Worse, when these same ideas are proposed by nonpartisan leaders, Gore will have polluted the waters. Not Gore's fault, inherently, mind you. That's just how things work when you once held the office of Vice President of the U.S.A..

  This Nobel win for Gore is an unabashed disaster (unless he somehow takes the Presidency as a third party candidate and becomes the Great Uniter on Climate Change . . . can you say `very unlikely?'). When will people learn that politicizing the battle to SAVE THE PLANET is always dead wrong?On Al Gore and the IPCC jointly win peace prize posted 2 years, 1 month ago 56 Responses

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  Forgot to Answer

  The answer, by the way, is SUPER AWESOME.On Oy posted 2 years, 3 months ago 5 Responses

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  Pure folly

  Lester Brown (founder Earth Policy Institue and Worldwatch Institute <which post-Brown has gone to crap>) has been warning the world of the ethanol folly for over a decade.

  Wish everyone in the world would pick up a copy of Plan B 2.0. . .we'd have a rebellion in no time. And that is exactly what it is going to take. To think that we'll hit 80% reductions by 2030 without a genuine insurrection is delusional.On A: The cropland area of several states posted 2 years, 3 months ago 13 Responses