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  GRIST you pain me with your falatio

  This is an entire list of green washing, ass kissing, smoke blowing, teetotaling, Reich worshiping, non-environmentalists. Could you have tossed in even one actual environmentalist in the group of businessmen here? Your token radical Bruce Nilles works at the freaking Sierra Club Greenwashing Public Relations Corporation. What about the folks at RAN or Rising Tide? They do more with less, are well organized, and win campaigns. Most of these dopes talk a lot of smack but haven't done a damn thing and their ideas are pie in the sky dead ends. Where is this green job revolution? Obama ain't gonna produce these green jobs, it is a recession folks, expect your local co-op to lose out to Walmart, expect your national parks and forests to lose staff, don't expect a bunch of greeny smart jobs either because no-one is going to invest a dime in that shit right now and the government is only going to invest in the shit guaranteed to fail. What hero do I suggest for this year? How about a true revolutionary instead of a brainless reformer. Alexis Zeigler comes to mind.

  The Black Car Project Killing cars before they kill us!

  On Vote for the top eco-hero of 2008 posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago 22 Responses

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  Punish the unpunishable.

  No one will be punished for this criminal negligent act. Some corporation or government agency will pay fines but it is doubtful anyone will even get fired much less go to jail. If I were someone who lost there home or developed cancer from this I would probably act directly against the people who are profiting the most from this dangerous practice of coal burning and sludge. I think that in the court of human dignity any individual who acts in outrage with the aim to end this from happening in the future or acts with the plain notion of justice should do so. It is far past time that people who cause harm to others by profiting from destruction face punishment, so please feel outraged and do act. Obviously if there was another way to hold people accountable do so but I just don't think justice of this kind exists by legal means.

  The Black Car Project Killing cars before they kill us!

  On Tennessee ash spill more than three times larger than originally thought posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago 7 Responses

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  This is a big F-ing Disaster!

  I was born in Kentucky and lived most of my life in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. This is a catastrophe as big as it gets in the US and while the MSM barely covers it the people of that area suffer. I would love it if Grist would follow this brief with something more substantial. It is easy to disregard the poor people of the south who have been stepped on for hundreds of years. People in metropolises like Seattle who munch on organic food and drink pure spring water in their half a million and up homes like to think of that area as somehow deserved of their circumstances because of some class-ism that they feel justified in feeling.

  I encourage people to view the aerial footage and also the fishermen accounts of the dead fish covering the banks of the rivers that supply food and freshwater to millions.On Giant pond of coal ash escapes, floods Tennessee homes posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago 5 Responses

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  Forcing people out of their cars sucks

  This decline is not a bunch of greenies deciding that for the sake of global warming I am going to drive less. These people were predominantly poor people. At least a million more people are unemployed now then last year. They are stuck in their homes in suburbia unable to leave because fuel costs, no mass transit and no bikes. The poor are being screwed and will continue to be screwed while the rich do alright.

  So yes, It is cool that people are driving less by the numbers and I hope it continues, but it absolutely sucks that the people who are driving less are sliding into hopelessness. This is not something to celebrate. Hybrid plug ins are going to make rich Americans able to drive more cheapily, but the poor folk are still going to be screwed. I wonder how many poor people and communities who don't have infrastructure for mass transit or economies to buy fuel efficient vehicles will become ghettos full of crime?

  The Black Car Project Killing cars before they kill us!

  On Drop in U.S. driving last eight months exceeds the 1970s' total decline posted 1 year, 2 months ago 6 Responses

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  Hope is tied to change... finally!

  Melman's ideas of a planned transformation of military into civilian firms are worth discussing in a historical context. Like where might we be now if we had started this conversion at the jumping off point that marked the end of the cold war?

  It might also be a good comparison for the political economist to start the comparison between the likely recession beginning and the Great Depression. The similarities are many but the differences are where any good work of writing will avail. The biggest difference is that the federal and state governments generally understand that only government spending can hedge a giant recession. This bodes well for cutting the coffers at the Pentagon by a democratic president, ending the war and proportionately supporting massive infrastructural changes at home.

  Ultimately an economic recession that is large enough could be the only thing that can support the draining of funds used by the military industrial complex. Americorps programs, single payer healthcare, and mass transit improvements could all benefit from a recession. The reason why transit alternatives to cars might begin to gain momentum is because US car manufacturers could be capable of providing these alternatives as they increasingly lose out to companies from abroad on car manufacturing.

  Let us hope that the downturn in the economy opens the gateway for social change that it potentially could. When "hope" is so tied to "change" like it is now, the power of the elite may face the greatest weakening we have ever seen.

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  On Converting the permanent military economy to a green economy posted 1 year, 9 months ago 41 Responses