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  Dems Won't Move Fast Enough

  An 80% reduction by 2050? We're all cooked by 2050. So absurd it's insulting and shows they still don't understand just how bad off we are.

  Please, everyone, pick up your phone and call Pelosi to urge her toward more significant environmental action/legislation. If you DO NOT pressure your representatives (remember, they are reps, not leaders - they only represent us), they will do as little as they did between 1992 and 2000, a time in which U.S. emissions rose at a record rate.

  Pelosi can be reached at Nancy Pelosi can be reached at (202) 225-4965. Email = americanvoices@mail.house.gov

  DO NOT LET HER OFF THE HOOK!!!On How green will the 110th Congress be? posted 2 years, 11 months ago 3 Responses

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  ACEA says to tax carbon . . .

  I know this thread is dead, but if anyone happens to come by - this from ACEA (European Car Manufacturing Association) is absolutely pro-carbon tax. Well, it's more than that... read on:

  http://www.autobloggreen.com/2006/11/14/want-less-co2-pay...

  " . . . because the world doesn't matter anymore if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar

  On An op-ed in a UK paper posted 2 years, 11 months ago 37 Responses

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  One thing we need. . .

  is to stop bashing "right-wing" people, Dave. Your partisan talk does nothing to help the cause. In fact, it only pushes us back. We simply cannot and will not succeed with only 50% of the population chipping in. You belittle right-wingers, yet your own party, the Democrats, are incredibly right-leaning and have done very, very little to advance the pro-environment agenda. Kyoto, anyone?

  Enough of the partisan talk. Grist should do better than this.
  

  " . . . because the world doesn't matter anymore if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar

  On He would have us accept disaster posted 2 years, 12 months ago 11 Responses

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  Hoorah!

  Let's hope there has benn a sea change! Last time the Dems controlled things, they (and Gore) sat on their hands.

  Please, everyone, contact Nancy Pelosi's office and DEMAND that her party tackles the environmental issues that face us. Remember, nowhere in her "Six for '06" plan does she mention the environment (other than a vague statement concerning a reduction on dependence on foreign oil).

  Nancy Pelosi can be reached at (202) 225-4965. Email = americanvoices@mail.house.gov

  " . . . because the world doesn't matter anymore if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar

  On Mixed reports posted 2 years, 12 months ago 5 Responses

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  Good on ya, Gar

  Thanks, Gar, for being another anti-trading voice. Too many seem to think that we can trade away our problems. This viewpoint is directly linked to the "vote with your dollars" rallying cry that derails liberals (infested with a surfeit of, as Kevin Smith puts it in the Independent article "neo-liberals") the world over. The biggest checkbook wins this battle, every last time - not a good long-term strategy.  

  Real and immediate change/sacrifice needs to be made. The Stern Report, like so much of what we see in the green community, sugarcoats the issue. Solving real-world troubles with smoke-and-mirrors economics like carbon trading is a fool's errand.

  My hat is off to you, Gar, for helping keep this debate alive on both sides of The Pond.

  " . . . because the world doesn't matter anymore if you don't have the strength to go ahead and choose something that's really true." - Julio Cortazar

  On An op-ed in a UK paper posted 2 years, 12 months ago 37 Responses