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  Getting money out of politics is first and foremost. American institutions and sysems have all been subverted by it. Whatch out Europe!On From hopeful climate to climate of despair posted 1 week ago 11 Responses

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  I thought Williams and Zabel made an excellent case for a carbon tax in their video, and that it might have changed some people's minds (David Robert's perhaps?) In 10 minutes they had to cram a lot of mostly unfamiliar concepts to most people. In my opinion C&T is nothing but making a commodity out of carbon for the benefit of the financial sector. Has anyone read "Soil not Oil" by Vandana Shiva by any chance? According to Shiva "The speculative economy of global finance is hundreds of times larger than the value of real goods and services produced in the world." It has been a revelation to me that something that had always been presented, in my circles anyway, as a good thing (Kyoto) hadn't turned out to be all that successful in its application. So why expand a failed experiment? The EPA reaction seemed so insignificant compared to the message of the video.On EPA demands attorneys remove video critical of cap-and-trade posted 1 week, 4 days ago 28 Responses

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  Clifford Wells, we KNOW that mad cow disease is the result of intensive "grain finished" methods of beef production. The disease was traced to feed containing animal parts. Can you not agree that CAFO (the C stands for concentrated)-raised poultry and swine could likely facilitate the spread and mutation of avian, swine or regular flue viruses because of the closed proximity of the animals? Sometimes common sense is a bit helpful. It would be nice if, instead of bickering over fine points of dialogue, we could all recognize that the current industrial meat production is less than ideal and is making more and more customers turn away from the supermarket meat counters.On Six months after the outbreak, who's investigating the CAFO-swine flu link? posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago 16 Responses

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  Yes, Matt, I also find it disturbing. I have been a member of EDF for decades but recently left them because of their cozy relationship with the corporate world. Their "good cop" approach is not what the environment movement should be about. (I don't think they'll miss my modest yearly donation very much.)On Climate Corps interns save Fortune 500 firms $54 million posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago 4 Responses

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  I wish someone would ask Secretary Chu why we should continue to rely on chemical, oil-derived fertilizers and pesticides for our agriculture—something he seems to take for granted. His department should look into the current wasteful system, 10 calories of petrol energy for a (one) calorie of food. Has anyone pointed out to him that organic methods would fix carbon in the soil as well?On Three faces of hope for climate change posted 1 month, 1 week ago 3 Responses