Ted Glick’s Posts

• Hungering for climate justice 0

  Posted 1 week, 5 days agoWe will not be able to overcome the power of Big Oil, King Coal, other corporate interests allied with them and subservient elected officials without the taking of risks, over and over again.

• It's not in the halls of Congress

  The power of the people 0

  Posted 2 weeks, 5 days agoWhat is the one thing most needed right now if we are to win the race against climate change? Oct. 24 showed us: a visible, growing, mass movement in the streets.

• Today and Always

  Gandhi today 0

  Posted 1 month, 2 weeks agoOn Oct. 2, 140 years ago, Mohandus Gandhi was born in Gujarat province in India. I didn’t learn this from the New York Times, CNN, or any other mainstream media source. I didn’t learn about it from progressive media outlets, although it is very possible that one or more of them publicized it and I missed it.

• and not with chump change

  Want a Strong Climate Bill? Then Pay Up! 1

  Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago

  The guest post below is by my CCAN co-worker, Keith Harrington.

  This past week, on the heels of “Climate Week” and attendant Copenhagen preliminaries in New York, Elizabeth Kolbert wrote a nice article in the New Yorker in which she mused over what it would actually take for the US to show real leadership on climate change. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/10/05/091005taco_talk_kolbert.

  None of the suggestions Kolbert offered at all resembled the Senate climate bill Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry unveiled Wednesday. While an improvement over the Waxman Markey bill, overall the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act falls far short… Read More

• Spiraling Towards What?

  Copenhagen: turning point or more of the same old same old? 0

  Posted 2 months agoThis coming week, in New York City and Pittsburgh, there will be important United Nations and G20 meetings that could advance the process of coming up with a new international treaty to address the climate crisis.

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Ted Glick’s Recent Comments

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  I made this same comment in response to Dave's original assertion that the filibuster was the cause of all (or most) of our problems on Capitol Hill. No. Wrong. There is no filibuster in the House, where coal state Democrats wreaked their havoc on the legislation-writing process, leading to a very problematic climate bill. Ted GlickOn Is Bill McKibben right to be angry with Obama? posted 4 days, 15 hours ago 35 Responses

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  Billhook and Swimgr11, You might want to check out the reasons why I'm part of the Climate Justice Fast elsewhere on grist, http://www.grist.org/article/hungering-for-climate-justice/ The key to getting to 350 is not a technical issue AT ALL; it's an issue of political will. Ted GlickOn Activists launch climate hunger strike posted 1 week, 5 days ago 4 Responses

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  The problem with this analysis--and I agree the filibuster is a definite problem--is that it doesn't explain how we got a lousy bill in the House where there is no filibuster rule. Ted GlickOn The real reason the climate bill is going to suck posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago 29 Responses

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  Dave,

  You don't see any other road forward? How about what candidate Obama and Obama until sometime in the spring of 2009 was putting forward: 100% auction, return 80-85% of the revenue to the American people, invest the remainder in green jobs/renewables/international assistance? And don't say this isn't politically possible. It was clearly a political winner with the American people. The problem is that Obama allowed the fossil fuel and industrial agriculture interests to run the show when it came to legislation in the House instead of going to the American people to again lay out his plan and enlist their participation to counter those corporate interests.

  History shows that there's only one thing that beats money power: organized and visible people power.

  Ted Glick

  On Obama strategy on climate bill: get it passed, then let markets make the argument posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago 5 Responses

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  Hurricanes and Global Warming

  Prior to seeing these blog posts, I had written to people in my organization that we should consider how we could help people appreciate the connection between Katrina and global warming. Ross Gelbspan has a column in today's Boston Globe doing a good job of making the connection.

  We also need to provide people some hope that they can do something about global warming. That's one of our biggest challenges because it feels, and is, so big.

  One thing they and we can do is participate in an education and action campaign that is developing building toward local actions around the country and the world on December 3rd. This is at the same time that the COP/MOP U.N. conference on climate change is happening in Montreal, and it is likely that there will be a major press focus on this event. It's an appropriate time to make visible the emergence of a growing popular movement demanding serious action by government at all levels on this urgent crisis.

  More information can be found at www.climatecrisis.us or by writing me at usajointheworld@igc.org

  Ted Glick usajointheworld@igc.org 973-338-5398

  On Where's the line between scientific accuracy and effective advocacy? posted 4 years, 2 months ago 11 Responses