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high speed rail
I wond why they are still not debating about a countrywide high speed rail network. A lot of other nations around the world use it as a fast and reliable transportation system - independent of oil. America should start building one now, because oil prices are going to rise even more in the next years.On House passes Amtrak authorization by veto-proof margin posted 1 year, 5 months ago 5 Responses
Remove Merkel!
As an activist in the Green Youth, Attac and other NGOs in Germany, I call you to remove Merkel from the list of "green politicians"! There are a lot much greener politicians in Germany, and she deserves no honor on this site! Here is why:
- She supports the coal-lobby in building over 20 new coal-power-plants in Germany. She also stays the course when it comes to giving them pollution-licenses from the cap-and-trade system for free, which makes up for billions of additional profits for the coal-industry.
- She supports the nuclear-lobby in their effort to halt the exit-plan for nuclear energy, which was pushed through by the previous government.
- She (successfully) lobbied Brussels (for the good of the German auto-lobby) to weaken the planned fuel-efficiency standards on cars.
- Her government introduced quota for biofuels with the result of destroying rain forest to grow the oil in brasil and indonesia.
- Several other concepts, like a CO2-orientated car-tax, more fuel efficient cars for her ministers, better insulation in homes etc. all fell apart in recent months or came short of what she promised. For example, the new insulation standards for buildings will only apply to newly built objects, not to old buildings, which obviously means giving up the biggest potential to save energy.
- Her party is big friend with big money and always tried to stop or weaken environmental regulation (recycling standards, forest protection, catalyzers, highway vs. railway and so forth...) all through until recently, when becoming green became popular.
- But even today, she only pays lipservice to the environmental cause. Her actual policies at home have no real concept and in some questions, as I mentioned above, she just simply acts in the opposite direction.
When it comes to green politicians, look out for Hans-Josef Fell or Hermann Scheer, two real pioneers and visionaries. And in general, the German Green Party is much much greener than the industry-dominated CDU of Mrs. Merkel.On 15 Green Politicians posted 1 year, 5 months ago 34 Responses
- She supports the coal-lobby in building over 20 new coal-power-plants in Germany. She also stays the course when it comes to giving them pollution-licenses from the cap-and-trade system for free, which makes up for billions of additional profits for the coal-industry.
Additional Source
On this homepage...
...you will find a "climate change fact sheet", which explains the situation very short but easily understandable, and several other sources. Hope you can use it!
TojiOn 'There is no consensus'--If this is not consensus, what would consensus look like? posted 2 years, 9 months ago 109 Responses