Comments bill wolfe has made

  • Tell Kerry and D's to get a spine

    Next time you have a friendly teleconfernce with Kerry, you should have Glenn Greenwald on the line to buck you up - check out his column today:

    Democrats show Beltway "strength," avoid being depicted as weak
    http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

    And for a more politically nuanced analysis of the Dem's cyncial adn manipualtive stategy that is so widely perceived adn condemned as weak, read :thereisnospoon" blog post on dailykos:

    Get It Straight: The Dems DO Know What They're Doing
    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/13/3559/2099/57 ...On Sen. John Kerry defends Dem decision not to force a filibuster on the energy bill posted 1 year, 11 months ago 22 Responses

  • Obvious attack on the messenger

    The coal people are merely using this as an attack on Hansen to divert attention and discredit his work.

    Furthermore, the selective outrage over the politics of language is illustrative of an ideological bias.

    I wonder who put Revkin up to writing that hit piece?

    See Greenwald: "Nazis" and "Hitler" -- the Right's casual, trivializing political insults

    http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/10/01/nazi_in ...On Is the analogy between climate change and Hitler's atrocities appropriate? posted 1 year, 12 months ago 49 Responses

  • bright line

    I like the bright line concept as it provides opportunites to discuss limits and to reorient and expand the "envrionmental policy" discussion to demand side and issues of political economy.

    In terms of stories for the public mind, I also appreciated inclusion of the notion of systemic collapse. This is key, not only because that is what we are faced with, but because that analogy  sahows that collapse can provide opportunity for positive change:

    "The image of change we should carry in our minds is not Cape Wind or Toyota Prius, but the Berlin Wall crashing down."

    Having just finished Kevin Phillips' latest book "American Theocracy", I'd offer another image for the public story that resonates strongly with current realities. Phillips traces the collapse of the British empire and its relation to coal. He makes links between that collapse and current US oil dependence and the political economy of the Bush NeoCon imperial ambition which is driving the US toward classic imperial over-reach and collapse. The British coal story is important because it shows that democracy can be chosen over empire, and that energy plays a major role in economic success and history.

    Rarely is this kind of historical vision part of the environmental story.On A new path forward for climate change campaigners posted 2 years, 9 months ago 11 Responses