Comments Ted Glick has made

  • 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 1 week, 2 days ago 36 Responses
  • 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 2 weeks, 3 days ago 4 Responses
  • 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 3 weeks, 2 days ago 29 Responses

  • 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, 4 weeks ago 5 Responses

  • 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