If you don't believe in unicorn-powered vehicles, it means that you don't believe in the American spirit!
I think Obama should demonstrate his "optimism" this way: Refuse to use taxpayer funds to fly to any partisan campaign events until Air Force One is refitted to run solely on clean wind or solar power.
Transcript - Obama’s Speech on Renewable Energy Policy - Text - NYTimes.com
So we are seeing a convergence. The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized. But I think it's important to understand that the closer we get, the harder the opposition will fight and the more we'll hear from those whose interest or ideology run counter to the much needed action that we're engaged in. There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy -- when it's the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs. There are going to be those who cynically claim -- make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, claims whose only purpose is to defeat or delay the change that we know is necessary.Actually, Barack, we've GOT that fighting American spirit, and we're using it to fight your ridiculous global warming swindle.
So we're going to have to work on those folks. But understand there's also another myth that we have to dispel, and this one is far more dangerous because we're all somewhat complicit in it. It's far more dangerous than any attack made by those who wish to stand in the way progress -- and that's the idea that there is nothing or little that we can do. It's pessimism. It's the pessimistic notion that our politics are too broken and our people too unwilling to make hard choices for us to actually deal with this energy issue that we're facing. And implicit in this argument is the sense that somehow we've lost something important -- that fighting American spirit, that willingness to tackle hard challenges, that determination to see those challenges to the end, that we can solve problems, that we can act collectively, that somehow that is something of the past.
I reject that argument.
2 comments:
So..the truth is BS? I must be missing something. Channel 8, Portland Oregon, :The Winds of Change, aired tonight at 9 pm gave a stunningly real account of the local effects of climate change. It is real, regardless of what each of us perceives to be the cause. Can we do something? Of course we can.
Mavis (#1) watched a show on TV, and made a serious error of assumption. Climate has always changed, but the assertion that man has significantly affected it is an unproven and extraordinarily dubious theory. CO2 is not the enemy, Mavis, and never has been.
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