New year, new idea for climate: the American Clean Energy party | Grist
And make no mistake: 500 ppm is worth fighting for, each and every day of our lives. Every tenth of a degree matters, and a planet with a carbon blanket that stabilizes at 500 ppm will preserve a dramatically more livable world than will a blanket of 650, 850, or 1000 ppm.
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ACE would run a mix of "celebrities", charismatic local candidates, and lots and lots of young people: why not Leo DiCaprio, Bill McKibben, Van Jones, Jessy Tolkan, Woody Harrelson, Hunter Lovins, Mike Tidwell, Heidi Cullen, Billy Parish, James Woolsey, Sally Bingham, Tom Friedman, Betsy Taylor, Richard Czizik, Tom "Smitty" Smith, Wahleah Johns, and student leaders in congressional districts across the country?
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I just read the Grist article on ACE and this paragraph caught my eye:
"The original model for ACE is the Progressive Party at the turn of the 20th century. The party was founded on a set of policy ideas -- confronting the power of monopolies; consumer regulation; women's suffrage. Running successful candidates as both Democrats and Republicans, "
They ran progressives as Republicans? McCain, Snowe (job) and Graham immediately comes to mind.
The second thing that comes to my mind is, whey can't we run conservatives as liberal democrats? We should do whatever we can to royally screw over the DNC.
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