Thursday, October 11, 2012

A few vague quotes from Bill Clinton on how to save us all from CO2-induced bad weather: "saving the planet is better economics than burning it up"

How President Clinton, ‘Explainer-in-Chief,’ Frames Climate Change | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
“Those of us in this green energy field, we ought to have a tattoo test. The more people with visible, impressive tattoos who advocate green energy and understand what it does for a country’s economy, what it does for its country’s independence and what it does in the fight against climate change, the more we’re going to have success in Washington, D.C…. Think about the tattoos. You win the tattoo vote, we’ll have the damnedest environmental policy you ever saw.”
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“Our diversity is important. Differences of opinion are important. You know things I don’t. Nobody is right all of the time..."
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“My strategy on [engaging deniers] is very simple. Some people who are climate skeptics are climate skeptics because it’s in their interest to be. They just want to preserve the old energy economy, and there’s not much I can do about that. But what I am trying to do, literally all the time, is to prove that saving the planet is better economics than burning it up. Not 10 or 20 or 50 years from now — [but] now. There are a lot of climate skeptics but their reasons are being chipped away….
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“If you’re an American, the best thing you can do is to make it politically unacceptable for people to engage in denial. I mean, it makes us — we look like a joke, right? You can’t win the nomination of one of the major parties in our country if you admit that the scientists are right?

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