Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
In France, the Old Left is rising again. Working people are becoming angry that bankers are being bailed out to continue to pay obscene bonuses while ordinary peoples’ jobs go to the wall. Governments are under pressure to limit mass unemployment as a result of the recession. But this cannot be done by propping up environmentally-dangerous industries. They must be required to change. It’s a story of danger – and of opportunity.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has imposed a record fine on a toxic ship dealer for attempting to export a ship containing deadly polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) to the infamous shipbreaking beaches of South Asia.
Yesterday the House of Representatives approved the $819 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act which will give roughly 1 out of every 8 dollars directly to various green projects.
State regulators rejected a compromise that would have closed four offshore oil platforms and allowed new drilling for the first time in forty years.
Mason’s take sounded a lot like the line of argument I heard from Sarah Palin about five months ago.
In a recent interview in Britain’s New Scientist magazine, scientist James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia Hypothesis and the man whose work on CFCs led to their being banned, says that he believes that at least 90% of the human population will be wiped out by the end of the century as a direct result of climate change.
Mean Joe Green’s “Green Obama-O-Meter” will track the environmental policies of our nation’s leaderon a quarterly basis. Off to a good start…
“We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf and burning it in ways that are destroying the planet – every bit of that has to change.”
Dennis Miller on the O’Reilly Factor pulls out the rather tired ‘Al Gore’s thermostat is the problem’ argument and dismisses Gore by wondering if the former Vice President has ever thought he is wrong about global warming.
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