Because it never gets old - Sustainable Tom's Home Compound.
Posted on 03/10/2013 5:30:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I HOPE the president turns down the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (Who wants the U.S. to facilitate the dirtiest extraction of the dirtiest crude from tar sands in Canada’s far north?) But I don’t think he will. So I hope that Bill McKibben and his 350.org coalition go crazy. I’m talking chain-themselves-to-the-White-House-fence-stop-traffic-at-the-Capitol kind of crazy, because I think if we all make enough noise about this, we might be able to trade a lousy Keystone pipeline for some really good systemic responses to climate change.
We don’t get such an opportunity often — namely, a second-term Democratic president who is under heavy pressure to approve a pipeline to create some jobs but who also has a green base that he can’t ignore. So cue up the protests, and pay no attention to people counseling rational and mature behavior. We need the president to be able to say to the G.O.P. oil lobby, “I’m going to approve this, but it will kill me with my base. Sasha and Malia won’t even be talking to me, so I’ve got to get something really big in return.”
Face it: The last four years have been a net setback for the green movement. While President Obama deserves real praise for passing a historic increase in vehicle mileage efficiency and limits on the emissions of new coal-fired power plants, the president also chose to remove the term “climate change” from his public discourse and kept his talented team of environmentalists in a witness-protection program, banning them from the climate debate. This silence coincided with record numbers of extreme weather events — droughts and floods — and with a huge structural change in the energy marketplace.
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Friedman is a total idiot.
Because it never gets old - Sustainable Tom's Home Compound.
Friedman is a total idiot.
Boy, You must really believe it to say it more than once...
Sorry for duplicate post.
Tom, perhaps moving out of your 15,000 sq ft mansion built by your wifes’ millions and reducing your carbon footprint would be a step in the right direction if you’re really concerned about climate change.
Friedman is also a wart on the nose of civilization, as well as one of the dumbest knobs in public life.
No need to apologize - double posts saying Thomas Friedman is an idiot are more than warranted.
Why don't all of you leftards and envirofreaks stop driving vehicles and heating your homes with fossil fuels?
The tar sands aren't in Canada's far north you geography challenged moron!
Thomas Friedman is an idiot
Thomas Friedman is an idiot
going for the hat trick:
Thomas Friedman is an idiot
back atcha - Thomas Friedman is an idiot
Hey, Tom, why don’t you chain yourself to the White House fence, if that’s how you feel about it?
Put your money where your mouth is.
you left out “total”.
you softening up a bit my friend?
There’s alread three pipelines coming south from Alberta...Express, Enbridge & Keystone (phase 1). Oil is still going to flow south with or without Keystone XL
IMO Friedman is a total idiot.
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