“..We’re Screwing the Environment the Same Way We Screwed the Economy..”
“.. Lately, the United States hasn’t been very good at looking down the road.
Its captains of industry and government admittedly blew the economic meltdown ..
.. even as its sellout media kept urging buys on stocks that were mostly worthless.
Too bad the environmental meltdown is following the same, lame script.
According to a new study from the United Nations Environment Program, countries combating catastrophic climate change aren’t lacking in resources or reasons;..
.. they’re simply lacking ambition.
It seems that, as with the economic meltdown, they’d rather wait until the crisis has already ripped the roof off the world as they knew it ..
.. before doing anything significant about it.
“The U.S. is in danger of losing the race in the new global energy economy,” Angela Anderson, program director of the U.S. Climate Action Network, explained to AlterNet.
“The reason is simple power politics.
The entrenched fossil fuel industries are fighting tooth and nail to maintain their supremacy.
They are fighting with campaign contributions and scare tactics that do nothing but block the actions Congress and the president could take to make the U.S. a real leader.”
And they’re succeeding wildly.
After the so-called ClimateGate crap-sling purposefully peaked during last year’s Copenhagen summit, global warming skepticism apparently rose in the UK and no doubt elsewhere.
Consistent denier drumbeats from Fox News and its jackasses like Glenn Beck and others have further poisoned the well.
Worse, there are allegations that even officials in the Obama administration, such as David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel, are actively standing in the way of catching the U.S. up on global climate change efforts ..
.. as they forage among more domestic issues like the cratered American economy .. or the health care hornet’s nest for worthier poll-bait.
But they are missing the obvious, as usual:..
.. Like Earth itself, America’s regional and international problems are intricately networked ..
.. and they can all be ameliorated by accelerating the development of tomorrow’s global energy economy today.
More jobs, less waste, annihilation averted.
Seems like easy street, right?
Wrong..”
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