A message from Dave Boundy, campaign manager of the Repower America campaign.
I just want to yell at somebody.
We’re in the middle of the one of the worst environmental crises in the history of our country. And a minority of Senators in the pocket of fossil fuel interests are blocking any action in the immediate future on a bill that limits carbon pollution and helps solve the climate crisis.
Instead, it looks likely that the Senate will vote on a narrow oil spill response bill that only includes minor energy provisions — and completely fails to address the underlying causes of the climate crisis and fossil fuel catastrophes like the oil spill.
Make sure your Senators know that band-aid measures are unacceptable — and that you’re disappointed and not going away. Join Repower America and pledge to call your Senators this Tuesday when they’re back in Washington. Tell them that you and millions of Repower America supporters won’t give up until our country takes leadership on climate change and clean energy.
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Once you sign up, we’ll email you on Tuesday and give you everything you need to make the call.
This disappointing announcement from the Senate follows what could only be described as a shock and awe campaign by corporate polluters. The oil and gas industry spent $213 million lobbying in this Congress alone.*
Apparently, that’s what it costs to block action on this crucial issue.
But stopping debate doesn’t just benefit big oil and dirty coal. It also robs Americans of the opportunity to reap the benefits of clean energy, including:
- Creating millions of new American jobs
- Ending our addiction to oil and dirty fossil fuels
- Addressing the threat of climate change
- Strengthening our national security
We need to change this storyline.
This is not the future I want to leave my kids and future generations. Like every parent, I want to provide them a world with better opportunities — and a healthy, prosperous planet is non-negotiable.
Remind our leaders of our priorities, our values and our resolve. Join me today in pledging to call your Senators.
Sign up and make the pledge here.
Then stay tuned for our Tuesday email with calling instructions.
I am signing up to make a pledge to ensure that senators know that I do not want a band aid approach to resolving environmental hazards. By the way, the senators want to vote wisely….how do they expect to breathe if they vote to endanger our environment?
[...] Just plain wrong [...]
As long as we have a two party system where they divide and conquer we will never have a chance to change government.
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How long have we been keeping accurate temperatures of the climate? Not that long.
If we take our own body temp for 1 second in our entire lifetime then that would be the equivalent of this climate change farce. For as long as the earth has been around we have only been taking its’ temperature for a second of its’ entire life. Who knows what the temp was when dinosaurs roamed. Who knows what the temp was when Adam & Eve took the first bite of the forbidden fruit. No one does. Draw a long line on a piece of paper and make that the time line of the earth. At the very end of the line is when we’ve been taking temps of the earth.
We can’t scientifically say that we have caused anything because we haven’t been keeping accurate records of when man first populated the earth.
Carbon Taxes won’t fix the problem. It will only weaken the economy. How are taxes suppose to fix it? It will only line the pockets of the greedy.
Al…give back your Oscar. Give back your Nobel Peace Prize & the $1 million dollar prize that came with it. You did not deserve it. You did not earn it. You fabricated all of this to make yourself even more rich. The truth will come out, Al.
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(On Repower America site)
If you want to reduce the oil use Just put a $.50 or $1.00 tax on road diesel and gas. This will reduce congestion and pollution like when we were paying $4.00 per gallon. The money could be used to electrify our Trains and light rail. This would not be popular but effective.
It’s just plain wrong that Congress keeps putting first one thing and then another ahead of climate protection. This has been going on now since the Nixon and Carter administrations. But it’s also just plain wrong that Al Gore and the climate protection not-for-profits refuse to communicate with those who have developed innovative new and novel “Trickle Up” concepts to address our critical energy and environmental problems. It’s like they don’t really want any viable solutions so that they can keep milking this problem for as long as they can and for all its worth.
see http://aaecorp.com/ceo.html and http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/for-the-worlds-ills-trickle-up-solutions/?hp
“We already have.” Cantwell and Collins already have a bipartisan bill, the CLEAR Act. Easy to explain in 39 pages, with a $1,100 rebate to Americans. The Senate can’t sell that bill?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i10hDOGeCvw
See the video advert and read their explanation in the WAPost.
A cap-and-dividend way to a cleaner nation and more jobs
By Maria Cantwell and Susan Collins Friday, June 18, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/17/AR2010061704564.html
There has been much talk recently about whether Republicans and Democrats in Washington can produce a bipartisan clean-energy and jobs bill. The answer is: We already have. We are leading a bipartisan effort to put a lid on carbon pollution and in so doing unleash a massive investment in clean-energy technology. If we can tackle this issue in a predictable, transparent and free-market way, we can create millions of high-paying jobs while limiting the worst effects of climate change and reducing both our dependence on foreign oil and the risk of another oil spill.
Sorry folks, I want clean renewable energy as much as anyone. The problem is that you cannot change the laws of physics. Affordable renewable clean energy that can be produced on the scale that the US needs simply does not exist. It’s pure fantasy.
Will we get there? Yes, but these crackpots who think we have it now are just scam artists. Do your own research and see for yourself.
IT’S TIME TO MARCH ON WASHINGTON. The time for letters and phone calls is past. Let’s create a media spectacle that can’t be ignored. There are certainly enough of us to do it. I’ll go, and I’ll bring my kids, too. It’s unacceptable that a Democratic president and Congress can’t pass a serious climate bill in this, the warmest summer on record, with all the fossil fuel debacles we’ve had already this year. BUT IT NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW. If we wait until after Republicans win majorities in Congress the cause is lost for another 4-6 years. Lead us, Al. The time has come.
@ Lori
We might have only been around for a fraction of the Earth’s existence but it doesn’t mean we can’t have an impact on the earth’s climate. It’s basic math; if you burn in a century what it took hundreds of millions of years to create then something bad will most definitely happen. And we can document these changes and compare them to the history of earth’s climate, it’s called paleoclimatology. And if that’s just so bogus science then I guess I’m wasting my college years for nothing.
@ Bill
We most certainly do have the technology to implement renewables on a national scale. Can it be done over night? Of course not; it’s gonna take a while. However, until an overwhelming demand is there, it won’t happen, and sadly people just don’t care unless it affects them immediately and directly; so I agree, the prospect of this happening any time soon isn’t took bright.
@ Craig
You’re absolutely right. If we were paying $10 a gallon for gas like they do in Europe, people wouldn’t be so eager to hop into their big SUVs. But it’s the American way of life, and people would rather drive to the grocery store than take the 10 minute walk.
Ultimately, change will never come unless the majority of the people demand it. But just because the chances are slim doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push hard for a greener future. And so what if this whole climate change is a big hoax like some say and we create a BETTER WORLD for nothing?
Bill said:
“Affordable renewable clean energy that can be produced on the scale that the US needs simply does not exist. It’s pure fantasy.”
Key words: “that the US needs”.
No Bill, you really mean what the US people have got used to and want to keep. A change of lifestyle and the real need for power could be reduced. But the American people will not change and the Chinese and the Indian populations want to catch up.
Humanity cannot change in time. Most people like to think of themselves as kind and generous and so they may be with their families and friends. But, it ends there. Human kindness on a global scale with true empathy for everyone else and all other species is the preserve of saints. I don’t see many halos when I am walking in the street.
We’re truly doomed. Ho hum.
Kind regards
Tony Iveson
Pateley Bridge
England
When is our government finally put partisanship aside and do what is best for our planet, mankind, you and me?
I know Repower America is doing their best, and not only do I applaud them, but I have joined them in our fight for the environment and climate control, but somehow I don’t think it’s going to be enough. Before people are made aware that this is about their immediate survival, they aren’t going to want to get off the couch or open their wallets.
Humanity may very well be on the verge of extinction.
Thomas Retterbush said:
“Humanity may very well be on the verge of extinction.”
Pretty accurate so far.
Climate change – increases in temperature – the earth as organism going into a state of hyperpyrexia to kill of the disease (us).
Like any other creature, Gaia will get over her cold like she got over her earlier health problems(like asteroid strikes – that sort of thing). Give it time and she won’t even remember us. After all, do you remember the snot-nosed cold you got in fourth grade?
Humanity reduced to a minor but mildly irritating health problem. Now that is what I call justice.
Our senators, especially those in the pockets of fossil fuels or simply running scarred need to feel the heat from their constituents about inaction-blocking of climate change-clean energy legislation. It’s time they hear loud and clear, “I’m hot as hell and not going to take it anymore!”
If you think that it outragous that the gulf oil spill was allowed to happen?! Guess what? It cost $400 to get certified to help clean this mess!