This is why I am actually so upset regarding this current bill. So, as I type this now I am also beginning to handwrite my letters to my senators for mailing tomorrow on Mr. Gore’s birthday (happy birthday) ;-) to tell them the need we now have to move to a clean affordable renewable energy future, not only to prolong the tipping point in our climate balance we are now precariously close to but also for the general health of our citizens and environment. Coal ash spills, mercury poisoning, toxic water, polluted air, poisoned land… these are all effects of burning fossil fuels as well as the sicknesses they cause and the global warming they exacerbate and it is time we move on for the safety and health of our children and theirs. It is simply the logical moral thing to do.

So when you see me criticize the Senate on this bill it isn’t because I don’t agree with Mr. Gore on this. I simply wish this organization would in some way make it known that the parts of their bill currently that do not address CO2 emissions reductions adequately and that cater to the very industries polluting this planet are wrong. There is absolutely no reason why this bill shouldn’t be based on what scientists state needs to be done and be able to be passed. “Healthcare reform” if that’s what you want to call it was passed without one Republican vote. There is then no excuse regarding climate change any longer. If there is any time when doing this right was the best time, THIS IS IT. If this inadequate lackluster bill that is currently sitting in the Senate winds up being all we get even with the momentum they supposedly gathered after passing their insurance care bill, then I’m sorry, but I will then work to see them voted out. You can count on that.