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Climate change is not one among many issues, it is THE crisis, the greatest threat on Earth. If you have kids, you know Raffi. But Raffi is much more than a singer, songwriter, and performer. He is a children’s champion and ecology advocate, founder and chair of the Centre for Child Honouring , the name of his powerful, integrated philosophy. This essay, by Raffi, is reposted in full by permission followed by his song on global warming. Are we tweeting while Earth burns
In his State of the Union speech, Obama called for a big boost in low-carbon energy, but didn’t mention carbon, climate or warming, as I noted last night. Other people noticed, too. Matthew Hope , a researcher in American politics at the University of Bristol, found that Obama has mentioned ‘climate change’, ‘global warming’ or the ‘environment’ fewer times on average than his two predecessors, as an article today by the UK’s Guardian notes. That piece, which quotes my post, also quotes Dr. Robert J
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Brulle: “By failing to even rhetorically address climate change, Obama is mortgaging our future and further delaying the necessary work to build a…
What a difference a year makes. When Barack Obama faced Congress for his State of the Union address last year, the Democrats had their largest majority in decades, a comprehensive climate and energy bill still seemed possible, and the Deepwater Horizon rig was just weeks away from starting to drill that well in the Gulf of Mexico. One thing hasn’t changed, though: Americans are worried about jobs. And, once again jobs will undoubtedly be a big part of Obama’s speech. This year the president has an excellent opportunity to cheer the nation, to assure Americans that a prosperous ..
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America Must (Still) Be That Nation
So Joshua Green, senior editor of The Atlantic , writes a column that says of recent news that 2010 was the hottest year on record: The news highlighted one of Washington’s biggest failures over the last two years: its inability to advance climate legislation, It was also a grim reminder that things could get worse. Some crucial policy areas have always been neglected and some initiatives stalled. But rarely has a first-order concern like the nation’s climate and energy policy actually regressed — and so dramatically as we’ve seen since the last presidential election. Economist Brad DeLong writes a piece in response, “ Why Oh Why Can’t We Have a Better Press Corps? ” pointing out the blame should not be spread around to all of “Washington”: Now let’s stop right now. The inability to advance climate legislation wasn’t “Washington’s” failure: it was a failure of Republican legislators, their tame hacks and propagandists, the carbon-energy lobby, and coal-state Democratic legislators. Joshua Green knows who the culprits are as well as I do.
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