So CUTE! George Shultz Urges Congress, Including Republican Compatriots, To Act On Climate

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George Shultz, preeminent adviser to Republican presidents, now at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, heads to Washington Friday to urge action on climate change. Shultz, an economist, has immersed himself in energy policy for the past few years and is a leading proponent of a carbon tax. He traded his hybrid for an all-electric car.

“I have three, soon to be four, great-grandchildren,” Shultz has explained. “I’ve got to do what I can to see that they have a decent world. And if we let this go on and on the way it’s going right now, they’re not going to have one. Getting control of carbon is right at the heart of the problem.”

It will be Shultz’s first visit to the Capitol in 20 years. He is working with Partnership for a Secure America, a bipartisan foreign policy think tank that compiled a climate change letter signed by other leading Republicans such as Tom Ridge, Richard Lugar and Carla Hills. Lots of Republicans are having doubts about the party position on climate.

Shultz is concerned that climate change is a “threat multiplier” to national security that will foment global resource shortages and political instability. A raft of reports from the Pentagon and other agencies have reached similar conclusions.

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http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/03/05/republican-george-schultz-to-urge-congress-to-act-on-climate-change/

[NYC_SKP]

1. Wow! (nt)

[jonthebru]

2. CUTE is the right word.

George Shultz is so naive as to think that even someone as eminent as he will actually be listened by the elected politicians who are owned lock stock and barrel by the energy companies.
Sad but true. His best influence and effort should be to assist in moving along the movetoamend.org plan to get rid of the Citizens United decision and the anticorruptionact.org effort to gain control of lobbyists and return our democracy to its citizens, who are people.

His efforts are correct in that climate change along with over population are the two most important long term issues facing us.

[CRH]

3. I've got news for Mr. Shultz and "threat multiplier", ...

It is no longer a national security problem and existing threats are not from political instability. Mr. Shultz's old enemies can be forgotten. The future and existing threat is degradation of a liveable environment, something his past politics have thwarted at every turn in pursuit of world domination of resources.

It is no longer a question of National Security, it is a question of global environmental security in pursuit of a living biosphere supporting humanity.

Drop a bomb on that you duplicitous ass hole.