Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
With @HillaryClinton and the Pope on board, the climate movement has wind in its sails
May the Force be with the US in trying to halt climate change
Tweet:
With @HillaryClinton and the Pope on board, the climate movement has wind in its sails http://gu.com/p/4cje6/stw #climatechange #wipolitics
With Clinton and the Pope on board, the climate movement has wind in its sails
Tuesday’s announcement that Hillary Clinton opposes Keystone XL might not be a miracle, but it’s a step in the right direction
Tuesday 22 September 2015 17.49 EDT
....Early on Tuesday morning, Divest-Invest announced at press conference in New York that the new total of assets in endowments and portfolios divesting from fossil fuels has topped $2.6t. That’s a 50-fold increase on last year’s number – and the year before that, we had precisely one college on board, with an endowment of $13 million.
That news might have passed somewhat unnoticed except that a handsome lad by the name of Leonardo DeCaprio announced at the same time that he was divesting his own assets and those of his charitable foundation – which for some reason seemed of interest to our planet’s news media, go figure.
And then, literally as the papal plane landed, Hillary Clinton completed her long-running metamorphosis on the Keystone pipeline. Before the pipeline review even began, many long years ago, she said she was “inclined to approve” this fuse to one of the planet’s biggest carbon bombs. But as KXL turned into the defining environmental fight of the decade, she went mum. And now, faced with the clear understanding that climate will be a defining issue in next year’s election, she came out in firm opposition to the plan.
It’s not really divine intervention that moved the former Secretary of State (who had originally gamed the State Department review process to approve the project). It was hard hard organizing – thousands went to jail, hundreds of thousands marched, millions wrote public comments. And that work has gone far beyond this one pipeline: its helped turn almost every fossil fuel infrastructure project on the planet into a full-on battle................
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/hillary-clinton-unveils-her-masterplan-to-make-us-clean-energy-superpower
31 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
= new reply since forum marked as read
Key sentence from the article:
"And now, faced with the clear understanding that climate will be a defining issue in next year’s election, she came out in firm opposition to the plan."
Her decision was nothing more than a political calculation, not a conviction. But hey, I guess whatever works, for the moment.
because I'm sorry, I don't think it's going to help her look more hip with the young folks.
