Kucinich: We’re reducing earth to a ’smoking, glowing, oily mess’

[NorthCarolina]

By Sahil Kapur
Friday, May 21st, 2010

As gallons of oil continue to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) invoked God on the House floor Friday in an impassioned 90-second plea to end our dependence on fossil fuels and preserve "mother earth" with a clean energy economy.

"The creator gave us a paradise," began Kucinich, "and we, appropriating the power of nature's God, are turning our planet into a smoking, glowing, oily mess." Our "reliance on oil, coal and nuclear," he continued, is "plundering mother earth of her treasures" and "threatens our health, our security, our economy, our nation and the world."

Pointing to the "destruction of our natural environment" by way of the enormous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he added: "Must we wait until all coastal areas are ruined – all fish, all birds, all animals are injured and killed – before we realize that drilling presents a threat to the fragile ecology of life?"

It was the kind of fiery speech, constructed with hyperbole to maximize impact, suitable for a whole-hearted embrace by environmentalists, who were likely to blush with pride over Kucinich’s equally fervent admonishment of the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to ward off a societal shift to clean energy.

"It is not as though there are no alternatives," Kucinich said. "Markets and industries have conspired for years to shelve the massive introduction of wind and solar technologies."

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Link: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0521/firedup-kucinich-reducing-earth-smoking-glowing-oily-mess/

[CountAllVotes]

1. too bad DK is not our President

he would have done something by now, I do believe that. He'd be after BP big time is my thought.

Here is a kick for Cong. Kucinich.

:kick: & recommend.

[Divine Discontent]

6. How true... I want to hear Pres. Obama say the same thing about what is being done to our world

through GREED.

I expected stronger responses by this pres. to many things. Everything's cautiously done and half-hearted. I want as much fervor over how thing are corrected in this country as the Lame Administration did in destroying it for 8 years! Too much working with the other side, and working with the corporations by members of our party...

[salguine]

7. It's hard to talk with your lips permanently affixed to Wall Street's ass.

[Divine Discontent]

9. any way we can pull them off? or is that a surgical procedure known as 2012? ha

[NorthCarolina]

8. He's a DLC "New Dem". Therefore, from my perspective, he IS the other side. n/t

[villager]

2. yes, but it's too "radical, "impractical," or not "politically savvy" to actually do anything

...about it...

[TransitJohn]

3. K&R

Kick for visibility, R to conteract the unrecs anything DK-related will inevitably draw on DLC Underground.

[NorthCarolina]

4. Ha! "DLC Underground"....good one....you nailed it there.

:rofl:

[bananas]

5. k&r nt

[nightrain]

10. thanks for that--"DLC Underground"!! LOL. More and more true.

[IndianaGreen]

12. DLC Underground

Bingo!

[azul]

11. Terrorists, criminals, traitors! Mirror please.

"Markets and industries have conspired for years to shelve the massive introduction of wind and solar technologies."

We all killed our country and are killing the world by driving around in circles and eating burgers and fighting for oil wealth: complicit. It tastes too good and is too much bloody fun driving to demand alternatives?

We are fiddling while Home burns. Wake-up call from your Mother falling on slime-stopped ears?

Oh yea, that's not my Mother Earth talking, that's the wild and crazy Dennis Kucinich. La la la...