Our Lives Are Threatened by Rich and Powerful Entities -- Here's How We Can Fight Back

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Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein

Not for forty years has there been such a stretch of bad news for environmentalists in Washington.

Last month in the House, the newly empowered GOP majority voted down a resolution stating simply that global warming was real: they’ve apparently decided to go with their own versions of physics and chemistry.

This week in the Senate, the biggest environmental groups were reduced to a noble, bare-knuckles fight merely to keep the body from gutting the Clean Air Act, the proudest achievement of the green movement. The outcome is still unclear; even several prominent Democrats are trying to keep the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.

And at the White House? The president who boasted that his election marked the moment when ‘the oceans begin to recede’ instead introduced an energy plan heavy on precisely the carbon fuels driving global warming. He focused on ‘energy independence,’ a theme underscored by his decision to open 750 million tons of Wyoming coal to new mining leases. That’s the equivalent of running 3,000 new power plants for a year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/our-lives-are-under-threa_b_846871.html

[northoftheborder]

1. go to 350.org for the rest of article

[prairierose]

2. Thank you for supplying an alternative website...

to read this article. I really did not want to click on that huffpo link.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Ditto.