The media, the senate, and climate change

We all have seen the advertisements from the war implications to the anti oil companies and the ethanol. (Climate Change debate) The media however has always given wrong information. If someone said the sky is blue and 2 people said the sky was green the media would say, is the sky green 2/3 of people say yes you decide. The sky is blue facts are facts C02 traps heat that was proven over 200 years ago this is like arguing with gravity. (Paraphrasing Al Gore, the gravity part) If media is here to inform then they should be giving actual information. It doesn’t matter if all our politicians are deniers, science is the truth the deniers have no idea what their talking about.

Deniers prey on people by spreading misinformation through media advertisement blogs in other words propaganda. Propaganda networks Fox News and Newsmax (others like it are the same) and as some righties suggest blogs like mine. But when denying is not based in fact there is no basis for believing this especially when it is as serious as the future of humanity. Anarchy is what’s at stake and the future of our children and our children’s children. This is not an issue for demagoguery if you have any shred of decency then you will see the need for comprehensive Climate Change reform.
In addition to moral obligation the economic aspects are overwhelmingly in favor of comprehensive climate legislation. A cap and trade system would force energy companies to invest in clean energy causing it to be cheaper and make energy cleaner. The job killer the (R) talk about will actually add millions of jobs alone. However some of the most liberal democrats are against cap and trade such as Sherrod Brown of Ohio and in coal states and industrial states.

The Senate now has a joke of a bill not even worth talking about. However I am so outraged that I and others feel the need to let the people now. Basically the bill has protections of American people to make sure oil companies pay up and little incentives to clean energy. This is all good but what was promised was nothing less than revolution and we will expect at the least a significant change in the next 15-25 years. However in 25 years it will be 2035 and by then the technology will be decided and we should be well on our way to prosperity in a clean energy future. If we are still addicted to oil by then offshore oil drilling in waters possibly 20,000ft below the ocean surface will be not just subsidized but required. If we are still addicted to coal then we will move back to smog blasting types and poison our air and water. Make no mistake we have coal; it is oil I am worried about. (from a deniers standpoint, most however would probably deny that)

A future with coal, oil, and natural gas, is a future with unimaginably high fuel costs and unsafe food and tap water. A scenario would suggest that people from the suburbs could not get to their jobs due to high fuel cost because they and their government cannot afford fuel. This severely damage our economy by not having middle class demand for goods fall sharply and foreclosures would make homelessness skyrocket. In urban areas trade will decrease and create rising poverty which will drive poverty and all the social problems it brings. Losing vast amounts of tax revenue and rising senior population will cause governments to disband social programs resulting in more poverty and a downward spiral. This is a real danger and though it is not popular to do something today to help tomorrow. I find an old Native American saying helpful “we don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children.”

A world with clean energy would likely take awhile but some solutions without cap and trade could be necessary if we want the strongest bill possible with the necessary votes. One way is to provide large incentives for clean energy as this president and our governor (Christine Gregoire) has done already. Also a federal agency to research options put forth by the private sector while also giving grants. One such company I find promising is Nano Solar where they print solar cells on to metal creating solar energy. Subsidize machines used to make clean energy so factories can transition to making new things.

If the democrats are committed to saving our future and rising to the occasion then they will pass Climate Change reform. Remember our current path is destructive and we must change. Our future as a country our future as the world rests on what the governments of today are doing. Stay active stay involved there will be an update or just another rant. Thank you for seeing this: one more thing Sherrod Brown J.D Rockefeller, and any other senator willing to step up and rise, (this means you Lindsey Graham) do it for our children and our grandchildren.