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Gore Calls For Aggressive Timetable For Climate Change Bill


Al Gore, in a speech yesterday in Copenhagen, called for an aggressive timetable to pass a climate change bill by April 2010 (or the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day). Good idea or too ambitious?

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**I should mention that while not a consultant for Gore, I do consult for the Alliance for Climate Protection


Cliff Schecter December 16, 2009 - 3:31pm
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The End of Idealism; the end of everything...

...Watching Democracy Now, live from Copenhagen, is like watching the final blow against activism. We're now irrelevant to the future direction of the world. Only the wealthy and powerful have a say in the future course of the world. Time to wake up to reality; it ain't beautiful. Here's a link to today's show;

http://www.democracynow.org/

Especially poignant is Sunita Narain's commentary.

"We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks." ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

Celsius 233 December 16, 2009 - 8:42pm
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