14 comments on New Jersey's Global Warming Response Act Bill Signing
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It is good to see effort at the local and state level, but this, like almost everything else, is too little and too late.
I'm not saying this is a bad move, but these things are more of an opening gambit, and we won't see serious action until something awful happens. Katrina? That was bad, but we need awful to get us moving. New Orleans, again and harder, a big one hitting New York, gasoline below MOL for a good long while, arctic melting fed CrAzYsToRmS in the Pacific Northwest burying the whole area for three months straight the winter after, and then a cracking good drought in the Midwest ruining the corn crop as another whopper hurricane season gets everything it missed the year prior.
We got lucky in a way, with the el niño in the summer of 2006 breaking up the Atlantic hurricane season but in retrospect I think we're all going to see this was breathing room for the Bush administration that was wasted in more denial rather than meaningful preparation.
SacredCowTipper
Neal,
I must respectfully disagree. The nature of almost all politics and politicians is that they react to the mood of the people rather than engage in planning and act through a motive to help the world. The current national administration is a great example of this. I have no doubt that they thought they were acting in the best interests of the United States when they decided to conquer Iraq.Cheney and Bush thought physical control of the oil resources in Iraq would secure the economic future of the people of the US by allowing the car companies to sell more and larger SUV's and the big oil companies to hugely increase their reserves, meanwhile giving all the Halliburton employees's jobs. So they lied, murdered a million Iraqiis or so, and manipulated the US electoral process, just like all the other totalitarians.
But now the local action by Americans is starting to pay off in ending the war. Its not the "wonderful" media reports or the Administations awakening thats going to end the war, but rather the slowly growing public opinion in spite of the media reports causing this sea-change. And its going to have to be the same on global warming and peak oil. I reccomend that you read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" as an antidote to your views of change, ar at any rate, to get a different perspective on change.
Bob Ebersole