Originally posted by: Modelworks
Originally posted by: eskimospy
The quote about him being a 'revolutionary' is being taken out of context the same way that Barack Obama's admissions of being an angry kid were taken out of context. Why would you mention his position in the early 1990's (which was most certainly marxist), and ignore the position that he changed to only a few years later that he still holds today, one of free market, capitalistic environmentalism.
What has he done to prove his views have changed ? Nothing. We are supposed to believe that he somehow radically changed his views from the past 20 years in just a few months ?
The quote about clean coal is right on the money. The quote is him talking about how 'clean coal' does not actually exist, and he's 100% correct. No coal plants even come remotely close to being clean. If you hear the quote in context he is talking about how the idea is just as fanciful as pulling cars by unicorn.
What is he going to use ? Where does it come from ? Coal produces over 50% of the nations power.
As for your idea that he's just a 'complainer that offers no solutions',
he wrote an entire book on how to put his eco-capitalist ideas into practice. To pull a quote from the wiki on it:
W]e are entering an era during which our very survival will demand invention and innovation on a scale never before seen in the history of human civilization. Only the business community has the requisite skills, experience, and capital to meet that need. On that score, neither government nor the nonprofit and voluntary sectors can compete, not even remotely.
So in the end, our success and survival as a species are largely and directly tied to the new eco-entrepreneurs ? and the success and survival of their enterprises. Since almost all of the needed eco-technologies are likely to come from the private sector, civic leaders and voters should do all that can be done to help green business leaders succeed. That means, in large part, electing leaders who will pass bills to aid them. We cannot realistically proceed without a strong alliance between the best of the business world ?and everyone else.
What in the world is wrong with that?
From his book
Now it is time to head back down the right road again. If the federal
government shifts its policy to fully back the green economy,
the private sector can create millions more jobs in new clean and
green industries. A smart climate bill?which mandates reductions
in greenhouse gases and ends our oil dependence?would not wreck
the economy, but save it. It would eventually break the back of stagfl
ation. It would be an economic stimulus package on steroids.
But no single group can win that monumental victory in Washington
by itself. Certainly, affl uent, mostly white environmental
lobbying groups cannot win a comprehensive victory on their own.
No top-down agenda, dictated to society by a perceived eco-elite,
will win acceptance in a country as proud and diverse as ours. Any
kind of elitist approach will fuel resentment and generate a ?backlash
alliance? between polluters and poor people. For the sake of the
planet, the effort to green the economy must be owned by a much
bigger and broader coalition. Most environmental groups know
this, but adjusting to true partnership with very different people
may not be easy for some of them.
There is reason to worry. Here we must face honestly some hard
and painful truths about a sad history of racial blind spots and class
exclusion in some parts of the mainstream environmental movement.
I raise the point not to pick at old scabs, but to help avoid new
injuries. The truth is that even the greatest ecological victories?
from the Wilderness Act to the establishment of the Superfund?
could have been better engineered to involve, include, and help
more people.
What is he going to replace coal and oil with ? They do need replacing that is true, but start placing mandates and watch the economy improve ? What economists has said that ?
His book is endorsed by Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi , that more than speaks to its content.
Have you read the solutions that he does offer ?
We can do it if you take money from prisons and give it to green jobs , okay, but what do we do with the prisoners ? His idea, "we give them green jobs", what ? So we take murderers and thieves and do what with them ? Do prisoners even recycle ?
"The best answer to our ecological crisis also responds to our socio-economic crisis The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities are not more police and prisons, but ecologically sound economic development. And that same path can lead us to a new green economy."
So if we teach kids to recycle they will not use drugs , rob stores, or commit crimes ? Damn , lets get started right away, we can make all the police patrol recycle bins to make sure there is no paper in with the plastic .
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