Bill Scher: Framing The Climate Crisis Solution (TomPaine.com)

[marmar]

from TomPaine.com:


Framing The Climate Crisis Solution
Submitted by Bill Scher on July 5, 2007 - 3:51pm.


Saturday’s Live Earth global event will hopefully take the global warming issue beyond raising awareness and towards rallying support around a comprehensive solution.

As Eric Alterman and I said in our recent bloggingheads.tv segment, the film “An Inconvenient Truth” has already accomplished the goal of solidifying consensus that there's a human-created climate crisis. Global warming deniers have been effectively marginalized. The remaining challenge is the solution.

Two recent essays point us in the right direction.

One is by Al Gore, the driving force behind Live Earth, from Sunday’s New York Times. The other is from Peter Teague and Jeff Navin in The American Prospect.

The two pieces may seem at first blush to be at odds, but in fact they both offer critical counsel and complement each other well.

Gore’s op-ed seeks to build support for the number one item on the Live Earth Pledge, a global agreement to cap greenhouse gas emissions: “we should demand that the United States join an international treaty within the next two years that cuts global warming pollution by 90 percent in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy Earth.”

Teague and Navin, however, caution against emphasizing regulatory measures, arguing that would raise fears of higher energy costs on working-class Americans. They recommend emphasis on “large-scale, long-term investments” of “billions of taxpayer dollars to speed the transition to a clean energy economy” which will “create jobs and economic opportunity.” ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/framing_climate_crisis_solution?tx=3

[Mr Rabble]

1. Let's hope that our legislators "get it".

We need a few bumper sticker talking points, and those suggested here would certainly work.