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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (16882)	10/14/2007 12:03:36 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

"We must work together to halt global warming and protect our natural resources to ensure our children inherit a healthy planet," Edwards said. Protect them from what ????

To: longnshort who wrote (16882)	10/14/2007 12:10:56 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Haven't decided if I can vote for him yet. Not quite sure how much he learned from his Iraq vote. Edwards on the Issues A look at John Edwards' environmental platform and record 31 Jul 2007 Updated 09 Oct 2007 During his single term representing North Carolina in the U.S. Senate, John Edwards received a middling 63 percent rating from the League of Conservation Voters -- a score lower than might have been expected because he missed a number of key votes while campaigning for president and vice president in 2003 and 2004. In his current campaign for president, Edwards has been more aggressive on the issue of climate change than other Democratic candidates, who've ended up following his lead. Read an interview with John Edwards by Grist and Outside. grist.org Key Points First presidential candidate to call for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, in March 2007. Would launch a cap-and-trade program in 2010 to bring emissions down 15 percent by 2020, as an interim step to the 2050 goal. First major presidential candidate to make his campaign carbon-neutral, in March 2007. He's buying carbon offsets to neutralize the effects of his campaign travel and office energy use, while also cutting energy consumption at campaign offices, buying recycled-paper office products, and encouraging staff to walk to work and take other energy-saving measures. (Tom Vilsack was actually the first candidate to go carbon neutral, but he dropped out of the race in February.) Introduced a detailed energy plan before any of the other candidates. Proposes a $13-billion-a-year New Energy Economy Fund that would invest in renewable energy, efficiency, carbon-capture technology, and cleaner cars; help entrepreneurs start new clean businesses; encourage Americans to buy more-efficient appliances and save energy; and help workers in carbon-intensive industries transition to new job fields. The fund would be financed by the auctioning of permits to emit greenhouse gases and the repeal of some oil-industry tax breaks. Calls for a ban on new coal power plants unless they're compatible with carbon-capture and -storage technology. Opposes nuclear power. Opposes government investment in coal-to-liquid technologies. grist.org

To: longnshort who wrote (16882)	10/15/2007 2:55:52 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 36917

"I suppose that Edwards is the poster boy for Yuppie Populism. He is Siddharta, pampered, insolated, and appalled to discover that there are people who are sick, poor, ignorant, deluded, or otherwise unhappy outside of the palace walls. And he has just the answer: elect Edwards! Why we should suppose he has any very good idea about how to cure these various ills is a little more vague, but it must be that these problems are someone's fault, and we should take back the country from the malefactors, whomever they should be. Or was that Kerry? Another problem, aren't they pretty much babbling the same thing?" Message 19838022