"Mother Earth has many enemies/there's much work to be done/yeah"

-Neil Young

"The video appearance by Obama confirmed Schwarzenegger's role as a global leader on climate change"

If Arnie is such a leader on climate change, why is campaigning for the party of climate change? Progressive California wants to reverse climate change and he's married to a Kennedy. That could be why he's taken up the climate change banner.

Arnold was elected on his celeb status and his hard Republican stance on the popular anti-immigration issue. He is not a progressive, he's a Reaganite.

That said, no matter what his reasons for taking action, it's a positive step that might usher him to higher office if the election law changes.

Chris_DeGetmon

I am not supposing that they will do any like what I've suggested.

Instead, obviously, I'm indicating what they would need to do if they chose to make a break with what you rightly call the 'unsustainalbe practices of the past.'

Ecology-hating officials of the Bush era have worsened [and created so many new) environmental emergencies during their insane reign that we face now a direly out of control, multi-disaster scenario, bearing down on us from all sides and from many unsuspected dimensions and synergies.

Besides immediately implementing energy policies that veer us away from use of atmosphere-threatening fuels and processes, Obama & the Dems need to generate their own counter-tsunami in the eco-regulatory agencies.

Rapid mass firings are required of the 4 to 5-deep, upper level administrators at EPA and at least seven other major federal eco-regulatory agencies -- virtually all of which positions are now held by either corrupt scientists, or regulation-hostile, former industry executives, and/or by passionately anti-environmental legal theorists in the mould of James Watt.
It is no exaggeration to say that the balance of Bush's appointees to these health and safety-protecting agencies are functional psychopaths -- so there shoujld be no hesitation on Obama's part to kick them out decisively and with absolutely no apologies.

One of the most most appalling yet still-ignored aspects of the Bush-gutted federal regulatory apparatus is in the area of consumer product safety and toxics registry/testing --especially the now-allowed, easy introduction and/or re-introduction of known hormone mimicing chemicals, carcinogens, and potent neuro-toxins into both the food and the consumer product-manufacturing processes of the US.

If Obama and the congressional Dems begin to do their rightful job in this crucial area of human concern, then they will, in short order, also have to finally announce a public moral indictment of the risk and damage to day-today human health which the neocon philosophy of government has allowed and so insanely affirmed for so many years in the name of a relatively few people's monetary profits.

Many people are hypnotized enough that they don't know what to think about the so-called larger, global environmental issues.
But if it can be proved to them that they're being personally poisoned on a daily basis, in consumer products, by the same sick politicoes who tell them not to worry about the bigger environmental picture, maybe overview connections in their heads might then be more easily made.

Appalachia can't stand more of Presidebt Bush's prosperity and progress, Wise County, Virginia is becoming a toxic waste dump, third world America. END MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL ! http://www.wisecountyissues.com

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Same policies. Only the names have been changed to hide the guilty.

The term "clean coal" is also known as "Green Washing" in other words, this article is propagating a political and environmental fraud. The coal industry repudiated the technology and Green Peace calls it false given their numerous studies. Furthermore, Obama had no problem with a corporate welfare Bill of 700Billion asserting that the money would be used to help mortgage holders dig out of a hole created by predatory lending practices. Turns out the money is being used to prop up the fat cats, enfranchised elites running the global economic show.

Obama's 150 Billion for climate change is chump change to the magnitude of the problems and measured against his corporate welfare agenda dwarfs the importance of a far greater issue. More jobs can be created to transition away from the anti environmental forces of the past represented by the American auto industry. Moreover, most of that proposed 150 Billion for energy will be used for unsustainable sources, i.e., coal, nuclear and bio. Whatever crumbs that fall off the table to sustainable sources (Wind, Solar, Geothermal, or Tidal) will be offset by the negative impact created via the unsustainable sources. All this, of course, driven by special interests and corporate hegemony to which Obama is married. Cap and Trade does nothing but push the problems into the future, what is required is a carbon tax to punish the abusers. Even Al Gore is against Cap and Trade and pushes a carbon tax for meaningful reduction of emissions. Any one who thinks their projections for reduced carbon emissions will be met via cap and trade is sadly living in a dream world.

Environmentalism is no longer a spectator sport. Ask a real environmentalist what the politicos are doing behind closed doors including organizing the last Buffalo hunt on the old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest.

This article is just another brain washing tool brought to you by/ and on behalf of, the corporate elite.