If there is one thing that the failure of cap-and-trade has taught us, it is that trying to win this battle by lobbying elites behind closed doors is a disastrously losing strategy. Not only did it fail to deliver even weak climate legislation in the U.S., it made climate action look like just another opportunity for cronyism, helping to alienate a large sector of the public.
As 350.org has known all along, the real task is to build the kind of mass movement that politicians cannot afford to ignore. That means showing how making the deep emission cuts that science demands is not some dour punishment that will destroy our economy (as the Koch-funded right is perpetually claiming) but rather our best chance of fixing an economic system that is failing us on every level. Shifting to renewable energy and re-localizing our economies could create millions of good new jobs, while leaving us with cleaner cities and a healthier food system. And as 350.org’s Global Work Party showed, a big part of averting climate chaos involves rebuilding and strengthening our frayed communities – and that is a joyful process.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Moral spending not important?
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It amazes and shames me to see how godless so many of us are. That people like Mr. Reid believe moral issues, civic and moral spending has nothing to do with our budget!!?? That how and what we spend our money on is directly correspondent to what we support and believe in!
Pathetic, disgraceful and sinful we are to write off issues of our federal funding abortion in America as a non-issue in coming to a spending budget. What bunch of godlessness that is rampant. I know because I am waking up to this behavior within myself. And yet so many attack people standing for their moral christ-centered beliefs as if it has no ground. But this persecution of Christian beliefs is the way of the world. But God will prevail. And Christ will prevail through us, we the believers whom Christ lives.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2F2011%2F04%2F07%2F1995-government-shutdown-policy-riders%2F&h=0ddcb
It amazes and shames me to see how godless so many of us are. That people like Mr. Reid believe moral issues, civic and moral spending has nothing to do with our budget!!?? That how and what we spend our money on is directly correspondent to what we support and believe in!
Pathetic, disgraceful and sinful we are to write off issues of our federal funding abortion in America as a non-issue in coming to a spending budget. What bunch of godlessness that is rampant. I know because I am waking up to this behavior within myself. And yet so many attack people standing for their moral christ-centered beliefs as if it has no ground. But this persecution of Christian beliefs is the way of the world. But God will prevail. And Christ will prevail through us, we the believers whom Christ lives.
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