Responsible Responses to Climate Change
June 30, 2009
Reading something online concerning the climate bill, I caught eye of a very well-articulated and gut-wrenching reader’s comment:
“It’s fitting that the shrinking, largely regional GOP has been leading the fight against this. Climate change skepticism , in some ways is the perfect convergence between the most rigid kind of fundamentalism and the most short-sighted version of capitalism. Confronting climate change will create new industries, new technologies, and other ways to advance the economy. The GOP clearly sees no reason to confront the future or even the world in which we live. Yet, they will be the first to complain when their entrenched interests are threatened by changes in climate.”
The latest bill that passed through the House last week, the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill, should culminate everything enclosed in that quote. It’s somewhat repulsive to think there is an opposition of such betrayal. But there always is, and those who maintain fidelity to mother Terra will be rewarded in the end. That, if nothing else, I am sure of.
