Top Seven Key Green Election Issues

The Daily Green compiled a list of the top seven key green election issues.

1. Global Warming

Both Obama and McCain agree that global warming is real, that humans are largely responsible, that unabated it is likely to have serious consequences, and that the federal government should take an active role to reduce the threat. Here's how they differ.

2. National Security

National security isn't traditionally thought of as a green issue, but the nexus of energy demand, global warming and violent extremism has made it so.

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Comments

[ilovemydoggy]

Wait a minute -- I thought King George Bush said there that global warming is a myth. What changed??

Great post today about early ecologists Scott & Helen Nearing:
http://www.Vaboomer.com

[ADVOCATE4ZPG]

The author(s) so LAMELY allow their PC blinkered, TUNNEL vision to omit the principal cause: OVERPOPULATION in the THIRD WORLD......being exported to the developed countries by INVASIVE immigration--mostly ILLEGAL!!! Even A. Gore citied it in his film......! What does it take to get the HuffPo cohort to acknowledge the reality of OVERPOPULATION? Answer: The death of the natural environment and the advent of OVERPOPULATION! The PC HuffPo cohort is so cowed by the fear of being PERCEIVED as "racially insensitive" that it will go to ANY LENGTHS to avoid admission that the Third World's problems are population-abetted!!!

[sheila]

Hmmmm. 1-6 could be completely handled by an aggressive point of use/distributed energy program, where every structure is retrofitted/built to get as close to "net zero" as possible, and many structures could be net exporters of renewable, clean energy to charge cars and other structures. Regular people like us would be GETTING PAID instead of GETTING HIJACKED BY BIG ENERGY. no centralized targets for terr'ists (like big power plants and massive powerlines), no more excessive dependence on unstable countries for oil, no more coal/fossil fuels, no eminent domain, no wilderness killoffs of millions of acres of our federal lands, hundreds of thousands of new jobs, increased property values, grid stabilization and engagement of all Americans in the process as more than angry consumers with no options.

Gee, sounds like the only "losers" in this program would be Big Oil, Big Coal, Big Nukes, Big Gas, and Big Renewables (all faces of the same beast), and every human and other species on the planet would win. So why are we letting a few billionaires act as Energy Dictators???

Feed in Tariffs, passive solar, geothermal heat exchange, storage, efficiency PV/thermal/microwind, tax breaks to humans - not Big Energy Monopolists, and all that money pouring into all those destructive programs diverted BACK TO US (venture capital, R & D, govt. incentives, etc.). Let's do this!!!