How to Fight Climate Change, Create Jobs and Make America Safer

Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer today introduced a Senate bill to address climate change.  The Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act (CEJAPA).   This bill is badly needed to immediately address climate change, but it is a bill that aspires to accomplish that mission in a manner that addresses other important issues Americans face.

This bill creates jobs.  It creates American jobs that are sustainable.  It helps to establish a real infrastructure of long-term, green jobs in the United States.  This is one of the most important collateral benefits of this bill.  It helps to address our rising unemployment numbers and it supports the creation of vital new businesses to fuel the American economy with activity that is better for the environment and better for our communities.  

This bill makes America more secure.  According to a poll taken on September 1, 2009 by the Benenson Strategy Group,  Nearly two thirds of the American people believe urgent action is necessary to stop the flow of billions of dollars to hostile foreign regimes.  We are hemmoraging money in a way that damages our economy and provides financial resources for our enemies.  This puts our national security seriously at risk .  CEJAPA will move us toward energy independence and direct much of that outflow of money back into the United States.

This bill will reduce greenhouse gases and force changes on the fossil fuel industry that will begin to address the planetary scale damage that their business model inflicts on us.   The clean energy majority in this country has awoken to the fact that we must not continue to degrade our atmosphere if we have are to have a hope of arresting the damage already underway.  A broad cross section of the American public, including our parents, our children, teachers, veterans, business leaders, faith leaders, farmers, sportsmen, and hard working wage earners support the goals of this legislation.  This is mainstream legislation applying a set of mainstream, common sense solutions to a serious problem that no amount of unhinged, cable news rhetoric can address.

Let your Senator know your support this bill. In the weeks to come, there will be many attempts to strengthen and weaken this bill and fossil fuel industry, with their massive financial resources, will try to drown out our voices.  They very nearly were successful in defeating ACES in the House through the use of threats, intimidation, massive amounts of lobbying money, deception and fake grass roots activity.   Don’t let them get away with it in the Senate.  They will be even more fierce in trying to weaken or defeat this bill and we and our Senators cannot allow them to do so.

 

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Comments

[TxAggie]

Boxer and Kerry in cahoots, that in and of it self is enough to make most hard working (and thinking) Americans run the other way. Yes, it is foolish to send so much of our dollars to foreign governments who don't like us regardless of how much Obama kow tows and apologizes. It is RIDICUOUUS that our politicians have allowed us to be in the predicimanet we are in from an energy standpoint. To get out of it we do not cripple our economy for the sake of "Green" jobs (what is that by the way?). We get out of it by firing the politicians (the above 3 included) that got us in this mess and we develop our own resources in this country. SImple enough. Fire'em all!!!!