The Senate needs to listen to these veterans:
Enough words have been spoken in Washington, with none as powerful as what these vets have to say. Let's keep it simple and straight. Politicians have talked for years about the link between foreign oil and global terrorism.
And these veterans are doing their duty once again when they remind politicians in Washington that it's not "tough" to vote for legislation that creates jobs, cuts pollution, and strengthens our national security -- what's tough is what happens when we don't and our troops shoulder that awful burden instead.
And it's true. Don't believe me? The Pentagon recently released their quadrennial defense review, and they included the instability from climate change as a factor that could cost the lives of the men and women who serve in our armed forces.
The Center for Naval Analysis brought together a blue-ribbon panel of generals and admirals who concluded that "climate change is a serious national security threat." And General Anthony Zinni said flatly that if we don't deal with climate change now, "we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives."
And these veterans know it already does.
The politicians don't have it tough. The troops do. End of story. Now the Senate needs to do its job -- for them.
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To deal with this we send in our military to calm things down. This is a very temporary patch for a long term problem. You don't hold a gun on a hungry man and expect him not to hate you.
We like to think that our military is the ultimate solution to everyone's problems. Of coarse their not. Rather than attacking the symptoms, we need to be working on the solutions.
instead of the Terrorists they hire?
Cut off the MONEY
and no more Terrorism
now Economic Terrorists is a different matter
http://www.postcarbon.org/article/80902-food-security-and-peak-oil-a
and carbon negative.
False.
all the "Natural" Gas is gone.
all we have now is incredibly environmentally damaging Fracked gas.
The only way forward is to turn K Street into a parking lot. Before we can break U.S. dependence on oil we have to break the dependence of Congress on corporate money.
Everything else follows. Publicly funded elections now.
China is going to import the material from the moon...why can't we do the same?
Thorium nuclear power is even strong enough to burn its own toxic waste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r_ICauyyWs