John McCain had a choice. He could have gone 'green' (or at least light green) when choosing a female Republican governor. He actually had multiple 'light green' options in front of him.
Karl Rove's minions may be smiling at the brazen gamesmanship of this pick: but if Americans fall for it, they should know all too well what to expect.
The mere fact that McCain chose Palin makes clear he does not consider global warming a priority issue. We must not ratify his dangerously flawed judgment.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told a group of college students what she thinks are the biggest issues facing our country in the coming years.
If we are to stabilize the environment, have better health, and see less hunger in the world, we can make at least one small change that will affect it all: eat a more plant-based diet.
Last week a mix of water and sanitation experts gathered for World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden to mull over the world's biggest public health crisis. The problem is that not enough people paid attention.
Your carbon footprint has a shadow: nitrogen. Unlike carbon dioxide, which scientists have long understood as a damaging green house gas, nitrogen is ...
I sometimes go to sleep at night wondering what it will take to muster the political will to begin to seriously address global warming. Historic droug...
Bush and the Republicans have thwarted attempt after attempt by Democrats to pop the speculative oil bubble and provide relief to consumers. Each time, Republicans sided with Big Oil over the American people.
When the two couples appeared on the stage with their multi-hued families, it seemed natural that white and black would be on stage together. This is how it should be, aware of color, and yet, color blind.
My disappointment comes from the fact that politicians on both sides of the aisle still don't really get that climate change is a planetary time bomb. They still think it's a political football.
Yesterday, I testified to Congress about global warming, 20 years after I first alerted the public that warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.
In the mid-20th century global warming took a short vacation and temperatures cooled. But did the scientific community really warn of an imminent ice age?
Yesterday the Center for Global Development (CGD) invited me to a meeting with the World Bank to give some remarks on the Bank's forthcoming Climate C...
So as opposed to targeting seemingly arbitrary employee expenses -- or worse, cutting jobs and benefits -- why not give a boost to the company's bottom line and the planet simultaneously?
Wall-E was one of the most moving, gorgeous, and dare I say "important" movie experiences I can remember in a long, long while.
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Palin says the fertilized egg is a human being from the moment of conception. To support that view she needs to also demand that when a pregnancy is determined a Certificate of Conception of some sort be issued and if a live healthy birth is not forthcoming in a normal amount of time an investigation occur to determine where that person is or why they are injured, with penalties, where appropriate, no different than if it was anyone else. Will she back up her claim?
Scully, Rove & Co. have obviously decided that there's no need to worry about reality interfering with the story they're selling the American public about Palin and McCain, who they are, and what their election would mean for us. They've decided (after thorough research, mind you) that what really matters is not credibility or evidence to support their claims, but providing a narrative for people who WANT to believe.
Of course, thinking people don't believe Palin any more than we believed Bush. Still, Scully has scored a great victory; before now, the McCain campaign didn't even have a Bush. The base was decidedly unexcited about McCain and probably depressed about his chances of defeating the change candidate in a political climate so hostile to the current administration, the current party in power - theirs.
Now suddenly they have a Bush who can speak English with convincing inflection and who is young enough and non-status-quo enough to help them co-opt the change message with a straight face, despite the fact that they've been in power for the past eight years and that the Republican-McCain-Palin platform promotes the same policies and principles that have brought us where we are today, that have provoked such a rousing cry for change.
You'd expect that Obama knows that presidential candidates do not
tangle with the VP opponents. It's a clever Repo tactic, to 'change' that
tradition, so expect such challenges to be ignored. They'd better be.
If Palin has a Dick Cheney, he'd look a lot like Karl Rove. Repos make
their own reality. We know that.
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