How you assess the outcome of the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference (UNCCC), held in Copenhagen Dec. 7-18, depends on whether you see the glass 95 percent empty or 5 percent full. And how you feel about that extremely modest progress in relation to the planet-wide urgency of the climate crisis. And what you believed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
13 Nov
The honeymoon is over — time to get busy
I’ve been saying it since before the inauguration: If progressives expect Obama (and the Democratically controlled Congress) to create the kind of policies we want, we have to organize and apply the public pressure to make them do it. We know that the corporate powers, with their enormous influence and abundance of resources, are not [...]
12 Sep
Revisiting the Van Jones debacle — lots of blame to go around
I was going to write about something else this week, but the ouster of green-jobs adviser Van Jones from the Obama administration has me livid. It’s just so wrong in so many ways and on so many levels. Of course the smear campaign by the right-wing noise machine, led by Glenn Beck, was ugly. Distortions [...]
