Climate Change, Politics, Jun 16th, 2010,
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama addressed the American people on national television, live from the Oval Office, in an attempt to inform and assure the nation about efforts to deal with the United States’ largest environmental disaster ever. He also urged support for a move away from fossil fuels and towards a reliance on renewable energy. On the former – regarding both BP’s responsibility for and government efforts to assist in the stopping and cleaning up of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as aid those whose lives have been damaged – President Obama was…
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Climate Change, Nature, Politics, Apr 2nd, 2010,
I just knew everyone was going to resurrect Sarah Palin’s gung-ho pro-oil mantra from the 2008 US presidential campaign as soon as I read about Barack Obama opening up America’s coastlines for oil drilling. Apparently both John McCain and Palin tweeted it. McCain was simply supportive, while Palin snuck in some barbs about ‘job-killing’ and ‘Cap & Tax’. Sarah: chill, baby, chill. Cap and trade was renounced by interior secretary Ken Salazar and besides, isn’t this what you wanted? In contrast President Obama’s other fruitless attempts at bipartisanship, the move is being heralded as politically brilliant by some. From an…
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