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Jun 26 2009, 3:13 pm by Marc Ambinder

Greenpeace Wants None Of It

Some late news on the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation: Greenpeace, the influential activist environmental group, contends that industry lobbyists watered down the bill to the point where it won't do much of anything. The bill, they contend, would create a "whole new generation" of coal and nuclear plants and would not limit emissions in the volume they say current science required. Greenpeace's announcement won't do much to the vote count because most fellow travelers have already decided to oppose the bill for the same reasons, but it has become a news story, and that may influence the mood of the majority... and the mood of the majority may well influence the votes of individuals. 

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davey

I guess Green peace has its own particular flavor of environmental apocalyptalism to peddle, but where is the logic in opposing "a whole new generation [hey, that's a pun!] of nuclear plants"..... in an energy plan aiming to reduce CO2?

davidgraeve

If you read the article and follow the issue you will see that this is an acknowledgement of the problem, which is good
But the bill is water out and is lip service to citizen who are concerned about global positioning on this issue and obliviously the environmental impact. we as the major pollution in the world need to curb our ways for our self’s and everything that breaths air!

Hemmingplay

I think this is the best bill we can get right not. It needs to pass, or it will mean that the forces who are fighting for the status-quo, for the Earth-killing things we've been doing, will have won. And Greenpeace will have helped them.

It's time to be smart about this. If this doesn't solve all the problems, then let's hit it again next year, and the next, and the next. It is true in this case: something is better than nothing, and I'm getting really sick of the ideological purity of the lefties standing in the way of the first real progress we've seen on this in 20 years.

If this bill goes down, I WILL blame the fanatics on the Left, just as much as those assh*les on the Right.

Hemmingplay

"right now." obviously.