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In reply to the discussion: You know you're fucking up when your lapdog environmental group is turning against you. [View all]ProSense
(116,464 posts)11. Oh, and since it appears
that it's impossible for you to post the point of a piece without poisoning it with hyperbole, here's the goal in a subsequent release:
Momentum Builds for Forward on Climate Rally Against the Keystone XL Pipeline
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In response, Bill McKibben, founder or 350.org, said: "We'll do all we can to help the president realize his goals, and trust he'll begin by blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, whose approval would
make a mockery of his rhetoric."
Last week two new reports showed that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would damage the climate much more than previously thought. A Pembina analysis showed how Keystone XL is an integral part of the industrys plan to nearly triple tar sands production by 2030 (2); and an Oil Change International report showed that proven tar sands reserves of Canada will yield roughly 5 billion tons of an oil processing byproduct, known as petcoke enough to fully fuel 111 U.S. coal plants to 2050. (3)
A collection of the country's top climate scientists also sent the president a letter asking him to reject tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline. (4)
This Friday, in an unprecedented unified action among Indigenous Nations, farmers and ranchers,
and business and environmental leaders, attendees at the Protect the Sacred event in South Dakota will sign an International Treaty to block the Keystone XL pipeline. (5)
Obamas legacy as 44th President of the United States rests squarely on his leadership in the face of the climate crisis, says Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club. Only the President of the United States has the power to lead an effort on the scale and with the urgency we need to phase out fossil fuels and go all in on clean, renewable energy sources. He can start immediately by rejecting the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline.
The Forward on Climate rally comes as pressure mounts on the Administration to take strong climate action in the presidents second term. After a year of record heat and drought, calls for action are coming from all over the country. Newspapers such as the New York Times and The Washington Post, and think tanks like the Center for American Progress, are making it plain that the president must act now to avert the worst of effects from global warming.
Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council: The President has rightly called America to action against the climate chaos that is sweeping our nation and threatening our future. Now, were looking forward to seeing the presidents words turned into action. He can do so by rejecting dirty fuels projects such as the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and by starting to cut carbon pollution from power plants that are major causes of climate destruction.
http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2013/01/momentum-builds-forward-climate-rally-against-keystone-xl-pipeline
<...>
In response, Bill McKibben, founder or 350.org, said: "We'll do all we can to help the president realize his goals, and trust he'll begin by blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, whose approval would
make a mockery of his rhetoric."
Last week two new reports showed that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would damage the climate much more than previously thought. A Pembina analysis showed how Keystone XL is an integral part of the industrys plan to nearly triple tar sands production by 2030 (2); and an Oil Change International report showed that proven tar sands reserves of Canada will yield roughly 5 billion tons of an oil processing byproduct, known as petcoke enough to fully fuel 111 U.S. coal plants to 2050. (3)
A collection of the country's top climate scientists also sent the president a letter asking him to reject tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline. (4)
This Friday, in an unprecedented unified action among Indigenous Nations, farmers and ranchers,
and business and environmental leaders, attendees at the Protect the Sacred event in South Dakota will sign an International Treaty to block the Keystone XL pipeline. (5)
Obamas legacy as 44th President of the United States rests squarely on his leadership in the face of the climate crisis, says Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club. Only the President of the United States has the power to lead an effort on the scale and with the urgency we need to phase out fossil fuels and go all in on clean, renewable energy sources. He can start immediately by rejecting the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline.
The Forward on Climate rally comes as pressure mounts on the Administration to take strong climate action in the presidents second term. After a year of record heat and drought, calls for action are coming from all over the country. Newspapers such as the New York Times and The Washington Post, and think tanks like the Center for American Progress, are making it plain that the president must act now to avert the worst of effects from global warming.
Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council: The President has rightly called America to action against the climate chaos that is sweeping our nation and threatening our future. Now, were looking forward to seeing the presidents words turned into action. He can do so by rejecting dirty fuels projects such as the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and by starting to cut carbon pollution from power plants that are major causes of climate destruction.
http://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2013/01/momentum-builds-forward-climate-rally-against-keystone-xl-pipeline
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You know you're fucking up when your lapdog environmental group is turning against you. [View all]
MadHound
Jan 2013
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K&R !!! In short, it's "Kick Ass" time! Most have no F'ed clue or incentive unless
RKP5637
Jan 2013
#1
"lapdog"? The Sierrans I know have always had a touch of Libertarian to them. They work with
patrice
Jan 2013
#2
Gee, you smell a whiff of libertarianism in anybody or organization that dares to call out Obama,
MadHound
Jan 2013
#4
Once again you assume you know what I think about what I just said & you don't. Shows you are biased
patrice
Jan 2013
#7
You do realize that this is the first time that the Sierra Club has participated in civil resistance
MadHound
Jan 2013
#5
again, that stupid rolling thing. nobody thinks it's clever, they just think it's stupidly arrogant
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#32
Funny thing is, most posts of mine I have links to back up my position. What do you have?
MadHound
Jan 2013
#39
another person demonstrating the tactic of ridicule as if it amounted to an actual argument
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#33
IMO, while I think the Sierra Club could very well make a major difference....
AverageJoe90
Jan 2013
#27