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9. Dems need a broad and comprehensive national policy on climate change.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 11:24 AM
Dec 2016

Even if millions of concerned citizens did that, do you honestly think that Lamar Smith (or any other Republican for that matter) would ever seriously address the topic of climate change based on an online poll? None of them will ever stop the gravy train or jeopardize the money they get from the fossil fuel industry.

Other countries have been working on the issue for decades, and if we had started when President Jimmy Carter's first talked about the problem back in the 70s, we'd be the global leader in that field today instead taking one baby step forward and two leaps backwards year after year. Since most of us know that climate change exists, we can see the effects, we understand the long range impact, but there is no serious partnership between government, industry, technology, labor and the citizenry to change how we do things going forward.

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