Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” Public Education Campaign Is Just the Start
What the Sierra Club has done with its “Beyond Coal” campaign is pretty impressive, making a huge swath of the American public aware of the health and environmental issues associated with coal-fired power plants – not only their CO2 emissions, but also their heavy metals, SOx, NOx, etc. It’s really one of the most effective public education efforts I can remember.
But what does success in community awareness really mean? How, if at all, does this translate into change? (more…)
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The climate on planet Earth is changing; there is no denying this fact. It might remain up for debate the extent to which human actions have accelerated the changes occurring in the climate today, but it is clear that actions can be taken by societies around the globe to help slow down or reverse the course of change.
One way to analyze the political spectrum, normally thought of as “conservative to liberal” or “right to left,” is to look at our conception of human rights, i.e., what we believe to be the set of basic and inalienable rights that should be given to all people, merely by virtue of their being born into this world and living in the 21st Century.
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I know many readers are following the Chevron/Ecuador case, in which the oil giant has been ordered to pay $18 billion to clean up the environmental catastrophe they deliberately caused while operating as Texaco in the 1960s – 1990s, and in restitution to the indigenous people who continue to suffer incredible rates of disease as a result. In a new but hardly unexpected twist, 
Obviously, the world cannot simply turn off its fossil fuel-based power plants overnight. What can and must happen, however, is that each country take an inventory of its energy situation: current grid-mix, renewable resources, unemployed labor force, national wealth and credit standing, etc., and develop a realistic plan to migrate toward clean energy and transportation within a sensible time-frame.
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