By pretending the broken system can work—and will work, in just a moment, after just one more Democratic win, or another, or another—the big green groups are preventing the appropriate response from concerned citizens, which is fury at the system itself. They are offering placebos to calm us down when they should be conducting and amplifying our anger at this betrayal of our safety by our politicians. The US climate bills are long-term plans: they lock us into a woefully inadequate schedule of carbon cuts all the way to 2050. So when green groups cheer them on, they are giving their approval to a path to destruction—and calling it progress.”
— The Wrong Kind of Green, from The Nation
March 12, 2010, 7:31pm
