- Al Gore (Repower America): "Remember, Earth Day is about people -- and our future on this planet."
- John Kerry (Politico): "No matter what conventional wisdom says, this is the year - perhaps our last, best chance - to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation."
- Kate Sheppard (Mother Jones): "With all the not-very-hope-inspiring news of late, I'm really hoping that this is neither the "last" nor the "best" shot at getting the policy right. But Kerry is certainly right that Earth Day should be treated as the impetus for action."
- Yael Borofsky (The Breakthrough Blog): "... the posts we highlight together indicate that it is time to move past this traditional conception of Earth Day and into the Innovation Century."
- Van Jones (Center for American Progress): "The next 40 years of environmental policy will be economic policy."
- Andrew Revkin (Dot Earth): "A quick photographic Earth Day note: even as societies ponder how to smooth the human journey on a finite planet at a global scale, it doesn't hurt to try to get things reasonably right in our own neighborhoods."
- Jeff Mann (It's Getting Hot in Here): "There is no option of failure. This day, some 40 years after the first one, represents that. This is the fight of our lives, but the one we absolutely cannot lose."
- Bracken Hendricks (Climate Progress): "This Earth Day, let's get to work immediately, one home at a time, creating clean energy jobs and a better future for the planet through energy efficiency."
- NearWalden: "So today, on Earth Day, let's celebrate American ingenuity."
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Earth Day roundup
Here are some at-a-glance reactions to Earth Day:
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Everyone is going to have to speak out. In the last decade the collusion, corruption and cover-up of massive fraud in the global economy by greedy, self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe among us as well as their willful blindness and elective mutism in the face of the rampant dissipation of natural resources, relentless pollution of the environment and reckless degradation of Earth's ecology is as unconscionable as it is unforgiveable. The fulmination of irresponsible leadership in the first decade of Century XXI gave rise to the cratering of the world's political economy and to the irreversible destabilization of the Earth's climate. From 2000 to 2008, whatsoever was politically correct, economically expedient, socially convenient and culturally prescribed was automatically espoused loudly as "the truth". Ideological idiocy prevailed over science. Greed ruled the world. Intellectual honesty, personal accountability, moral courage and doing the right thing were eschewed. Gag rules were enforced. As a consequence, the human community was persuaded to inadvertently make a colossal mess of our planetary home, Earth. Everyone could see what was happening, but few people were willing to speak out. No one with power listened to those who did speak out about what was observed occurring around us. Millions of people were encouraged to engage in conspicuous per-capita overconsumption and scandalous individual hoarding of resources; in megabillion-dollar pyramid schemes and unsustainable large-scale industrial enterprises. Nothing can happen until many people speak truth to the greedmongers and power-hungry. New leadership and a new direction such as the one presented by President Barack Obama need to be freely chosen and actively sustained.
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