as small as a world and as large as alone

8:59pm February 26, 2012

smirkingbenevolence:

messianicrebel:

humanformat:

therikeone:climateadaptation:

“Yesterday, 221 members of Congress released a letter to the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, asking him to allow the coal industry to emit greenhouse pollution without any limits. Claiming the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule on greenhouse gas pollution from new and modified coal-fired power plants needs to be killed because of the “devastating impact it will have on jobs and the nation’s economy” were 207 Republicans and 14 Democrats:

We respectfully ask that you stop EPA’s GHG rulemaking because of the devastating impact it will have on jobs and the economy.”

Read the rest: Think Progress

Reblog this shit.

THE FACT THAT WE HAVE TO DECIDE BETWEEN A GOOD ECONOMY AND A GOOD ENVIRONMENT SHOULD BE AN EYE OPENER ENOUGH TO SHOW THAT THIS SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY FLAWED AND INHERENTLY CORRUPT.

Dear fucking god. No.

-Even more terrifying, is that there is no way adding more coal plants is going to do anything for the US economy. It’ll just make some rich men richer, and fuck over everybody else.

Share this people. Your world is under attack…and we know the names of the people doing it now.

So clearly the far larger but socialized costs stemming from dirty air ie (nox pm2.5 co2 o3 etc) are preferable to the smaller cost of regulating a polluting industry.
Right.
Mining executives should have to bathe daily in tailings ponds and fossil fuel executives should have to live next to their power plants. Same goes for their lobbyists and their pet politicians.
If that were required we would have a clean energy based zero waste society in a decade tops.

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