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松竹キネマ株式会社 ; 原作ジェームス槇 ; 脚色池田忠雄 ; 監督小津安二郎. 浮草 = Floating weeds / 大映株式会社製作 ; 脚本野田高梧, 小津安二郎 ; 監督小津安二郎. 小津安二郎, 中村鴈治郎, 京マチ子, 野田高梧, ; ; Yasujirō Ozu; Takeshi Sakamoto; Choko Iida; Kōji Mitsui; Rieko Yagumo; Yoshiko Tsubouchi; Ganjirō Nakamura; Machiko Kyo; Ayako Wakao; Kōgo Noda; Shōchiku Kabushiki Kaisha.; Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha.; Criterion Collection (Firm)
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|A story of floating weeds: silent film with Japanese intertitles, optional English subtitles and score. Floating weeds: Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
|Includes the original 1934, black & white, silent film "A Story of Floating Weeds" and the 1959 color remake "Floating Weeds."
Based on a story by Jēmusu Maki.
1.33:1 aspect ratio, RSDL dual-layer edition.
Features: Disc 1: new score by Donald Sosin, audio commentary by Donald Richie. Disc 2: original theatrical trailer, audio commentary by Roger Ebert.
Credits from English subtitles.
|1st work: Photographed by Hideo Mohara ; optional new score by David Sosin. 2nd work: Photography by Kazuo Miyagwa ; editing, Toyo Suzuki ; music, Kojun Saito.
|1st work: Takeshi Sakamoto, Choko Iida, Hideo Mitsui, Rieko Yagumo, Yoshiko Tsubouchi, Tokkan-Kozo. 2nd work: Ganjiro Nakamura, Machiko Kyo, Ayako Wakao.
|2 videodiscs (86 min.; 119 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in.
|Story of floating weeds / Janus Films ; a Shochiku film ; screenplay by Tadao Ikeda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu. (86 min.) --
Floating weeds / Janus Films ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu. (119 min.).
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Floating weeds.
Story of floating weeds
|a Shochiku film ; screenplay by Tadao Ikeda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Ukigusa = Floating weeds / produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Yasujiro Ozu, Kogo Noda ; directed by Yasujiro Ozu ; Daiei Co.
In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade his 1934 silent film: A Story of Floating Weeds in color and sound with the cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Ugetsu). Setting his later version in a seaside location, Ozu otherwise preserves the details of his elegantly simple plot wherein an aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunities with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all. A Story of Floating Weeds reveals Ozu in the midst of developing his mode of expression; Floating weeds reveals his distinct style at its pinnacle. In each, the director captures the joy and sadness in everyday life.
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"Twat situation" Milwaukee TV chyron was doctored [IMAGE] [UPDATE]
"Been in quite a few of those back in the day. Hairy."
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In the news business, one errant letter can make a world of difference.
SEE ALSO: Today's Mankato Free Press ran story about "Rapefruit" on cover of food section [IMAGE]
The latest outlet to learn that lesson the hard way is WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee's NBC affiliate. During a report about a SWAT-involved domestic dispute on Friday, whoever takes care of the station's chyron made the unintentionally hilarious mistake of swapping a T for an S. You can see the result above.
One Facebook commenter quipped he's "Looking forward to some penetrating coverage." Another glass-half-full commenter said, "At least they didn't spell the town as 'Horewood.'"
h/t: Romenesko
The "Twat situation" chyron that allegedly appeared on WTMJ-TV was doctoed, Journal Broadcast Group executive vice president Steve Wexler wrote in an email to the Romenesko journalism blog.
"It appears that someone with too much time on their hands and a sophomoric sense of humor used software to alter the pictures and distribute them," Wexler wrote.
Here's his entire email:
As you can imagine, the purported graphic mistake during our coverage of the SWAT incident in Shorewood that you published got our attention. While we're not perfect, we do work hard to be careful, especially during fast-breaking news situations.
In this case, it appears that the photo you mentioned and linked to, was in fact a hoax.
We went through our entire coverage of Friday's events, frame-by-frame, and couldn't find the alleged error. We received no calls or complaints from viewers.
We have compared the supposed "screen shot" that you publicized to an actual shot that did make it on air. As you can see, the fonts are close but not exact replicas.
I'm not claiming that we don't sometimes make mistakes. When we do, we deserve the criticism that follows. But in this case, it appears that someone with too much time on their hands and a sophomoric sense of humor used software to alter the pictures and distribute them.
A correction and an apology seem in order.
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Your new HM PR in a calculator, predicts a 24:50 5K, so I'm expecting another mega PR for you @ Phoenix next month!!!
Again, ya done real good Tammy !!!!!
wow - what a great coach you are Johnny! Already figuring out what I can and should do in my next race! Anyone who was wondering what my secret was for smashing my PR and goal . . . well, there you have it - Johnny is my sekrit! He's a good coach and motivator. Nothing like yelling at me to "suck it up Tamster!" to get my rear in gear!
Like, um, where did this come from, Tamarocket?
All summer it was "garden this, canning that; baking this, cooking that; take DS here, have DS's friends over; lunch with John and Rinda, scrapbooking, yada. Oh, sure, a little bit about running too but ...
17 minutes????
Fantastic run, Tammy! What a breakthrough for you.
Now it's time to move on to the next stage. That would be Rest & Recovery, preferably involving a hot tub and alcoholic beverages. I'll be right over to help.
Dark Horse
I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course
oh SS, you had me chuckling out loud with your comments! LOL I have no idea where a 17 min improvement came from, especially considering I'm just a "semi runner". My average weekly mileage of about 20-25 mpw is really the bare minimum of what a I should be doing. In fact, last week was my first ever week of hitting 30 mpw (that included the HM mileage). makes me wonder what I could do if I really took my training up a notch. But I'm too busy with all my other fun things in life, like baking, gardening, canning, playing with DS, organizing playdates, etc. to give it much more time than I already do. Maybe someday.
legs are getting a bit tighter today - not helping that I'm sitting at my desk all day. Need to stretch tonight for sure. I did start the R&R alcohol part already DarkHorse. I actually drank 24 oz of Corona last night! crap - I NEVER drink that much! something about that beer just really hit the spot though. I did have about 1/2 an organic beer at Eel River Brewing Company the night before . . . maybe there's something to having a beer the night before a race??
ETA:I wonder when John will post his RR?????
Originally posted by TammyM:
I did have about 1/2 an organic beer at Eel River Brewing Company the night before . . . maybe there's something to having a beer the night before a race??
Imagine what time you might have had had you chosen Guinness, Tamrocket. That was my last HM PR and pre-Boston PR fuel. I believe.
Lotsa carbs.
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Holy Cow, Tammy. CONGRATS on a huge PR.... 17 minutes in a 1/2, thats almost unheard of. Well, until now. You were smokin. Yes, you must carbo load the night or several nights before. Beer is a great way. I usually have two beers (local micro brews if I can find them) the night before. Its relaxing plus its extra carbs. Congrats again. now get back to training for the next PR.
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Wow Tammy. You nailed this one.
Well done!
Nice PR! Thanks for the report. Someday, I'm going to do that marathon or the half.
Congratulations on the 17 minute PR! You worked really hard for this one, your planning was excellent, and you deserve to bask in all the attention and rewards.
Wowzers, Tammy!!
You had a goal of maybe sub-2:00 and CRUSH it!!
It's so exciting to hear about your race and how things went so well for you!
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Markiplier Animated | Mark Of The Survey Corps
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Feel my lvl 1 Blam power....Pew
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LMAO I ain't just voting 5 because you're you.
I know most folks are going to say, LOOK!IT's Yoink!Let's vote 5!
Well I don't have that kinda respect, I vote for quality and that was
hilarious!Therefore...this gets a 5/5.Boy wish I had a webcam.
You should get a webcam
It was allright fun to watch.
The graphics are top notch but the way they enter and leave doesn't seem very creative :(
Graphics & animation - Very nice graphics show off your artistic greatness but I felt that the animation could have been better. By better I mean the way some of the objects came into the video it didn't really seem very creative some of them just show up and leave with very little creative interactivity with you.
Now I know it's tough to really nail the interactivity with something that's not really there but it seems like you didn't really try very to do it with some objects which looked a little lazy because you did it well with some but the others in which you didn't interact with really showed.
For great grapics nice interactivity with some images yet some without creative or any interactivity an 8/10
I used a ton of masking if you didn't notice.... :P
Its so true....
sad but true that all of the great flashes that made newgrounds what it is today have been beaten down and replaced with crap.....good job on this to. 5/5
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To study the effect of anhydrobiosis on the rotifer life cycle, we dried a bdelloid species, Adineta ricciae, and determined the life-history traits of 1) the rehydrated animals and 2) the offspring produced after a period of dormancy. In the first experiment, a cohort was dried when 8-days-old, kept dry for 7 days and then rehydrated. Recovery was about 75%. The recovered rotifers had similar longevity and significantly higher fecundity than the hydrated controls. The time spent dry was completely disregarded by the anhydrobiotic rotifers, as predicted by the 'Sleeping Beauty' model. In the second experiment, we recorded the life-history traits of the orthoclones produced by recovered mothers aged 11 days, and 18 days. These orthoclones were coupled to controls that had been established from hydrated mothers aged 11 days and 18 days. The orthoclones produced after dormancy had significantly higher fecundity and longevity than the controls of same maternal age. Maternal age had a marked effect on the life-history traits of the orthoclones of both lines, causing the same loss of fitness in both.
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|Sterling Gates & Jamal Igle's run begins in this week's "Supergirl" #34
With the first issue of Sterling Gatesâ run on âSupergirlâ released this week, CBR News spoke at length with the writer about his super-crush on Kara Zor-El, and what DC Comics fans can expect to see in the Jamal Igle-illustrated title.
âSupergirl is a lot of fun to write. Iâve always felt like she was one of the greatest characters in the DC Universe,â Gates told CBR. âBut I felt like there were areas of her and her life that had untapped potential, and Jamal and I are really working hard to make her shine as brightly as we can.â
Gates said Igle (âTangent: Supermanâs Reignâ) is bringing his absolute A-game to the collaboration. âItâs funny, when Jamal and I were first talking about doing this book, he said, âSterling, I just want to tell you, Iâm the biggest Superman Family fan in the entire world.â And I replied, âJamal, Iâm one of the biggest Jamal Igle fans in the world, and I canât wait to see what you bring to this book.â Jamal draws a strong, charismatic, charming and beautiful Supergirl, and I love how he draws her. Iâm not kidding when I tell people this is the work of his career. Heâs a really wonderful artist and I think this is going to be a huge, huge book for him.â
Gates, a relative newcomer to comics whose credits include âGreen Lantern: Tales of the Sinestro Corps,â also chatted briefly about Supergirl with Jeph Loeb â who shares an office with âAction Comicsâ writer Geoff Johns â about the current version of Kara, who Loeb brought to the DCU with artist Michael Turner in 2004âs âSuperman/Batman: Supergirl.â âI had one brief talk with [Loeb] very early on. When I told him I wanted to work on the book, he smiled and told me, âJust make sure sheâs fun to write and fun to read.â And Iâve tried to honor what he said,â said Gates.
|Jamal Igle pencils and final Keith Champagne inks and Nei Ruffino colors for page 1 of "Supergirl" #34
The original Kara Zor-El/Super-Girl debuted in 1959 in âAction Comicsâ #252, by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino.
Gatesâ run â which will tie in directly with Johnsâ âAction Comicsâ and James Robinsonâs âSupermanâ â will explore the teen titanâs inexperience, something the writer sees as both a positive and a negative trait. âAt the end of the day, sheâs a teenager from the doomed planet Krypton. Sheâs Supermanâs cousin. Sheâs as strong as Superman, but can still be emotionally vulnerable. She can be fiercely independent, and yet sometimes, she needs her family to back her up,â Gates explained. âTo me, Supergirl is a living, growing, learning teenage girl that one day will grow up to be as able a hero as Superman.
âFor now, though, sheâs getting to know the part. And her inexperience and attitude can lead to conflict, both internal and external. And for me, thatâs where I get the biggest delight out of the character, watching her learn what the joy of being a hero is. And also, crying alongside her as she learns the cost of that heroism.â
|Artwork by Jamal Igle
Gatesâ love affair with the character started nearly a quarter-century ago with the release of the âSupergirlâ movie in 1984, starring Helen Slater in the title role. âI was really pulled in as a kid by the Helen Slater movie,â admitted Gates. âI remember feeling like Superman could go and fight nuclear weapons and super computers, and that stuff is great, but Supergirl fights both a witch and a giant freaking demon. As a kid growing up in a Dungeons & Dragons-loving household, that blew my mind. I loved all that kind of stuff. It was epic â maybe not âLord of the Ringsâ level of epic, but still pretty damn big. And magic wasnât something the Superman movies ever had a chance to address, so it was neat to see another Kryptonianâs vulnerability being played with in that film. So that movie really drew me into the character.
âOf course, watching it now, all I can think is this movie doesnât make a damn lick of sense,â laughed Gates. âAnd then, of course, I read âCrisis on Infinite Earths,â where Kara sacrifices herself to save her cousinâs life, and I was further hooked on the idea of a Supergirl. That issue is still sort of the epitome of Supergirl to me â a selfless and brave girl from Krypton, who is willing to give everything she has -- including her life-- to save the lives of others. Thatâs heroism at its purest form. And like I said before, our current version of Supergirl might not quite be up to that point in her life. She will be, though, some day.â
|"Supergirl" #34 pencils and Lois Lane sketch by Jamal Igle
Gates confirmed that Johns, Robinson and he have a plan for the Superman Family of books through the end of 2010, which is great news for fans of the Man of Steel with 2008 being his 70th anniversary.
In recent convention panels, Johns has equated Supergirl to a Robin figure in Supermanâs world. Gates said he doesnât think the superstar writer meant that Supergirl was a sidekick to Superman. âI think he meant it in terms of importance and relevance,â Gates said. âRobin is a huge character in the Batman mythos, and Geoff and James and I want to make her just as important in readerâs minds, so that when they think of the Superman Family, they think of Superman, Supergirl, and Krypto. And all of the New Kryptonians, now that Superman is going to get them out of the bottle. As youâll see in âNew Krypton,â Supergirl is a huge player in everything that spills out of that storyline.
âBut no, Supergirl is not Supermanâs sidekick, sheâs not going to be attached to Supermanâs hip, sheâs her own woman, and has her own life to deal with. I think a lot of people are worried weâre going to make Kara just a sidekick, and that notion couldnât be farther from the truth.â
|Clark Kent and Superman sketches by Jamal Igle
As Gates indicated, future issues of âSupergirlâ tie-in directly to Novemberâs multi-part âNew Kryptonâ storyline being told in issues of âAction Comicsâ and âSuperman,â but Gates & Igleâs debut issue, this weekâs #34, is more self-contained.
âThis first issue features a huge fight with Silver Banshee in the Frank Berkowitz Memorial baseball stadium,â offered Gates. âAnd while Iâm talking about it, the art team on this book is really going above and beyond for this issue. I think youâll all agree with me once you see these issues, Jamal is really doing the work of his career. When he started turning in pages, I was literally floored by how beautiful the work heâs doing is. He and Keith [Champagne] are a great, great team. Also, our colorist, Nei Ruffino, is going to melt your face with how great her coloring is. Itâs really, really beautiful stuff.
âElsewhere in âSupergirlâ #34, Cat Grant unleashes her first article about Supergirl, entitled âWhy the World Doesnât Need Supergirl,â and a lot of turmoil, both physical and emotional, ensues.
|Pages from "Supergirl" #34
âIn âNew Krypton,â Supergirl is going to have to make some decisions about where she stands, and about where her loyalties lie. Sheâs been on Earth the past three years and sheâs developed a life here. But in her heart of hearts, sheâs always wanted to go back to Krypton, go back to how life was before she was Supergirl. New Krypton offers her just that.
âDoes she continue on with her life as Supergirl, or is she going to fade back into the crowd and become Just Another Kryptonian? So, yeah, Karaâs got some big decisions to make.â
After âNew Krypton,â Gates revealed that he and Igle would break away from âSupermanâ and âAction Comicsâ for their first big arc, entitled âWho is Superwoman?â âThe mysterious new Superwoman introduced in âNew Kryptonâ is going to be a part of Supergirlâs world and several questions are going to spring up in her wake,â teased Gates. âBy the end of âNew Krypton,â youâre going to want to know more about Superwoman, as well as her secret identity.
âAnd listen to me when I tell you this, sheâs not who you think she is.â
|Pages from "Supergirl" #34
Another super woman who will be prominently featured in Karaâs ongoing adventures will be familiar to those familiar the Superman mythos: Lana Lang, Clark Kentâs childhood friend and former CEO of LexCorp. âLana Lang is going to act as an older sister-type to Supergirl, offering her advice and bolstering her spirits when she needs it,â said Gates. âI really want her and Karaâs relationship to be very close, because I believe that Supergirl needs characters that are close to her outside of her family. She needs friends, just like the rest of us. She needs human friends, to help show her how not to be so alien all the time.â
Gates also confirmed an old ally of Supermanâs, who pre-dates Lanaâs first appearance by a decade, will also be a supporting character in the series moving forward. âWeâre talking about using Inspector Bill Henderson in all of our books,â said Gates. âHe comes from the old âAdventures of Supermanâ television show [starring George Reeves]. Itâs still too early to tell you more about that, though, so I canât say much other than weâre planning on him showing up soon and helping to round out our cast.â
Elsewhere in the DC Universe, Sterling Gates is penning âFaces of Evil: Prometheusâ #1, a one-shot coming this January thatâs part of DCâs universe-wide villain crossover. âItâs a revenge story starring the anti-Batman villain that Grant [Morrison] created in his run on âJLA,ââ Gates revealed. âThe last time DC did a massive villain-centric crossover like this was a few years ago in an event called âNew Yearâs Evil.â That event first introduced Prometheus, so itâs kind of cool that weâre returning to the character for this one.
|Artwork by Jamal Igle.
âIn that story, Prometheusâ criminal parents were gunned down by cops when he was a kid, and he swore from that point on that he would be the downfall of all law-enforcement agencies. Since then, the villain has had his ups and downs, and in âFaces of Evil: Prometheusâ #1, he comes to the realization that he should be much more of a villain by now.â
Gates couldnât reveal an artist for the project just yet, but teased no matter who it is, he or she will be drawing one bad mother. â[Prometheus] should scare the crap out of people. Heroes should see him coming and run away, gibbering and crying like idiots,â laughed Gates. âPrometheus took down the Justice League in under 10 minutes the first time they fought, and now heâs decided itâs time for him to get the recognition he deserves.â
With mentors like Geoff Johns and James Robinson, Gatesâ career seems bound to take flight, much like Supergirlâs solo series surely will as it becomes more closely aligned with âAction Comicsâ and âSuperman.â âGeoff and James are masters of storytelling, plain and simple. Iâve always adored their writing, and I think that when I look back on my life, Iâm going to see that working with them is one of its highlights,â said the apparently grounded Gates. âItâs just a lot of fun to sit in a room with them and hammer out a story. Those two, along with our editor extraordinaire Matt Idelson, make an already incredibly fun job, even more fun â if thatâs at all possible.â
âSupergirlâ #34 is on sale now.


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McKibben: 'The Essential Cowardice Of Too Many Democrats Is Becoming An Ever More Fundamental Problem'
Unlike gay rights or similar issues of basic human justice and fairness, climate change comes with a time limit. Go past a certain point, and we may no longer be able to affect the outcome in ways that will prevent long-term global catastrophe. We're clearly nearing that limit and so the essential cowardice of too many Democrats is becoming an ever more fundamental problem that needs to be faced. We lack the decades needed for their positions to "evolve" along with the polling numbers. What we need, desperately, is for them to pitch in and help lead the transition in public opinion and public policy.
Instead, at best they insist on fiddling around the edges, while the planet prepares to burn.
Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the "Stonewall" of the Climate Movement?
And If So, Is That Terrible News?
By Bill McKibben via TomDispatch
A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast the "Selma and Stonewall" of the climate movement.
Which, if you think about it, may be both good news and bad news. Yes, those of us fighting the pipeline have mobilized record numbers of activists: the largest civil disobedience action in 30 years and 40,000 people on the mall in February for the biggest climate rally in American history. Right now, we're aiming to get a million people to send in public comments about the "environmental review" the State Department is conducting on the feasibility and advisability of building the pipeline. And there's good reason to put pressure on. After all, it's the same State Department that, as on a previous round of reviews, hired "experts" who had once worked as consultants for TransCanada, the pipeline's builder.
Still, let's put things in perspective: Stonewall took place in 1969, and as of last week the Supreme Court was still trying to decide if gay people should be allowed to marry each other. If the climate movement takes that long, we'll be rallying in scuba masks. (I'm not kidding. The section of the Washington Mall where we rallied against the pipeline this winter already has a big construction project underway: a flood barrier to keep the rising Potomac River out of downtown DC.)
It was certainly joyful to see marriage equality being considered by our top judicial body. In some ways, however, the most depressing spectacle of the week was watching Democratic leaders decide that, in 2013, it was finally safe to proclaim gay people actual human beings. In one weekend, Democratic senators Mark Warner of Virginia, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia figured out that they had "evolved" on the issue. And Bill Clinton, the greatest weathervane who ever lived, finally decided that the Defense of Marriage Act he had signed into law, boasted about in ads on Christian radio, and urged candidate John Kerry to defend as constitutional in 2004, was, you know, wrong. He, too, had "evolved," once the polls made it clear that such an evolution was a safe bet.
Why recite all this history? Because for me, the hardest part of the Keystone pipeline fight has been figuring out what in the world to do about the Democrats.
Fiddling While the Planet Burns
Let's begin by stipulating that, taken as a whole, they're better than the Republicans. About a year ago, in his initial campaign ad of the general election, Mitt Romney declared that his first act in office would be to approve Keystone and that, if necessary, he would "build it myself." (A charming image, it must be said). Every Republican in the Senate voted on a nonbinding resolution to approve the pipeline — every single one. In other words, their unity in subservience to the fossil fuel industry is complete, and almost compelling. At the least, you know exactly what you're getting from them.
With the Democrats, not so much. Seventeen of their Senate caucus — about a third — joined the GOP in voting to approve Keystone XL. As the Washington insider website Politico proclaimed in a headline the next day, "Obama's Achilles Heel on Climate: Senate Democrats."
Which actually may have been generous to the president. It's not at all clear that he wants to stop the Keystone pipeline (though he has the power to do so himself, no matter what the Senate may want), or for that matter do anything else very difficult when it comes to climate change. His new secretary of state, John Kerry, issued a preliminary environmental impact statement on the pipeline so fraught with errors that it took scientists and policy wonks about 20 minutes to shred its math.
Administration insiders keep insisting, ominously enough, that the president doesn't think Keystone is a very big deal. Indeed, despite his amped-up post-election rhetoric on climate change, he continues to insist on an "all-of-the-above" energy policy which, as renowned climate scientist James Hansen pointed out in his valedictory shortly before retiring from NASA last week, simply can't be squared with basic climate-change math.
All these men and women have excuses for their climate conservatism. To name just two: the oil industry has endless resources and they're scared about reelection losses. Such excuses are perfectly realistic and pragmatic, as far as they go: if you can't get re-elected, you can't do even marginal good and you certainly can't block right-wing craziness. But they also hide a deep affection for oil industry money, which turns out to be an even better predictor of voting records than party affiliation.
Anyway, aren't all those apologias wearing thin as Arctic sea ice melts with startling, planet-changing speed? It was bad enough to take four decades simply to warm up to the idea of gay rights. Innumerable lives were blighted in those in-between years, and given long-lasting official unconcern about AIDS, innumerable lives were lost. At least, however, inaction didn't make the problem harder to solve: if the Supreme Court decides gay people should be able to marry, then they'll be able to marry.
Unlike gay rights or similar issues of basic human justice and fairness, climate change comes with a time limit. Go past a certain point, and we may no longer be able to affect the outcome in ways that will prevent long-term global catastrophe. We're clearly nearing that limit and so the essential cowardice of too many Democrats is becoming an ever more fundamental problem that needs to be faced. We lack the decades needed for their positions to "evolve" along with the polling numbers. What we need, desperately, is for them to pitch in and help lead the transition in public opinion and public policy.
Instead, at best they insist on fiddling around the edges, while the planet prepares to burn. The newly formed Organizing for Action, for instance — an effort to turn Barack Obama's fundraising list into a kind of quasi-official MoveOn.org — has taken up climate change as one of its goals. Instead of joining with the actual movement around the Keystone pipeline or turning to other central organizing issues, however, it evidently plans to devote more energy to house parties to put solar panels on people's roofs. That's great, but there's no way such a "movement" will profoundly alter the trajectory of climate math, a task that instead requires deep structural reform of exactly the kind that makes the administration and Congressional "moderates" nervous.
Energy Independence: Last Century's Worry
So far, the Democrats are showing some willingness to face the issues that matter only when it comes to coal. After a decade of concentrated assault by activists led by the Sierra Club, the coal industry is now badly weakened: plans for more than 100 new coal-fired power plants have disappeared from anyone's drawing board. So, post-election, the White House finally seems willing to take on the industry at least in modest ways, including possibly with new Environmental Protection Agency regulations that could start closing down existing coal-fired plants (though even that approach now seems delayed).
Recently, I had a long talk with an administration insider who kept telling me that, for the next decade, we should focus all our energies on "killing coal." Why? Because it was politically feasible.
And indeed we should, but climate-change science makes it clear that we need to put the same sort of thought and creative energy into killing oil and natural gas, too. I mean, the Arctic — from Greenland to its seas — essentially melted last summer in a way never before seen. The frozen Arctic is like a large physical feature. It's as if you woke up one morning and your left arm was missing. You'd panic.
There is, however, no panic in Washington. Instead, the administration and Democratic moderates are reveling in new oil finds in North Dakota and in the shale gas now flowing out of Appalachia, even though exploiting both of these energy supplies is likely to lock us into more decades of fossil fuel use. They're pleased as punch that we're getting nearer to "energy independence." Unfortunately, energy independence was last century's worry. It dates back to the crises set off by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries in the early 1970s, not long after… Stonewall.
So what to do? The narrow window of opportunity that physics provides us makes me doubt that a third party will offer a fast enough answer to come to terms with our changing planet. The Green Party certainly offered the soundest platform in our last elections, and in Germany and Australia the Greens have been decisive in nudging coalition governments towards carbon commitments. But those are parliamentary systems. Here, so far, national third parties have been more likely to serve as spoilers than as wedges (though it's been an enlightening pleasure to engage with New York's Working Families Party, or the Progressives in Vermont). It's not clear to me how that will effectively lead to changes during the few years we've got left to deal with carbon. Climate science enforces a certain brute realism. It makes it harder to follow one's heart.
Along with some way to make a third party truly viable, we need a genuine movement for fundamental governmental reform — not just a change in the Senate's filibuster rules, but publicly funded elections, an end to the idea that corporations are citizens, and genuine constraints on revolving-door lobbyists. These are crucial matters, and it is wonderful to see broad new campaigns underway around them. It's entirely possible that there's no way to do what needs doing about climate change in this country without them. But even their most optimistic proponents talk in terms of several election cycles, when the scientists tell us that we have no hope of holding the rise in the planetary temperature below two degrees unless global emissions peak by 2015.
Of course, climate-change activists can and should continue to work to make the Democrats better. At the moment, for instance, the 350.org action fund is organizing college students for the Massachusetts primary later this month. One senatorial candidate, Steven Lynch, voted to build the Keystone pipeline, and that's not okay. Maybe electing his opponent, Ed Markey, will send at least a small signal. In fact, this strategy got considerably more promising in the last few days when California hedge fund manager and big-time Democratic donor Tom Steyer announced that he was not only going to go after Lynch, but any politician of any party who didn't take climate change seriously. "The goal here is not to win. The goal here is to destroy these people," he said, demonstrating precisely the level of rhetoric (and spending) that might actually start to shake things up.
It will take a while, though. According to press reports, Obama explained to the environmentalists at a fundraiser Steyer hosted that "the politics of this are tough," because "if your house is still underwater," then global warming is "probably not rising to your number one concern."
By underwater, he meant: worth less than the mortgage. At this rate, however, it won't be long before presidents who use that phrase actually mean "underwater." Obama closed his remarks by saying something that perfectly summed up the problem of our moment. Dealing with climate change, he said, is "going to take people in Washington who are willing to speak truth to power, are willing to take some risks politically, are willing to get a little bit out ahead of the curve — not two miles ahead of the curve, but just a little bit ahead of it."
That pretty much defines the Democrats: just a little bit ahead, not as bad as Bush, doing what we can.
And so, as I turn this problem over and over in my head, I keep coming to the same conclusion: we probably need to think, most of the time, about how to change the country, not the Democrats. If we build a movement strong enough to transform the national mood, then perhaps the trembling leaders of the Democrats will eventually follow. I mean, "evolve." At which point we'll get an end to things like the Keystone pipeline, and maybe even a price on carbon. That seems to be the lesson of Stonewall and of Selma. The movement is what matters; the Democrats are, at best, the eventual vehicle for closing the deal.
The closest thing I've got to a guru on American politics is my senator, Bernie Sanders. He deals with the Democrat problem all the time. He's an independent, but he caucuses with them, which means he's locked in the same weird dance as the rest of us working for real change.
A few weeks ago, I gave the keynote address at a global warming summit he convened in Vermont's state capital, and afterwards I confessed to him my perplexity. "I can't think of anything we can do except keep trying to build a big movement," I said. "A movement vast enough to scare or hearten the weak-kneed."
"There's nothing else that's ever going to do it," he replied.
And so, down to work.
Bill McKibben is Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, founder of the global climate campaign 350.org, a TomDispatch regular, and the author, most recently, of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Reprinted with permission.
45 Responses to McKibben: 'The Essential Cowardice Of Too Many Democrats Is Becoming An Ever More Fundamental Problem'
Excellent article laying out where we are and what we have to do (to get things done in time) – massive movement.
I love the quote from Tom Steyer…that is part of the solution, make voting against climate change action (or for additional fossil fuel extraction, like the XL) politically radioactive.
Perhaps there is room here for a focused PAC (Political Action Committee), or something, that the public could donate to / take part in & give Tom Steyer & those wanting to make voting against climate change politically radioactive even more firepower and speed that process up…
Here's the bottom line regarding Alberta tar sands and pipelines all points east, west and south:
Money going in:
Investment in 2010$ between 2010 and 2035 = $2,100 billion ($2.1 trillion) with $250 billion for capital (construction) and $1,800 for operations and maintenance (O&M) throughout that period. O&M covers operations costs and cost of capital (loan payments).
Money going out:
About $2,100 billion for Canada and $520 billion for USA over the 2010 to 2035 period. Not included is China and all others (the big piece).
Here's where I got this information:
Bottom, bottom line: there is a lot of money going in, with the anticipation of money coming out of Alberta. And this is one fossil fuel play out of the $ trillions from conventional and unconventional plays during this same period.
Whenever an organization or political party proclaims to be concerned with environmental protection in its branding and marketing on the one hand, but is really promoting a "third way" or "pragmatic" approach to environmentalism on the other – don't believe a word of it. They are simply greasing the skids to promote the outflow of cash from fossil fuel projects. Hoping everything will work out just fine.
As a US Green Party veteran, I can say it didn't turn out too well. Yes, the perception that Nader spoiled Florida, rather than that Jeb Bush stole it, really hurt. (And Jeb's inching his way back now that there's been a decent interval since brother's disastrous rule.)
But the reality is the US system is not set up for 3rd parties. Their function is to pilot and demonstrate new ideas to have them picked up by the major parties. But I think we're out of time for that.
What we need now is a Progressive Leadership Council to turn the Democrats to the left, the way the Democratic Leadership Council turned the Dems to the right in the late 80s and early 90s. We need a progressive party within the Democratic Party to call the politicians to account.
Most key, we need to unify our own, and bring in the progressive constituencies that don't vote because their interests are underrepresented. Rather than begging for a few percent of undecided centrist independents.
Not climate, but related to Democrats without cajones, Obama's offering up Social Security and Medicare cuts in his budget, cuts only a Republican should suggest, putting the old on the altar of deficit reduction, shows where this kind of politics gets us. We need to rebuild the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, and make it unacceptable for Democrats to behave like Republicans any more
I don't know whether it's cowardice or corruption. I doubt it matters since the effect is the same.
Your exactly right Sasparilla.
Let me add a bit to what you have said. My proposal, and I mentioned this to Bill McKibben after a Sierra Club lunch in Omaha, is to threaten the Democratic party with effectively divesting from it. This might seem radical, but as Bill McKibben rightly pointed out time is wasting. We cannot wait any longer for them to act morally.
Here is the proposal. Dr. Robert Brulle's in his article entitled the "The US Environmental Movement", which you can find at http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~brullerj/ , maintains,
"The U.S. environmental movement is perhaps the single largest social movement in the
United States. With over 6,500 national and 20,000 local environmental organizations, along with an estimated 20-30 million members, this movement dwarfs other modern socialmovements such as the civil rights or peace movements. It is also the longest running social movement."
There has been a great deal of research on how social movements bring about political change following the work of the academic Gene Sharp. Students of Sharp founded the International Center for Non-violent conflict. See here http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/. If you look at this research, you realize very quickly that the environmental groups are not fully leveraging their power. My proposal is that the environmental groups get together for a summit and put together a series of demands of President Obama (all of which he can do without Congress) – stop the Keystone XL pipeline, stop selling leases on public lands to coal companies, and possibly fracking companies, etc. – and tell the Democratic party that if the President does not do these things environmental organizations will work to keep their 30 million members at home in the 2014 and 2016 elections and to keep them from contributing to the Democratic party. This would get the Democrats attention. They have made it a habit to cave into strong opponents so I think it is a near certainty that this would lead to insurmountable pressure on the President that would produce real change.
Seems like part of the solution would be to run solid two-miles-ahead-of-the-curve candidates against limp Democrats as well as Republicans.
If we can't elect two-miles-ahead-of-the-curve candidates over the limp [-] Democrats in place, then it's hard to argue their stance in terms of realpolitik.
If we can and do elect appropriately two-miles-ahead-of-the-curve candidates over limp Democrats and Reepers, then a) we're done with those particular enablers, and b) we start to put the fear of Climate into the rest of the herd.
Here in New York City where major improvements in livable streets directly caused by Bloomberg's PlaNYC initiative to act on climate change; street advocacy refuses to advance in any substantive way net zero mobility solutions as comprehensive solutions to this accelerating crisis.
Republicans have the party unity that would be admired by the old Communist Party of the Soviet Union. They are under pressure to maintain ideological purity and strict party discipline. And they seem to have the means to enforce it. So we know that Republicans are not a political party as regards climate and energy, they are the political arm of the major fossil fuel companies, and they work for those companies. Any thought to possible damage to America from climate change or extreme weather is not taken into account. Even if some Republicans believe that the extreme weather and warming climate are due to CO2, they do not care. They care more about the profits of the fossil fuel companies.
Democrats are not a party, they are a collection of politicians who choose not to be beholden to strict Republican party discipline. Thus many of them are conservative Republicans who want a little freedom of action. They are not liberal or representatives of the public interests, but are bribed by the same corporations as Republicans. America is, by and large, a one party state. The two party system is mainly a hoax for public consumption. People ask, "why do democrats always cave in to Republican demands, even when Democrats are in a majority." Well, simple enough. Democrats are not independent or liberal, they are conservative and beholden to corporate America. This is a one party state, with just a few minor cranks on the outside who from time to time win an election. The vast majority are bought and paid for by corporate interests, and they act accordingly.
Climate change legislation is under the control of Fossil Fuel Corporations via their open bribery of politicians. No legislation will come out of congress that is not approved by the fossil fuel industry. It is that simple. Bedsides, with China and others taking the lead in CO2 emissions now, and not willing to reduce economic growth to obtain CO2 reductions, it is no longer the US congress that controls how much CO2 is emitted. The Chinese Communist Party does not care what the US congress says or does, they will emit as much CO2 as they feel necessary to obtain the economic growth they seek. India, the same. Indonesia, the same.
While a few advanced societies in Northern Europe make alternative energy progress, it is so minor a percentage of emissions that it might just as well be ignored in the whole picture.
The day China passed the USA as the largest emitter of CO2 is the day the climate battle was lost. Time is not on our side, as we see the arctic already in run-away meltdown, and the oceans set to give back some of the heat they absorbed over the last decade in particular. Unless an unforeseen factor is going to mitigate warming for another decade or so, then we may very well see the disasters mount in this very year 2013. One extreme weather disasters wake up the world to the dangers, then it will already be too late. Once weather reacts to forcing, you are past the point of no return. Then the debate is only over 5 degrees, 8 degrees, 10 degrees, 12 degrees, the stable mild climate man became modern within will be over.
A mass movement centered around climate change? You must be kidding. It's time to realize the game is lost. Instead of trying to change society, put what limited resources you have into the most promising geoengineering strategies.
Well said, as usual, Bill, and indeed the Blue Dogs are getting very frustrating. The oil money is good at seeking out weak spots in either party.
I wonder how the Republicans are explaining the DC storm barriers? I'd also heard that the Capitol is especially vulnerable, but by the time the water overwhelms places like the Jefferson Memorial it will be too late.
No geoengineering schemes have been proven to be feasible. Reducing emissions is, for maybe a few cents per kwh. With a lower discount rate or carbon tax, wind and solar will be practical right now.
It can be a tough problem. Primaries are good for electing more liberal (or more conservative if its Republicans) candidates, but you can quickly run into the problem the GOP has which are candidates who are too conservative to win well in the general election (guessing the same could happen with Dems)…any grade of Democrat that won't bend or break on climate change should be the goal.
Geo-engineering without solving the underlying CO2 emissions problem isn't a solution, just a delay.
Getting geo-engineering to move forward politically would require our representatives in D.C. to admit Climate Change is a huge problem that has to be addressed drastically at the political level (which is the same problem we have to get over regarding emissions reductions).
Nature will continue to nudge the public until (with Mr. McKibben's assistance) there is enough impetus to make action undeniable for our whichever way the campaign contribution wind blows Democratic representatives. By that time I'm sure we'll need Geo-engineering to save our skins as well, but we need to start putting the fire out first. JMHO….
Paul, while very interesting (limits to global growth – "there's nothing we can do"), the linked article doesn't have anything to do with Mr. McKibben's article here and was published more than a year ago…if you want to link to an unrelated article maybe put it up on the daily news feed.
Geo-engineering solutions? Like what? Pumping millions of tons of SO2 into the atmosphere. We tried that: it's called pollution. And it does nothing about the 2nd prong of climate change's problems: ocean acidification.
Very well said Fire…and you're right, we're out of time.
Can you believe we're getting lined up for Clinton 2 vs Bush 3 for 2016? An elected Oligarchy in everything but name (would never have believed it growing up).
The cleverly clueless Canadian Energy Research Institute report could be used as a template for the Wasilla Meth Lab Institute.
I would echo what Mike and Jeffery have said. Any geoengineering schemes we try, if not accompanied by emission reduction as well, is beyond folly. One of the biggest problems with geoengineering is that their is no prototype other than the planet itself. We will never fully understand all the implications before actually trying it. Two additional big problems are 1) Who gets to crank the dial on the climate control box (wars have been fought over less important concerns), and 2) Something called "The Termination Affect". If mankind were to achieve a degree or two of cooling, but discover, for whatever reason, that it must be shut off, the temperature would spike upward quickly thereafter. Not only the absolute temperature, but the rate of change would wreak havoc with ecosystems. And finally, we may well discover that once we start pumping SO2 into the stratosphere, and/or liming the oceans, and/or dumping iron into the oceans to fuel phytoplankton blooms… etc. we may well discover that geoengineering becomes a forever task.
Re: "Go past a certain point, and we may no longer be able to affect the outcome in ways that will prevent long-term global catastrophe."
That point has been passed. Governments should start planning for the relocation of coastal populations.
How would McKibben operate in Lesterland?
I don't want to "kill" coal.
I want to save coal. Its the Arches and Peabodys and Masseys who want to "kill" coal. They are ripping it untimely from the Earth and burning it.
Leave coal where it belongs, and liberate the miners and their families.
A plutocracy with democratic characteristics.
Must be time the USA had another really big disaster, one that costs billions and hangs around for a long time, long enough to keep commanding those fickle attention spans for a sensible decision to be made, ME
Hare-Clark voting!
Bill, "revolving-door lobbyists" is a twisted modern-era euphemism for "blatant corporate fascists." Use language, don't abuse it. If you are going to receive the 2013 Gandhi Peace Award from Promoting Enduring Peace, then you should speak boldly against this era's encroaching darkness.
General question: If Democrats are corporatists and Republicans are further to the right (and voting in lock-step), then what should they be called?
Thanks once again Bill.
The essential madness is to imagine that the Democrats are any different from the Republicans. Both serve the money power, and use and abuse the patsie voters to achieve that end. The Republicans will use the Tea Party Mad Hatters until they are no longer effective, then some new mass madness will be conjured. You are in the middle of an episode the likes of which were illustrated in 'Indispensable Enemies' by Walter Karp, where he shows how the leaderships of the two parties have long actively collaborated to 'keep the rabble in line' whenever popular discontent bubbles up. The Democratic leadership and Obama and his cabal in particular in my opinion want the Democratic voters to abstain in 2014 and 2016, because the interests of the elite dictate stalemate in the balance of power in Washington, because they want nothing to change. Grid-lock means business-as-usual. I believe Obama is going to send the Hope Fiends a new message on Wednesday re, social welfare.
Our politics has traditionally been about lining up 52% of the popular vote versus 48% of the popular vote, and that number easily wobbles to 48-52 half the time. Big money relishes its kingmaker role, because 4% of the population is stupid enough to vote for the TV.
Whenever we are getting concrete results, we should play the game. Whenever we have little hope of getting results, we should strike a fundamentalist moral stance. In about 3/4 of all Congressional races I see little hope of getting political results. Therefore I call on catastrophic climate change activists to run one of themselves in every single primary, on the Republican and Democratic sides in the exact same race. Give the voters ample chances to tell the incumbent for life, look, you dawdle long enough on this one issue and it doesn't matter who you are, you go down. How is political unemployment going to feel? Ask all of those oilmen defeated in 2012.
Yes there are conservative Christians in this movement who might play to half of the Republican base. For starters, what denomination is Bill McKibbin? Methodist, I believe.
Is there a different analysis — look at how Big Tobacco was defeated, at the city council and state government level. DC was bought but they could not buy all of the Main Streets. Then the question is, where to gain leverage from Main Street? Divestment possibly. Massive local efforts to reduce carbon — city planning is slow acting, so it would need to be more like city operations, building codes.
There is no 'Third Way'. Blair was Thatcher in drag, but 'charming' with it, like Obama, Bill Clinton et al.
The Democratic Party is irreformable because its apparatchiki will destroy it before allowing insurgents to capture it. Hence Obama.
How about dropping a 100 megaton bomb into the Yellowstone caldera's magma chamber. That might slow things down for a while, at the cost of burying most of the USA under volcanic dust.
Hare Brain voting!
A Real Movement CAN have substantial (and perhaps sufficient) influence over politicians and party IF its members are willing to establish concrete criteria for voting for candidates (yes, including Democrats) and NOT VOTE FOR CANDIDATES WHO DON'T MEET THE CRITERIA, period, even if that means not voting for the "lesser of two evils" candidate (which, as we experience again and again, is an insufficient approach that gets us next to nowhere). DEMAND real change from the Democrats, let them know it in no uncertain terms, and don't vote for them (vote for a third party instead) if the Democrat candidate does not promise to do the right thing and immediately fulfill that promise if/when elected. I'm glad to hear that Bill is finally, slowly, coming around to a realization and (I hope) position that I wish he had taken two years ago. Time is nearly out, and we have to begin leveraging the full power of our activism and votes. The movement, as it grows, CAN influence Democratic politicians ONLY if it is willing to NOT vote for them when they don't promise and DO what is necessary to get the darn job done! Get it?
Best Wishes,
The Republicans have lost their marbles and the Democrats have lost their balls.
Indeed. The problem with protesting is it's an accepted practice, and protected right, that to be effective does take decades. There goes those crazy kids again. Yeah. The general public is immune. They think the food comes from cans.
What to do? I did what Michael Crichton did in reverse. He poo-pooed climate change in State of Fear. Liberal plot. I was outraged and wrote my answer novel: Warm Front. I asked Bill McKibben for help getting a major publisher. He read some chapters on a plane and said looked sound, but he had no influence in fiction publishing. Maybe? Maybe not? So I self-published it after 120 rejections from agents. The corporate media is terrified of global warming and thus, other than Crichton, no major novels on the subject exist that aren't dead ender jokes, if that. I gave it away to the tune of 135 copies. I got one review from Denmark. Luke warm at that. No so-called "climate activist" provided one word of support or made the novel go viral as some things do. Usually stupid things. I just gave away 185 copies of the sequel, Heat Wave, a more political entry that shows what happens when the politics turns deadly. The jury is out. Readers need time to read before reviewing. What is my point? Be it oil lobbies or environmental activists, it's an insider game for credit or even a passing acknowledgement for being on the same side as comrades in arms. We'll be going over the climate cliff because everyone is only looking out for themselves. I'll make the popcorn.
Well said, Marc. I recall Chris Hayes, in an interview with Rachel Maddow, saying that the Republicans fear their base and the Democrats hate theirs. It disgusts me, as a Democrat, to think that that might be the case. In the current "climate", we Dems aree supposed to be the good guys. That isn't being borne out.
Bill McKibben, I take heart from your analysis and believe it IS possible to "build a movement strong enough to transform the national mood". Would you speak directly –here or elsewhere soon– to the importance of coalition-building toward a more unified and influential voice for the movement, and steps that can improve / accelerate that process?
Aren't there things a grand alliance would be an advantage for, like marshaling the resources to deliver a climate scientist-led State of the Climate address to the nation (stepping in where Obama decidedly will not); or launching a strategic, long-term media campaign across all media to get climate & energy issues firmly in the public mind running up to the 2014 Congressional contest? Are people in your sphere talking about this kind of everybody-on-deck strategy? Advocates from business, finance, science, policy, cities & the enviro community.. joining forces & networks for unified messaging?
Good ideas Brian, keep at it, in fact now Hansen is independent, why not try the State of the Climate out on him. He might go for it and organize a few others to join him, ME
Thanks ME. I'm working on a draft for discussion on climate strategy that proposes specific goals for a flexibly organized "grand" alliance (State of the Climate being one goal). If it garners interest maybe it will come to something.
"My proposal is that the environmental groups get together for a summit "
This is THE key idea. This fragmented 20 to 30 million is not working. Speaking with one voice they would swamp the "Tea Party" and NRA.
I am certainly not surprised nor outraged about the Democrats. They are true to form. Why would they act any different than they have acted in the past? This is all theater.
I agree with Bill and the other posters here that it's a huge task and that there are no easy shortcuts. But there is one step which, though not easy, would help shift the tide; though too few people realize it.
I'm talking about voting reform. The current plurality voting system insulates the two major parties from the judgement of the voters, because everyone knows that third parties are just spoilers. This system inevitably encourages a craven focus on fundraising, because the funders, with their ability to work across districts, are the only ones with the real power of choice. Better voting systems like approval voting would give that choice back to the voters. That would simultaneously allow the growth of meaningful third parties, and realign the incentives for the Democratic party.
It's a hard slog to get voting reform passed, and what comes after is still a hard slog; but I firmly believe it's a key part of the best way to deal with this issue. And though most people don't realize that yet, the fact that we can think strategically enough that environmental activists are making headway on filibuster reform, gives me hope that voting reform could be next.
McKibben starts his to do list with "make a third party truly viable." The last time bitter progressives who could not get their way tried this with Nader we got Bush instead of Gore. Here in West Virginia a futile third party effort drained much of the green influence in the Democratic Party. Frankly I wish Mckibben would stop talking for a while and let the younger people he has recruited to 350.org do the talking and thinking. He is on a bad path.
See a web site that has video proof of a tar sand oil spill cover up. HELPPA.org


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