All I did with this speech is replace John McCain’s name with Barack Obama’s name. Sadly, the criticism that Barack Obama sent McCain’s way now applies to him as well.

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America is suffering from record-breaking increases in the cost of gasoline, which is now above four dollars per gallon and is expected to go over five dollars per gallon by the end of the summer. At the same time, the effects of global warming are damaging our economy as well. These problems make now exactly the wrong time to celebrate the gas-guzzling, carbon-spewing, inefficient Corvette with a National Corvette Day.

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It’s been a crazy day of environmentalist action around the world, with strong protests against the economic infrastructure that delivers the dirty fossil fuels that are burning into accelerating climate change.

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The Bush White House is illegally delaying the polar bear decision by the EPA until after big oil corporations are able to buy leases in the Chukchi Sea, prime polar bear habitat, at rock bottom prices in an auction scheduled for today.

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George W. Bush has submitted his proposed budget to the U.S. Congress for 2009 - and that proposed budget includes a half a billion dollar cut of funds for renewable energy resources and energy efficiency programs. Without better energy efficiency and an increase in energy from renewable resources, we cannot hope to fight global warming.

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Being an environmental activist is like exercising. Watching an exercise show doesn’t do you any good. You’ve got to do the work yourself. In the case of the environment, a lot of the work has to do with cutting back on the most wasteful luxuries, and figuring out what you really need as opposed to what you’re used to having around.

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Are we going to let the people of India defeat us in the competition to restrain greenhouse gas emissions? If you want to be defeatist in this contest, then vote for a right wing politician who won’t even try to win. If you want America to be the winner, vote progressive in 2008.

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90 songbirds are on the Watchlist, . That makes 41 percent of all the birds listed, more than any other kind of bird. Unless you’re willing to accept a sky of diminished song, vote for strong environmental action. Vote progressive in 2008.

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Deforestation accounts for 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Reduce deforestation, and you’ll reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and slow down global warming.
There are two ways that this can be accomplished.
First, there’s the progressive way. We can stop deforestation now, through international cooperation between our government and the government of other nations.
Second, […]

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Indonesia is not a small country; its population rivals that of the United States. But as an island country it is especially threatened by rising sea water. If the world’s nations do not take action to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, then scientists project Indonesian capital of Jakarta will fall under water. […]

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