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Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Environment February 13, 2020

Dammed good question about the Green New Deal

By Don Fitz November 5, 2019 Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough. An August 2019 forum on the GND included representatives from the Sunrise Movement, Renew Missouri and three of us in the Green Party. Rev. Elston McCowan asked, “What does the Green New Deal say about rivers and dams?” I said “That’s a dammed good question”…

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Climate Change, Environment, Green Party December 30, 2019

Deep Green Declaration

Produced by a collective of Green Party members, this appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Green Horizon Magazine. The text was written by Linda Cree and Steve Welzer based upon contributions from (in alphabetical order): Greg Gerritt, Bruce Hinkforth, Margaret Human, John Rensenbrink, Sid Smith, and Howard Switzer. We are at a critical turning point for human civilization. All around us we see a world in crisis — a world facing overwhelming environmental and social threats. Our “way of life” is literally shredding the biosphere we depend on. Greens have been in the forefront of asserting that unless we make a…

Climate Change, Environment, Nuclear Power June 7, 2019

As Reactors Shut in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, Nuke War Rages in Ohio and New York

Green Social Thought By Harvey Wasserman As the nuke power industry slumps toward oblivion, two huge reactors are shutting in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The shutdowns are a body blow to atomic energy. The soaring costs of the decayed US reactor fleet have forced them to beg gerrymandered state legislatures for huge bailouts. Just two US reactors are still being built. Stuffed with $12 billion in interest-free federal loans, Georgia’s Vogtle is nearing a staggering $30 billion in cost. Years behind schedule, the lowest possible costs of whatever electricity the two reactors there might produce already far exceed wind and solar….

Environment March 30, 2019

Betrayed and Outraged: Winning The Rural Vote In Today’s Political Climate

IVN by Dr. Lynn S. Kahn March 19, 2019 Let’s just call everything outside major urban centers, the rural vote. Betrayed by politicians of every political party, left out of every agriculture-related policy decision in every government agency, on the short end of every economic development strategy at all levels of government, the rural vote is changing. Still broken and outraged, a newly energized coalition now demands integrity in elections and true representation for the people of rural and small town economies. You want that vote? Start here. 1: Do Your Homework Understand the basic issues from the point of…

Democratic Party, Environment, military budget, Nuclear Power, political corruption, Social Justice January 9, 2019

The New Congress Needs to Create a Green Planet at Peace

Common Dreams By Medea Benjamin, Alice Slater January 8, 2019 The time has come for a New Peace Deal that repudiates endless war and the threat of nuclear war which, along with catastrophic climate change, poses an existential threat to our planet A deafening chorus of negative grumbling from the left, right, and center of the US political spectrum in response to Trump’s decision to remove US troops from Syria and halve their numbers in Afghanistan appears to have slowed down his attempt to bring our forces home. However, in this new year, demilitarizing US foreign policy should be among…