What is wrong with this picture? Poor, misguided, corrupt legislation causes the greatest man-made environmental disaster in history. Yet, before we have time to learn from our mistakes, the US Senate this week barely stops a bill, 53 to 47 against, that tried to take away power given to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the US Supreme Court to regulate greenhouse gases and contain and control global warming. An uninformed and ill advised Alaskan senator introduced this bill in an attempt to weaken the EPA, trying to keep control in the hands of big energy companies, and a broken Congress, which currently votes only along party lines. Is anyone keeping score? Talk to you kids, ask them what they think went wrong and what we can do to prevent this abuse of power? Is what is happening in the Senate so removed from what is happening in the real world that we can stand by and allow these types of bills to be introduced? “We the People” where are “We?” Is there hope for the Climate Change Bill now languishing in the Senate? What do you think?
The rest of this world is looking at the US, with pity but an “I told you so” attitude, as our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels allowed us to search for these resources in an unsafe and unsecure manner, and in a place where we never should have been. According to statistics compiled by The Climate Project, BP has spent $1.43 billion so far on the oil spill clean up, an amount that they have historically made in profit, over a 22-day period.
