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“We are living in a country that inhales oil and petrochemicals and exhales American jobs, technology and greenhouse gasses. We’re not gonna last that way.”
New York City, 3/14/07
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Clip on TPM Cafe’s Elections Central.
I don’t want to be thinking about 2008 all the time, but if not Clark, then Gore. There, I’ve said it.
It’s good, of course, but I don’t know, kind of cheap and ridiculous. The fewer lightbulbs, the better, so based on house size, Clinton wins this little contest. Then again, the more lightbulbs your spouse changes for your ambitions, if that’s the criteria, could put Edwards ahead.
Last night in DC:
Senator Clinton told how proud she is of her husband for walking around the house with a bag of energy-efficient florescent light bulbs replacing regular ones.
Last night in Iowa:
“Elizabeth, I saw her climb up, I literally saw her with piles of fluorescent light bulbs changing them out,” he [John Edwards] said of his wife.
Al Gore’s group of advocates is hoping to educate as many people as possible about the science of global warming, why it’s getting worse and what each of us can do to stop it.
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Because of the potential damage to the environment from global warming, and because the U.S. imports much of its supply of fossil fuels, some view the issue in terms of national security. That list includes retired General Wesley Clark, a 2004 candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“If you look at all the scientific projections on where it’s headed, you have to view the consequences of it as potentially so severe, it has to be considered a national security problem,” Clark said in 2006. “There’s just no other way to deal with it.”
The Clark Community Network “Faith in Action” team is blogging today about faith and environmentalism.
A Time To Lead is carrying an unsettling interview with nuclear physicist and weapons scientist Frank Barnaby. Stopping the Iran War is more important than running for president at this time. We need our Senators in the Senate working on this, not out on the campaign trail.
A time to lead, indeed.
It’s tackling the most important national security problems we face.
This article was first published in The Daily Bruin.
By Julia Erlandson for The Daily Bruin
Experts including retired Gen. Wesley Clark are set to convene today on campus for a two-day conference aimed at discussing the future of nuclear weapons and proliferation.
The conference, hosted by UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations, features scholars, government officials and journalists with knowledge of nuclear weapons issues, including four UCLA professors and former Chancellor Albert Carnesale.
“There’s the eternal question of how do we deal with weapons of mass destruction,” said Kal Raustiala, director of UCLA’s International Institute and a host of the conference. “We wanted to get a wide array of perspectives.”
Former Secretary of Defense William Perry is scheduled to give the keynote address this afternoon, with Wednesday featuring panels and breakout sessions on more specific subjects.
Clark, in his third appearance on campus since joining the Burkle Center as a senior fellow in September 2006, is set to speak today and moderate a discussion the second day. Raustiala said Clark was also a key conference organizer.
“We should consider a global environment in which it is no longer larger powers and smaller powers fighting. It’s important for the world to rebuild an international consensus behind the United Nations, so force is not proscribed for every situation,” Clark said.
He also asserted that energy efficiency was critical for the environment. Clark said he would favor the creation of a national energy policy that would restrict carbon usage to the lowest possible level and help make citizens more aware of the problem.
“It’s easy to say (that there’s no global warming) when it’s March and there’s snow on the ground in New Hampshire,” he said. “A lot of people say it’s a cycle, and yes, that’s partly true, but the majority of that impact is in greenhouse gases.”
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: Well, you know, people who are against war often make the case by trying to attack the weapons of war and stripping away the legitimacy of those weapons. I’ve participated in some of that. I’d like to get rid of landmines. I did participate in getting rid of laser blinding weapons. And I was part of the team that put together the agreement that got rid of laser blinding weapons. I’d like to get rid of nuclear weapons. But I can’t agree with those who say that force has no place in international affairs. It simply does for this country. And I would like to work to make it so that it doesn’t. But the truth is, for now it does. And so, I can’t go against giving our men and women in uniform the appropriate weapons they need to fight, to fight effectively to succeed on the battlefield, and to minimize their own casualties.
Interviewed by Democracy Now
The General for President 2008 