Bill Clinton Says Slow Down Economy To Combat Global Warming
BILL Clinton says that to combat global warming industrialized nations need to: “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.”
This appears an odd thing to say, with the US worried about recession. (Video here.)
But, then, if there is a recession, President Hillary Clinton can blame it on global warming. Recession will be a good thing.
Right? Right on!
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May 15th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
No time like the present for needed change……..
Is the tiptop of the human construction we call the global political economy a place from which leadership can gain a reality-oriented view of what is happening on the surface of the Earth? Perhaps those of us at the top of the global economic pyramid are living in a secluded, unmaintainable material world of our own making and are willfully refusing to accept the limitations of the natural world in which the rest of the family of humanity lives.
If it turns out that the conspicuous consumption and relentless hoarding of the rich, the famous and the powerful are evidence of unsustainable lifestyles, what is the human community to do differently? Perhaps necessary change is in the offing.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
February 5th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Mike’s America - you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Since the 1800’s and Sir Thomas Malthus, we have known that there are only so many people we can support on the planet. The issue gets down to supply systems - in many countries we have already reached that point and people are starving to death. Others start wars to reduce the population (of neighboring countries, other religions, etc.)
Over population is real. This is a “Duh! Do the math!” issue.
Man made global warming is real, try telling Alaska it’s not.
But the other issue with this is - go to the first comment - the Rick Worth comment - This headline and article is a typical attack; taking comments out of context. The whole quote is not what the headline promised.
Also note: the assumption that slowing down the consumption economy requires a recession; not a redirection to recyclables. Some people really don’t get it.
rel:dr:05.02
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Steven. Is that the same global population bomb that Paul R. Ehrlich warned in 1968 would lead to: “in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death”, that nothing can be done to avoid mass famine greater than any in the history, and radical action is needed to limit the overpopulation.
You folks have to drop the “Sky is Falling” rhetoric. It’s no longer funny. Amazing how the left says that the Republicans use the “politics of fear” and you’ve just predicted that the world will end if we don’t immediately turn back the clock to the stone age and thereby CAUSE the deaths of millions of people.
Manmade global warming is a LIE! It’s purpose is to permit a socialist/one world political movement to handcuff and weaken Western society, but principally the United States.
And yes, I am proud to state my environmental credentials: I worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washinton, DC for a number of years and was acquainted with this issue very early on. It’s the biggest scam of all time and will suck needed resources away from poverty, literacy and health programs worldwide.
February 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Is Bill Clinton the only person on the planet prepared to talk openly about a real global issue, one that is ominously looming before humanity on the far horizon?
What I find surpirsing is this: even though Bill Clinton has “stepped it up” by talking about the need to slow the global economy — given its leviathan scale and, perhaps, soon to become unsustainable growth rate — there remains one problem, the proverbial “mother” of all global challenges, about which Republicans and Democrats, the self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe and ordinary people, the corporatists and environmentalists, leaders and followers remain in virtually total denial…. trenchantly unwilling to discuss openly:
OVERPOPULATION ISSUE OVERLOOKED BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/269259
THE CAPITAL TIMES, Madison, WI
Rob Zaleski — 1/25/2008
Thanks for your attention. Comments are invited.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:55 pm
The root cause of the environmental declines we are facing throughout the world is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Once one-fourth part of the earth is destroyed (Re.6:7-8) we will move forward to the next Seal events, followed by Trumpet events, followed by Plague events. The earth is on a downhill slid; it will not recover. The first four Trumpet events will destroy an additional one-third part (Re.8:7-12).
Patricia (ndbpsa ©) Bible Prophecy on the Web
jj 23.00, sorry no personal website links
February 1st, 2008 at 12:57 am
Billary should cut back on hairspray.
January 31st, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Perhaps the Clintons should start by cutting back on the hot air.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Err…except he didn’t say that the US economy should slow. What he said was:
“Everybody knows that global warming is real,” Mr. Clinton said, giving a shout-out to Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize, “but we cannot solve it alone.”
“And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada — the rich counties — would say, ‘OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.’ We could do that.
“But if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor to save the planet for our grandchildren. The only way we can do this is if we get back in the world’s fight against global warming and prove it is good economics that we will create more jobs to build a sustainable economy that saves the planet for our children and grandchildren. It is the only way it will work.