Joe Romm writes at Climate Progress:
King’s dream did survive him, and, some might argue, in the election of Barack Obama, witnessed its apotheosis, though not its completion.
Whereas the civil rights movement was trying to undo a terrible multi-century-long moral wrong, the challenge for climate science activists (the future-generations rights movement?) is that we are trying to prevent a terrible multi-century-long moral wrong. That mission will require even more eloquence, even more commitment.
I have a dream of clean air and clean water for my daughter and all the children of the world. I have a dream of clean energy jobs for millions of Americans and tens of millions of people around the globe. I have a dream we saved this garden of Eden for generations to come, saved it from the greed and myopia of the 1%.
EXACTLY. That would be the few top rulers at Greenpeace, et al., along with some decidedly anti-science anti-intellectual politicians, but especially a tiny amount of people in the mainstream media. As commenter “bestruger1022” points out below, we can thank the Occupy people for the basic idea of 1%’ers controlling far more then they are entitled to, which in this case is about having media control over an agenda-driven narrative about man-caused global warming. When they-all lose control of that, the issue collapses.
The first sentence in the last paragraph is well enough. We all want a clean world for ourselves and our posterity.
The “greed and myopia of the 1%”, however, is what makes widespread affluence possible for the rest of us. The burning desire to save the world from the wealthy has done the poor more harm than anything else I know of for the last hundred or two hundred years.
The “clean energy” he dreams of is a nightmare for now; okay in niche applications but too costly to lift the billions in poverty to a decent standard of living.
But we knew Romm was really a watermelon.
That “1%” notion was stolen from the Occupy Movement. Dreams of what the dregs of urbanity might accomplish are likely inspired by LSD.
One wonders when he will figure out it IS the 1% who are behind the politicized science.