If this is the best we can do, we're hosed.

[Ravenshire]

Climate change, once consigned to the pending file or dismissed as a hoax, “has moved firmly into the present.” So concludes the third annual National Climate Assessment released last month. President Obama was ready with a response, releasing an Environmental Protection Agency proposal for a 30 percent cut in emissions from more than 600 power stations by 2030. Hundreds will be shut down.

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30% cut from power stations? Is this the best we can do?!? How about redirecting a shit-ton of the oil subsidy money into research into valid alternatives to fossil fuels? How about building some solar powered generation plants? It wouldn't take much. Some convex mirrors and some black water pipes to generate steam to turn a turbine. For fuck's sake, we're killing the planet and all our "fearless leader" can come up with is some negligible cuts in emissions?!? Washington would be easier to take if "fearless leader" simply demanded we bring him "moose and squirrel" than this bullshit.

The worst part is, there's money to be made both in generating power using non-carbon sources and in cleaning up our own stinking mess if our Wall St. Masters would just take off the fucking blinders.