Game Over for the Climate

Read James Hansen's op-ed piece in yesterday's NY Times.  If you are a parent or a grandparent, an aunt or an uncle, you have a duty to act.  Passivity is not an option.  E-mail your Senators and member of Congress.  It doesn't take much effort.  Contact information for your Senators is available here.  You can find your Congressman or Congresswoman here.  Just tell them to read Hansen's article and to act.  Now.  

Let's take the crackpot Republican support for the Keystone XL pipeline, and turn it into a devastating election-year opportunity.  The message writes itself:  supporting the pipeline is an attack on our children and grandchildren.  Nothing is more cruel or more shameful.  

If you need extra ammunition, read Charles Pierce's "Accidental Activist" piece.  Here's my favorite part:

[Randy Thompson]'s laughed at the preposterous promises of an economic boom; at one point, TransCanada promised that the pipeline would provide 100,000 new jobs. It later was revealed that these jobs included employment in the "entertainment" industry that would spring up along the pipeline's route. "Strippers," Randy says. "They're talking about strippers. And temporary strippers at that."