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Feedback ForumWill climate control be a dominant issue in the Presidential campaign?Submissions for this question are no longer being accepted. Previously submitted comments appear below. Comments may have been edited for content or space. Poster: Rick Rundle Comment: Yes, Climate Control, less Foreign Legion more Peace Corps, type Foreign Policy...less boots more moccasins Poster: David Hart Comment: Yes, climate control will be a dominant issue. Many Americans have noticed that spring is arriving earlier, summer is more intense, and fall is arriving later. They have realized that the climate is changing and now they are waiting to hear which options and possible solutions are available. Some of that discussion on options and solutions will happen during the Presidential campaign. Poster: Bruce Mehren Comment: Let's hope so. Poster: Rev. David Steffenson Comment: If it isn't, the human species is lost to a bleak and hopeless world. We have to bring about total economic and social transformations within the time frame of the next Administration or the game is up for human beings and maybe for the planet as a place that can sustain any kind of life. Poster: TM Akashi Comment: Only if the American public demands CO2 reduction to be a dominant issue. Hopefully, candidates will recognize the responsibility for the U.S. to reduce carbon emissions, as we are the largest per capita polluter. Poster: Susie Cousar Comment: Yes, the future of our planet is dependent on U.S. citizens waking up, becoming aware of our consumption and world dominance machine (the one that is primarily responsible for the human caused ecosystem destruction and global warming) and the connection between lack of corporate regulation/ oversight and all other world health, social and ecological problems. Wake up and get educated Americans, we need us to come together on this with the rest of the thinking world!! Poster: Susan Galbraith Comment: Climate change should be a dominant issue. I hope one or more Democratic candidates will grapple with the important choices to be made in order to address this crisis. Let's not let ourselves be conned into thinking that half measures are sufficient. Poster: Chuck Comment: Yes it will. Climate control, global warming, etc. and terrorism will be the big problems of the 21st Century. Poster: Randy Dayton Comment: Unfortunately, no. Poster: Bill Morgan Comment: It MUST be if we have any concern abougt the future or our children and grandchildren and for all of those living in endangered aras of the world. We are already in dangerous territory, especially when the many political and economic complexities of working out solutions on a global basis are considered. Poster: david doherty Comment: yes, this is without a doubt the biggest problem the world has ever faced, it better be a dominant issue! We have to make up for the Bush regime, 8 yrs of nose picking. Poster: Tom Butcher Comment: No, because like the cancer it is, it will be given lip service. Poster: Marissa Comment: Global warming may feel like a myth to American conservatives, but it's real and it's here NOW. Poster: Ronald Eby Comment: Only if we're out of Iraq soon. Iraq should and will dominate the campaign unless we're out by the end of the year. Climate change should be the second most important issue. We need a candidate who will be very proactive in promoting alternative energy such as solar, wind and wave technologies. Poster: Gilda Taylor, Portland, OR Comment: I sure hope so and that there is sincerity in whatever promises are made. The new administration needs to create planning to remarkably change our use of fossil fuels. Corn isn't the answer. It will become as expensive as our present fuels for automobiles and other types of vehicles that utilize fossil fuels. And, creating corn fuels is, in the long run, expensive and not the answer. There must be significant exploration into modification of fossil fuels, but mostly alternative fuels yet to be developed. The crisis ahead dwarfs so many of our present concerns. Poster: Jane Bruce-Munro Comment: Climate control quite obviously SHOULD be a dominant issue in the Presidential campaign, since our survival depends on taking vigorous action to control global warming IMMEDIATELY. Poster: Nancy Golden Comment: Next to the war, renewable/sustainable energy should be at the top of our national priority list. How I would love to see the federal government adopt The Apollo Alliance -- just think of the breakthrough solutions and new living-wage jobs that would become possible. If we think on a large enough scale, the collateral economic and social benefits will be just as beneficial as the new technologies. Poster: Donald Auguston Comment: Personally, I would like all matter ecological to be a more significant topic of political dialogue. However, the insane and immoral war that Mr. Cheney and his puppet George have us involed with will be the primary topic of coverage. I doubt if environmental issues will ever come to the fore. |
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