Mitt Romney trades votes for our health

Mitt Romney, the only Republican presidential contender who made any noises about climate change has backed off of his position. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59313.html Now he's back to sucking up to rich (and/or stupid) conservatives who will deny the science behind climate change until they fry.

Now he's weaseling around by stating that carbon is not a pollutant in the sense that it harms our bodies. No, but 40 degree Celsius (that's 100+ to you Americans) temperatures certainly do harm our bodies. The fact is that any industrial discharge ought to be regulated. The problem with our economic system is that there has always been an incentive to use public space, such as water and air, for discharge of pollutants. Even when the garbage is innocuous, the person is still responsible.

There is a problem with the system. It's a time of crisis and we need leaders who will stand up and tell the nation things it does not want to hear. Like "one way or another we are going to get you to stop driving your cars." Mitt Romney is clearly not the man for that job.

In fact, it's impossible to be in the Republican party and support rational action based on climate science. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/us/politics/21climate.html

So what, I'm Canadian. I can't vote for him (or against him) anyway.

Voice of Doom. I just get to sit across the border and watch the largest economy on the planet lead us down the road of destruction.

Seen what's happening in Somalia? People are starving again. Climate change feels pretty real to them. They don't get to vote either.

Hey, you know what's ironic? The ads that come up on this blog are for car sales. That's why I'm such a pessimist. Capitalism just keeps rolling along. It has no self-awareness. It would sell us the tools for the revolution, if that were what we wanted. But I don't even want that anymore. I'm with Winston Churchill on Democracy. It's the worst system, except for all the rest.