Good News -- Bad News

First the good news:

The coal and gas industry thinks Obama’s plan to reduce climate change is a bad idea.

This is good. It means that Obama is at least starting on the correct path.

Now the bad news:

I don’t think Obama understands the climate change crisis. He is either ignorant of the problem or is getting bad advice.

Or is it that his leadership style is wrong for the problem.

I voted for him and try to support him. But I voted for somebody who I thought would lead us out of the privatization and industrial morass that G W and his crew of cronies inflicted on us the first eight years of this century.

Too often Obama has only followed the policies of his predecessor. The NSA Prism program is one small example. So are the programs that privatized our prisons, intelligence, and many of the military functions. Judging from our military experiences, we seem to be paying more for base security, kitchen and laundry services, and other contracted services than before.

Also, Obama clearly wants to lead by consensus. He expects the Republicans to meet him in the middle. In the process, he gets to the middle and then begins negotiations only to give up even more, if he gets a deal at all. He still has not figured out that the Republican opposition 1) hates him and 2) will do anything to make him a failure – including bring down the country to do so.

This does not inspire confidence in any of our elected leadership.

This need for consensus is probably why Obama is placing so much emphasis on natural gas exploitation. It is less polluting than coal. It appears to be plentiful – at least a century’s worth of fuel after which we will all be long gone along with the gas.

What he doesn’t understand is that IT’S THE CARBON, STUPID!

Just because natural gas is half and polluting as coal doesn’t make it any less of a problem considering what our planet’s future appears to becoming.

Obama’s plan is like giving lung cancer patients ibuprofen instead of aspirin while letting them smoke.

That is not leadership.

What is about to happen to this planet and every living creature (including us) needs to be addressed now. It should have been addressed twenty years ago. It isn’t going to get any easier. It is only going to get harder.

We are the frog in the pot of water being heated to boiling. We need turn off the heat, not turn it down an notch.