Vote Vets Pressure Congress to Pass Tough Climate Bill in 72 Hours for Clean American Power

March 4th, 2010 by Susan Kraemer

This is about the most moving ad for tough climate legislation that I’ve seen.

Our kids in the military are on the front lines of our needless, pointless, stupid addiction to fossil energy. They don’t need to be in foreign countries risking their lives so we can scrounge up the last few drops of a dirty energy that will keep killing our troops through the 21st century – and then keep raising our sea levels for five centuries after that.

How can we allow this to go on? What are we? Stupid? Watch it.

Then pick up the phone and join the rest of us calling today and tomorrow via 72 Hours for Clean American Power to say that we want clean, safe, renewable, climate-friendly, renewable, troop-friendly, home-made, permanent, renewable, cheap, infinite, endlessly renewable energy.

Not finite fossil energy.And even if you should happen to read this months from now, if you love someone in Iraq, or anyone who will have to try and live on this planet after you’re dead – please, please, pick up the goddamn phone!

The Senate switchboard is (202) 224 3121.

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Tags: 72 Hours for Clean American Power, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, climate legislation, progressive legislation

About the Author

Susan Kraemer writes at CleanTechnica, CSP-Today, PV-Insider , SmartGridUpdate, and GreenProphet. She has also been published at Ecoseed, NRDC OnEarth, MatterNetwork, Celsius, EnergyNow, and Scientific American. As a former serial entrepreneur in product design, Susan brings an innovator's perspective on inventing a carbon-constrained civilization: If necessity is the mother of invention, solving climate change is the mother of all necessities! As a lover of history and sci-fi, she enjoys chronicling the strange future we are creating in these interesting times. Follow Susan on Twitter @dotcommodity.