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Today's
Stories
September
25, 2007
Nicole
Colson
On the March Against Racism
September
24, 2007
George
Ciccariello-Maher
Racist Violence from Jena to Oakland
Saree Makdisi
The
War on Gaza's Children
David
Keen
Action-as-Propaganda: Learning About the Iraq War from Hannah
Arendt
Sherwood
Ross
Just How Powerful is the Israel Lobby? Only Cheney Knows for
Sure
Ron
Jacobs
Greenspan's Open Secret
Donna
Saggia
The Cult of the Military and the Decline of Democratic Values
Mike
Ferner
Free Speech Takes a Capitol Beating
Malini
Johar Schueller
Norman Hsu is a Model Minority
Monique
Dols
and Dylan Stillwood
Ahmadinejad and Columbia
Website
of the Day
The Promotion
September 22 / 23, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
On Naomi Klein's "The Shock
Doctrine"
Jennifer
Loewenstein
Beneath the Hideous Veneer of
Security
Linn
Washington, Jr.
The Injustice in Jena: Prosecutorial Misconduct More Dangerous
Than Racism
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Going Down in Dinosaur: Oil, Dams and Whitewater (Part One)
Alan
Farago
Genuflecting to China
Brian
Cloughley
Of Hate, Hubris and Atrocities
Robert
Fantina
The Deadly Pattern of US Imperialism
Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz
Land Tenure and Resistance in New
Mexico
Jason
Hribal
Fear of an Animal Planet
David
Rosen
Slugger Sex: Athletes, Violence and Male Sexuality
Mike
Whitney
The Era of Global Financial Instability
John
V. Walsh
Who Will Lead a Filibuster of the Iraq War Spending Bill?
Dave
Lindorff
Why Aren't We Banning Blackwater Here?
David
Michael Green
Hiding Behind a Camouflage Skirt
Fred
Gardner
Claudia Jensen (Look Back in Anger)
Cassandra
Jones
Support Our Mercenaries
Roger
van Zwanenberg
Pluto Press Under Attack by Israel Lobby
Poets'
Basement
Buknatski, Davies and Ford
Website
of the Weekend
"For the Bible Tells Me So"
September
21, 2007
Karim
Makdisi
Letter from Lebanon
M.
Shahid Alam
A History of Violence
Alan
Farago
Who Will Buy My House?
Joshua
Frank
The Demise of the Congressional Black Caucus
Dave
Zirin
Notre Dame and the Economy of Sports
Kenneth
Couesbouc
A Short History of Lending and Borrowing
Dr.
Steffie Woolhandler and Dr. David Himmelstein
Mass Health Care Failure
Ben
Terrall
The Streets of San Francisco: Where Impeachment is Taken Seriously--By
Everyone But Pelosi
Steve
Fournier
Ex-Dems, Sign Up Here
Frederico
Fuentes, et al
Voices in Defense of Bolivia
Website
of the Day
Sabra and Shatila, Remembered
September
20, 2007
Kathleen
Christison
Whatever Happened to Palestine?
Zoltan
Grossman
An Endless Occupation?
Paul
Craig Roberts
As the Empire Slips: Greenspan and the Economy of Greed
Stan
Cox
and Wes Jackson
Carbon-Free and Still Wrecking the Planet
Russell
Mokhiber
AARP to Kucinich: Drop Dead
Charles
Modiano
Jim Crow's Children: the Jena 6, Shaquanda Cotton and Blog Power
Raymond
J. Lawrence
Bush's Worrisome Use of Religion
Brendan
Cooney
Body-Snatched Nation
Website
of the Day
Mind Control for Breakfast
September
19, 2007
Paul
Craig Roberts
Why Did Senator John Kerry Stand
Idly By?
Paul
Krassner
The Power of Laughter
Sgt.
Martin Smith
The New Private Warriors: Blackwater in Iraq
Seth
Sandronsky
Living in a Dilapidated Market: To Rent or Own?
Claud
Cockburn
Looking back at the Great Crash
Victoria
Buch
Israel's Agenda for Ethnic Cleansing
and Transfer
Robert
Weissman
Oil Warriors: From Greenspan to Kissinger
Mike
Ferner
Can We Talk?
Dan
Bacher
Schwarzenegger's $9 Billion Boondoggle for Big Water
Website
of the Day
Housing Cost Calculator
September
18, 2007
Mike
Whitney
U.S. Banks Brace for Storm Surge
as Dollar and Credit System Reel
Alan
Farago
Interviewing Alan Greenspan: How 60
Minutes Blew It
John
Ross
America's Great Wall:
Where Will the Workers Go
When They Finish It?
Ron
Jacobs
Nooses Hung From Jena, La. to College
Park, Md.
Alex
Doherty
Britain's 9/11 "Truth Movement":
Who's Responsible?
September
17, 2007
Marjorie
Cohn
Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-9/11
Attack on Academic Freedom
Paul
Craig Roberts
Conservatism Isn't What It Used to
Be
Ricardo
Alarcón
The Return of C. Wright Mills Amid
the Dawn of a New Era
Marc
Levy
Fake Vets Chasing Fame
Eva
Liddell
In 1969 We Already Knew What 2007
Would Look Like
Website
of the Day
Propaganda:
Your Job in Germany. Directed by Frank Capra, and written by
Theodor Geisel
Sept.
15-16, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
The General Came to Washington
Vicente
Navarro
How the U.S. Schemed Against Spain's
Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy
Mike
Whitney
Plummeting Dollar, Credit Crunch
Herman
Mindshaftgap
Has There Ever Been a Surge?
If so, Has it a Future?
Ellen
Cantarow
Girls! Music! Palestine!
Jordan
Flaherty
K-Ville: Fox's New Paean to the
N.O.P.D.
Zachary
Hurwitz
Julio Cusurichi on Amazonian Development
September
14, 2007
Debbie
Nathan
New York Times reporter was a member
of an illegal underage porn site, claims he was only "posing
as online predator"
Franklin
Lamb
Sabra-Shatilla, 25 Years Later
Patrick
Cockburn
Greet Bush and Die: The Killing of
Abu Risha
Farzana
Versey
The World's Richest Muslim Tycoon
Alan
Farago
This is Florida, Epicenter of the
Housing Bust and of Public Corruption
Hank
Edson
Bill's New Book is Giving Me a Headache
September
13, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
Petraeus Confided Presidential Ambitions
to Iraqi Official
Scott
Vest, former Air Force Captain at Minot
The Barksdale Nukes
Andy
Worthington
Guantánamo: "Ghost"
Prisoners Speak At Last
Michael
Baney
Mr. Fixit of Quake-Stricken Peru Has
Death Squad Past
Dr.
Susan Block
Is U.S. Run by Secret Homintern?
September
12, 2007
Paul
Craig Roberts
American Economy: RIP
Stan
Goff
The Petraeus Report
William
Blum
When Soldiers Mutiny...Only Those Fighting
the War Can End It.
Manuel
Garcia
Forgetting 9/11
Debbie
Nathan
Why One Sex Survey Didn't Make the
Big Time
September
11, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
The Fakery of General Petraeus
Iain
Boal
Specters of Malthus: Scarcity, Poverty,
Apocalypse
Michael
Dickinson
Osama on 9/11
Guerry
Hoddersen
Free Speech is Not Given, but Taken
Bill
Hatch
Irish Politics in Old Time California
Gary
Leupp
The Legacy of Luciano Pavarotti
Website
of the Day
Elisa Salasin's
"My September 11th"
September
10, 2007
Uri
Avnery
A Big Victory Against the Wall
Patrick
Cockburn
Petraeus's Closet
Saul
Landau and Farrah Hassen
Screwing Up In Iraq
David
Michael Green
Why Fred Thompson is Uniquely Qualified
to be the GOP's Nominee
Pius
Adesanmi
A Solidarity Letter to a Victim
of Michael Vick
Betty
Schneider
How to Deal With Sex Offenders
September
8 / 9, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Will the US Really Bomb Iran?
Saul
Landau
The Irrational Drama of a Declining Empire
Ismael
Hossein-Zadeh
Hurricane Katrina and Bush's Wars
Ray
McGovern
Petraeus, the Westmoreland of Iraq
Matthew
Abraham
Finkelstein's Legacy at DePaul
Alan
Farago
The Governor and the Growth Machine
Christopher
Brauchli
Grand Old Party Animals
Rannie
Amiri
Battle of the Camps
Fred
Gardner
Will Snoops Get Stopped?
James
L. Secor
B-52 Flexing Nuclear Muscles: H-Bombs Over Barksdale
Missy
Comley Beattie
Choices: Shall We Stay or Shall We Go Now?
Ben
Tripp
Still in the Clover
Francis
Boyle
The University of Illinois' Little Red Sambo Show
Joe
Allen and Paul D'Amato
Jason Bourne vs. James Bond
Website
of the Weekend
Drilling Wyoming: the View from Above
September 7, 2007
Robert
Fantina
Those Iraq Reports: Bush vs. Reality
John
Ross
Coca-Cola's Raid on a Sacred Mountain
James
Brooks
The Occupation Within
Russell
Mokhiber
Robert Reich and the Elimination of Corporate Criminal Liability
Joshua
Frank
The Green Implosion Continues: Cyberlynching John Murphy
John
Walsh
On the Green Party
Mark
Brenner
New York Taxi Workers Strike Over Tracking Devices
Mike
Ferner
"I Will Salute No More Forever"
Website
of the Day
Help Save Osny Zachary's Life
September
6, 2007
Kathleen
and Bill Christison
Bush, Iran and Israel's Hidden
Hand
Allan
J. Lichtman
When General Petraeus Speaks, Don't Listen ...
Norman
Solomon
The Secret Addiction of Thomas Friedman
Yifat
Susskind
Hurricane Felix's First Responders: Courage and Tragedy on the
Miskito Coast
Catherine
Fenton
Why I Am Going to the Protest
Laura
Santina
Can the War Machine be Contained?
Farzana
Versey
Fission Kashmir
Yves
Engler
Haiti: Where a Wage of $2 a Day is Too Much for the Lords of
Industry to Pay
Kelly
Overton
Bang Bang; Shoot Shoot: Is Hunting Racist?
Michael
Simmons
One Jew's Views: The Strange Genius of Drew Friedman and Kominsky
Crumb
Website
of the Day
Dams and Genocide in Guatemala
September
5, 2007
Stan
Goff
The End Begins
Michael
Dickinson
Working for Mother Teresa: Memoirs of a Rebellious Volunteer
Matthew
Abraham
Standing Firm with Norman Finkelstein and DePaul's Heroic Students:
a Defining Moment
Patrick
Cockburn
The Basra Debacle
Dave
Lindorff
Beware the Wounded Beast
Paul
Craig Roberts
Who Are the Fanatics?
Clifton
Ross
Ecuador and the Struggle for Latin American Unity
Elizabeth
Schulte
Katrina's Forgotten Refugees
Joseph
Grosso
Labor Day in New York City
Ben
Terrall
Where's Nancy? On Trying to Protest Pelosi in San Francisco
Website
of the Day
A Guide to Narco Dollars
September
4, 2007
Jean
Bricmont
Why Bush Can Get Away with Attacking
Iran
Patrick
Cockburn
Cut and Run in Iraq
Ron
Jacobs
The Haditha Massacre: Spinning a War Crime
Tom
Kerr
Buried Alive on San Quentin's Death Row
Gary
Leupp
The Case of Jose Maria Sison
Sonja
Karkar
The Weeping Olive Trees of Palestine
Heather
Gray
The Best and Worst of America: 9/11, Joseph Lowery and the Lethal
Silence of Billy Graham
Fidel
Castro
The Super-Revolutionaries
Jackie
Corr
Home Depot Comes to Butte--Begging Bowl in Hand
Sunsara
Taylor
Katrina and the Progress of the System
Website
of the Day
Colombia Journal
September
3, 2007
Patrick
Cockburn
Brits Flee from Basra
Eamon
McCann
Qana, Derry: The Dead Lie in Familiar Shapes
Joshua
Frank
The End of the Green Party?
Chris
Floyd
Post-Mortem America: Bush's Year of Triumph
Marjorie
Cohn
A Look at Bush's Iran War Plans
Walter
Brasch
The News Drones: How Fake Photos Helped Lead the US to War in
Iraq
Matt
Reichel
Redefining the American Dream
Website
of the Day
Don't Get Fooled Again
September
1 / 2, 2007
Alexander
Cockburn
Entrapment Snares Larry Craig
Andy
Worthington
Britain's Guantánamo
Saul
Landau
The Tragic Ordeal of the Cuban Five
David
Keen
An Occident Waiting to Happen: Intellectuals and the War on Terror
Patrick
Cockburn
The Collapse of Iraq's Health Care
Services
Diana
Johnstone
Back in Uncle Sam's Pocket
George
Longstreth, MD
& Karen Longstreth, RN
The Sorrows of Occupation: Life in the West Bank
Linda
M. Woolf
A Sad Day for Psychologists--a Sadder Day for Human Rights
Ralph
Nader
Wrapping the World with Advertising
Fred
Gardner
The Trial of Mollie Fry, MD
Ben
Tripp
Enquiry in America Today
David
Michael Green
American Indigestion: Why Bush Governs from the Gut
Missy
Comley Beattie
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: What the GOP Hasn't
Learned About Tolerance
Michael
Dickinson
Who's Cheating: Remembering Princess Diana
Paul
Krassner
Assholes of the Week: From Larry Craig to Wesley Clark
Ron
Jacobs
A Sports Nation of Millions
Poets'
Basement
Buknatski, Davies and Mickey Z
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September
25, 2007
The Climate Change
Hypocrite
Schwarzenegger
at the UN
By DAN BACHER
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's address
to the United Nations today about global climate change is one
of the most blatant examples of hypocrisy that I've ever witnessed.
Schwarzenegger challenged the leaders of the world's nations
to "solve global warming" as he continues to push the
Legislature to accept a $9 billion water bond package that would
build an environmentally devastating Delta canal and more dams.
Schwarzenegger addressed delegates
and invited guests for the United Nations conference "The
Future in our Hands: Addressing the Leadership Challenge of Climate
Change" at the General Assembly Hall at the United Nations
Headquarters in New York, NY. United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon invited the Governor to speak at today's special
session in July, when they toured a San Jose business that is
developing the technology for countries to help reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions.
"What we're doing is changing
the dynamic, preparing the way and encouraging the future,"
Schwarzengger told the U.N. "The aerospace industry built
the modern economy of Southern California. The computer industry
and the Internet built the economy of Silicon Valley. And now
green, clean technology - along with biotech - will take California
to the next level."
While promoting "green,
clean" technology, the Governor also included the pandora's
box of biotechnology as a solution to the energy problems of
California and the world without discussing what potential
threat biotechnology, particularly transgenic plants, fish and
animals, present to the environment.
"Right now, in California,
the brightest scientists from around the world and the smartest
venture capitalists are racing to find new energy technologies,
and the solutions to global warming. It's a race fueled by billions
of dollars," continued Schwarzenegger.
While the Governor is planning
the destruction of the California Delta, the West Coast's most
significant estuary, by campaigning for the building of a canal
and more dams, he is touting his "green" credentials
by calling for a "new race fueled by billions of dollars"
to find new energy technologies.
While Schwarzenegger has pressured
the Central Valley Regional Water Control Board to keep allowing
the discharge of toxic waste water from agribusiness into Central
Valley streams and the Delta, he is urging the world's nations
to "renew the climate of this planet." This is greenwashing
at its absolute worst!
Rather than preaching about
"climate change" in a carefully choreographed photo
opportunity before the United Nations, the Governor should have
the courage to impose water pollution standards on corporate
agribusiness and to reduce water exports from the Sacramento-
San Joaquin Delta by mandating increased water conservation and
taking drainage impaired land in the San Joaquin Valley out of
agricultural production. However, he refuses to do this because
the people that are destroying the Bay-Delta Estuary and polluting
Central Valley rivers are the same folks that fund the campaigns
of Schwarzenegger and other corrupt politicians.
I hope that the people of California
soon wake up to the environmental nightmare that Schwarzenegger
intends to inflict upon us by building the peripheral canal and
more dams to export more water from the Delta. The Governor's
water bond boondoggle would fund two new reservoirs - Temperance
Flat in the San Joaquin Valley and Sites in the Sacramento Valley,
as well as expanding storage in Los Vaqueros Reservoir.
Four species of pelagic (open
water) fish - Delta smelt, longfin smelt, juvenile striped bass
and threadfin shad - have declined to record low population levels
under the Governor's "green" leadership. Winter-run
chinook salmon, spring-run chinooks, fall-run chinooks, Central
Valley steelhead, white sturgeon, green sturgeon and other species
are also threatened by Schwarzenegger's water bond boondoggle.
The voters in 1982 overwhelmingly
defeated the "peripheral canal" that would divert water
around the Delta to the state and federal export pumps in the
South Delta. The Governor's latest canal proposal is the "armored"
or "fortress" Delta proposal, also called "through-Delta
conveyance."
This new version of the old
canal would "divert a portion of Sacramento River flows
into a series of armored levees that wind through the Delta,"
according to today's article by Matt Weiser in the Sacramento
Bee. "Most proposals would turn the south fork of the Mokelumne
River and Middle River into this proposed canal."
The new concept also includes
gates across some side channels to keep out salt water during
high tides. "Bolstered levees would be built to withstand
earthquakes, floods and a predicted sea-level rise caused by
global warming," Weiser wrote.
A broad coalition of recreational
anglers, commercial fishermen, Delta farmers, Indian Tribes and
conservation groups is adamantly against the canal's latest incarnation.
"Our organization is completely opposed to the new Delta
pipe proposal just as it was the old one," said Barbara
Barrigan-Parrilla, coordinator of Restore the Delta. "It
will be very destructive to Delta water quality and quantity
and would do great harm to prime farm land. The main difference
between the old and new canal proposals is that the new canal
would pass through fish habitat and farmland further west in
the Delta than the previous one would have."
Under the Schwarzenegger administration,
state and federal water exports have jumped to record levels,
causing an aquatic food chain collapse, while he expounds his
thoughts on global climate change. There is no doubt that Schwarzenegger
is the worst Governor in California history - and we've had some
really bad ones - for fish, water and the environment, in spite
of his shallow rhetoric proclaiming his "leadership"
in "the fight against climate change on a world stage."
"Do not believe that doom
and gloom and disaster are the only outcomes," Schwarzenegger
said today. However, if Schwarzenegger is able to ram through
his proposal for a canal and more dams, "doom and gloom
and disaster" are exactly what Delta residents and farmers,
recreational anglers, commercial fishermen and the Winnemem Wintu
and other California Indian Tribes can look forward to.
Dan Bacher can be reached at: danielbacher@fishsniffer.com
Here's today's press release
and the transcript of his speech from the Governor's Office:
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
For Immediate Release: Monday,
September 24, 2007
Contact: Aaron McLear, Bill
Maile 916-445-4571
Gov. Schwarzenegger Gives Address
at United Nations on Climate Change
Putting California's leadership
in the fight against climate change on a world stage, Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger today gave a speech (see text below) to
official delegates and invited guests of the United Nations.
In July, United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon invited the Governor to speak at today's special
session when they toured a San Jose business that is developing
the technology for countries to help reduce their greenhouse
gas emissions.
The Secretary-General has stated
that he looks forward to seeing firsthand how California is leading
the world on the important issue of climate change. Demand for
clean tech products in the state is expected to reach more than
$200 billion by 2020 and California has already received more
than $1.1 billion in clean tech investment, which is expected
to grow 20 to 30 percent a year for the next decade.
Earlier this year, Governor
Schwarzenegger signed a Memorandum of Understanding with four
other states to partner in the fight against climate change,
which created the Western Climate Initiative. The original states
included Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington;
Utah and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and British Columbia
have also since joined. California has also formed partnerships
with Great Britain and the Australian State of Victoria.
In October of 2006, Governor
Schwarzenegger and New York Gov. George E. Pataki agreed to explore
ways to link California's future greenhouse gas emission credit
market and the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states' Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) upcoming market. RGGI (pronounced
ReGGIe) is a cooperative effort by Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
states to discuss the design of a regional cap-and-trade program
initially covering carbon dioxide emissions from power plants
in the region. In the future, RGGI may be extended to include
other sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and greenhouse gases
other than CO2. Currently, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Vermont are participating
in the RGGI effort.
In January of 2007, Governor
Schwarzenegger announced the world's first Low Carbon Fuel Standard
(LCFS) for transportation fuels that requires fuel providers
to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels sold in
California. This first-of-its kind standard establishes lasting
demand for lower-carbon fuels but without favoring one fuel over
another. By 2020 the standard is expected to boost demand for
low carbon fuels to over $10 billion per year and for advanced
technology vehicles that run on those fuels by 35 times.
Last year, the Governor signed
the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, California's landmark
bill that established a first-in-the-world comprehensive program
of regulatory and market mechanisms to achieve real, quantifiable,
cost-effective reductions of greenhouse gases. The law will reduce
carbon emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. The Governor's
goals also include a reduction of 80 percent below 1990 levels
by the year 2050.
The Governor also signed legislation
last year to complete his Million Solar Roofs Plan to provide
3,000 megawatts of additional clean energy and reduce the output
of greenhouse gases by 3 million tons, equivalent to taking one
million cars off the road. The $2.9 billion incentive plan for
homeowners and building owners who install solar electric systems
will lead to one million solar roofs in California by the year
2018.
In addition, the Governor is
leading the fight to obtain a waiver from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency allowing the implementation of California's
stringent tailpipe emissions standards signed into law in 2002.
Those standards require a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse
gases from the tailpipes of cars and light trucks by 2016, starting
with the 2009 model year. 11 other states have approved those
standards. Automakers have sought to nullify them, but in April,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
and more recently, a federal judge in Vermont has decided in
favor of that state's emissions standards, which are modeled
on California's.
Below is the prepared text
of the Governor's speech at the United Nations:
Mr. Secretary, Mr. President
distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen, I have come to
feel great affection for the peoples of the world because they
have always been so welcoming to me-whether as a bodybuilder,
a movie star or a private citizen.
And you, their delegates, have
also made me feel very welcome this morning.
So thank you for this honor.
I have been asked to talk to
you today about what is happening in California.
Ladies and gentlemen, something
remarkable is beginning to stir-something revolutionary, something
historic and transformative.
Let me give you some background.
California already leads the nation in information technology.
We lead the nation in nanotechnology,
in medical technology, in biotechnology.
We generate one of every four
U.S. patents.
We attract almost half of all
U.S. venture capital.
According to The Economist
magazine, California is also home to three of the top six universities
in the world.
In addition to all of this,
California is the seventh largest economy in the world.
I do not mention these things
simply to boast.
I mention them because when
California does something, it has consequences.
And here is what we are doing.
California is mobilizing-technologically,
financially and politically-to fight global climate change.
Now, we are not alone.
While California is leading
in the U.S., we are building on the work of the European countries
who have led the way up to now.
England has already met its
Kyoto goals. Germany has pioneered solar. The EU has led with
its trading system.
But California, because of
its unique position, is on the cutting edge of what is to come.
And what is coming will benefit
the countries and peoples represented in this chamber.
Last year in California, we
enacted groundbreaking greenhouse gas emission standards.
We enacted the world's first
low carbon fuel standard.
Do I believe California's standards
will solve global warming? No.
What we're doing is changing
the dynamic, preparing the way and encouraging the future.
The aerospace industry built
the modern economy of Southern California.
The computer industry and the
Internet built the economy of Silicon Valley.
And now green, clean technology-along
with biotech-will take California to the next level.
Right now, in California, the
brightest scientists from around the world and the smartest venture
capitalists are racing to find new energy technologies, and the
solutions to global warming.
It's a race fueled by billions
of dollars.
Last year alone, California
received more than $1.1 billion in clean tech investment.
This amount is expected to
grow 20-30% a year for a decade.
More venture capital is being
invested in clean tech than in telecommunications.
I have been in the labs and
research parks.
I have talked to the scientists
and venture capitalists.
I have seen their ambition.
And I would not bet against it.
So, what does all this mean
for the nations in this chamber?
The cell phone, which started
as a tool for the rich, is now widespread in the developing world.
The price has dropped dramatically.
The same thing will happen
with environmental technologies.
And it is in the developed
world's best interests to help the poor nations finance these
advancements.
When it comes to the environment,
the technologies are changing; the economics are changing; the
urgency is changing.
My question today is this:
are the nations of the world ready to change?
I believe California will do
great things, amazing things. But we need the world to do great
things, too.
The time has come to stop looking
back at the Kyoto protocol.
It is time to stop looking
back in blame or suspicion.
The consequences of global
climate change are so pressing, it doesn't matter who was responsible
for the past.
What matters is who is answerable
for the future. And that means all of us.
The rich nations and the poor
nations have different responsibilities, but one responsibility
we all have is action.
The current stalemate between
the developed and the developing worlds must be broken.
It is time we came together
in a new international agreement that can be embraced by rich
and poor nations alike.
California is moving the United
States beyond debate and doubt to action.
I urge this body to push its
members to action also.
Ladies and gentlemen, in closing,
do not lose hope.
Do not believe that doom and
gloom and disaster are the only outcomes.
Humanity is smart, and nature
is amazingly regenerative.
I believe we can renew the
climate of this planet.
And I pledge to you, the members
of the United Nations, that we in California will work with all
our heart to this end for which we all long.
Thank you very much.
The Governor today (9/24) spoke
to the United Nations in New York City to challenge world leaders
to "solve global warming." Meanwhile, the Governor
is campaigning to destroy the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta,
the most significant estuary on the West Coast, by building an
environmentally destructive canal and more dams.
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