Obama Has Fed His Green Jones to King CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas)

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Obama Has Fed His Green Jones to King CONG

Harvey WassermanAuthor of SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth
Posted: September 8, 2009 11:22 AM


Van Jones has been fed to King CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas).

Obama's one serious green bright spot been sacrificed at the McCarthyite altar of the corporate bloviation machine.

The brilliant, charismatic Jones was responsible for the administration's single significant accomplishment to date. With clarity and verve Jones finally brought to the mainstream the critical message that what's good for the environment is also good for the economy.

The convenience of this simple truth has long been known to the green power movement. Since the early 1970s we have argued that converting away from fossil and nuclear fuels -- coal, oil, nukes & gas -- and onto a Solartopian system based on renewables and efficiency is the only route to long-term prosperity. With community-based solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, mass transit, increased efficiency and conservation, we can and must build a sustainable economy that will create jobs and geo-political stability.

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But the multi-trillion-dollar fossil/nuke industry is nothing if not entrenched. Throughout the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush nightmare it made common wisdom of the Big Lie that saving the environment meant economic sacrifice. In fact, except for King CONG's short-term mega-profits, the opposite has always been true. Van Jones finally broke through. As an informed, exciting and compelling presenter, Jones made clear that the "green collar economy" is tangible and terrific. In his writings, mass meetings, television and legislative testimony, Jones turned the corner on the message that what's good for the environment is not only good for the economy, it's essential. Appearing with the likes of Robert Redford on Larry King, and much more, Jones finally injected into the mainstream the message that there will be no prosperity, no full employment, and no survivable planet without the necessary and do-able conversion to a green-powered Earth.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/obama-has-fed-his-green-j_b_278392.html

Harvey wisely states: "If groveling to the corporate bloviators is Obama's strategy for making change, we are in deep deep trouble."