Dueling videos focus on U.S. climate change bill - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Dueling videos focus on U.S. climate change bill
Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:13pm EST

By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dueling videos -- one
starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the other featuring
a "typical" U.S. family shivering in an underheated
house -- are focusing debate on a Senate bill aimed
at cutting climate-warming pollution.

Schwarzenegger, the action star-turned-Republican
governor of California, stands in front of a redwood
grove and intones, "Climate change: it's a test of
leadership." He and two other governors, posed in
natural settings, urge viewers to press their
senators to approve the so-called Lieberman-
Warner bill.

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On the other side of the issue, the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce shows a suburban family wearing
scarves and coats indoors, huddling under quilts,
cooking breakfast eggs over candle flames and
commuting to work on foot.

"Climate legislation being considered by Congress
could make it more expensive to heat our homes,
power our lives and drive our cars," the narrator
says. "Is this really how Americans want to live?"

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN0451176820071204

[Nihil]

1. Pathetic. Guess which option will get through to the sheep?

> On the other side of the issue, the U.S. Chamber
> of Commerce shows a suburban family wearing
> scarves and coats indoors, huddling under quilts,
> cooking breakfast eggs over candle flames and
> commuting to work on foot.

Most of the ignorant masses probably don't realise that there
*are* Americans living like that already (except the "commuting
to work on foot" isn't quite as glamorous for them).

> "Climate legislation being considered by Congress
> could make it more expensive to heat our homes,
> power our lives and drive our cars," the narrator
> says. "Is this really how Americans want to live?"

Responsibly? Nah ... I doubt it ...

The ones who already know what's going on are already doing
their bit. The dumb majority will just say "F*ck that!" and
turn their thermostats up ... then wonder what happens when
they hit the cliff.
:banghead: