Comments on: Exxon’s Legal Guardians

By: Don Hawkins

Don Hawkins — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:32:11 +0000

This is the last part of a letter written to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda by James Hansen if you want to read all of it go to his web site.

Finally, Prime Minister Fukuda, I would like to thank you for helping make clear to the other
leaders of the eight nations the great urgency of the actions needed to address climate change.
Might I make one suggestion for an approach you could use in drawing their attention? If the
leaders find that the concept of phasing out all emissions from coal, and taking measures to
ensure that unconventional fossil fuels are left in the ground or used only with zero-carbon
emissions, is too inconvenient, then, in that case, they could instead spend a small amount of
time composing a letter to be left for future generations.

This letter should explain that the leaders realized their failure to take these actions would cause
our descendants to inherit a planet with a warming ocean, disintegrating ice sheets, rising sea
level, increasing climate extremes, and vanishing species, but it would have been too much
trouble to make changes to our energy systems and to oppose the business interests who insisted
on burning every last bit of fossil fuels. By composing this letter the leaders will at least achieve
an accurate view of their place in history.
With all best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
James E. Hansen

By: bozhidar balkas

bozhidar balkas — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:28:43 +0000

oh yez!
there is at least ten americas; thus, ten health care, jurisprudence, econo-political systems.
america number one enjoys best health care, jurisprudence, econo-political powers, etc.
followed by m’naires or america no. 2. then comes middle class, working class; followed by most hispanics, blacks, natives, illegal imigrants, and ending w. prisoners.
now, go and deal w. it. hopeless, right! oh what a country! and w. a sacred constitution.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:46:38 +0000

“Once securely anointed in June, Obama immediately lost interest in ordinary people and began panting for corporate support.” You think? Gee, as I remember it, Sharon Smith stamped her feet when Joshua Frank was talking about Ron Paul’s campaign. As I remember it, Sharon Smith hurled invective and distortions at Hillary — not even feeling the need to bound by the facts in her last Hillary Hatred post. So if Socialist Sharon Smith is unhappy with the two major party candidates, she has no one to blame but herself. As one of the left ‘opinion makers,’ she enlisted in the Obama campaign. She has no one to blame but herself. I hope the bitter taste never fades for her. She deserves it when you consider how little her various outlets (I’m not talking about DV) have bothered to write about Ralph Nader or Cynthia McKinney.
Stomp your feet, Smith. In the real world, we’re not suprised that a corporatist candidate (Barack Obama) who was fawned over non-stop wouldn’t appreciate the fawners. He was already spitting on the sixties activists before 2008 in his public statements. The only question is how long is Sharon Smith (and others like her) going to continue to ignore the only candidates of real change?