On climate, who will lead by example? Boston Globe
The editorial points out the shaky environmental leadership from John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts senators. Although both scored a 93% voting-record rating from the League of Conservation Voters, they are far from environmental role-models.Kennedy has always opposed the first offshore wind farm in the United States.
Kerry refuses to take a stand on the first offshore wind farm in the United States.
Kerry and Kennedy supported paying $96,193,715 to General Electric for helicopter motors.
For decades, General Electric has resisted PCB cleanup projects for the rivers they pollute.
...and they still do.
GE is also an enthusiastic supporter of nuclear energy, since they stand to make millions from building nuclear power plants.
It's not surprising, though, that Kerry is a political supporter of GE. In 2006 alone he had over $3 million invested with them.
Speaking of investments, Nancy Pelosi, John Dingell, and James Oberstar also each have up to $100,000 invested in GE.
This Globe editorial is so spot-on, I won't continue to paraphrase it. Here is its conclusion:
Kerry also had investments totaling between $81,004 and $215,000 in ExxonMobil and BP. Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has investments in ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips totaling between $66,003 and $168,000. The top congressional investor in ConocoPhillips, at $500,001 to $1 million, is Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and self-proclaimed "leading advocate of farm conservation programs."
The Center for Environment and Population report asked, "What are we willing to change, or give up? . . . Is it the world's climate, as we know it? Plentiful water supplies? Land? Species? Or do we have to make different policy, lifestyle, business, or industry choices?"
From the private choices of our eco-warriors, we might as well give up.
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