Fired-up Kucinich: We’re reducing earth to a ’smoking, glowing, oily mess’
source: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0521/firedup-kucinich-reducing-earth-smoking-glowing-oily-mess/
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s gallons of oil continue to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) invoked God on the House floor Friday in an impassioned 90-second plea to end our dependence on fossil fuels and preserve "mother earth" with a clean energy economy.
"The creator gave us a paradise," began Kucinich, "and we, appropriating the power of nature's God, are turning our planet into a smoking, glowing, oily mess." Our "reliance on oil, coal and nuclear," he continued, is "plundering mother earth of her treasures" and "threatens our health, our security, our economy, our nation and the world."
Pointing to the "destruction of our natural environment" by way of the enormous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he added: "Must we wait until all coastal areas are ruined – all fish, all birds, all animals are injured and killed – before we realize that drilling presents a threat to the fragile ecology of life?"
It was the kind of fiery speech, constructed with hyperbole to maximize impact, suitable for a whole-hearted embrace by environmentalists, who were likely to blush with pride over Kucinich’s equally fervent admonishment of the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to ward off a societal shift to clean energy.
"It is not as though there are no alternatives," Kucinich said. "Markets and industries have conspired for years to shelve the massive introduction of wind and solar technologies."
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0521/firedup-kucinich-reducing-earth-smoking-glowing...
"The creator gave us a paradise," began Kucinich, "and we, appropriating the power of nature's God, are turning our planet into a smoking, glowing, oily mess." Our "reliance on oil, coal and nuclear," he continued, is "plundering mother earth of her treasures" and "threatens our health, our security, our economy, our nation and the world."
Pointing to the "destruction of our natural environment" by way of the enormous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he added: "Must we wait until all coastal areas are ruined – all fish, all birds, all animals are injured and killed – before we realize that drilling presents a threat to the fragile ecology of life?"
It was the kind of fiery speech, constructed with hyperbole to maximize impact, suitable for a whole-hearted embrace by environmentalists, who were likely to blush with pride over Kucinich’s equally fervent admonishment of the fossil fuel industry’s attempt to ward off a societal shift to clean energy.
"It is not as though there are no alternatives," Kucinich said. "Markets and industries have conspired for years to shelve the massive introduction of wind and solar technologies."
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0521/firedup-kucinich-reducing-earth-smoking-glowing...
