A Congressman’s Perspective
Sorry that I have not posted in a few weeks, but school ended, I graduated, and I have been figuring out what I want to do now with my life. But as I was watching C-SPAN yesterday, I saw Congressman Rohrabacher give a speech on global warming…I saw it yesterday but it was from May 14, 2008 in the House of Representatives.
In his speech he says that “The debate is over. Al Gore has his Nobel Prize, and the film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, its Academy Award. So shut up and get your mind in lockstep with the politically correct prevailing wisdom, or at least what the media tells us is the prevailing wisdom. And no questions please, the case is closed.” About a third of the way through his speech to congress, Rohrabacher says that it was because of the Clinton Administration, along with Al Gore, that this idea of a “man-made warming crisis” was first brought to light. What I have noticed with Congressman Rohrabacher’s comments and the productivity of our government to combat global warming is that we as citizens have to start taking the initiative to change things. We have to change our daily habits, tell our friends of the benefits of changing, and make sure they get the same…if not better…results as we did. The federal government is not going to change anything, even if bills are passed in one branch of legislation. We have seen this time and time again where it passes in the House but then is turned down in the Senate, or visa versa. Our government is all talk with no or very minimal action. This can be seen in Bush’s “turning of his back” on the Kyoto Protocol in 2005. If our government really and truly wanted to make change a reality, then they would have realized a long time ago that no new regulations or bills need to be passed to create change. All they would have to do is actually abide by the Clean Water Act of 1972, the Clean Air Act of 1970, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and many other acts that state businesses and individuals may not do certain things if they harm, this case, the air, water, and endangered species.
But why listen to me, I’m only and average person, right?
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