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I'm so glad the Republican party leadership campaigned so hard for John Kerry to be the new Secretary of State.
John Kerry & Climate Change
John Kerry & Climate Change « Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy
December 21, 2012
by Dan Farber
Whatever else it might portend, Kerry’s appointment as Secretary of State is certainly good news environmentally...
Kerry’s commitment to the environment runs deep. Along with Theresa Kerry, he authored a book a few years ago called “This Moment on Earth,” which builds on stories about local activists to discuss broader issues of policy. As the book shows, Kerry’s concerns are by no means limited to climate change:
The planet is in crisis. [W]e live in a world so infused with toxins that they have made their way into the soil, the air and water, and our bodies from conception to the end of life. This stark reality was bluntly confirmed in March 2005 with the release of the UN’s Global Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. . . It was the most comprehensive look at the health of the world’s oceans, land, forests, species, and atmosphere to date, and its conclusion was bleak — Many of the world’s ecosystems are headed for collapse unless radical measures are implemented to revive them...
In Kerry’s State Department, environmental concerns are likely to have high priority, including but not limited to climate change. Good news indeed.
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I held my nose and voted for Kerry about like many of you voted for Romney/Obama, but as Secretary of State negotiating various individual, regional, and possibly even an Global Climate/Carbon treaty, that may be a very well fit peg, he certainly possesses the requisite credentials.
John Kerry & Climate Change
John Kerry & Climate Change « Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy
December 21, 2012
by Dan Farber
Whatever else it might portend, Kerry’s appointment as Secretary of State is certainly good news environmentally...
Kerry’s commitment to the environment runs deep. Along with Theresa Kerry, he authored a book a few years ago called “This Moment on Earth,” which builds on stories about local activists to discuss broader issues of policy. As the book shows, Kerry’s concerns are by no means limited to climate change:
The planet is in crisis. [W]e live in a world so infused with toxins that they have made their way into the soil, the air and water, and our bodies from conception to the end of life. This stark reality was bluntly confirmed in March 2005 with the release of the UN’s Global Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. . . It was the most comprehensive look at the health of the world’s oceans, land, forests, species, and atmosphere to date, and its conclusion was bleak — Many of the world’s ecosystems are headed for collapse unless radical measures are implemented to revive them...
In Kerry’s State Department, environmental concerns are likely to have high priority, including but not limited to climate change. Good news indeed.
(read full post at above link)
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I held my nose and voted for Kerry about like many of you voted for Romney/Obama, but as Secretary of State negotiating various individual, regional, and possibly even an Global Climate/Carbon treaty, that may be a very well fit peg, he certainly possesses the requisite credentials.
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