Climate Crisis - VOTE on Candidates' Positions

MoveOn held houseparties all across the country last night on the climate crisis in conjunction with Al Gore's global Live Earth concerts. This Virtual Town Hall Meeting on the climate crisis was the second in a series of three VTHMs being held by MoveOn - the first was on Iraq, and the third will be on health care.

Each of the Democratic candidates (Republicans were invited to participate, but all declined) answered questions from MoveOn members about their plans to deal with our dependence on oil and the climate crisis. You can watch it all or select different parts from MoveOn's website and then VOTE for which candidate's position you think is best: http://moveon.org/

Senators Obama and Clinton are careful not to offend the oil and coal lobbyists. Senator Dodd has the most aggressive and integrated plan. See Grist's review of all the candidates here:
http://grist.org/news/maindish/2007/07/06/candidates/

Also the League of Conservation Voters has a "scorecard" on the candidates' positions on the climate crisis available from MoveOn's website here: http://pol.moveon.org/townhall/climate/townhall2.html

The climate crisis is the biggest challenge facing the world, and it has the potential to solve many other problems if handled correctly, as Senator Edwards rightly pointed out. Not only can we reverse the tide of jobs leaving this country by developing new renewable energy technologies, encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship, enabling the US to lower its green house emissions, but by doing so the US will begin to resume its place as a world leader as this vision, and these technologies, and skills are demanded by people all around the world for their own communities. Additionally, as we reduce our dependence on oil-producing countries, we can more readily become an objective, benign power broker as we deal with the complicated problems facing the Middle East and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism around the world.