Right now, California is on the front line of the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans in the debate over climate change. Big Oil, in the shape of two Texas-based oil companies, Tesoro and Velero, along with the Kansas-based billionaire Koch brothers, have poured millions of dollars worked hard to put Proposition 23 on the California ballot. In corporate documents, Koch Industries has explicitly stated that California’s global warming law would hurt profits and “be very bad news for our industry.”
Proposition 23 would temporarily suspend implementation of AB32, California’s innovative clean energy law, until the state unemployment rate drops to 5.5% for four consecutive quarters, a feat that’s only been achieved three times in the past 40 years. On November 2nd, Californians will vote on Prop 23 – a “no” vote is a vote for clean energy and for the battle against climate change.
Lately, though, Californian clean energy supporters have come out fighting against this out-of-state meddling, including Canadian-born director James Cameron, who just donated $1 million to the campaign against Prop 23. This video, starring David Arquette, is part of this pushback.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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