The single most important issue in the upcoming 2012 elections for President and Vice President of the United States…. hmmm that’s a mouthful. How do you define anyone issue? One site, explains how energy is the most important. One look at the URL tells you why, “the energy collective” well of course, however they state some firm facts concerning Iowa being the first electoral contest. Ethanol verses corn growers, Republicans looking at climate control and the changes over the last twenty years.
The recent United Nations summit released information on the climate issue, globally which has many within the Republican ranks turning skeptic. The odds are in favor of a political game, running against an incumbent means turning the sights of a hopeful candidate on the oval office. The hopes of disintegrating policy changes, inept changes and or no changes occurring based on prior promises of the incumbent. Obama did in promise a greener campaign through regulations and law changes. During the summit many countries experienced cold feet due to economic relapses, doubts about global warming science, and lets face many Americans do not concern themselves with worldly affairs.
“Of the major players in the Kyoto Protocol, my sense is that the EU is the only one still considering signing up in some fashion to a second commitment period,” said U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern while discussing Durban 2011 at a meeting on global warming in Mexico City. “Japan is clearly not, Russia is not, Canada is not and Australia appears unlikely.”
Energy is an issue, the problem with an issue is their never a single problem. Durban held the climate change conference urging countries like US, China and Canada to help underdeveloped countries stop the emission of hydrocarbon and green house gases. The UN is hesitate due to the Petition Project which garnered 31,000 signatures of American Scientists. This is largely in response to the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” released by Al Gore. His claims about ‘settled science’ and consensus enraged someone and the petition is launched.
Question: So the 31,000 plus American Scientists signed a petition because Al Gore called them skeptics?
Question 2: These 31,000 plus American Scientists read the report from Kyoto, Japan about greenhouse gasses before signing the petition?
And what about the planned obsolescence of the manufacturing of products? Electronics? Is “human contribution” now labeled as a corporation?
Questions… and more questions…
Who can you trust and what information do you trust? In my recent study in statistics we learned how scientific data can be manipulated with a ticks on a graph or a few punches of a calculator. Data is misrepresented in the media as factual simply to make a story, headline or demolish the opposition.
Case in point:
Bottled water is healthier and safer for you. FDA
In fact bottled water is the same as tap water, AND it goes under less regulation than tap water.
hm….
“Second hand smoke causes 3000 deaths per year.” Released by EPA in December of 1992
Further analysis of the EPA’s report shows they did a “meta analysis” meaning they reviewed 35 studies on second-hand smoke. Five were thrown out and the number goes down to 30, out of those 30 studies 25 studies showed there was NO significance in the affect of second hand smoke on people. Only 5 of those studies showed a significance at the 95% level.
5 out of 30, 25 showed no significant. In science we call that not enough to state conclusively it is dangerous.
But the politics, the regulations, and of course all the new laws help to regulate smokers, tobacco industries and people feel safe because of news reports that misrepresent data. Not to mention the EPA released this information BEFORE the study was finished.
hmm…
Single most important issue? Our need for more Stuff, and the push to create that need. So take a step back, seriously and breathe. Watch this video and see if you can’t come up with some personal changes to effect a better presidency by being a president of your own actions.
Personal accountability in the oval office, in the congress, and in the senate. You know what, how about in every American. For once we may stop thinking about our neighbor and try focusing on our own actions and behaviors.
Energy is just another part of this conglomerate of issues. Corporations create harmful pollutants that are released in the air. Many individuals do not separate their plastic from trash, let alone aluminum. Restaurants throw away enough food at night in every city in the United States that it could feed the homeless.
Phones cost $400 and break or become obsolete in 18 months. The cloud of gray and yellow haze I see over Phoenix gets denser every year, not to mention the winters are colder than last year. The summers are hotter than the year before, as well.
My single most pertinent issue is simple; take responsibility for your thoughts.
Change is constant, this is a universal law. What you think and how yo make up your mind comes from your stimuli, so instead of seeking the news caster on the television. Read a few articles on the Internet, cross check information BEFORE you make a decision. More people thinking and listening will create a spiral of change in how the administration runs a country. I can’t tell you if energy is the most important issue, or if environment is instead. I can offer you this, breathe for 4 seconds and ask yourself what is real for you. Then act on it. People make changes and only takes place when you decide its time. (Neale Donald Walsch)
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